Set up WooCommerce Packing Slip

Last updated on March 8, 2022

WebToffee’s Print Invoice, Packing Slip, Delivery Note & Label Plugin for WooCommerce(Pro) allows you to print, download and customize packing slips for your WooCommerce store very easily.

Group the products by category making it convenient for the packers to pack.
Add product variation, additional order, or product meta details, etc. in the packing slip.
Customize the packing slip using the inbuilt templates and modify them to suit your needs.

Get Started

First of all, install and activate the plugin, a new menu Invoice/Packing appears in the WordPress dashboard.
Head on to Invoice/Packing > Packing Slip menu.
OR
Go to General Settings > Documents tab > Packing Slip > Settings

General Settings

You can configure the general settings required for the packing slip from this tab.

Group by Category: Choose Yes to group the products by category.
Enable variation data: To include variation data of the product in the packing slip, enable this option.
Sort products by: Sort the products on the basis of name or SKU in either ascending or descending order.

Add meta data

Order meta fields – This allows you to add additional order meta fields in the packing slips.
- You can select an item from the list of default fields or
- Click the Add/Edit Existing Order Meta field button to create custom meta fields. Input a custom Field Name and the respective Meta Key for the field. Get the order meta keys from the custom field section of the WooCommerce Order page.
- Likewise, you can view, edit, or delete previously created order meta from the previously added tab.
Product meta fields – This allows you to add meta fields related to the products in the packing slip product table.
- Click the Add/Edit Product Meta to add a new product meta field by providing a custom Field Name and the respective meta key for the field.
- Likewise, you can view, edit, or delete previously created product meta from the previously added tab.
Product attributes –
- To have product attributes in the invoice, simply add them by using the Add/Edit Product attribute button.
- Add new tab will give you options to specify the field name and the corresponding meta of the product attribute. Learn more with an example
- Likewise, you can view, edit, or delete previously created attributes from the previously added tab.

Email Settings

Attach packing slip PDF in order email for order statuses: Enable to attach PDF version of the currently active packing slip template in the order email.

Share packing slip PDF as a separate email: If you need to send a copy of the Packing slip to another email id, then, select `Yes` and save settings. eg: admin email. You may then configure the email from WooCommerce > Settings > Emails. Click manage against the ‘Packing Slip’ email and enter the recipient emails separated by commas.

Enable print packing slip option for order status: Adds print packing slip button to the order email for chosen status from the dropdown as shown below.

Custom Footer

Key in with a custom footer for the packing slip in the text area. If left blank, then the default footer from General settings will be loaded.

At last, click the Update Settings button.

Customize Packing Slip

You can customize the packing slip using the inbuilt templates and modify them to suit your needs.

WooCommerce Invoice: Pack Slip-Pack Slip-Customize

To create a new packing slip template,

Click on Change layout>Choose the template>Make necessary changes and save to view the option “Create new template”.

Select a template from the Create new template option.
From the inbuilt templates that pop up, choose a layout.

Make the necessary modifications to the layout and save it.
After saving, activate the template to use it further for your packing slip.
You can even switch to the code editor, to make additional customizations other than the one listed in the visual editor.
While making changes via code editor it would be better for you to refer to the help which briefs about placeholders, alternate classes for RTL support, etc as shown below:

WooCommerce Invoice or packing-Invoice Settings- Customize-Code Editor-Help

Make the necessary modifications to the layout and save it.
After saving, activate the template to use it further for your packing slip.

Bulk print Packing Slip

You can directly print the packing slip from WooCommerce orders page as shown below:

WooCommerce Order Page-Print Packing Slip

Sample Packing Slip

A sample packing slip will be as shown below:

Including a packing list along with an invoice when you are shipping a package, is best practice, which establishes an extra line of communication between you and the customer.

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Comments (26)

Filip

January 24, 2022

Hello! I want the packing slip to display a custom field created for my products through ACF. How can I achieve that? Only, in the packing slip, not in the invoice. Can this be done in the pro version only, or in the free version too?

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- Mike
  
  February 5, 2022
  
  Hi Filip,
  
  Our premium plugin supports adding any order meta or product meta to the documents and labels. With that method, you can add the product meta information to the packing slip if you know the meta key used for that field. Here is our set-up article which you can refer to for a better understanding.
  
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Gabriele

October 19, 2021

Is possible to print the order total weight instead of the total weight per product?

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- Mike
  
  October 26, 2021
  
  Hi Gabriele,
  
  Thanks for reaching out. You can use the placeholder [wfte_weight] on your active packing slip template HTML to display the total weight.
  
