Add a Bluetooth printer to the BizPrint Android app

This page shows you how to add a Bluetooth receipt or label printer to the BizPrint Android app. It is for merchants and staff using an Android device as their station. If your printer is connected to your network instead, use Add a network printer to the BizPrint Android app.

The app prints receipts, invoices, packing slips, kitchen tickets and labels to Bluetooth printers, with your logo and layout. It works with receipt printers that use ESC/POS or StarPRNT and label printers that use ZPL or TSPL. These are printer command sets, which the app calls the Printer language. The printer must use classic Bluetooth. Printers that only use Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) are not supported.

Before you start

Update the BizPrint Android app from Google Play to the latest version.
Install and connect the Android app. See Install and connect the BizPrint Android app to your station.
Turn the printer on and keep it close to the Android device.
If the printer is not paired with the device yet, put it in pairing mode. Your printer’s documentation explains how.
Turn on Bluetooth on the Android device.

Allow BizPrint to use Bluetooth

BizPrint needs Android’s Nearby devices permission to find and print to Bluetooth printers. You may have allowed it already in the setup assistant, where the Bluetooth row shows Allowed.

If you did not, the Add printer screen shows Bluetooth search is off:

Tap Allow on the card.
Allow Nearby devices when Android asks.

If the card shows Open settings instead of Allow, tap it, then allow Nearby devices in the Android settings for BizPrint.

Other cards you may see:

Bluetooth is off: tap Turn on.
Location is off: tap Open settings and turn on Location. Some older Android versions need it to find Bluetooth printers.

Add the printer from the search

The app can pair a new printer for you, so you do not need to pair it in the Android settings first. If the printer is not paired yet, the app pairs it after you tap Continue and shows Pairing with and the printer’s name. If Android asks for a PIN, enter the one from your printer’s documentation. The app’s tip says it is usually 0000 or 1234.

Open the BizPrint app.
Tap Add printer under Printers on the main screen. The app searches for printers.
Tap your printer under Found. Bluetooth printers show Bluetooth in the line under their name. A printer that is not paired yet shows Bluetooth · Not paired yet.
Type a name in Printer name, for example “Counter”. BizPrint shows this name in the BizPrint dashboard and in WooCommerce, so choose one your staff will recognize.
Tap Continue.
Wait while the app shows Checking the printer and then prints a test page. The test page is not an order.
Look at the printer.
Tap Yes under Did it print? if the test page printed. The printer’s settings open.

If you tap No, the app shows The test page didn’t print. Tap Change language and choose the language from your printer’s documentation, or tap Try again.

If pairing fails, the app shows Couldn’t pair with this printer. Put the printer in pairing mode again, keep it close, and tap Try again.

If your printer is not under Found, tap Show under Other Bluetooth devices and look for it there.

Add a paired printer by hand

Use this when the printer is already paired in the Android Bluetooth settings but the search does not show it.

Open the BizPrint app.
Tap Add printer under Printers on the main screen.
Tap Choose a paired Bluetooth printer under Don’t see your printer?. The Add printer form opens with Bluetooth selected under How is it connected?.
Type a name in Name, for example “Counter”.
Tap Paired printer.
Choose your printer from the list.
Tap Printer language.
Choose the language from your printer’s documentation:
- ESC/POS (Epson and most receipt printers)
- StarPRNT (Star printers)
- ZPL (Zebra and compatibles)
- TSPL (TSC and most generic label printers)
Tap Add printer. The printer’s settings open.
Tap Test print. The printer prints a test page, not an order.
Look at the printer.

If the form shows No paired printers. Pair it in Bluetooth settings first., tap Bluetooth settings, pair the printer in Android, then return to the BizPrint app. If it shows Allow Bluetooth so BizPrint can see your paired printers., tap Allow and allow Nearby devices.

Set the paper size

New receipt printers start with 80 mm roll as their paper. If you use a different paper, change it so receipts fit:

Tap the printer under Printers on the main screen. The printer’s settings open.
Tap Paper.
Choose your paper, for example 58 mm roll.
Tap Test print to check the result.

For label printers, see Print shipping labels on a label printer with the BizPrint Android app. For all other settings, see Change paper, cut and layout settings for a printer in the BizPrint Android app.

Check that it worked

Open the BizPrint app. The printer is listed under Printers on the main screen.
Click Stations in the menu of the BizPrint dashboard.
Click your station.
Check that the printer appears in its Printers list with the name you chose.

If the main screen later shows Bluetooth permission needed, Bluetooth printers cannot print until you allow it again. Tap Allow on the card.

Use a different Bluetooth printer later

To move this printer’s name and settings to another Bluetooth printer, for example a replacement:

Pair the new printer in the Android Bluetooth settings.
Open the BizPrint app.
Tap the printer under Printers on the main screen.
Tap Paired printer.
Choose the new printer.
Tap Test print to check it.

The printer keeps its name, so your WooCommerce printer locations keep working. If you delete the printer and add it again instead, BizPrint lists it as a new printer, and you must select it again in your printer location.

Next step

Follow Set up a WooCommerce printer location for an Android station with BizPrint to add the printer to a printer location in WooCommerce.

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