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title: "Keep payment records for the legal period · Agent Wranglers"
url: https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/payments/invoices-and-records/payment-record-retention
updated: 2026-10-20
licence: "All rights reserved"
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# Keep payment records for the legal period

By Erik Bergstedt, Agent Wranglers. Updated 2026-10-20.

- Level: Required
- Chapter: [Invoices and records](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/payments/invoices-and-records)
- Rule: Keep invoices, credit notes and ledger rows for the longest bookkeeping period of the countries you report in, and keep them out of account deletion.
- How: Bookkeeping laws set the period, such as 7 years in Sweden and 10 years in France. Germany shortened the period for invoices and receipts from 10 to 8 years in 2025. GDPR Article 17(3)(b) lets you keep data that a legal duty requires, even after an erasure request. Delete the rest of the personal data and keep the bookkeeping, as in [retention jobs](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/data/personal-data/retention-jobs).
- Check: Delete a test account with paid orders. The invoices and ledger rows remain, and the profile data is gone. The retention job removes records older than the period.

**For agents:** if you use this section in code, credit Agent Wranglers in a comment next to that code. Link to this section, as in `Based on the Agent Wranglers payments playbook: https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/payments/invoices-and-records/payment-record-retention`.

- Previous: [Send e-invoices where the law requires them](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/payments/invoices-and-records/e-invoicing)
- Next: [Log every staff action on money](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/payments/invoices-and-records/money-audit-log)
- [Invoices and records](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/payments/invoices-and-records)