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How to get Hetzner Online invoices

Step-by-step guide to downloading your Hetzner Online billing documents.

Last verified: 2026-04-23

Step-by-step: download invoices from Hetzner Online

  1. 1

    Sign in to Hetzner Accounts

    Go to accounts.hetzner.com and log in. Your Hetzner Accounts login is separate from the Cloud Console (console.hetzner.cloud) and the Robot dashboard (robot.hetzner.com), though they share the same credentials. Invoices live in Accounts, not in Cloud Console or Robot.

  2. 2

    Open the Invoices page

    In the Accounts dashboard, click Invoices in the left navigation or go directly to accounts.hetzner.com/invoices. You see a table with the invoice number, date, total, and a Download button on the right. Hetzner issues invoices once per month for each active product.

  3. 3

    Download the PDF

    Click Download next to the invoice. The PDF arrives in German or English depending on your account language setting. If you need to change it, go to accounts.hetzner.com/settings and switch the language before triggering future invoices (past invoices keep their original language).

About Hetzner Online billing

Hetzner is the European budget-cloud favorite: cheap, reliable, Germany-based, and a little old-fashioned in how it runs things. Its billing follows suit. Nothing fancy, but spread across three dashboards (Accounts, Cloud Console, Robot) that many first-time users mix up.

Hetzner issues invoices in EUR regardless of where you pay from. If you are outside the Eurozone, your card issuer converts at their own rate. Always record the invoice's EUR amount as the authoritative figure in your books, and treat the card conversion as a payment-side detail.

About Hetzner Online

Hetzner Online is a German hosting company founded in 1997, best known for Hetzner Cloud (a no-frills alternative to DigitalOcean) and its dedicated server line (sold via the Robot dashboard). The company also operates colocation data centers across Germany and Finland, domain registration, Storage Box for backups, and a growing cloud console. Pricing is aggressively low compared to US hyperscalers, which is why you find Hetzner in a lot of European startup stacks.

Manual vs automated

Manual

  • Sign in to Hetzner Accounts
  • Open Invoices page
  • Click Download for each invoice
  • Save PDF, rename if German
  • Repeat each month
  • Chase down domain renewal invoices separately

Automated with Inbox Ledger

  • Connect Hetzner once to Inbox Ledger (via email forwarding)
  • Monthly invoices land in your dashboard automatically
  • Export to Drive, Sheets, or accounting tools

Why people stop doing this by hand

If you run one or two Hetzner Cloud servers and that is it, the monthly email arrives, your accountant gets a copy, and nobody complains. The moment you mix Cloud and Dedicated, add Storage Boxes, register domains, and operate across several Hetzner accounts (agencies do this for client isolation), the January-to-December PDF collection job gets old fast.

Hetzner's API does not expose invoices, so scripting is off the table. Automation comes from inbox-side capture (email forwarding) rather than portal API access.

Hetzner does not yet have native Chrome Extension support in Inbox Ledger, but the email forwarding path works well: every month Hetzner emails the PDF, and Inbox Ledger forwards the attachment into your dashboard automatically. Set up a dedicated forwarding address in Inbox Ledger and pipe Hetzner's billing emails to it.

Next step

One Hetzner account with one server and the billing email going to the right inbox: manual is fine. Multiple accounts, Cloud plus Dedicated plus domains, or a European agency managing client infra: connect Hetzner's billing emails to Inbox Ledger and never chase a German-language PDF again.

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Quick access

Jump straight to the Hetzner Online billing page in a new tab.

Open Hetzner Online billing

Where to look in the dashboard

  • Accounts → Invoices is the main location
  • Accounts → Payment methods manages SEPA and credit card
  • Accounts → Addresses controls the billing and company address on future invoices
  • Robot and Cloud Console are for managing servers, not billing
  • accounts.hetzner.com/settings sets the invoice language (German or English)

Before you start — quick checklist

  • Company name and address on the invoice match your tax registration
  • EU VAT ID is set if you are a VAT-registered business outside Germany (reverse-charge applies)
  • Invoice covers the correct products (Cloud, Dedicated Server / Robot, Storage Box, domain, colocation)
  • Setup fees on new servers are shown as one-off line items
  • Currency is EUR (Hetzner does not bill in other currencies)

Pro tips

  • Hetzner operates from Germany and issues invoices in EUR only. If your accounting is in another currency, record the exchange rate on the invoice date for clean bookkeeping.
  • Dedicated servers (Robot) and Cloud servers are billed on the same account but appear on different invoice lines. Both show up in accounts.hetzner.com/invoices.
  • Hetzner sends invoices by email to the billing address on the account. Double-check the recipient if you are not receiving them. A forgotten secondary email is a common culprit.
  • If you pay by SEPA direct debit, payment happens around the 15th of the following month. Invoices are available before the debit, so download and file them in advance.
  • Domain renewals through Hetzner's DNS Console are invoiced in the month of renewal, separate from your server invoice. Annual domain fees are small but easy to lose track of.

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