How to generate WooCommerce Shipping Labels

Shipping is a crucial part of any business, be it a normal or an e-commerce business. While most of the store owners take it as an insignificant aspect of their business, successful traders use tactical shipping options to run their business smoothly.

When it comes to e-commerce business, you should make sure that your products reach your customers without any hassles. This is where shipping labels come into play, where you can fill out all of the required information pertaining to shipping.

Webtoffee provides this functionality with it’s Print Invoice, Packing Slip, Delivery Note & Label Plugin for WooCommerce.

All the documents that are integral to shipping (like PDF invoice, packing slips, delivery notes, and shipping/address labels)will be automatically generated with this WooCommerce extension.

Once you have installed and activated this plugin, a new section is available in the WordPress menu titled Invoice/Pack List.

Shipping Label

A shipping label is a document that contains information related to shipping, such as shipment tracking number, the shipping carrier name and so on.Shipping Label settings are used to configure label settings such as setting the size of the shipping label and including additional fields in the label.

You can get to this section by navigating to the Invoice/Packing from your WordPress dashboard. When you click on the Shipping Label tab, you will be taken to Shipping Label settings.

Shipping label page is categorized into two tabs:

• General
• Customize

General

You can configure the general settings required for the shipping label.

• Enable multiple labels in one page – Choose Yes to generate multiple labels in one page itself. When enabled, you will get an option to input the number of labels in a row.

  

• Shipping Label Size – Allows you to set the size of the shipping label. You can choose between either full page or custom.
  • • 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).

      

• Order Meta Fields – Allows you to add additional order meta fields in the shipping label. You can select a field from the list of default fields or click the Add Existing Order Meta Field button to create custom meta fields by providing a custom Field Name and the respective meta key for the field. The order meta keys can be found in the custom field section in the WooCommerce Order page of a product.
• Enable print shipping label option for order status: Adds print shipping label button to the order email for chosen status from the drop-down.

Once all the settings are configured, click the Update Settings button.

Customize

You can customize and create a new template of a shipping label from the existing templates.

For detailed information about all these fields, you can refer the Product Page.

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