How to Customize Your Invoice Number in Stripe

This article is based on Stripe's official documentation. For full details, see Stripe's official docs: Customize your invoice number — Stripe Documentation

Every Stripe invoice gets an automatic number made of a prefix + a sequential number — for example MYSHOP-1203 or RKTRIDE-0001 . You can control three things: how invoices are numbered (the scheme), the prefix, and the starting number. Each one is set in a different place, so start by identifying which scheme you're using.

Background: The Two Numbering Schemes

Stripe numbers invoices in one of two ways:

Customer-level — Each customer gets their own prefix, and their invoices count up separately (e.g., customer A: AAA-0001 , AAA-0002 ; customer B: BBB-0001 ).
Account-level — One shared prefix for everyone, counting up across the whole account (e.g., RKTRIDE-0001 , RKTRIDE-0002 , regardless of which customer).

Stripe sets your default based on your account's country. EU and UK accounts typically use account-level; most other countries default to customer-level.

Important: Whenever you switch schemes or change a prefix, only future invoices are affected. Existing invoices never change.

How to Change How Invoices Are Numbered (Switch the Scheme)

This is where you set account-level vs. customer-level numbering.

In the Stripe Dashboard, go to Settings → Billing → Invoice template (
Find the invoice numbering option and enable account-level numbering if you want one shared sequence across all customers. (Leaving it off keeps customer-level numbering.)

Note: Account-level numbering requires your account's default API version to be at least 2020-03-02. Some regions (EU/UK) may be set to account-level to meet local requirements.

Set the Prefix and Next Invoice Number (Account-Level)

Once you've switched to account-level numbering, you can set both of the following on the Invoice settings page.

Prefix — The name used for your invoice sequencing (3–12 characters; can't match any other prefix, including ones no longer in use).
Next invoice sequence — The number of the next invoice that will be created under that sequencing.

This lets you make sure your next Stripe invoice continues from your previous invoice number — particularly useful when migrating to Stripe. For example, if your old system ended at invoice 123, set the Next invoice sequence to 124.

Set the Prefix and Next Number (Customer-Level)

If you're using customer-level numbering, these are set per customer rather than account-wide:

Prefix: Go to the Customers page, open the customer, and set their invoice prefix.
- Example: Customer Typographic with prefix TYPGRA → TYPGRA-0001 , TYPGRA-0002 , etc.
Next number: On that same Customer details page, set the starting number for that customer.

Limits to Know

The next number must be higher than any number already used on an invoice.
The maximum invoice number is 1,000,000,000 — start low to avoid hitting the ceiling.
Draft invoices only get a number once finalized, which keeps the sequence gap-free.

For a complete overview of what you can edit on an Invoice, check out Stripe's Customize invoices docs.