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How to get a Gumroad invoice

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Founder & CEO, Smartbills

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Receipts and invoices

On Gumroad, buyers make their own invoice. Click Generate at the bottom of the purchase receipt, enter your full name and business or personal address in Gumroad's invoice generator, and click Download to get a PDF. Sellers receive no monthly invoice for Gumroad's fees; those fees are deducted per sale and shown in the sales and payout exports.

Generating it without the receipt

Open the product from your Library or the link in the receipt email, expand the Receipt section and click Generate invoice. The link appears only when there is something to invoice, which leaves out free downloads and membership free trials. A bundle is invoiced as the bundle you paid for.

Membership invoices

For a membership, the receipt and invoice cover your most recent payment that was not fully refunded or charged back, with that period's date, amount and card. If the latest renewal was refunded, the links move to the payment before it. A gifted membership falls back to the sign-up purchase.

VAT IDs and notes

EU businesses that paid VAT can enter their VAT registration number while generating the invoice to have that VAT refunded, which takes 2 to 3 days, and the invoice then shows no VAT. Anything else your tax office needs, such as a purchase order number, goes in the Additional notes box. Gumroad Support cannot edit invoices afterwards. A refunded purchase produces an invoice showing the amount actually paid and a refund status line.

Where sellers see Gumroad's fees

Gumroad charges a percentage plus a fixed amount per direct sale, plus sales tax, with card processing on top, and a flat 30% on Discover marketplace sales. There is no monthly bill. To see the exact fee on every sale, export a CSV of your sales. The payouts dashboard lists each payout with total sales, deductions and net amount, and the download button next to a paid payout emails a CSV of it.

Gumroad purchases and payouts on file

Buyers can file the generated PDF with email receipt capture once it is in their inbox, and an employee who bought a course for work can put it on an expense report. Sellers get the payout CSVs by email, and those fee breakdowns support the business's tax receipts.

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Frequently asked questions

Open the purchase in your Gumroad Library and use View receipt or Generate invoice in its Receipt section, even for old purchases.

No. Gumroad Support can't adjust invoices. Add everything your tax office needs in the Additional notes box when you generate it.

No. Fees are deducted from each sale. Export a CSV of your sales or a payout report to see them.

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