How to generate WooCommerce Shipping Labels
Webtoffee’s Print Invoice, Packing Slip, Delivery Note & Label Plugin for WooCommerce allows you to generate all the documents that are integral to shipping (like PDF invoice, packing slips, delivery notes, and shipping/address labels, etc.). A shipping label is a document that contains information related to shipping, such as shipment tracking number, the shipping carrier name, and so on. With this plugin, you can set labels with custom sizes and include additional fields in the label.
Once you have installed and activated the plugin, a new section is available in the WordPress menu titled Invoice/Pack List. You can get to this section by navigating to the Invoice/Packing > Shipping Label from your WordPress dashboard. Select the Shipping Label directly from the submenus or click on the Settings button from the General Settings > Documents tab to access the Shipping Label settings window.
All the generic settings that need to be used across all the documents can be configured in the General Settings window. It contains provisions to configure the company logo, address details, RTL support, and many more. To know more about general settings configurations, refer here.
A Shipping Label can be set up in two easy steps:
Step 1: General Settings
You can configure the general settings required for the shipping label.
- Enable multiple labels in one page – Choose Yes to generate multiple labels on one page itself. When enabled, you will get an option to input the number of labels in a row.
- Full Page: This option allows you to print the label which will be spread over the full page. The printing depends on the browser printing option.
- Custom: This option allows you to print the label in the desired size. You can configure custom shipping label size of your own by entering size values in terms of width and height (inches).
Once all the settings are configured, click the Update Settings button.
Step 2: Customize
You can customize and create a new template of a shipping label from the existing templates.
To create a new shipping label template:
- Select a template from the Create new template option.
- From the inbuilt templates that pop up, choose a layout.
You can directly print the shipping label as shown below or select multiple orders from WooCommerce orders page and print them via bulk actions:
A sample shipping label for three different orders will be as shown below:
For detailed information about all these fields, you can refer to the Product Page.
Comments (15)
roman
December 22, 2020
hi guys
is it possible to automate the shipping label or any other components to be printed automatically.
for example via printnode
thank you
Mark
December 23, 2020
Hey Roman,
Remote print support is currently available for invoice only. We will support for more labels in future releases.
Juanjo Díaz
November 16, 2020
Hi guys. It’s possible to include a “print shipping label” or “print any document i’ve enabled” buttons in the New Order email?
Thanks in advance.
Juanjo Díaz
November 16, 2020
Sorry guys, I’ve noticed that function is yet implemented but, for some reason, it’s not working on my site since several weeks ago. I will try to address the problem before opening a support ticket.
Thank you very much.
Roberto
October 21, 2020
Hello guys, thanks very much for your hard work
Im about to buy you plugin for a client, I see that you can send an invoice automatically when a order status is completed, thats great, but is possible to automatically print the shipping label and the invoice too when a order status is completed?
if not, is possible to pay for such customization?
Thanks very much.
Mark
October 23, 2020
We have cloud print support using which you can configure automatic printing of invoices. The shipping label does not support this feature.
juan
September 4, 2020
Hi, is it possible to let my customers print the shipping label after the checkout?
Mark
September 5, 2020
Yes. Go to Shipping label settings and under General tab go to option “Enable print shipping label option for order status” and choose the order status processing there. Once done, users will have a button print shipping label.
Queenie
August 3, 2020
Hi There,
Does this shipping label works with this woocommerce order barcodes https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-order-barcodes/ ? It seems the barcode that generated from your shipping label is based on the order number, am I right?
Thanks,
Queenie
Mark
August 4, 2020
Yes. The barcode will be generated based on order number.
Adrian Smith
July 13, 2020
This would be a useful label but the description of it seems to leave out some use cases:
1. When is a shipping label used? I’m assuming its the label that goes onto the box that is used by the delivery system: Australia Post or DHL for example. As such what happens when an order consists of multiple boxes? A label will be required for each box and it should also have a box count viz., box 2 of 6 or Box 4/5
2. If I’m printing multiple orders and the number of boxes makes it possible, can I print multiple labels on the one-sheet for multiple orders? E.g. on a sheet designed with a 5 x 2 label layout could it print: Order 1 with three boxes: 3 labels, Order 2 with five boxes: 5 labels, Order 3 with one box: 1 label and so on to fill the 10 labels available on that sheet?
3. If I have a roll feed thermal printer, e.g. a DYMO Labelwriter, and an order with 5 boxes, can i set it up to print the five labels consecutively?
4. As to box dimensions, If I specify a number of boxes with different dimensions, does the plugin choose which box goes with which product or do I specify it somewhere. E.g. I have two products and two boxes (the original boxes the products came in). Some orders will come in that are big enough that they can be fulfilled with completely filled boxes of the product plus maybe a final box filled with a mixture of the two products. Will the plugin work that out? How can I help it?
Mark
July 13, 2020
Hi Adrian,
1. If you are using Australia Post or DHL, it would be better if you use some other plugin that generates integrated labels with these services. Our plugin only generates generic shipping labels, that can be used if you are shipping the items manually.
2. You can print multiple shipping labels on the same page.
3. You can choose the pack items individually option under plugin general settings > Advanced tab such that the shipping labels are generated per each item in the order.
4. The plugin checks the dimension and weight you entered in the product details(product edit page) and compare it with the dimensions of the box you specified in the plugin settings to determine which goes into which.
Therese
December 18, 2019
My settings window does not include any meta field options. What am I doing wrong?
Mark
December 19, 2019
Please make sure that you are using 4.0 or above version of the plugin.
Shrink Wrap
July 6, 2019
Very Informative Indeed! Keep sharing.