How to set emails in WooCommerce and send a PDF invoice automatically?

How to set emails in WooCommerce and send a PDF invoice automatically?

How to send an invoice email in WooCommerce? Is the standard WooCommerce email invoice option not enough for you? Do you need a better solution to send emails with invoices? Try the plugin to create and send an email with a professional WooCommerce PDF invoice automatically!

From this blog post, you will learn:

How to set emails in WooCommerce and a built-in invoice

You may already know that there’s a simple built-in WooCommerce feature for sending “invoices”:

Standard WooCommerce Invoice Email

When you visit the order page in your WordPress dashboard, you will notice that there is an option for sending “invoices” to your customer:

Use the Built-in email with an invoice

If you use it, your customer will get an e-mail with order details. This is how it will look – WooCommerce sends such a standard email, which is called an “invoice”:

Default WooCommerce Confirmation Email with Invoice

Okay, pretty neat. But too plain, too primitive for me. I need a more complex solution.

Send PDF invoices for WooCommerce orders to your customers with a free plugin

What would you say if I told you that you can send true PDF invoices to your customers for free? Below, you can see an example:

Flexible Invoices - invoicing plugin for WooCommerce - invoice view

Much better, huh? Such a PDF invoice is a document that can be used for accounting purposes in your WooCommerce store. It is confirmed that invoices generated using this solution are 100% compatible with EU law. A personalized PDF document includes all necessary data:

Flexible Invoices for WooCommerce

6,000+ Active Installations Last Updated: 2024-08-07 Works with WooCommerce 8.8 - 9.2.x

PDF Invoices in WooCommerce – Quickstart

  1. Install and activate Flexible PDF Invoices for WooCommerce & WordPress from the WordPress plugin repository

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Go to the WooCommerce Edit Order page and click Issue Invoice:

How to Issue an Invoice for a WooCommerce Order

  • After the invoice is generated, click its title and click the blue button Send by e-mail:
    Send Email with PDF Invoice in WooCommerce
  • WooCommerce Email with a PDF Invoice – Final effect

    As a result, your customer will get a simple, pretty-looking email with a link to the PDF file with the invoice:

    Send Email to Customer with a PDF Invoice

    As you can see, you can get a professional-looking PDF document that you may generate using only one click! And with the second click, you can email it to your customer inbox. Doesn’t it sound lovely? And all of this for free.

    Automatically generate & send an email with a PDF invoice in WooCommerce

    How about going a step further and enabling automation? Wouldn’t it be nice if your customer would automatically get such a PDF invoice right after the purchase? It is easy to set up with the PRO version of the plugin, which you can buy using the button below:

    Flexible Invoices for WooCommerce PRO € 59