Invoices

Resource description

The invoice resource contains the following public fields:

Field	Type	Description
number	string	Invoice number (with prefix)
event	string	The slug of the parent event
order	string	Order code of the order this invoice belongs to
is_cancellation	boolean	`true`, if this invoice is the cancellation of a different invoice.
invoice_from_name	string	Sender address: Name
invoice_from	string	Sender address: Address lines
invoice_from_zipcode	string	Sender address: ZIP code
invoice_from_city	string	Sender address: City
invoice_from_country	string	Sender address: Country code
invoice_from_tax_id	string	Sender address: Local Tax ID
invoice_from_vat_id	string	Sender address: EU VAT ID
invoice_to	string	Full recipient address
invoice_to_company	string	Recipient address: Company name
invoice_to_name	string	Recipient address: Person name
invoice_to_street	string	Recipient address: Address lines
invoice_to_zipcode	string	Recipient address: ZIP code
invoice_to_city	string	Recipient address: City
invoice_to_state	string	Recipient address: State (only used in some countries)
invoice_to_country	string	Recipient address: Country code
invoice_to_vat_id	string	Recipient address: EU VAT ID
invoice_to_beneficiary	string	Invoice beneficiary
custom_field	string	Custom invoice address field
date	date	Invoice date
refers	string	Invoice number of an invoice this invoice refers to (for example a cancellation refers to the invoice it cancels) or `null`.
locale	string	Invoice locale
introductory_text	string	Text to be printed above the product list
additional_text	string	Text to be printed below the product list
payment_provider_text	string	Text to be printed below the product list with payment information
payment_provider_stamp	string	Short text to be visibly printed to indicate payment status
footer_text	string	Text to be printed in the page footer area
lines	list of objects	The actual invoice contents
├ position	integer	Number of the line within an invoice.
├ description	string	Text representing the invoice line (e.g. product name)
├ item	integer	Product used to create this line. Note that everything about the product might have changed since the creation of the invoice. Can be `null` for all invoice lines created before this field was introduced as well as for all lines not created by a product (e.g. a shipping or cancellation fee).
├ variation	integer	Product variation used to create this line. Note that everything about the product might have changed since the creation of the invoice. Can be `null` for all invoice lines created before this field was introduced as well as for all lines not created by a product (e.g. a shipping or cancellation fee).
├ subevent	integer	Event series date ID used to create this line. Note that everything about the subevent might have changed since the creation of the invoice. Can be `null` for all invoice lines created before this field was introduced as well as for all lines not created by a product (e.g. a shipping or cancellation fee) as well as for all events that are not a series.
├ fee_type	string	Fee type, e.g. `shipping`, `service`, `payment`, `cancellation`, `giftcard`, or other. Can be ``null for all invoice lines created before this field was introduced as well as for all lines not created by a fee (e.g. a product).
├ fee_internal_type	string	Additional fee type, e.g. type of payment provider. Can be `null` for all invoice lines created before this field was introduced as well as for all lines not created by a fee (e.g. a product).
├ event_date_from	datetime	Start date of the (sub)event this line was created for as it was set during invoice creation. Can be `null` for all invoice lines created before this was introduced as well as for lines in an event series not created by a product (e.g. shipping or cancellation fees).
├ event_date_to	datetime	End date of the (sub)event this line was created for as it was set during invoice creation. Can be `null` for all invoice lines created before this was introduced as well as for lines in an event series not created by a product (e.g. shipping or cancellation fees) as well as whenever the respective (sub)event has no end date set.
├ event_location	string	Location of the (sub)event this line was created for as it was set during invoice creation. Can be `null` for all invoice lines created before this was introduced as well as for lines in an event series not created by a product (e.g. shipping or cancellation fees) as well as whenever the respective (sub)event has no location set.
├ attendee_name	string	Attendee name at time of invoice creation. Can be `null` if no name was set or if names are configured to not be added to invoices.
├ gross_value	money (string)	Price including taxes
├ tax_value	money (string)	Tax amount included
├ tax_name	string	Name of used tax rate (e.g. “VAT”)
└ tax_rate	decimal (string)	Used tax rate
foreign_currency_display	string	If the invoice should also show the total and tax amount in a different currency, this contains the currency code (`null` otherwise).
foreign_currency_rate	decimal (string)	If `foreign_currency_rate` is set and the system knows the exchange rate to the event currency at invoicing time, it is stored here.
foreign_currency_rate_date	date	If `foreign_currency_rate` is set, this signifies the date at which the currency rate was obtained.
internal_reference	string	Customer’s reference to be printed on the invoice.

Changed in version 4.1: The attributes fee_type and fee_internal_type have been added.

Changed in version 4.1: The attribute lines.event_location has been added.

Changed in version 4.6: The attribute lines.subevent has been added.

