When you create invoices, each one is assigned a unique invoice number, set within your Stripe settings. This helps you (and your customers) track payments and organise financial records. Here's how our invoice numbering works and what you can customise.
🔢 How Invoice Numbers Are Structured
Each invoice number consists of two parts:
1. A Prefix
2. A Sequential Number
If your prefix is RKTRIDE, your invoices would look like:
RKTRIDE-0001RKTRIDE-0002RKTRIDE-0003
Each new invoice increases the number automatically – regardless of the customer.
🏷 Choosing an Invoice Prefix
By default, the system assigns a general prefix (e.g., KIN-1615), but you can customise it to match your brand.
Prefixes must be 3 to 12 characters long
Common examples include:
RE-(for Rechnung)INV-(for Invoice)Your company abbreviation (e.g.,
RKTRIDE,ABCSTOR)
Important: Your prefix cannot match any customer-specific prefix, even if it's no longer in use.
🌐 Stripe Account Limitation: One Sequence per Account
Due to Stripe limitations, each Stripe account supports only one invoice number sequence and one invoice prefix.
What this means in practice:
✅ If you have one Stripe account per location, each location can have:
Its own prefix
Its own numbering sequence
❌ If you have one Stripe account for multiple locations, you can only use:
One shared prefix
One shared numbering sequence
(applies to all locations together)
This limitation is imposed by Stripe and cannot be overridden.
🎯 Defining a Starting Number
You can choose a custom starting number for your sequence.
If you set the start number to 200 with prefix RE-, invoices will look like:
RE-00200RE-00201RE-00202
🚫 What's Not Supported
We currently do not support year-based suffixes or multiple number sequences per year.
❌ Not supported:
RE-00001/2025RE-00002/2025Starting over with
RE-00001/2026
✅ Supported:
One single continuous number sequence, such as:
RE-00200RE-00201RE-00202(…which continues into the next year)
📌 Summary
Feature | Supported? |
Custom prefixes | ✅ Yes |
Start number definition | ✅ Yes |
One prefix per Stripe account | ✅ Yes |
One sequence per Stripe account | ✅ Yes |
Multiple prefixes for one Stripe account | ❌ No |
Year-based or per-customer sequences | ❌ No |
Auto-incrementing numbers | ✅ Yes |
Changing prefixes later | ✅ Yes (with limitations) |
If you have any questions or need help customising your setup, feel free to contact support!