Batch Packing-Slip Generator: Print a Whole Shift's Slips in One Go
Pick your ready-to-ship orders, generate one branded PDF of every packing slip at once, and mark the batch ready — with a clerk reviewing the list and approving before a single slip prints.
A web tool where you import ready-to-ship orders, pick the ones for this batch, review the list, approve it, and get one branded PDF with every packing slip — then mark the whole batch ready, with prices hideable and an audit trail of who generated what.
Before you start
- A Supabase account (free)
- A Vercel account (free)
- A Resend account (free)
- A ready-to-ship orders CSV
- Your company name, logo, and return address
- Claude Code or any AI coding agent
The problem this kills
Your shipping clerk has forty orders to get out the door before the carrier pickup. To print the packing slips, they open the order screen, find an order, click print, wait, go back, find the next one, click print, wait — forty times. The screen is slow and clunky, half the slips come out in a different layout, prices show on slips that should never show prices, and somewhere in the shuffle two slips get printed for the same order while another order gets missed entirely.
It's mind-numbing, it's slow, and it's exactly the kind of repetitive screen-clicking that eats a clerk's whole afternoon. You don't need a developer to fix it — you can build your own tool that does the batch in one click.
What you'll build
A simple internal web tool. You import a ready-to-ship orders CSV (straight from your store or ERP export), and the tool shows them in a clean list. The clerk picks the orders for this batch — or filters to "everything ready today" — and sees exactly what's selected: order IDs, customers, item counts, and a flag on anything that's already been generated. They review, click Approve batch, and the tool builds one branded PDF containing every packing slip, laid out identically, with your logo and return address — and an option to hide prices. The clerk downloads or prints the pack, and the tool marks every order in the batch as ready so nothing gets done twice.
What's inside the Implementation Plan
The downloadable plan is a step-by-step file you paste into an AI coding agent. It opens by interviewing you about your business — what your orders export looks like, exactly what your columns are named, how an order maps to its line items, whether you ship from one warehouse or several, your typical and peak daily batch sizes, your branding, and your messy edge cases like partial shipments and backorders — and then it tailors the data model, the slip layout, and every later step to your answers. This is not a generic template; the agent reads a short spec back to you and waits for your thumbs-up before it builds anything. From there it walks the agent through the import, the batch picker, the review-and-approve gate, the branded PDF generation, and the mark-ready step — each with a ready-to-copy prompt. There's also a fallback so you can build the whole thing today straight from a Google Sheet or CSV, with no integration to your store.
The governance it includes (this is the point)
This is real fulfillment tooling, so it ships with the controls a warehouse team needs: login so only your crew can use it, row-level security so you only ever see your own organization's orders, a complete audit trail of who generated which batch and when, a hard human-approval gate so the clerk reviews and approves the batch list before any slip is generated, and duplicate guards keyed on order ID so the same order can't be slipped twice in two different batches. An order that's already been generated is flagged on the picker, not silently re-printed.
Who it's for
Shipping clerks, warehouse leads, and small-business owners who pack their own orders and are tired of printing slips one painful click at a time. If you can describe what your "ready to ship" list looks like, you can build this.
You've got this — start with the plan, paste the first prompt, answer the interview, and you'll have your first batch PDF coming out clean the same afternoon.