Print FedEx labels in WooCommerce

There are three ways this plugin turns a WooCommerce order into a printable FedEx label, and all three use your own FedEx account pricing. This page helps you pick the right one and links the detailed walkthrough for each.

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Way 1: labels print themselves (Instant mode — the default)

In Instant mode, the plugin buys the FedEx label automatically the moment a customer pays. You never build a label by hand: checkout → FedEx returns a tracking number and the label document → the PDF is stored in a protected folder on your site → you print from the admin list.

• Full walkthrough: Instant labels: checkout to label
• Where you print: Shipments & Printings — every shipment in one list with View Label buttons
• Multi-box orders get one button per box, so each carton prints its own label

This is the right mode for most stores: labels exist before you even look at the order.

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Way 2: labels you review and confirm (Advanced mode — Open Ship)

In Advanced mode, checkout still shows live FedEx rates, but no label is bought automatically. Instead, each order gets a FedEx draft session, and you review the packages and create the labels yourself from the Open Shipments screen — useful when you want a human check on every shipment before FedEx charges your account.

• Full walkthrough: Advanced mode (Open Ship)
• The draft manager: Open Shipments

Advanced mode is a per-store setting on the Shipping tab — you can switch between modes as your process changes.

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Way 3: return labels

Two ways, and both can run alongside Instant or Advanced mode:

• From the admin — the Create return button on any shipment in Shipments & Printings buys a return label for that order.
• Self-service — customers create and print their own return label from a page on your store. See Self-serve returns portal.

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What you need before labels can print

1. The plugin installed and a FedEx shipping method in your zone — Quick start covers this in about five minutes.
2. FedEx credentials saved (free test keys work first) — Connecting FedEx credentials.
3. Sandbox or Production set correctly on the Account tab. Sandbox labels are real PDFs that never move a package and never charge you; Production labels are billable shipments. See Going live.

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Why not just use the official WooCommerce FedEx extension?

If you are coming from WooCommerce’s official FedEx extension, note that it calculates shipping rates at checkout — it does not buy or print labels; WooCommerce’s own documentation directs you elsewhere for label creation. This plugin buys the real label from FedEx’s REST API automatically (or on your confirmation, in Advanced mode), so printing is a click in your admin instead of a trip to fedex.com. A label printed this way is a normal FedEx shipment: it appears on your FedEx account and invoice, and tracking updates flow back to your store.

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After printing: collection

Printing is only half the job. The plugin also handles getting boxes to FedEx:

• Schedule a courier collection from your admin — Schedule a FedEx pickup from WooCommerce
• End-of-day paperwork and customs document upload for international shipments — Shipments & Printings

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The label files themselves

Label PDFs are stored in a protected folder inside your site’s uploads directory, managed by the plugin and blocked from public access. You never need to touch the files — every label stays one click away in the admin list, and each shipment keeps its label for as long as the order exists.