E-Commerce Document Automation

Turn your store data into invoices, receipts and shipping labels

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Automate Your E-Commerce Documents

Online stores send documents with every order, and creating them by hand doesn't scale. With document automation, each one is created from your store data the moment an order comes in.

  • Documents sent with every order
  • Correct items and totals, every time
  • Your branding on every document
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Understanding

E-Commerce Documents

Every order in an online store comes with its own documents. An order confirmation follows checkout, an invoice and a receipt follow payment, and a packing slip and a shipping label go to the warehouse.


These documents follow the same design for every order and only change with the items, prices and addresses. You design each template once, which makes e-commerce documents a natural fit for automation.

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E-Commerce Templates

Download a ready-to-use template, adapt it to your needs and generate your first e-commerce document in minutes.

Order Confirmation
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Order Confirmation Template
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Business Invoice
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Business Invoice Template
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Sales Receipt
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Sales Receipt Template
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Shipping Label
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Shipping Label Template
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Everything You Need

Built For E-Commerce

From order confirmations to packing slips, every e-commerce document can be driven by your data.

Item Tables

List the products, quantities and prices of each order in tables that grow automatically with your data.

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Calculated Totals

Add up subtotals, shipping, discounts and taxes directly in your template, for every order and currency.

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Number Formats

Show prices with the right currency format for each customer's country, whatever your store's settings.

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Barcodes & QR Codes

Add a barcode or QR code with the order number, so each package is easy to scan, track and return.

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Product Images

Add product photos and your logo to every document, straight from your store's catalog data.

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Real-Time API

Generate documents in seconds from your store or app as soon as an order is placed or paid.

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Single Print File

Combine the packing slips of a day's orders into a single file, ready to print for the warehouse.

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Regional Processing

Process and store customer documents in the region of your choice to help meet compliance regulations.

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Integrations

Automate With No-Code

Connect DocuGenerate to Zapier, Make, n8n or Pipedream, and an e-commerce document is created the moment an order is placed, a payment succeeds or a shipment is booked.

Native connectors for Bubble, Coda, Power Apps, Xano and Backendless allow your apps to generate e-commerce documents reliably from your DocuGenerate templates.

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From Our Blog

Create ZUGFeRD / Factur-X PDF Invoices

This guide explains the ZUGFeRD and Factur-X e-invoicing formats and shows how to generate compliant PDF invoices with embedded XML through the DocuGenerate API, automatically for every online order processed.

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How to Create ZUGFeRD / Factur-X PDF Invoices with DocuGenerate
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Your Questions Answered

Questions frequently asked about automating e-commerce documents with DocuGenerate

Yes. Templates are ordinary Word files, so you can reuse the order documents and receipts you already have. Add merge tags where the details change and upload the file. Learn more.
Yes. Connect your store through Zapier, Make, n8n or Pipedream and generate an order confirmation, receipt or packing slip automatically when a new order is placed.
Yes. Trigger the workflow from your payment platform to generate a receipt when a payment succeeds and email it to your customer.
Yes. Combine the generated packing slips into a single PDF file, one order per page, and print the whole batch in one go. Learn more.
No. The data is transient. It is used for the merge and then discarded, never written to the logs or the database. The generated documents are kept until you delete them.
Yes. Send your order data as JSON to the REST API and get the generated document back in seconds. SDKs are available for Node.js, Python, PHP, Ruby, Go, C#, Rust and Java, and every plan includes full API access. Learn more.
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