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Adding Product Meta to WooCommerce Invoices, Packing Slips and Credit Notes

Last updated on February 8, 2025

Adding custom fields to WooCommerce invoices might seem like much customization and editing work. But WebToffee’s WooCommerce PDF Invoices, Packing Slips, and Credit Notes pro-add-on make the process much easier. The plugin allows store owners to easily add product meta fields to WooCommerce invoices, packing slips, and credit notes.

Let’s look at the major steps for adding a product meta:

  1. Access the Advanced Settings page.
  2. Add a new product meta field.
  3. Save the settings.

Prerequisite

  1. Install the free WooCommerce PDF Invoices, Packing Slips, Delivery Notes, and Shipping labels plugin.
  2. Then, install the WooCommerce PDF Invoices, Packing slips, and Credit notes pro-add-on.

Adding product meta – WooCommerce invoices, packing slips

Step 1: Access the Advanced settings page

  1. Navigate to Invoice/Packing > Invoice/Packing slip > Advanced from the WordPress dashboard.
  2. Head to the Product meta fields option.

Step 2: Add a new product meta field

  1. In the Product meta fields option, click on the Add/Edit Product Meta button.
Add/Edit Product Meta button - WooCommerce invoice
Add/Edit Product Meta button – WooCommerce invoice
  1. Add a new product meta by inputting its Field Name and Meta Key.
Adding the field name and meta key for a product meta - WooCommerce invoice
Adding the field name and meta key for a product meta – WooCommerce invoice
  1. Click on Save to add the new meta field.

Step 3: Save the settings

  1. Click on Update Settings to save the changes.
Update Settings button
Update Settings button

Adding product meta – WooCommerce credit notes

Step 1: Access the General settings page

  1. Navigate to Invoice/Packing > Credit note > General from the WordPress dashboard.
  2. Find the Product meta fields option under the Advanced section.
Product meta fields option - WooCommerce credit notes
Product meta fields option – WooCommerce credit notes

Step 2: Add a new product meta field to credit notes

  1. In the Product meta fields option, click on the Add/Edit Product Meta button.
Add/Edit Product Meta - WooCommerce credit note
Add/Edit Product Meta – WooCommerce credit note
  1. Add a new product meta by inputting its Field Name and Meta Key.
Adding a new product meta - WooCommerce credit note
Adding a new product meta – WooCommerce credit note
  1. Click on Save to add the new product meta.

Step 3: Save the settings

  1. Click on Update Settings to save the changes.

Example – WooCommerce invoices, packing slips, and credit notes

For example, the WooCommerce product meta key for weight is ‘_weight.’ Let us see how we can display it in invoices, packing slips, and credit notes. The image shows the product meta Weight in the Product data table on the Add new product page.

Weight of the product
Weight of the product
  • Insert the field name and meta key in the following manner:
Weight added as product meta
Weight added as product meta

The following images show the WooCommerce invoice, packing slip, and credit note with product meta.