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Leandro

October 15, 2021

Hi. Every time I need print the packing slip the product field are empty. The SKU and the quantity are OK.
Any help with that?
Thanks!

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- Mike
  
  October 17, 2021
  
  Hi Leandro,
  
  Thanks for reaching out. Could you please share the screenshots of the WooCommerce order edit page (from the backend) of a particular order and its corresponding packing slip via this link for a better understanding?
  
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Rahul Mittal

October 14, 2021

Hi

Does your plugin also supports custom fields in packing slips and delivery notes or not? As we have few fields in our checkout page which we want to show in packing slips and delivery notes.

Waiting for your reply.

Thanks

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- Mike
  
  October 17, 2021
  
  Hi Rahul,
  
  Our premium plugin supports adding any order meta or product meta to the documents and the labels. With that method, you can add the checkout field information as order meta to the packing slip and the delivery note if you know the meta key used for that field. Here is our set-up video tutorial and article which you can refer to add the meta information.
  
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Kristy-Lea

September 15, 2021

Hi,

Can this plugin print 200 packing slips at once?

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- Mike
  
  September 27, 2021
  
  Hi Kristy,
  
  Thanks for reaching out. You can use the bulk action option located on the WooCommerce order page to bulk print the packing slip. Try to print the Packing slip from the Bulk action option, after selecting the number of orders you wish to have in the packing slip from that particular Woocommerce order page.
  
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pragadeesh

July 26, 2021

i need different addresses to be printed for different products in packing slip,is that possible

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- Mike
  
  August 15, 2021
  
  Hi,
  
  The labels are generated according to your WooComemerce order edit page. Presently our plugin doesn’t offer any options for printing different addresses for different products on the packing slip.
  
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Faisal

June 12, 2021

Hi. Can this packing list/slip display Shipping Tel Number at Shipping detail section (not as Customer Notes as shown above, as that requires additional process for my packing team to copy as paste).

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- Mike
  
  June 15, 2021
  
  Thanks for reaching out to us. By using the custom template editor provided with our premium plugin you can alter the “Tel:” field position according to your need.
  
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Pascal

November 3, 2020

Hi,
can a customer view and print the packing slip for sending his product to the shop?
For that I need a button in the email after checkout.

Please help.
Thanks Pascal

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- Mark
  
  November 5, 2020
  
  Hi,
  
  Using the premium version of the plugin, you can add a “Print Packing slip” button in the customer email.
  
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brittny roller

October 15, 2020

Is there a way to make a packing list per line item in order? Rather than per ITEM in order – say someone is buy 150 of item A and 150 of item B – I would like just two packing slips – rather than 300

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- Mark
  
  October 17, 2020
  
  Pack items individually option will create one label per quantity. So currently we don’t have an option as per your requirement.
  
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Jack

September 17, 2019

MArk

Very superficial reply to janet and documentation

So you write “Existing Order Meta” but no where do your documentation explain WHAT an ORDER META Look like? How about CREATE a page with a list of the META you can use?

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- Mark
  
  September 17, 2019
  
  Hi,
  
  Since the metadata vary from site to site and it will depend on the additional plugin that users install in their site that are related to orders, it is not possible to list out all order meta. To give you an idea, the data in the custom fields are of order details page is an example for order meta.
  
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Alon Lutzker

September 1, 2019

I need to be able to sort the items on the packing list by their SKU. Can it be done

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- Mark
  
  September 2, 2019
  
  Hi,
  
  There is no option to sort based on SKU by default. We can try to implement this via code snippet. Please reach us via support.
  
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  - Theo
    
    October 11, 2019
    
    Did this work out? I need this as well 🙂
    
    Reply
    - Mark
      
      October 11, 2019
      
      Yes. Refer article here.
      
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janet4

January 23, 2019

I want to use either the packing slip or the shipping label in order to print out the gift card to attach the bouquet of flowers we are delivering – I cant understand how to add my fields though – they dont show as options but when i add new meta field then i can select them but still i cant bring them in to the template – this documentation is not comprehensive – please help, Janet

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- Mark
  
  January 24, 2019
  
  Hi,
  
  You can add custom fields or metadata stored with order details on the packing list via the Additional Fields > Add Existing Order Meta. You can use the database key in which the data is stored as meta key and enter a field name of your choice that will be displayed.
  
  Reach us via support link above for further queries. We will be publishing an article soon documenting these separately.
  
  Reply

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Set up WooCommerce Packing Slip

Get Started

General Settings

Add meta data