{"id":4468,"date":"2015-07-22T11:10:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T11:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sperrysoftware.com\/Email-Tools\/?p=4468"},"modified":"2022-02-17T18:10:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T18:10:38","slug":"a-customer-asks-about-printing-invoices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sperrysoftware.com\/Email-Tools\/a-customer-asks-about-printing-invoices\/","title":{"rendered":"A Customer Asks About Printing Invoices&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently we received an email from a customer asking us this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I have a need to print PDF attachments to emails that are sent to a particular email address.\u00a0\u00a0 It looks like your Auto Print will do that nicely.\u00a0 My other need is to automatically save that same PDF to a network directory as part of the process.\u00a0 Do you have an add-in that can do that as well?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jim<\/p>\n<p>Tampa, Florida<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Can it be done?\u00a0 Well Jim, while the <a href=\"\/Email-Tools\/product\/auto-print\/\">Auto Print add-in will take care of printing invoices<\/a>, even printing just the\u00a0emails that have a PDF attachment, it does not do anything further with the email once it has printed (other than mark it read).<\/p>\n<p>To do what you need, you&#8217;ll actually need a second add-in to save the email to a Windows folder.\u00a0 For that, we have the <a href=\"\/Email-Tools\/product\/attachment-save\/\">Attachment Save add-in<\/a>.\u00a0 It will save your attachments to the Windows folder of your choice, and optionally even replace that attachment with a URL link (that is, in the body of the email there will be a link to the PDF invoice that is now stored on your Windows folder).<\/p>\n<p>Auto Print and Attachment Save have been working together for years now, and in case you&#8217;re wondering, the add-in always execute in the right order (first print, then save off attachments).<\/p>\n<p>Do you have a question you&#8217;d like to see answered here?\u00a0 Leave a comment or email us, we love solving problems in Outlook!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently we received an email from a customer asking us this: &#8220;I have a need to print PDF attachments to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[26,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-4468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-message","7":"tag-attachment-save","8":"tag-auto-print"},"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sperrysoftware.com\/Email-Tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sperrysoftware.com\/Email-Tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sperrysoftware.com\/Email-Tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sperrysoftware.com\/Email-Tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sperrysoftware.com\/Email-Tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sperrysoftware.com\/Email-Tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sperrysoftware.com\/Email-Tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sperrysoftware.com\/Email-Tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sperrysoftware.com\/Email-Tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}