Manual created orders do not get an invoice number without downloading the pdf

  • Resolved suiluj

    (@suiluj)


    4 years, 11 months ago

    hello i have a question regarding the invoice number.

    in our shop we often create order manually. these order do not get invoice numbers at once.

    is there a way to create an invoice number at once when saving the manually created order?

    we need this behaviour because there are missing invoice numbers in our order exports excel files.

    We always have to go through all orders and download the invoice just for getting the order number.

    I know this is a small issue but it would be great to have it done at once when saving a new created order.

    Regards
    Julius

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  • Plugin Contributor Ewout

    (@pomegranate)

    Hello Julius,
    Automatic generation of the invoice (/PDF) is triggered by the email attachment, meaning that if your order moves to a status that woocommerce sends an email for, and you have set the plugin to attach the PDF invoice to this email, it will generate the invoice number. Technically it’s also possible to generate the invoice number & date without sending the email, but you’d need to define a specific status for that as you would probably not want the invoice to be created for all draft/cancelled/failed orders too (as they would all need to be compensated for with a credit note too…). One thing you could do is to attach the invoice to the order-on-hold email and set your manual order to that status when creating it. If that doesn’t fit your workflow, could you tell us what would you like to use as a trigger to create the invoice automatically?

    Thread Starter suiluj

    (@suiluj)

    ah okay that’s the reason.

    okay now i decided to just use the order id as invoice id (i read somewhere that invoice numbers in germany only need to be unique but not sequential).

    So i can export the order id and know the invoice id even if i did not generate the invoice before.

    but now i understand your reasons for implementing it this way.
    have a nice day and thanks for this great plugin!

    Julius

    Plugin Contributor Ewout

    (@pomegranate)

    i read somewhere that invoice numbers in germany only need to be unique but not sequential

    I would double check that with your accountant. We have a lot of German customers and many of them insist on sequential invoice numbers. Just a random link from a German site: https://www.billomat.com/magazin/anforderungen-an-rechnungsnummern/

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