Use this simple, fast Stripe invoice export tool to bulk download your Stripe invoices as PDFs. Just enter your Stripe credentials and select the time period you need.
Enter your credentials and connect your Stripe account.
Select the time period you want to download your Stripe invoices.
Get the ZIP file with clean and organized invoice PDFs.
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If you’ve ever tried to download Stripe invoices or export invoices from Stripe in bulk, you probably ran into a frustrating reality: Stripe makes it surprisingly hard to pull all your invoices or receipts at once.
Whether you need those files for accounting, tax reporting, audits, or backups, manually downloading each invoice is time-consuming and error-prone.
We explain why it’s so difficult to export invoice history from Stripe to Excel or PDF, what benefits you’d gain from doing it properly, and which tools or workarounds can help.
Stripe was built as an API-first payment platform, meant to integrate with your apps and accounting systems, not act as your file repository. While you can easily download past invoices from Stripe one by one through the dashboard, there’s no native Stripe invoice export tool to bulk-download PDFs.
What Stripe does offer:
- CSV exports of invoice dataIndividual
- PDF invoice downloads
- API access to pull invoices programmatically
But if you want to export all invoices from Stripe as PDFs or automate this process, you’re out of luck with just the dashboard.
1. API-first design, not file-first: Stripe is fundamentally an API-driven platform. It’s designed to be integrated into accounting systems, CRMs, and ERPs via API. So while individual invoices can be downloaded in the dashboard, bulk file export is not possible.
2. No native bulk PDF export in dashboard: Stripe lets you export CSV reports of invoices, charges, payouts, etc., but not PDFs. To get PDFs, you typically need to click into each invoice and download it manually. There’s no "Export all as PDFs" button in the dashboard.
3. Rate limiting and performance concerns: Stripe has strict API rate limits. Even if you try to script PDF downloads through the API, you have to handle throttling, retries, and pagination carefully. This makes large-scale exports technically challenging.
4. Customization complexity: many companies customize invoice templates, tax settings, and branding. Generating consistent PDFs across these setups can be nontrivial, especially when pulled in bulk.
5. Security and compliance: Stripe prioritizes secure, controlled access to financial data. Giving a user the ability to mass-export sensitive customer invoices could introduce compliance or privacy risks, especially for accounts with multiple team members.
- Faster bookkeeping and accounting: you could quickly pass all invoices to your accountant or import them into accounting systems without tedious manual work.
- Improved audit readiness: during audits or due diligence, you could hand over a full invoice set to auditors or investors, boosting transparency and saving time.
- Backup and archiving: having local PDF backups gives peace of mind in case of system migrations or unexpected account access issues.
- Simplified customer communication: you could easily resend PDFs to customers in bulk, especially when dealing with annual summaries, tax season, or missed payments.
- Better data portability: you avoid vendor lock-in. With PDFs, you have portable, readable records you can store outside of Stripe.
While Stripe excels at billing and subscription management, it falls short when it comes to bulk invoice downloads.
But with the right third-party tool, you can bulk export Stripe invoices and stay on top of your accounting and reporting workflows.
How to bulk download your Stripe invoices.
In the Stripe Dashboard, go to Billing → Invoices, click on the desired invoice, and use the Download PDF button. If you’re a customer receiving a Stripe-generated invoice, the email usually contains a link to View Invoice and you can download the PDF from there.
Stripe provides:
But for tax reporting or accounting systems, you’ll likely need:
Receipts are separate from invoices. To download:
In the Dashboard, navigate to Billing → Invoices. Use filters to search by customer, date, or status. Note that the list is paginated, so exporting everything may require the API.
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