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title: Reading an invoice
description: This page explains how to read an invoice
tags: billing invoice payment
dates:
  validation: 2025-11-18
  posted: 2024-02-23
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Your Scaleway invoice contains the following sections:

- **Invoice number (1):** A unique reference number for your invoice.
- **Invoice status (2):** Displays the billing period, issuing and due dates of the invoice.
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  Refer to the [Billing FAQ](/billing/faq/#what-does-the-status-of-my-invoice-mean) for a description of each existing invoice status.
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- **Seller information (3):** Contact details of Scaleway SAS along with their VAT number.
- **Customer details (4):** Includes postal address, email address, Organization ID, and for business accounts, the EU VAT number.
- **Project table (5):** Provides information on invoiced Projects, including Project names, consumed resources, and total Project amounts based on consumption during the accounting period.
  Located below the Project table you find the **Consumption table**. This section details resource consumption, including Project names, services/operations consumed (e.g., Instances, Object Storage, Elastic Metal servers), consumption periods, total usage, and calculated prices based on consumption.
- **Total invoice amount (6):** Calculated from the untaxed total of the invoice. For EU customers, the local VAT rate is applied to the untaxed total to determine the total due amount.