Creating PDF's for customer after shop order?

ColinRood · Feb 12th 2020

Hi

I have been building a Runway site using the shop.app and am looking into how to generate PDF's of the order for the customer to download/print.

I found 'pdfmake' which seems to fit the bill but before getting into the learning curve, can anyone else suggest the best way to go about this?

Colin

JayW · Feb 13th 2020

If customer already receives invoice via html email, my thoughts on this are it's up to user to manage what happens from that point. Some might want to "print" or downloaded as PDF, which most email clients and web browsers can do when select print from the menu. I guess you want to ignore that and generate the PDF anyway.

ellimondo · Feb 13th 2020

Yeah I'd agree with JayW here, but if it absolutely needs to be done, then you'd have to create an app to use a pdf library to process the data on the fly.

I've used the php library mpdf in the past which works really well but not with Shop.

ColinRood · Feb 13th 2020

Thanks for the comments.

I agree in some cases that might be all that is needed, but I have an Orders History page where a past order can be viewed so would need to be printed or saved as a PDF.

I will look into mpdf next.

Thanks

JayW · Feb 14th 2020

I have an orders history page too, where all previous invoices are listed. I added a print style sheet to the invoice template, so the invoice page looks nicely formatted when printed, without site navigation etc.

Web browsers can save to PDF via the print dialog box, so there's no need to re-create functionality that's built into browser. If you're worried people don't know about this, you could always mention it on the invoice page. Anyway, good luck if you decide to generate PDFs!