How can I create and send an invoice to my customer?

Accounting & Taxes

Topic summary

A Shopify store owner needs to send invoices to customers but can only generate packing slips natively. The platform doesn’t include built-in invoicing functionality for completed orders.

Available Solutions:

  • Shopify’s Free Invoice Generator: A standalone web tool for creating one-off invoices manually
  • Third-party apps from Shopify App Store: Multiple options that automate invoice creation and delivery

Recommended Apps:

  • Sufio: Professional Invoices (automated creation/sending with customization)
  • Order Printer Pro and Order Printer: PDF Invoice App
  • ezInvoices (free, multi-language support, connects to order details)
  • Swipe (specifically for India-based stores with GST compliance)

Key Limitation:
The original poster expressed frustration that a sales platform lacks native invoicing. The manual workaround involves creating invoices separately, then emailing them from a different address than order confirmations, potentially triggering spam filters.

Automated apps address this by generating and sending invoices directly from order data, maintaining consistent sender addresses and reducing manual work.

Summarized with AI on October 30. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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Hi!

Thought I’d throw my app in the ring as well! It is a free to use app that connects directly to the order details page. It lets you print an invoice or save it as a PDF.

Support features

  • It is available in several languages: English, French, Spanish, German, and Hindi.

  • Display important tax information

  • Display payment terms, due dates, payment status, tracking information

  • Clean, simple profession invoice design

  • Upload your logo

You can check our ezInvoices on the app store: https://apps.shopify.com/ezinvoices

Happy to include features important to your business workflow!