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Automatic printing of Packing Slips for new orders

Because this original request I made for this was closed when an unrelated feature was introduced, I'm creating a new one.

I would very much like to be able to have the automation in ShipStation be able to print. This would allow me to have it automatically print all new orders that have downloaded, so that warehouse personnel know an order has come in when the printer starts spitting out packing slips. This is something we're used to having in a different product we switched from to ShipStation and it's the main thing we miss. With printing being done through ShipStation Connect now, this should be entirely possible too.

The other thing that would have be added is another feature that ShipStation really does need anyway: an indication of some kind that an order has already been printed. This would allow automation to "print all unprinted orders" as well as greatly reduce the possibility of orders being double-packed when more than 1 person is working shipping. We've had this happen multiple times simply because there's no good way to tell when an order has already been printed right now.

Thank you!!

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Brian Van Bogart SoftBums shared this idea  ·   ·  Admin →
AdminShipStation (Product Owner, ShipStation) responded  · 

Hi @everyone,

So, just to help us better understand, would this idea work best for you if it automatically printed whenever an order came in? So, say, an order comes in on Sunday at 4:00 a.m., it should print then. Or would it be better if whenever you log in to ShipStation and have it active that you would prefer to have the packing slips printed out then?

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  • Damion Lupo TCF LLC commented  · 

    I would love to have labels printed automatically as orders come in!

  • Ryan Phillips Wholistic Pet Organics commented  · 

    Whenever an order comes in, it prints a packing slip. This however, will only work if shipstation auto imports orders.

    I wish I could vote a billion times for this.

    I see this thread is almost 4 years old. Is this something ShipStation is planning to work on?

  • Lizzie commented  · 

    Any update on this?

  • CSD 2 commented  · 

    Would love to have this feature. For the packing slips, we currently refresh, then create a manual order for "PRINT HERE" and use that as our marker of where to print. Sometimes orders slip through if we don't refresh and click back on orders. Or if a payment processes late and the order slips behind our manual marker. Would be nice to either autoprint all the time, or be able to print everything not printed.

  • StickerTalk, LLC. commented  · 

    Any updates on this? It was requested 7 years ago and has over 300 votes.

  • Cody Thierauf commented  · 

    how is this still not a thing

  • KEN HANSON TROYER PRODUCTS commented  · 

    I was really surprised when I started using ShipStation that the packing slips did not print automatically when an order arrived. This seems like a "no brainer" to me. This and the fact that ShipStation does not automatically download the orders very often from our channels. I do like the software, but these two missing features is a let down for me. :-(

  • Andrew Tullsen Admagic PP Division commented  · 

    We would love this, it would really help our flow, to be able to automatically print packing slips whenever it Shipstation updates from the store.

  • Mark Leenheer ShootingTargets7 LLC commented  · 

    We're moving over from Shipworks and it does this. Our packers are already complaining because Shipstation will not. I would think this would be a super easy automation?

  • Tom Freeman A.S.H.S. Ltd - Anya Hindmarch commented  · 

    I would vote that there is a config setting added to:
    1) Automatically print the picking list when the order loads to ShipStation
    2) Automatically prints the packing list when you mark the order as shipped.

  • Daniel Kauffman Popular Patch commented  · 

    Add two automation rule actions, one to "Print Packing Slip" and one to "Print Label". Each of these actions would have a drop-down menu allowing selection of the target printer. The list of possible printers would include all of the printers configured and shared via ShipStation Connect.

    Using automation rule actions has a lot of benefits, such as allowing packing slips and labels to be printed to specific printers. For example, priority orders could be printed to a dedicated printer for priority processing.

    Ideally, the automation rule actions would print packing slips and labels automatically whenever the automation rule is triggered, not just when the order is first imported into ShipStation.

    We're fine with orders printing in the middle of the night or over the weekend. It works better in fact, because the printer doesn't overheat when printing out orders on Monday morning. And the warehouse team has something to do when they arrive each morning, without having to manually print everything before getting started.

  • GUNNAR BJORKLAND EMBIE INDUSTRIES INC commented  · 

    Any updates on this? It would be EXTREMELY HELPFUL! Also, any way to auto refresh the marketplaces for orders so I don't have to do it a hundred times a day? It's kind of archaic

  • Kyle Harper K&Y Books commented  · 

    Does anyone know if there is Auto Print for packing slips when an order comes in? Looking to see if it has been added.

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