<p><strong>Auto PDF Invoices and Packing Slip</strong> is a complete invoicing automation system for WooCommerce. Designed to eliminate manual paperwork and reduce billing errors, it generates <strong>PDF invoices, packing slips, delivery notes, shipping labels, and credit/refund notes automatically</strong> based on order status.</p>
<p>Unlike basic invoice plugins, this solution provides <strong>advanced accounting compliance, 100% customizable invoice designs, sequencing-safe numbering, regional tax support, and proforma invoice mode</strong> — ensuring your business stays organized, professional, and audit-ready.</p>
<p>Whether you process <strong>10 orders or 10,000 orders per day</strong>, this plugin handles every step — from invoice creation to dispatch documentation — without requiring manual intervention. This plugin replaces <strong>multiple separate extensions</strong> by combining:</p>
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<li>PDF invoices</li>
<li>Proforma invoices</li>
<li>Packing slips</li>
<li>Shipping labels</li>
<li>Delivery notes</li>
<li>Credit/refund notes</li>
</ul>
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Category</th>
<th>Highlights</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Automation</td>
<td>Invoice, packing slip, shipping label & credit note auto-generation</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Document Types</td>
<td>Normal invoice, Proforma invoice, Credit/Refund note, Delivery note</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Customization</td>
<td>266 page sizes, 56 fonts, CSS editor, watermark, header/footer</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Branding</td>
<td>Logos, colors, images, layout templates</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Tax</td>
<td>Multi-tax class support, GST/VAT display, totals with/without tax</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Compliance</td>
<td>Audit-safe numbering with no duplication or gaps</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Dispatch</td>
<td>Shipping label with barcode + QR-code</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workflow</td>
<td>Manual regenerate/delete, admin & customer email attachments</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Integration</td>
<td>Multi-currency, Sequential Order Number plugin support</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Management</td>
<td>Bulk export invoices in ZIP by date range</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h3>Benefits for Store Owners</h3>
<ul>
<li>Dramatically reduces manual paperwork</li>
<li>Zero errors in tax & invoice numbering</li>
<li>Faster shipping & delivery process</li>
<li>Professional & branded customer-facing documents</li>
<li>Fully compliant with accounting and refund records</li>
<li>Saves hours of operational time every week</li>
</ul>
<h2>Why Stores Switch from Other Invoice Plugins to This One</h2>
<ul>
<li>More automation → less manual work</li>
<li>More customization → stronger brand identity</li>
<li>Includes <strong>documents that many plugins don’t support out of the box</strong>: credit note, shipping label, and QR code</li>
<li>Fully compliant for accounting & audits</li>
<li>No extra add-ons required to unlock features</li>
</ul>
<p>This is not just an invoice generator — it’s a <strong>complete documentation suite for WooCommerce order management</strong>.</p>
<h3>Competitor Comparison Overview</h3>
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Feature</th>
<th><strong>This Plugin</strong></th>
<th>Typical Premium Plugin</th>
<th>Basic Invoice Plugin</th>
<th>Free Plugin</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>PDF Invoice</td>
<td>✔</td>
<td>✔</td>
<td>✔</td>
<td>✔</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Packing Slip</td>
<td>✔</td>
<td>✔/❌</td>
<td>✔</td>
<td>✔</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Credit Note / Refund Note (Auto)</td>
<td>✔</td>
<td>✔/❌</td>
<td>❌</td>
