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Should it be

The shipping charges are in the invoice.

or

The shipping charges are on the invoice.

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  • Depends on the metaphor you use. Invoices are paper in origin, so they're flat, and therefore information can be on them. But information can also be conceived as fluid or granular, and that requires a 3-dimensional container, so information can be in an invoice as well. We rarely notice the difference, any more than we think about gravity when we talk about a "rising temperatures". – John Lawler May 10 '23 at 20:03

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It appears that "on the invoice" is used at least twice as often, but neither would be wrong.

See the google ngram.

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