Changed in version 2023.8: The event attribute has been added. The organizer-level endpoint has been added.

List of all invoices

GET /api/v1/organizers/(organizer)/events/(event)/invoices/

Returns a list of all invoices within a given event.

Example request:

GET /api/v1/organizers/bigevents/events/sampleconf/invoices/ HTTP/1.1
Host: pretix.eu
Accept: application/json, text/javascript

Example response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Vary: Accept
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "count": 1,
  "next": null,
  "previous": null,
  "results": [
    {
      "number": "SAMPLECONF-00001",
      "event": "sampleconf",
      "order": "ABC12",
      "is_cancellation": false,
      "invoice_from_name": "Big Events LLC",
      "invoice_from": "Demo street 12",
      "invoice_from_zipcode":"",
      "invoice_from_city":"Demo town",
      "invoice_from_country":"US",
      "invoice_from_tax_id":"",
      "invoice_from_vat_id":"",
      "invoice_to": "Sample company\nJohn Doe\nTest street 12\n12345 Testington\nTestikistan\nVAT-ID: EU123456789",
      "invoice_to_company": "Sample company",
      "invoice_to_name": "John Doe",
      "invoice_to_street": "Test street 12",
      "invoice_to_zipcode": "12345",
      "invoice_to_city": "Testington",
      "invoice_to_state": null,
      "invoice_to_country": "TE",
      "invoice_to_vat_id": "EU123456789",
      "invoice_to_beneficiary": "",
      "custom_field": null,
      "date": "2017-12-01",
      "refers": null,
      "locale": "en",
      "introductory_text": "thank you for your purchase of the following items:",
      "internal_reference": "",
      "additional_text": "We are looking forward to see you on our conference!",
      "payment_provider_text": "Please transfer the money to our account ABC…",
      "payment_provider_stamp": null,
      "footer_text": "Big Events LLC - Registration No. 123456 - VAT ID: EU0987654321",
      "lines": [
        {
          "position": 1,
          "description": "Budget Ticket",
          "item": 1234,
          "variation": 245,
          "subevent": null,
          "fee_type": null,
          "fee_internal_type": null,
          "event_date_from": "2017-12-27T10:00:00Z",
          "event_date_to": null,
          "event_location": "Heidelberg",
          "attendee_name": null,
          "gross_value": "23.00",
          "tax_value": "0.00",
          "tax_name": "VAT",
          "tax_rate": "0.00"
        }
      ],
      "foreign_currency_display": "PLN",
      "foreign_currency_rate": "4.2408",
      "foreign_currency_rate_date": "2017-07-24"
    }
  ]
}

Query Parameters:

page (integer) – The page number in case of a multi-page result set, default is 1
is_cancellation (boolean) – If set to true or false, only invoices with this value for the field is_cancellation will be returned.
order (string) – If set, only invoices belonging to the order with the given order code will be returned.
refers (string) – If set, only invoices referring to the given invoice will be returned.
locale (string) – If set, only invoices with the given locale will be returned.
ordering (string) – Manually set the ordering of results. Valid fields to be used are date and nr (equals to number). Default: nr

Parameters:

organizer – The slug field of the organizer to fetch
event – The slug field of the event to fetch

Status Codes:

200 OK – no error
401 Unauthorized – Authentication failure
403 Forbidden – The requested organizer/event does not exist or you have no permission to view this resource.

GET /api/v1/organizers/(organizer)/invoices/

Returns a list of all invoices within all events of a given organizer (with sufficient access permissions).

Supported query parameters and output format of this endpoint are identical to the list endpoint within an event.

Example request:

GET /api/v1/organizers/bigevents/events/sampleconf/invoices/ HTTP/1.1
Host: pretix.eu
Accept: application/json, text/javascript

Example response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Vary: Accept
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "count": 1,
  "next": null,
  "previous": null,
  "results": [
    {
      "number": "SAMPLECONF-00001",
      "event": "sampleconf",
      "order": "ABC12",
      ...
  ]
}

Parameters:

organizer – The slug field of the organizer to fetch

Status Codes:

200 OK – no error
401 Unauthorized – Authentication failure
403 Forbidden – The requested organizer/event does not exist or you have no permission to view this resource.

Fetching individual invoices

GET /api/v1/organizers/(organizer)/events/(event)/invoices/(number)/

Returns information on one invoice, identified by its invoice number.