<td>❌</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Shipping Label</td>
<td>✔</td>
<td>✔/❌</td>
<td>❌</td>
<td>❌</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Barcode + QR Code</td>
<td>✔</td>
<td>✔/❌</td>
<td>❌</td>
<td>❌</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Invoice Numbering Compliance</td>
<td>✔</td>
<td>✔</td>
<td>✔/❌</td>
<td>❌</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Page Sizes</td>
<td>266</td>
<td>Limited</td>
<td>Limited</td>
<td>Limited</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Watermark</td>
<td>✔</td>
<td>✔/❌</td>
<td>❌</td>
<td>❌</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Custom CSS</td>
<td>✔</td>
<td>✔/❌</td>
<td>❌</td>
<td>❌</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Multi-currency</td>
<td>✔</td>
<td>✔</td>
<td>✔/❌</td>
<td>❌</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h2>Key Features</h2>
<h4>Invoice Automation & Workflow</h4>
<ul>
<li>Auto-generate invoices on <em>Completed</em> order status</li>
<li>Auto-generate <strong>Proforma invoice on every new order</strong></li>
<li>Manual invoice generation before completing an order</li>
<li>Regenerate or delete invoice anytime from the order page</li>
<li>Bulk invoice export in ZIP by date range</li>
<li>Attach invoices to customer and admin WooCommerce emails</li>
</ul>
<h4>Packing Slip, Shipping Label & Delivery Note</h4>
<ul>
<li>Generate packing slips directly from order page</li>
<li>Generate shipping labels with <strong>QR code and barcode</strong></li>
<li>Manual or automatic code input</li>
<li>Customizable delivery note layout</li>
<li>Compatible with all thermal / label printers</li>
</ul>
<h4>Credit / Refund Note</h4>
<ul>
<li>Automatic PDF credit note generation when an order is <strong>fully refunded</strong></li>
<li>Custom date format for refund documents</li>
<li>Stored and downloadable from order page</li>
</ul>
<h4>Professional & Audit-Safe Invoice Numbering</h4>
<ul>
<li>Never duplicates and never skips number sequences</li>
<li>Use WooCommerce order number or custom number format</li>
<li>Prefix / suffix support with <strong>year, month, date patterns</strong></li>
<li>Regeneration does <strong>not change</strong> invoice number (audit-safe)</li>
</ul>
<h4>100% Customizable Invoice Layouts</h4>
<ul>
<li>WP Editor support for every invoice section</li>
<li>56 fonts, font sizes, and full CSS control</li>
<li>Upload custom background image</li>
<li>Watermark image or text with opacity, position & size</li>
<li>266 page sizes and orientation (portrait / landscape)</li>
<li>Add or hide product thumbnails, SKU, category, short description</li>
</ul>
<h4>Tax & Regional Compliance</h4>
<ul>
<li>Multi-tax class support (GST, VAT, regional tax)</li>
<li>Show/hide total excluding tax</li>
<li>Display tax rate and tax amount per product</li>
<li>Designed for <strong>accounting compliance across multiple countries</strong></li>
</ul>
<h4>Multi-Platform Compatibility</h4>
<ul>
<li>WooCommerce Multi-Currency</li>
<li>WooCommerce Sequential Orders</li>
<li>All major payment + shipping gateways</li>
<li>Multilingual & translation-ready (.POT file included)</li>
</ul>
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<h3>Built for Real WooCommerce Use Cases</h3>
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<thead>
<tr>
<th>Store Type</th>
<th>Benefit</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Retail / Ecommerce</td>
<td>Print packing slips & shipping labels for fast dispatch</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Digital Items</td>
<td>Auto email invoices immediately after purchase</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Wholesale</td>
<td>Sequential numbering + CSS customization</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>International</td>
<td>Multi-tax compliance + multi-currency</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Subscription Stores</td>
<td>Proforma invoice for every renewal</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

