How can I download the invoice for my developer payment?

I can't find ANY document that I could hand over to book keeping. The german tax office has pretty strict requirements for invoices, you know? I don't care why Apple is doing this to us - I just want to access documents that EVERY OTHER PROFESSIONAL company has no problem to give us.

I can't find ANY document that I could hand over to book keeping.

This 5-year-old thread is confusing because half the people are asking about the annual developer programme membership fee paid TO Apple and half the people are asking about the monthly payments FROM Apple.

Regarding the payment to Apple for the developer programme membership, you can find VAT invoices for these in the Apple Store website. Log in, follow links for “my account”, find the purchase, click “view invoice”, etc. You may also have received the invoice by email.

Regarding the payment from Apple for your app sales - if you are expecting Apple to send you an invoice for that, you are confused. (Do you think that you have to pay Apple each time someone installs your app???). It is YOU who should prepare an invoice to send to Apple each month. The easiest way to do that is to wait until they pay you, and then prepare an invoice for the amount that you have actually received. Attempting to prepare an invoice before that is complicated because of currency exchange rates; you would need an accounts system that works with multiple currencies, then import the financial reports, then at some point reconcile the exchange rates used on they day of the payment. Keep it simple, just work in your own currency and prepare an invoice when you know the exact amount. Note that you don’t need to actually send the invoices to Apple, though you can if you want - they have an address in Dublin you can post them to if your accountants insist on doing that.

I don't think Apple will provide the invoice. The status for the Apple Developer Program (ADP) could be found in the ADP website https://developer.apple.com/account Maybe due to taxes or something.

The only way to get the invoice is by creating it on your own and put necessary details inside, print in PDF and submit to yourself or account dept. That will solve your problem. or if you have a connection with an existing reseller, you can also request them to issue the invoice, but it may cause some cost because of tax (i just assume and it depends on the country i guess).

Hope the above info helps.

There's a one way to print the so-called Invoice for Apple Developer Program (ADP) enrollment purchases.

• Login your id at https://www.apple.com
• On the Top Right Corner, you will see an ICON like a SHOPPING BAG.
• Click the icon and choose ORDER.
• There you will see the purchase you've made.
• For the ADP you will see as Enrollment Complete.
• Click on the desired option, and you can see the PAYMENT SUMMARY at the bottom page.

Hope the above helps.

Invoice is not the right word, still, they should provide it. All the other vendors (Google, Microsoft, etc) do so. It's not actually an invoice but a Payment Receipt (because, as others have noted, an invoice would go in the opposite direction). Still, a recept like this should have mostly the same data, details of Apple as a business entity, details of the developer (as a business entity), EU VAT numbers where applicable, date, amount, some receipt ID, and so on.

It's not actually an invoice but a Payment Receipt (because, as others have noted, an invoice would go in the opposite direction)

No, both invoices and receipts are generated by the supplier and given to the customer. We are the suppliers, Apple is the customer.

I have contacted Apple to send me an invoice regarding my organization enrollment into Apple Developer Program. We are a EU based organization, VAT registered and that is also how the registration was done. In order for me to register the invoice with our accounting, we need to have the invoice that we've paid for the services delivered by Apple, in this case the access to the Apple Developer Program. I was issued an Invoice Receipt and no Invoice with company name and tax number on it. Contacted Apple and they pointed me to the order list URL, where nothing can be seen with the Apple ID I have subscribed.

Did anyone encountered this before? If yes, how did you handle it?

To everyone who has trouble finding where they can actually even SEE some history of the charges by Apple for their developer membership, and/or trying to get a receipt to submit an expense report for managing a company's iOS app presence, This is the super-complicated way to do it:

First, the main thing to remember is that Apple has the stupidest policy regarding Apple "accounts". This means that for everyone that created a "corporate" Apple ID account, like most of us have, and where we manage our company's app submissions, etc., this is NOT the account in which you will find the payment history with the yearly Apple Developer Program membership renewal! We all probably forgot that when getting approved for that account, at some point you had to provide a "real" Apple ID that was able to undergo verification of identity, to charge the corporate card to. Since the corporate account can't have an ID associated with it, we probably used one of our personal Apple IDs or created on specifically for just this hurdle. Hopefully you still have some record of it and its password.

