Shopify's own free printing app. It is built for printing order documents in the admin - not for sending them to customers.
This is the clearest comparison of the four. Order Printer is a printing tool and a good one. It has no way to email a document to a customer, no scheduling, and a 50-order bulk cap. Its 3.6-star rating is its own users’ verdict, not ours.
Both apps turn Shopify orders into PDF documents. They part company on what happens next.
Reads every order, builds a branded PDF, and sends it on a rule you set once - by email, into a Slack channel, or filed to your own Google Drive.
Shopify's own free printing app. It is built for printing order documents in the admin - not for sending them to customers.
We have listed their advantages at the same length as ours. If one of theirs matters more to your store, use them - you will find that out faster from us than from a trial.
Their column is what their Shopify App Store listing stated on 28 August 2026. Where a listing does not mention something we have written “not listed” rather than “no”.
| Feature | Send Invoice Pro |
Shopify Order Printer |
|---|---|---|
| Entry paid price | $9/mo | Free |
| Pricing basis | Flat, by feature | Free |
| Document types listed | 9 | 5 |
| Free tier | 70 invoices/mo, invoices only | Free, printing only |
| Email delivery to customers | Yes | No |
| Slack delivery | Yes (Pro) | No |
| Google Drive filing | Yes (Pro) | No |
| Conditional scheduling | Value, tags, channel, country, segment | None |
| Quiet hours, timezone, freeze | Yes | No |
| Custom sending domain | Pro, $19/mo | No |
| Vendor commissions | Yes (Elite) | No |
| One combined invoice per customer | Yes (Elite) | No |
| E-invoicing / Peppol | No | No |
| B2B / VAT handling | Not called out | No |
| POS / mobile printing | No | Partial |
| App Store reviews | None yet | 359 at 3.6 |
Checked 28 August 2026 against the Shopify Order Printer listing. App Store pricing and features change - if you spot something out of date here, tell us and we will correct it.
The useful question is not which app is better, it is which job you are trying to finish.
Install free, send your first invoice in minutes, and pay only when you outgrow it. Orders are encrypted and handled to Shopify’s Protected Customer Data standard.