Finding old Google Domains receipts and billing

Old Google Domains receipts are in your Google payments account, not at Squarespace. Sign in at payments.google.com with the Google account you used for Google Domains, click Activity, and open each charge to see its receipt. Renewals after the move to Squarespace are invoiced by Squarespace, and you find those under the domain's Billing page in the Squarespace Domains dashboard. So most owners need both places to see the full history.

Why the receipts are in two places

Google sold its domain registration business to Squarespace in 2023, and domains were moved over in batches until the summer of 2024. Every charge made before your domain moved was a Google charge, paid through your Google payment profile. Every charge after the move is a Squarespace charge. The two companies keep their own records, so the history is split at the date your domain moved.

If you are not sure what happened to the domain itself, what happened to Google Domains, and where did my domain go explains the move.

Finding the old Google Domains charges

In your Google payments account

Go to payments.google.com and sign in with the Google account that owned the domain. If you had more than one Google account, try each: a personal Gmail, an old business address, or one a former designer set up.
Click Activity. This lists your charges for Google purchases and subscriptions.
Look for lines mentioning Google Domains, or a charge for the yearly amount on the date your domain usually renewed.
Click a charge to open its details and receipt. If a year is missing, use View more transactions at the bottom of the list to go further back.
Save each receipt as a PDF, or use your browser's print option and choose "Save as PDF".

Google's own help page, Find your Google purchase history, describes the same Activity screen.

In your email

Google sent an emailed receipt for each purchase and renewal. In your Gmail (or whichever inbox the account used), search for Google Domains receipt or Google Domains order. These emails often have everything a bookkeeper needs: date, domain, amount and the last digits of the card.

If the domain came with Google Workspace

Some owners bought the domain while signing up for Google Workspace, Google's business email. In that case the charges may appear on your Workspace bills rather than as separate Google Domains receipts. Sign in to the Google Admin console at admin.google.com as an administrator and open Billing to see and download invoices for the Workspace account.

Finding the Squarespace charges since the move

When your domain moved, Squarespace created or linked an account for you using the same email. To see its invoices:

Go to Squarespace and choose Continue with Google, picking the Google account you used for Google Domains. This stops you creating a new, empty account by mistake.
Open the Domains dashboard.
Click your domain, then click Billing.
Your billing details and invoices are on that page. Open an invoice to view or download it.

Squarespace's help center says that on a bank statement its charges carry a 9-digit invoice number, which you can match against the invoices in your account. If you see a Squarespace charge you do not recognize, that number is the place to start.

If your domain was bought through Google Workspace, Squarespace's help pages say the billing is handled by the reseller, so your invoices for it stay in the Google Admin console rather than in Squarespace.

Which card renews your domain now

This is the question that matters more than old receipts. Your Google payment profile does not pay for a domain at Squarespace. The domain renews with whatever payment method is on the Squarespace account.

To check it:

In the Squarespace Domains dashboard, click the domain, then Billing.
Click Payment information and confirm the card number and expiry date.
Squarespace may warn that changing the card affects all subscriptions on the account. That is normal if you have more than one domain or a Squarespace site.
Check that auto-renew is on for the domain.

If you have Google Workspace email on the same domain and it was billed through Google Domains, Squarespace may now bill that too. Your Google Workspace email after Google Domains moved explains who bills it and why it matters.

What to keep for your bookkeeper

Domain fees are a small, regular business expense, and a tidy record saves questions later. For each year, keep:

The receipt or invoice as a PDF, from Google before the move and from Squarespace after.
The domain name it covers, so it is not confused with other subscriptions.
The account email used, because that is what a future you will need to find it again.
A note of the move date, so anyone reading the file understands why the vendor changed from Google to Squarespace.

Put them in one folder named after the domain. Whether and how to deduct them is a question for your accountant; your job is to hand over clean records.

If you cannot find a receipt at all

Wrong Google account. The most common reason. Try every account you have ever used, including ones on old phones.
Someone else paid. If a designer or family member bought the domain on their card, the receipts are in their Google account. Ask them to download and send them.
Very old charges. If the payments page will not go back far enough, contact Google payments support from the help page, or rely on your bank statements as the record.

What to do this week

Find the Google Domains charges under Activity at payments.google.com and save the receipts.
Search your inbox for Google Domains receipts to fill any gaps.
Sign in to Squarespace with Continue with Google and download the invoices since the move.
Check the card and auto-renew on the domain at Squarespace.
Put everything in one folder for your bookkeeper.

With the billing sorted, it is a good time to check the website the domain points to as well; you can see your site rebuilt first and keep the domain exactly where it is.