However, if you log in with that Apple ID to the Apple Store website, you will NOT find it in the "orders" history.

No, you have to go to the iTunes Store, which is now in the Apple Music MacOS app only -- trying to access that using the Safari (https://itunes.apple.com) currently results in a "Internal Server Error Has Occurred" message, and apple.com/itunes is just a marketing page. This means that since the Apple Music app is tied to the Apple ID of the computer you are on, so if that computer has a different Apple ID you will have to change to a computer that has the correct Apple ID or switch to a different user account on the computer with that Apple ID. (You definitely don't want to change Apple IDs on the user account you are logged in with, as it will create all levels of issues once it asks "do you want to remove all photos, calendar events, etc. associated with your Apple ID?)

Once you are logged in a user account with the correct "real" Apple ID, launch the Apple Music app, click on "iTunes Store" left-side menu item, then all the way at the bottom, in the footer of the page, in small grey letters, is a link to "Account" under the "Manage" header:

Once there, make sure that your window is wide enough to show the "See All" link in blue to the right of the Most Recent Purchase, in the "Purchase History" section. If the window is too narrow, these links on the right side of the page are hidden and there's ZERO indication that they may be there:

Once you manage to find this well hidden "See All" link in the iTunes Store section of the Music app (because that is soooo intuitive) then you'll have to log in again, without any ability to use saved passwords or a third part password management tool like 1Password directly:

Once there, you'll only be able to see this year's purchases. There is, however, a hidden pull-down below the blank section a top the page. The scroll bars on the side don't let you scroll to it, but if you use the track pad and the scroll gesture, you can get the lower half of the dropdown to show:

Select a past year from the menu. It will then show another drop down, which you won't see unless you scroll back up with a trackpad gesture. Now FINALLY, you can see the "Apple Developer Program (Automatic Renewal) entry:

It will have a "ORDER ID" associated with it, which is clickable to expand the record to show more information, such as a "DOCUMENT NO." and more importantly, a "Resend" link that results in a pop-up that says "Receipt Sent". This will finally result in an email that comes from yourself, sent to yourself (both are the email addresses associated with the Apple ID you are logged in with) which is probably why you couldn't find the damn email in your inbox to begin with. The subject line of the email is "Your purchases from Apple". The body of the text in HTML format does have the word "RECEIPT" in large text. Printing this to paper or PDF is the closest thing we can all get to a submittable receipt for an expense report submission:

That's how I was able to get what many have been looking for. Hopefully this helps you get there as well.

same here, i cant believe not more developers ask for that

Found a way to get to that invoice, finally

1. Login to https://www.apple.com with your login credentials
2. On the top right corner click on the basket/shopping bag
3. It may show ‘empty’ but click on ‘Orders’
4. It should show ‘Products you’ve ordered.’ and show your ADP order there as ‘Arrived’
5. Click on it to get the details
6. On top right corner it will show Order number, order date and ‘View invoice’
7. Click on ‘view invoice’ et voila…

See below 👇

I couldn't access the receipts through the purchase history as some people suggested. I'm not sure if there's a restriction for Brazil, but the only solution I found was to contact support.

The supervisor I spoke with told me that it's currently not possible to access receipts through the purchase history and that contacting them by phone or email is the only way to get them.

Here's the process I followed:

1. I went to https://developer.apple.com/contact/topic/select
2. Clicked on "Subscription and account"
3. Selected "Program purchase and renewal"
4. Was redirected to https://developer.apple.com/contact/topic/SC1101/subtopic/30007/solution/select
5. Chose the Phone option, though Email was also available.

I made sure to express my dissatisfaction with the lack of access through the history. If you run into the same issue, I recommend you give your feedback too.