---
title: "Print shipping and address labels from WooCommerce with BizPrint"
description: "Set up a printer location with the Address Labels, Shipping Label, or Dispatch Label template to print labels for your WooCommerce orders."
url: https://docs.getbizprint.com/print/labels/
section: "Print"
last_updated: 2026-11-12
---

# Print shipping and address labels from WooCommerce with BizPrint

Section: Print

> Set up a printer location with the Address Labels, Shipping Label, or Dispatch Label template to print labels for your WooCommerce orders.

This page shows you how to print address labels, shipping labels, and dispatch labels for WooCommerce orders. It is for store owners and staff who pack and ship orders with the [BizPrint plugin for WooCommerce](https://docs.getbizprint.com/start-here/glossary/#bizprint-plugin-for-woocommerce) and a desktop or Android [station](https://docs.getbizprint.com/start-here/glossary/#station).

## The three label templates

You choose each of these [templates](https://docs.getbizprint.com/start-here/glossary/#template) on a [printer location](https://docs.getbizprint.com/start-here/glossary/#printer-location).

- **Address Labels** prints only an address, one line per part. You choose which address with **Select Address Type**. It works as HTML or **Plain Text**.
- **Shipping Label** prints a label with your store’s address as the sender, the customer’s address, the order number, and the customer’s note. It works as HTML or **Plain Text**.
- **Dispatch Label** prints a fuller dispatch slip with your store address, the billing and shipping addresses, the products, and totals. It is HTML only.

## Before you start

- Connect a [printer](https://docs.getbizprint.com/start-here/glossary/#printer) that can print labels to a station. For a label printer on a computer with the [BizPrint desktop app](https://docs.getbizprint.com/start-here/glossary/#bizprint-desktop-app), see [Add a printer to the BizPrint desktop app](https://docs.getbizprint.com/set-up/desktop-add-printer/). For a label printer connected to the [BizPrint Android app](https://docs.getbizprint.com/start-here/glossary/#bizprint-android-app), see [Print shipping labels on a label printer with the BizPrint Android app](https://docs.getbizprint.com/set-up/android-label-printer/).
- Connect the plugin to your store. See [Connect the BizPrint plugin for WooCommerce to your BizPrint account](https://docs.getbizprint.com/set-up/connect-woocommerce-plugin/).

## Set up a label printer location

1. Go to **WooCommerce** > **Print Manager** in WordPress.
2. Open the **Printers** tab.
3. Click **Add new** to create a location, or click the name of an existing location in the **Description** column.
4. Type a name such as Shipping labels in the **Description** box.
5. Choose the label printer in the **Printers** list.
6. Choose **Address Labels**, **Shipping Label**, or **Dispatch Label** in the **Template** list.
7. Choose an address in **Select Address Type**, if you chose **Address Labels**: **Shipping Address**, **Billing Address**, **From Address**, or **Return Address**.
8. Fill in the **Return Address Line 1**, **Return Address Line 2**, **Return City**, **Return Country / State**, and **Return Postcode** fields, if you chose **Return Address**.
9. Choose a format in the [**Output Format**](https://docs.getbizprint.com/start-here/glossary/#output-format) list. Choose **HTML** for a formatted label with your logo. On a desktop station, you can choose **Plain Text** if your label printer prints plain text.
10. Choose the size that matches your label paper in **Layout Size**, for example **Custom** with the width and height of your labels. See [Set up a BizPrint printer location in WooCommerce for 80 mm or 58 mm receipt paper](https://docs.getbizprint.com/set-up/receipt-paper-size/) and [Change page size, margins, orientation and fonts for BizPrint printouts](https://docs.getbizprint.com/print/layout-settings/). On an Android station, the app uses the label size set for the printer in the app, unless the printer’s **Page size from job** is set to **Use the job page size when sent**. The form still needs a choice. See [Set up a WooCommerce printer location for an Android station with BizPrint](https://docs.getbizprint.com/set-up/android-printer-location/).
11. Make sure [**Automatic Printing for Website Orders**](https://docs.getbizprint.com/start-here/glossary/#automatic-printing) is not ticked, unless you want a label for every new order.
12. Click **Save Changes**.

The other options on the page change with the template. For example, **Include Shipping Method** appears for **Dispatch Label**.

