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Reply to How can I download the invoice for my developer payment?
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.
Apr ’23