Example request:

GET /api/v1/organizers/bigevents/events/sampleconf/invoices/SAMPLECONF-00001/ HTTP/1.1
Host: pretix.eu
Accept: application/json, text/javascript

Example response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Vary: Accept
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "number": "SAMPLECONF-00001",
  "event": "sampleconf",
  "order": "ABC12",
  "is_cancellation": false,
  "invoice_from_name": "Big Events LLC",
  "invoice_from": "Demo street 12",
  "invoice_from_zipcode":"",
  "invoice_from_city":"Demo town",
  "invoice_from_country":"US",
  "invoice_from_tax_id":"",
  "invoice_from_vat_id":"",
  "invoice_to": "Sample company\nJohn Doe\nTest street 12\n12345 Testington\nTestikistan\nVAT-ID: EU123456789",
  "invoice_to_company": "Sample company",
  "invoice_to_name": "John Doe",
  "invoice_to_street": "Test street 12",
  "invoice_to_zipcode": "12345",
  "invoice_to_city": "Testington",
  "invoice_to_state": null,
  "invoice_to_country": "TE",
  "invoice_to_vat_id": "EU123456789",
  "invoice_to_beneficiary": "",
  "custom_field": null,
  "date": "2017-12-01",
  "refers": null,
  "locale": "en",
  "introductory_text": "thank you for your purchase of the following items:",
  "internal_reference": "",
  "additional_text": "We are looking forward to see you on our conference!",
  "payment_provider_text": "Please transfer the money to our account ABC…",
  "payment_provider_stamp": null,
  "footer_text": "Big Events LLC - Registration No. 123456 - VAT ID: EU0987654321",
  "lines": [
    {
      "position": 1,
      "description": "Budget Ticket",
      "item": 1234,
      "variation": 245,
      "subevent": null,
      "fee_type": null,
      "fee_internal_type": null,
      "event_date_from": "2017-12-27T10:00:00Z",
      "event_date_to": null,
      "event_location": "Heidelberg",
      "attendee_name": null,
      "gross_value": "23.00",
      "tax_value": "0.00",
      "tax_name": "VAT",
      "tax_rate": "0.00"
    }
  ],
  "foreign_currency_display": "PLN",
  "foreign_currency_rate": "4.2408",
  "foreign_currency_rate_date": "2017-07-24"
}

Parameters:

organizer – The slug field of the organizer to fetch
event – The slug field of the event to fetch
invoice_no – The invoice_no field of the invoice to fetch

Status Codes:

200 OK – no error
401 Unauthorized – Authentication failure
403 Forbidden – The requested organizer/event does not exist or you have no permission to view this resource.

GET /api/v1/organizers/(organizer)/events/(event)/invoices/(invoice_no)/download/

Download an invoice in PDF format.

Note that in some cases the PDF file might not yet have been created. In that case, you will receive a status code 409 Conflict and you are expected to retry the request after a short period of waiting.

Example request:

GET /api/v1/organizers/bigevents/events/sampleconf/invoices/00001/download/ HTTP/1.1
Host: pretix.eu
Accept: application/json, text/javascript

Example response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Vary: Accept
Content-Type: application/pdf

...

Parameters:

organizer – The slug field of the organizer to fetch
event – The slug field of the event to fetch
invoice_no – The invoice_no field of the invoice to fetch

Status Codes:

200 OK – no error
401 Unauthorized – Authentication failure
403 Forbidden – The requested organizer/event does not exist or you have no permission to view this resource.
409 Conflict – The file is not yet ready and will now be prepared. Retry the request after waiting for a few seconds.

Modifying invoices

Invoices cannot be edited directly, but the following actions can be triggered:

POST /api/v1/organizers/(organizer)/events/(event)/invoices/(invoice_no)/reissue/

Cancels the invoice and creates a new one.

Example request:

GET /api/v1/organizers/bigevents/events/sampleconf/invoices/00001/reissue/ HTTP/1.1
Host: pretix.eu
Accept: application/json, text/javascript

Example response:

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
Vary: Accept
Content-Type: application/pdf

Parameters:

organizer – The slug field of the organizer to fetch
event – The slug field of the event to fetch
invoice_no – The invoice_no field of the invoice to reissue

Status Codes:

200 OK – no error
400 Bad Request – The invoice has already been canceled
401 Unauthorized – Authentication failure
403 Forbidden – The requested organizer/event does not exist or you have no permission to change this resource.

POST /api/v1/organizers/(organizer)/events/(event)/invoices/(invoice_no)/regenerate/

Re-generates the invoice from order data.

Example request:

GET /api/v1/organizers/bigevents/events/sampleconf/invoices/00001/regenerate/ HTTP/1.1
Host: pretix.eu
Accept: application/json, text/javascript

Example response:

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
Vary: Accept
Content-Type: application/pdf

Parameters:

organizer – The slug field of the organizer to fetch
event – The slug field of the event to fetch
invoice_no – The invoice_no field of the invoice to regenerate

Status Codes:

200 OK – no error
400 Bad Request – The invoice has already been canceled
401 Unauthorized – Authentication failure
403 Forbidden – The requested organizer/event does not exist or you have no permission to change this resource.