Customizing templates
Docket ships with default templates for all four documents: invoice, packing slip, credit note, and draft-order quote. Totals reconcile to Shopify’s values, and the layouts are built for PDF generation and printing.
Most stores never need to touch them. When you do, the changes are settings, not template code.
Branding, set once
Your logo and one accent color live in one place, and every document type uses them. The accent is applied to headings and document accents.
Template settings that ship today
- Each document type has its own footer text.
- Packing slips can show or hide prices.
- Seller legal name, address, and VAT number appear in the FROM block across all four types.
- Invoices and credit notes have configurable sequence prefixes, starting numbers, and padding.
- The customer VAT order-attribute key is configurable.
- Draft-order quotes have shared validity-days and terms settings.
The preview buttons generate PDFs from fixed sample data and the current unsaved form values. Previewing does not read a real order or create a stored merchant document.
No template code by design
Docket has no code editor. You cannot add arbitrary Liquid behavior, custom layouts, barcodes, fonts, or new fields through the template settings. That is a narrower customization model than Shopify Order Printer and Order Printer Pro.
The layout and tax-total logic are not merchant-editable. Docket maintains those parts of the PDF engine while you control the settings listed above.
Edits never rewrite history
A settings change applies to documents generated after the change. Documents already generated keep their immutable PDF and HTML versions while Docket remains installed. An edit today does not rewrite last month’s stored invoice.
Regenerate fetches current Shopify data and applies current template settings to a new immutable PDF and HTML version. It never overwrites or re-renders the earlier record.
Uninstalling Docket deletes the archive and invalidates its public links. See Where your documents live.
If you get stuck
Ask Docket is available inside the app for setup and product questions. You can also email support. Tell us what you are trying to change and we will point to the exact setting or tell you that it does not exist yet.