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How to generate WooCommerce Dispatch Label

WebToffee’s Print Invoice, Packing Slip, Delivery Note & Label Plugin for WooCommerce allows you to print and generate dispatch labels for your store very easily.  All the integral shipment documents like the PDF invoices, packing slips, delivery notes, and shipping /address/ dispatch labels, pick lists, etc. can be generated automatically with this WooCommerce extension.

A dispatch label contains product information, payment method information, total cost amount, billing address, shipping address, and from address. It also contains the return address, in case, customers want to return the product.

After plugin installation and activation, a new section is available in the WordPress menu titled Invoice/Packing. You can get to this section by navigating to the Invoice/Packing > Dispatch Label from your WordPress dashboard. Select the Dispatch Label directly from the submenus or click on the Settings button from the General Settings > Documents tab to access the Dispatch 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.

Setup a Dispatch Label in just two easy steps:

Step 1: General Settings

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

WooCommerce Invoice/Pack Slip-Dispatch Label General Settings
  • Enable variation data
  • Sort products by: either on the basis of Name or SKU.
  • Order meta fields: Select additional order information in the dispatch label from the drop-down. 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.
WooCommerce Invoice:Pack Slip-Invoice Advanced-Order meta fields
WooCommerce Invoice/Pack Slip-Advanced-Order meta fields

To add other order meta details other than the ones displayed in the drop-down, click on Add Existing Order Meta Field.

  • Product meta fields: Select/add additional product information in the dispatch label. Click the Add Product Meta to add a new product meta field by providing a custom Field Name and the respective meta key for the field. The product meta keys can be found in the custom field section of the product page. Once all the settings are configured, click the Update Settings button.
  • Product attributes: Here, you can add and edit the product attributes.

    • Step 2: Customize

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

    WooCommerce Invoice or packing-Dispatch Label-Customize

    To create a new dispatch label template,

    1. Select a template from the Create new template option.
    2. From the inbuilt templates that pop up, choose a layout.
    Dispatch Slip-Theme
  • The chosen layout will then be displayed in the customize window. The elements that are already configured from General Settings will be auto-populated. Users can make the necessary changes to the layout using the toggle options.
  • 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 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
    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 dispatch label.

    • Furthermore, you can directly print the dispatch label from the WooCommerce orders page as shown below:

    WooCommerce Order Page-Print Dispatch Label
    WooCommerce Order Page-Print Dispatch Label

    Lastly, a sample dispatch label will be as shown below:

    Sample WooCommerce Dispatch Label

    For detailed information, you can refer to the Product Page.

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    Shesna

    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)

    1. haidar kafaji

      haidar kafaji

      August 4, 2020

      hello again, also tracking number and shipping method is not active in my invoice . i mean the on/off button is greyed .

      Reply
      • Mark

        Mark

        August 5, 2020

        Hi,

        Firstly, please create a new template from the Customize page. You might be using a presaved template from the free version.

        Reply
    2. haidar kafaji

      haidar kafaji

      August 4, 2020

      hi there, i just purchased this product yesterday. having trouble showing tracking no on dispatch invoice. i tried to add it from customize button , i can see it added when i entered in right hand menu but when i download the dispatch invoice the tracking no is not there. is there something i have to to overcome this issue.
      thank you

      Reply
      • Mark

        Mark

        August 5, 2020

        Hi,

        Please refer the article here to add tracking number meta to all labels.

        Reply

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