diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index d96e697..77382a6 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@
 /public/storage
 /storage/*.key
 /storage/pail
+# Exported invoice PDFs — runtime output, and on a real server this is a mount
+# point. Committing it would put customer documents into the repository and
+# make a deploy fight the archive for the directory.
+/storage/archive
 /vendor
 _ide_helper.php
 Homestead.json