Automatic Order Printing for WooCommerce

Automatic Order Printing for WooCommerce

Automatic Order Printing for WooCommerce connects your store to any printer in the world via PrintNode and prints the right document the moment an order is placed or its status changes – with no manual effort from your team.

Whether you’re printing invoices in your back office, packing slips in the warehouse, or thermal receipts at the counter, this plugin handles every scenario automatically. Set it up once, and every new order triggers the printer instantly.

How it works

1. Install PrintNode on any computer connected to your printer and link it to your PrintNode account.
2. Enter your PrintNode API key in the plugin settings.
3. Create a print template, choose a layout, pick your printer, set the trigger condition.
4. Done. Every qualifying order now prints automatically, without anyone touching a button.

Automatic Printing Triggers

Each template can be configured to print based on any combination of:

• Order placed at checkout – print immediately when an order is created, filtered by payment method (e.g. only for Cash on Delivery or Bank Transfer orders)
• Payment complete – print the moment a payment is confirmed, filtered by gateway (e.g. only for Stripe or PayPal)
• Order status change – print when an order moves from any status to any other (e.g. Pending → Processing, Processing → Shipped). Supports all standard WooCommerce statuses and any custom statuses added by other plugins.

Four Ready-Made Templates

Choose from four professionally designed templates or build your own with custom HTML and CSS:

• Default Template – clean, minimal layout suitable for invoices and packing slips
• Advanced Template – two-column layout with full address blocks, order details, and product table
• Modern Template — contemporary design optimised for A4 and letter paper
• Thermal Receipt Template — compact layout specifically designed for 80mm thermal receipt printers

Every template supports custom CSS via a built-in code editor, and you can preview the output against a real order before saving.

Full Control Over What Prints

Each template gives you granular control over every section:

• Store logo and document name
• Store address (from global settings or overridden per template)
• Billing address, email, and phone
• Shipping address
• Order number, order date, payment method, shipping method
• Product table with configurable columns: image, name, SKU, quantity, unit price, line total
• Order totals, subtotals, taxes, discounts, and shipping costs
• Customer notes
• Footer text

Each section can be toggled on or off independently per template.

Any Printer. Any Location. Any Size.

PrintNode acts as the bridge between WooCommerce and your physical printers. As long as a printer is connected to a computer running the PrintNode client, this plugin can print to it — regardless of whether the printer is in the same building or on the other side of the world.

Supported paper sizes:

• Standard: A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, A7, A8, US Letter
• Thermal: 80mm continuous (receipt rolls)
• Custom: define exact width and height in millimetres for labels or non-standard formats

Compatible with any PrintNode-supported printer brand including Epson, Zebra, Dymo, Brother, HP, Canon, and Star Micronics.

Multiple Copies & Paper Bin Selection

Each template supports printing 1–10 copies per order. You can also select the specific paper tray or bin on printers that support it — useful when one printer holds both standard paper and labels.

Manual Printing When You Need It

Automatic printing is the default, but manual control is always available:

• Order page — a dedicated “Order Auto Print” panel on every order shows Print, Preview, and Download buttons for each template
• Bulk actions — select multiple orders from the WooCommerce orders list and print them all in one click
• HTML preview — view the rendered HTML of any template against any order directly in your browser
• PDF download — download the generated PDF without sending it to the printer

Duplicate Print Protection

The plugin tracks whether each template has already been printed for each order. Once a document has been automatically printed, it will not print again on subsequent status changes — preventing unwanted duplicates. Manual reprints from the order page are always available when needed.

Delivery Date Plugin Integrations

If your store uses a supported delivery date plugin, the scheduled delivery information is automatically included on the printed document:

• PI WooCommerce Order Date Time and Type (free & pro)
• Order Delivery Date for WooCommerce by Tyche Softwares (lite & pro)
• WooCommerce Order Delivery (official extension)
• YITH WooCommerce Delivery Date Premium

Developer Friendly

The plugin is built with extensibility in mind. Every major output — the printer list, print job object, document title, order totals, item display, footer content, and more — is filterable. Custom template layouts can be loaded from your theme directory, following the same override pattern as WooCommerce templates.

Key filter hooks: woo_order_auto_print_hooks_print_this, woo_order_auto_print_printnode_printjob, woo_order_auto_print_order_totals, woo_order_auto_print_document_footer_format, and many more.

HPOS Compatible

Fully declared compatible with WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS / Custom Order Tables), ensuring continued compatibility as WooCommerce evolves.

Conflict-Free PDF Generation

The bundled Dompdf PDF library is isolated under a private PHP namespace (AutoOrderPrint\Dompdf), so it cannot conflict with other plugins that also bundle Dompdf. No site-level fatal errors from library version collisions.

Requirements

• WordPress 4.6 or higher
• WooCommerce 5.0 or higher
• PHP 7.4 or higher
• A PrintNode account (free tier available) with the PrintNode client installed on a computer connected to your printer