Print Shopify orders automatically with Auto Order Printer

This page shows you how to make new Shopify orders print by themselves with Auto Order Printer, the BizPrint app for Shopify. It is for Shopify store owners and staff. Auto Order Printer prints with the BizPrint desktop app, so your printers must be connected to a computer that runs it.

Automatic printing is turned on for each printer location. A printer location is a set of print settings in the app: which printers to use, which template, and how the printout looks.

Before you start

• Set up BizPrint for your Shopify store with Auto Order Printer: connect the app to your BizPrint account and create at least one printer location.
• Make sure the computer that is your station is on and connected to the internet, the BizPrint desktop app on it is running and connected, and your printer is connected to it. The computer must stay this way to receive print jobs.

Turn on automatic printing for a printer location

1. Open your Shopify admin.
2. Click BizPrint: Auto Order Printer under Apps.
3. Click the Printers tab. It lists your printer locations, with an Enabled column.
4. Open the printer location that should print new orders.
5. Tick Enable next to Automatic Printing for Website Orders.
6. Check that your printer is selected in the Printers box.
7. Save the printer location.

Do this for every printer location that should print new orders. Each order prints once on each printer in each printer location with automatic printing turned on. If you put the same printer in two such printer locations, each order prints twice on it.

Check that it works

1. Wait for the next new order in your store.
2. Look at the printer for the printout.
3. Find the order’s print job in the BizPrint dashboard.

If an order did not print, do these checks before you print it by hand or reprint anything, so you do not print it twice:

1. Look at the printer for the printout.
2. Check the order’s print job and its status in the BizPrint dashboard.
3. Wait for the station to finish anything it is still printing, whatever status the job shows.
4. Do not print the order again while its print job is still pending, connecting-to-printer or processing.

Never place an order again, or take a payment again, to get a printout. To print a job again after these checks, see Reprint a print job from the BizPrint dashboard. For other causes, see Fix Shopify printing problems with Auto Order Printer.

Related pages

• Set up BizPrint for your Shopify store with Auto Order Printer
• Print a Shopify order from the order Print menu with Auto Order Printer
• Fix Shopify printing problems with Auto Order Printer
• Reprint a print job from the BizPrint dashboard

Need help? Contact BizPrint support at https://getbizprint.com/support/.