Auto PDF Invoices and Packing Slip

<p>Generate professional PDF invoices, packing slips, shipping labels, and credit notes automatically for every WooCommerce order. Fully customizable templates, tax formats, invoice numbering, barcodes/QR-codes, and branding ensure accounting compliance and a polished customer experience — with zero manual effort.</p>

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<p>Note: <strong>AutomateWoo Refer A Friend</strong> requires <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/automatewoo/">AutomateWoo</a> to be installed and active on your store.</p>
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<h2><strong>Boost your organic sales by adding a customer referral program to your WooCommerce store.</strong></h2>
<p>Adding a referral program to your WooCommerce store is a great way to increase your word-of-mouth sales and numerous studies show that people trust recommendations from people they know.</p>
<p>With AutomateWoo Refer A Friend you can quickly set up a referral program that is customized for your store.</p>
<p>Run a ‘coupon based’ campaign where advocates can share a unique coupon, giving the friend a discount and the advocate store credit for each successful referral. If you don’t wish to offer coupon discounts you can run purely ‘link based’ campaigns where advocates can refer their friends by sharing a unique link to your store.</p>
<h2>Why Use Refer A Friend?</h2>
<h3>Effortless Referral Management</h3>
<p>Easily create and manage a WooCommerce customer referral program all from your WordPress admin area. You can choose between either an automatic or manual referral approval process. Selecting automatic approval means that any referral that does not appear to be fraudulent will be automatically approved once its corresponding order is marked as complete.</p>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/referrals-listing.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-4874122 aligncenter" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/referrals-listing.png?w=620" alt="" width="620" height="382" /></a></p>
<h3>Intuitive Referral Process</h3>
<p>The customer referral process is easy and flexible for advocates, allowing sharing via Email, Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp.</p>
<p>For the advocate’s friend the process is just as simple, all they need to do it use a coupon to gain their referral discount.</p>
<figure id="attachment_4917272" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-4917272" style="width: 620px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="wp-image-4917272 size-medium" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/automatewoo-refer-a-friend-page.png?w=620" alt="WooCommerce customer referral page" width="620" height="443" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-4917272" class="wp-caption-text">Full Share Page – Screenshot taken using the Storefront theme</figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_4874132" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-4874132" style="width: 620px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/referral-email.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-4874132" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/referral-email.png?w=620" alt="" width="620" height="578" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-4874132" class="wp-caption-text">Share Email Default Template</figcaption></figure>
<h3>Post-Purchase Widgets</h3>
<p>Encourage referral sharing by including the post-purchase share widget on the order confirmation page and by creating order follow-up emails using the email version of the widget.</p>
<figure id="attachment_4874126" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-4874126" style="width: 620px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/widget.png"><img class="wp-image-4874126 size-medium" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/widget.png?w=620" alt="" width="620" height="247" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-4874126" class="wp-caption-text">Order Confirmation Widget – Screenshot taken using the Storefront theme</figcaption></figure>
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<figure id="attachment_4874128" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-4874128" style="width: 543px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/email-widget.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-4874128" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/email-widget.png?w=543" alt="" width="543" height="368" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-4874128" class="wp-caption-text">Email Share Widget</figcaption></figure>
<h3>Fraud Prevention</h3>
<p>It’s important for your customer referral program to include fraud prevention methods. Our WooCommerce Refer A Friend add-on has a few fraud rules out of the box:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Advocate IP address matches that of the customer</strong> – The referral will be marked as potentially fraudulent and will be blocked from auto-approval. Matching IP addresses don’t always mean that the referral is fraudulent as your store could be shared among co-workers who use the same IP address.</li>
<li><strong>Matching cookies</strong> – A cookie is placed in the advocates browser and if present they will not be able to use a referral coupon. If there is a match the coupon cannot be used.</li>
<li><strong>Matching emails</strong> – When attempting to use a referral coupon the billing email is checked against any previous orders. If there is a match the coupon cannot be used.</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/referrals-detail.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-4874135 aligncenter" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/referrals-detail.png?w=620" alt="" width="620" height="395" /></a></p>
<h3>Reporting</h3>
<p>Evaluate the success of your customer referral program by using reports that show the number of referral orders placed.</p>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/report.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-4874137 aligncenter" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/report.png?w=620" alt="" width="620" height="453" /></a></p>
<h3>Advocates Accounts Tab</h3>
<p>Advocates can view their successful referrals from their account area.</p>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/accounts-page.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-4874138 aligncenter" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/accounts-page.png?w=620" alt="" width="620" height="361" /></a></p>
<h3>Workflows Integration</h3>
<p>The Refer A Friend add-on integrates with AutomateWoo workflows adding new triggers and variables. This lets you set up automation for your customer referral program and also gives you complete control over any email notifications that you want to be sent to admins or advocates.</p>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/workflow.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-4874139 aligncenter" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/workflow.png?w=620" alt="" width="620" height="471" /></a></p>

AutomateWoo – Refer A Friend add-on

<p>Boost your organic sales by adding a customer referral program to your WooCommerce store.</p>

Auto PDF Invoices and Packing Slip vs AutomateWoo – Refer A Friend add-on