Set Up AutoPrintEmail for Shopify

You installed AutoPrintEmail to stop hand-printing labels, packing slips, and transfer receipts. Good call. This guide takes you from a fresh install to your first label printing on its own, and you never have to leave Shopify to do any of it. Set aside about ten minutes, mostly waiting on a printer.

Table of Contents

• Install from Shopify
• Confirm Your Email
• Your Free Trial
• Install the Print Bridge
• Connect a Location and Printer
• Customize Your Label
• Invite Your Team
• See Your First Label Print
• Print Packing Slips for Orders
• Managing Everything from Shopify
• Need Help?

Install from Shopify

Do you have an install link from us? Open it while you are signed in to your Shopify admin and skip to the next paragraph. If you do not have one yet, ask for it on the Shopify integration page with your store address (the yourstore.myshopify.com one) and we will set your store up and email you the link, usually the same day. If you found us on the Shopify App Store instead, install straight from the listing. Either route lands you in the same place.

Click Install. Shopify shows you exactly what data the app reads (inventory transfers, shipments, orders, products, locations) and nothing else. Approve it and you land straight in the app.

Confirm Your Email

The first time the app opens, it asks for the email that should own this account. We pre-fill it with your Shopify store email, so most of the time you just confirm it and continue. This is the email you (and your print machines) will sign in with later.

There is no separate signup and no password to create. We set the account up for you in the background and connect it to this store automatically.

Your Free Trial

Confirming your email starts your 7-day free trial automatically. There's no plan to pick and no card to enter to get going, so don't worry about pricing yet. Just keep setting up and start printing.

When you're ready, open Plan & billing to choose a plan. You can do this any time during the trial, or right before it ends, so nothing interrupts your printing. Pricing is per print station, and the app recommends a plan based on how many locations your store has.

Where the bill lands depends on how you installed. Install from the Shopify App Store and it runs through Shopify, on your normal Shopify invoice. If we sent you an install link directly, we bill you and the plan lives in Plan & billing instead.

Install the Print Bridge

AutoPrintEmail prints to a real printer on a real computer, so each print station runs a small companion app we call the print bridge. Think of it like a printer driver: it sits quietly on the machine next to your printer and turns Shopify events into paper.

Download it for the computer at your print station, install it, and open it.

When the bridge opens, it asks for your email. Enter the same email you confirmed earlier and click the link we send you. No password, no separate account.

Connect a Location and Printer

Once the bridge is signed in, tell it which Shopify location this computer prints for, then pick the printer to use. A station in your Aarhus shop prints Aarhus labels; a station in your warehouse prints warehouse labels.

Customize Your Label

Back in the Shopify app, open Templates. This is where you shape what comes out of the printer, for each event, without touching code if you do not want to.

Pick the document (the transfer label or the order packing slip), tweak it, and watch the live preview update as you go. When it looks right, run a test print to the station you just set up.

Invite Your Team

Open Team and add the people who run your other print stations. Each teammate gets an email invite, installs the print bridge on their own machine, and signs in with that email. That is it.

Only the machines that actually print count towards your plan, so you can invite managers and viewers for free. Each computer that prints is its own print station, so two printing computers means two stations on your plan.

Give every computer its own login. It is tempting to sign the same email in on two machines, but they then both pick up the same jobs and fight over them, and you get labels twice or a print reported as failed when it actually came out. One email per computer, always.

See Your First Label Print

Now the fun part. In Shopify, receive part of an inventory transfer at the location you connected. Within a few seconds the label prints on its own at that station, no clicking, no exporting.

Receive a partial transfer and you get labels for just those items; receive the rest later and you get labels for the rest. The final receive never reprints the whole transfer.

Print Packing Slips for Orders

Transfers print out of the box. Order packing slips are one switch away: open Settings in the app and tick Order paid — print a packing slip when an order is paid, then Save.

From then on, every paid order prints one packing slip at your print station: ship-to address, every line item, and the totals, ready to drop in the box. It is one full-page document per order, not one per item.

The slip's layout lives in Templates under Order packing slip, with the same live preview and test print as the transfer label.

Managing Everything from Shopify

From here on, everything lives in the AutoPrintEmail app inside your Shopify admin:

• Home shows recent prints and the health of each station.
• Locations shows which printer each location uses.
• Templates is where you change what prints.
• Team is where you add or remove operators.
• Plan is where you change tiers.
• Settings is where you pick which events trigger a print.

You manage it all without leaving Shopify.

Need Help?

If a label does not print, two causes cover almost every case:

• The print bridge is closed on that station. Check it is open and signed in first.
• The same email is signed in on two computers. Both machines grab every job, so one prints while the other reports a failure for the same label. If prints look random, or the app says failed but paper came out, this is why. Give each computer its own login as described above.

Beyond that, we are a small, fast team and happy to help.

Email us at hello@autoprint.email and we will get you sorted.