🧾 Generate ZUGFeRD e-invoice PDFs with webhook and Fly.io API

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Description

Quick overview

This workflow receives invoice data via a webhook, sends it to a Fly.io-hosted ZUGFeRD/XRechnung generation API, and returns a generated PDF/A-3 invoice (with embedded ZUGFeRD XML) directly in the webhook response.

How it works

  1. Receives a POST request with invoice JSON data via a webhook endpoint.
  2. Sends the received JSON to the Fly.io API endpoint https://e-rechnung-api.fly.dev/v1/invoice/generate with an X-API-Key header.
  3. Receives the generated invoice PDF as a binary file from the API.
  4. Returns the PDF in the webhook response as a downloadable file named e-rechnung.pdf with Content-Type: application/pdf.

Setup

  1. Deploy/verify access to the ZUGFeRD generation API at https://e-rechnung-api.fly.dev/v1/invoice/generate and obtain an API key.
  2. Set the ZUGFERD_API_KEY environment variable in n8n (or replace the X-API-Key header value) so the HTTP request authenticates against the API.
  3. Activate the workflow and copy the webhook URL, then configure your source system to POST the invoice JSON to /generate-zugferd-invoice.

🔗 Nodes Used

Send Email, HTTP Request, Webhook, Stripe Trigger

📥 Import

Download workflow.json and import into n8n: Workflow menu → Import from File

📖 Importing guide · 🔑 Credential setup