Forge Barcode Fulfilment Manager for WooCommerce – Order Scanner & PDF Invoices

Forge Barcode Fulfilment Manager gives a WooCommerce store the barcode and order fulfilment tools a small warehouse actually needs. Every new order gets its own QR code. Your staff scan that code on a simple front-end page, the order is looked up and previewed, and its status advances in one tap. Any order can be printed as a branded PDF invoice.

Barcodes and QR codes

• Generates a QR code automatically for every new WooCommerce order.
• The barcode value encodes the WooCommerce order ID, so one scan resolves straight to the right order.
• Optionally attaches the QR code image to your WooCommerce order emails.
• Admin metabox on the order screen showing the barcode image, with a one-click regenerate button.

Order scanning

• A front-end scanner page via the [forge_ops_scanner] shortcode, restricted to users who can manage WooCommerce.
• Works with USB and handheld barcode readers — the keyboard-wedge kind that type what they scan — and with manual entry when you would rather key an order number in by hand.
• The scanner looks the order up, previews it, and advances its status (to processing or completed, for example) in a single tap.
• Configurable per-status scanning workflow, plus an optional auto-complete countdown.
• REST endpoints (forge-ops/v1/order-preview, forge-ops/v1/scan) protected by capability and nonce checks.

PDF invoices

• Branded PDF invoice generated on demand for any order.
• Print Invoice and Mark Complete buttons on every row of the WooCommerce Orders screen.
• Signed download links, plus a Download Invoice action in My Account > Orders so customers can fetch their own invoices.
• Invoice metabox on the order edit screen.

All generated files are stored in unguessable, per-site upload directories and served only through signed handlers, so customer documents are not publicly enumerable.

Who this is for

Small and mid-size WooCommerce stores that pick and pack their own orders: warehouse and dispatch teams working down a queue of orders, a one-person operation at a packing bench, click-and-collect counters checking orders in, and anyone currently reading order numbers off a screen and typing them into a search box. If your staff handle the same orders every day, one scan per order is quicker than hunting for it.

Premium (Forge Barcode Fulfilment Manager Pro add-on)

The following are provided by the separate Pro add-on and are not included in this free plugin:

• Code128 and other non-QR barcode formats.
• Automatic invoice generation when an order reaches completed.
• Bulk invoice actions on the Orders screen, and the email-attachment engine that chooses which WooCommerce emails carry the invoice.
• Additional documents: packing slip, delivery note, dispatch label and shipping label.
• A6 combined order label (barcode + address + item list).
• Extra scan actions (mark dispatched, add order notes, print documents on scan).
• Scan history log with per-order timeline, filterable admin log and CSV export.