Customize WooCommerce Shipping Labels: A Complete Guide 

This blog post provides step-by-step instructions on customizing shipping labels on your WooCommerce store. Find the best plugins and add-ons to create and customize WooCommerce shipping labels.

Shipping labels are essential documents for order fulfillment and delivery in eCommerce. If you are using our free WooCommerce PDF invoices and shipping labels plugin, you might be wondering how to customize the shipping labels template. The free plugin offers some basic customization options, such as adding or removing fields, renaming titles, adjusting font size, and more.

However, if you need advanced customizations, you need to upgrade to the WooCommerce Shipping Labels (Pro) plugin. With the premium version, you can avail multiple templates for shipping labels, add custom meta fields and product attributes and create your own custom templates.

Additionally, we offer a premium customizer add-on for the WooCommerce PDF invoices plugin. This customizer add-on provides advanced visual and code-based editors to customize every element of your invoices, shipping labels, and more.

Without further ado, let’s dive in and get started!

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Key Takeaways

  • Shipping labels are documents that contain information about the sender and recipient of a package.
  • WebToffee WooCommerce PDF Invoices and Shipping Labels is a free plugin that generates PDF invoices, packing slips, and shipping labels for WooCommerce stores.
  • With the pro version of WooCommerce Shipping Labels plugin and Customizer Add-on you can easily customize the shipping labels as per your preferences.

What Are Shipping Labels?

Shipping labels are documents affixed to a package that includes the details of the sender and receiver. eCommerce store owners often adds shipping labels on the package sent to customers. It ensures that the packages are sent to the correct recipients and reduce any misdeliveries or delayed shipping.

Key benefits of shipping labels in eCommerce:

  • Ensure timely delivery of packages to the right customers
  • Add special instructions to customers and the delivery agents about the package.
  • Reduce delivery errors, delays, and miscommunication, leading to a better customer experience.
  • Provide return addresses and tracking details for resolving delivery issues or returns smoothly.

How to Generate Shipping Labels for WooCommerce?

For WooCommerce store owners who haven’t used our free PDF invoice and shipping labels plugin yet, follow the below steps to generate and print shipping labels.

  • Step 1: From your WordPress dashboard, go to Plugins > Add New Plugin.
  • Step 2: Search for the “WooCommerce PDF Invoices plugin” by WebToffee in the search bar.
  • Step 3: Once you have found the plugin, click on Install Now and then activate the plugin.
WebToffee WooCommerce PDF Invoices and Shipping Labels Plugin
  • Step 4: If you are installing this plugin for the first time, you will be asked to enter some information such as store address, tax details, etc.
  • Step 5: Once you enter the necessary information, the plugin will generate all necessary documents, such as PDF invoices, delivery notes, and shipping labels.
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For more information on how to create and print shipping labels in WooCommerce, visit our guide: How to Create and Print WooCommerce Shipping Labels?

How to Customize WooCommerce Shipping Labels?

As mentioned in the introduction, the free plugin only offers some basic customization options. To access advanced customization and more templates, you’ll need the WooCommerce Shipping Labels (Pro) plugin.

After installing the premium WooCommerce Shipping Labels plugin, follow these steps.

Step 1: Configure General Settings for Shipping Labels

  • Go to Invoice/Packing > Shipping label from the WordPress dashboard.
  • Under the General tab, you have some advanced options for generating shipping labels.
  • Choose whether to enable multiple labels on one page.
  • Select the number of labels in one row.
  • Choose a size for the shipping labels.
  • If you want to add any order meta fields to shipping labels, choose it accordingly.
  • Then, choose an order status to show the Print Shipping Label button.
  • Click on Update Settings.
Shipping Labels General Settings

Step 2: Choose a Layout for Shipping Labels

  • Go to the Customize tab.
  • Then click on the three horizontal line icon in the top right corner.
Choose Layout for Shipping Labels
  • Select Change layout and choose a layout for the shipping labels.
Layouts for WooCommerce Shipping Labels

Step 3: Customize WooCommerce Shipping Labels Template

All the customizable elements in the template are available on the right-hand side of this page. You can enable/disable or edit the element properties from there. Any changes made can be dynamically previewed from the visual editor in the middle.

Customize WooCommerce Shipping Labels
  • You can use the code editor to customize different elements in the shipping labels template.
Code Editor for customizing WooCommerce shipping labels
  • After the necessary changes, click on the Save button.
  • Upon saving, a pop-up will appear to enter the name for the template, add a name, and click the Save button.
template name for shipping label

After saving, Activate the template to continue using it for your shipping label.

Sample Shipping Label

Below is a sample shipping label generated for a WooCommerce store.

sample shipping labels

Advanced Customizer Add-on for WooCommerce Shipping Labels

Customizer Add-on for Shipping Labels plugin

We also have an add-on to power you with advanced customization options. The Customizer Add-on for WooCommerce PDF Invoices helps you customize the following plugins:

  1. WooCommerce PDF Invoice, Packing Slips, and Credits Notes Plugin
  2. WooCommerce Shipping Labels, Dispatch Labels & Delivery Notes Plugin
  3. WooCommerce Picklists Plugin
  4. WooCommerce Proforma Invoices Plugin

With this advanced customizer plugin, you can easily customize WooCommerce invoices, packing slips, credit notes, shipping labels, and more using the drag-and-drop editor. You can also customize page properties such as padding, background color, text size, line spacing, text color, etc.

The plugin gives you more control over each field in the documents. You can edit fields individually without affecting other fields in the document. It also provides a block-wise code editor for more control. You can instantly preview the documents with the last placed order on your WooCommerce store.

Key features of this add-on:

  • Customize different documents and labels
  • Drag-and-drop editor
  • Block wise code editor
  • Customize page properties
  • Smart preview with last orders

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I customize the size of the shipping labels?

Yes, you can customize the size of each label and choose to print multiple labels in a single document.

How to bulk print WooCommerce shipping labels?

Go to the WooCommerce Orders page and choose the orders you want to bulk print shipping labels. Then, select Print Shipping label from the bulk action drop-down and click Apply.

Is coding required to customize WooCommerce shipping labels?

For basic customizations, no coding is required. However, for advanced customizations, using the premium Customizer Add-on can give you access to both visual and code-based editors for more control.

Can I add custom fields to WooCommerce shipping labels?

Yes, with the Pro version of the WooCommerce shipping labels plugin, you can add custom fields like metadata, product attributes, and other personalized information to your labels.

Closing Thoughts

When you have a business to run, you won’t have time to waste manually generating shipping labels for each order individually.

The WooCommerce print shipping label plugin enables you to automatically generate, customize, and print your labels in no time and with little effort.

We hope you found this article informative. Please let us know what you think in the comments below.

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