How to add order meta to WooCommerce documents

Last updated on July 8, 2021

WebToffee’s PDF Invoice and Packing Slip plugin allow adding custom order/product metadata to WooCommerce documents.

Insert additional information pertaining to the delivery date, tracking, or payment info into the documents by simply adding a custom meta key.

For instance, consider a scenario where you need to display a custom order field eh_stripe_intent_id in the invoice.

Order metadata on an invoice

To add this metadata to your invoice, follow the steps below:

Install PDF Invoices and Packing Slips plugin for WooCommerce on your store site.
From WordPress dashboard, go to the Invoice/ Packing > Invoice.
Click on the Advanced tab.

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4. From the order meta field, click on the Add/Edit Order Meta Field button to add custom metadata. From the Add new tab, input a custom Field Name and the respective Meta Key.

In this case, we can key in Payment ID as the field name which will be displayed in the invoice. Input the custom field meta key taken from the WooCommerce orders page as it is.

Note: The order meta keys can be found in the custom field section of the WooCommerce Order page.

You can modify or delete existing order metadata from the Previously added tab.

Sample invoice with custom order metadata

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This article posted in Advanced Topics, Documentation, Knowledge Base, Print Invoice, Packing Slip, Delivery Note & Label for WooCommerce

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Shesna is a technical content writer for WebToffee. She is familiar in working closely with the SMEs to break down complex technical information into a concise, easy to understand manner.

Comments (4)

Daniel Mota

April 19, 2021

did it work with any plugin ? right now I can not make that invoice grab the delivery date.

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- Mark
  
  April 22, 2021
  
  Hi Daniel,
  
  Kindly ensure that you are using the correct meta key which is stored in the postmeta table associated with order ID.
  
  Reply
Lluis Ribas

June 6, 2020

How to delete wrong created custom order meta fields?

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- Mark
  
  June 9, 2020
  
  Currently, we do not have option to delete added meta. You can leave them unselected so that it won’t appear in labels.
  
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