How can I create a proper invoice

[oitcmike]

Apart from the invoice paypal send sout after a purchase, is there a way to create a bit of a porper invoice from within eStore or is the “Buyer Email Body” the only thing to work with.

[admin]

WP eStore has a lot of email tags that you can place in the “Buyer Email Body” section so that the email serves as the receipt/invoice. It slightly varies from country to country but a receipt is basically an email with your business details and the item details and the amount paid for the items (as long as you include all the required details in the email it will serve as a receipt/invoice). PayPal will also send an invoice to the customer by default.

This documentation will help you with the available email tags that you can use:

http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/ecommerce/wp-estore-shortcodes-and-functions-reference-460

You can also use eStore’s receipt creator addon:

http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/ecommerce/wp-estore-receipt-creator-addon-1757

[dllsoftware]

I would like to be able to get the paypal invoice number. Does paypal pass this number back to paypal.php where I would have access to it ? I am not talking about the transaction number. Paypal sends the customer a receipt number. I would also like to have this number for a separate email that I am sending to the customer.

Thanks,

Dan

[admin]

The best info to rely on for this purpose is to use the “Transaction ID” as it will be unique and present in every single PayPal transaction. You can take this ID and easy search and find the transaction in your PayPal account.

Any other IDs may or may not be present. Do a test transaction after you enabled debug in eStore then you will see the eStore will dump all the data that PayPal sends to this plugin. Check that data (post data) to find out what you are referring as invoice number.

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