## Check before you print a label

A test print, or a label you print by hand, prints a real order again. Do these checks first, so you do not print an order twice:

1. Look at the paper at the printer for the order’s printout. If it already printed, a test print or a label printed by hand prints it again.
2. Check that the printer has paper, shows no error, and is not in the middle of a real order.
3. Check the [print job status](https://docs.getbizprint.com/start-here/glossary/#print-job-status) of the latest [print jobs](https://docs.getbizprint.com/start-here/glossary/#print-job) in the [BizPrint dashboard](https://docs.getbizprint.com/start-here/glossary/#bizprint-dashboard). See [View print jobs and their status in the BizPrint dashboard](https://docs.getbizprint.com/manage/print-jobs/).
4. Wait for the station to finish anything it is still printing, whatever status the job shows.
5. Go to **WooCommerce** > **Print Manager** in WordPress.
6. Click the **Support** tab.
7. Check **Queue Status** in [**Print Job Queue**](https://docs.getbizprint.com/start-here/glossary/#print-job-queue).
8. Wait for any pending or processing jobs to finish. See [View and retry failed print jobs in WooCommerce with the BizPrint Print Job Queue](https://docs.getbizprint.com/manage/print-job-queue/).

Do not print while a job for that order is **pending**, **connecting-to-printer** or **processing**. Never place or re-create an order to get a printout.

## Check the label

Your store needs at least one order to check a label. Without an order, the **View Sample** and **Test print** buttons are not shown. If your store has no orders yet, wait for your first real order. Never place an order just to test a label.

1. Click **View Sample** on the printer location to preview the label on screen. See [Preview a BizPrint printout in WooCommerce with View Sample](https://docs.getbizprint.com/print/view-sample/).
2. Do the checks in [Check before you print a label](https://docs.getbizprint.com/print/labels/#check-before-you-print-a-label). The checks take you to the **Support** tab.
3. Click the **Printers** tab.
4. Click the name of your label location in the **Description** column.
5. Click **Test print** to print your newest order on the label printer. See [Send a test print from a BizPrint printer location in WooCommerce](https://docs.getbizprint.com/print/test-print/).
6. Check that the label fits the paper and the text is not cut off.

## Print a label for an order

1. Do the checks in [Check before you print a label](https://docs.getbizprint.com/print/labels/#check-before-you-print-a-label).
2. Open the **Print Order #** or **Print Orders** window for the order or orders. See [Print a WooCommerce order manually with BizPrint](https://docs.getbizprint.com/print/print-an-order/) and [Print several WooCommerce orders at once with BizPrint](https://docs.getbizprint.com/print/print-multiple-orders/).
3. Untick the first location under **Select Location(s)** if it is not your label location. It is ticked for you.
4. Tick your label location in **Select Location(s)**.
5. Click **Print**.

Never place an order again to get a label.

> **Caution: A later automatic label can still print**
>
> Printing a label by hand does not count as the order’s automatic printout. If automatic printing is turned on for your label location and the order has not printed automatically yet, for example because it still needs payment or has not reached one of the statuses you chose, the label still prints automatically once the order qualifies. Tell your staff to expect that extra label, so nobody ships the order twice.

## Guest orders

For **Shipping Address** and **Billing Address** labels, and for the customer addresses on **Shipping Label** and **Dispatch Label**, the address prints only when the customer has an account on your store. For a guest checkout, the label shows **Guest** instead of an address.

**From Address** and **Return Address** labels do not depend on the customer, so they always print.

If you ship to guest customers and need their address on the label, check a guest order first. Click **View Sample** on the label location when your newest order is a guest order. It shows your newest order and prints nothing. See [Preview a BizPrint printout in WooCommerce with View Sample](https://docs.getbizprint.com/print/view-sample/). If the address is missing, contact [BizPrint support](https://getbizprint.com/support/).

## Related pages

- [Choose a BizPrint template for WooCommerce printouts](https://docs.getbizprint.com/print/choose-a-template/)
- [Change page size, margins, orientation and fonts for BizPrint printouts](https://docs.getbizprint.com/print/layout-settings/)
- [Print a WooCommerce order manually with BizPrint](https://docs.getbizprint.com/print/print-an-order/)
- [Print shipping labels on a label printer with the BizPrint Android app](https://docs.getbizprint.com/set-up/android-label-printer/)
- [Fix BizPrint printouts that are cut off, too long or the wrong size](https://docs.getbizprint.com/troubleshooting/layout-problems/)

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