Switching from Shopify Order Printer

Shopify Order Printer is free, supports code-level templates, and can bulk print selected orders. Leaving it only makes sense if Docket’s automatic generation, hosted delivery links, stored PDFs, or flat feature set solve a problem you actually have. The full comparison is in Docket vs Shopify Order Printer; this page covers the move.

There is no template import

Docket does not import Shopify Order Printer templates. Order Printer supports HTML, CSS, and Liquid; Docket has no merchant-editable template code. A custom layout, barcode, font, or other code-level change has no automatic equivalent in Docket.

You configure seller and VAT details, invoice and credit-note numbering, quote validity and terms, a logo, one accent color, per-document footer text, and whether packing slips show prices. Preview buttons render sample PDFs from fixed data. See Customizing templates.

Your Order Printer setup is not changed or removed by installing Docket. Run both side by side until Docket’s documents are the ones you would put in front of a customer.

What maps to what

• Your templates: replaced, not imported. Docket settings cover a defined set of fields, not arbitrary Liquid behavior.
• Bulk printing: both apps have it. Their current selection behavior is in the dated table below. Docket lets you select from the current results page, filter by customer, date, fulfillment status, and tags, and sort the combined PDF by order number or creation date.
• Document types: Order Printer includes invoice, packing-slip, and pick-list defaults and supports custom templates. Docket explicitly generates invoices, packing slips, credit notes, and draft-order quotes. Docket has no pick list in v1.
• Template control: Order Printer is more flexible. Docket is intentionally settings-based.
• Delivery: Shopify’s current Order Printer documentation covers printing and saving PDFs, not built-in automated customer delivery. Docket provides hosted-link snippets for Shopify notification templates.

What auto-delivery adds

Docket gives you copy-paste snippets for Shopify’s order-confirmation, shipping-confirmation, and refund-notification templates. After that one-time Shopify template edit, the link resolves the latest stored Docket PDF for that order and document type. Docket itself does not send email.

Docket also stores every document as a record: immutable PDF and HTML kept from the moment of generation while Docket remains installed. Shopify’s documentation describes on-demand rendering, printing, and browser PDF saving rather than an app-managed archive.

About Shopify’s legacy-app migration

Shopify deprecated its legacy Order Printer and provided an import into the current app. Shopify’s migration documentation says variables are updated wherever possible and most templates should work, while acknowledging that some imported templates need troubleshooting.

Docket’s smaller settings surface avoids merchant-maintained template code, but no software can honestly promise that future output will never change. The narrower promise is concrete: a Docket update or settings change cannot rewrite a PDF already generated and stored in the archive.

What it costs

Docket will launch with Unlimited at $9.99 USD monthly or $99.99 USD annually, with two months free for annual prepayment. A Shopify-native trial will start after you choose an interval and approve the charge. Docket has no usage metering. Existing documents and public links remain available if billing ends while the app remains installed. Uninstalling Docket deletes its archive and invalidates those links. The facts below come from the current Shopify App Store listing and linked Shopify Help Center documentation, checked on the date shown.