- Short answer
- Not as a document: Shopify's help says drafts must be completed before printing, but your browser can print the draft page as it stands.
- Which print tools
- Document templates and Shopify Order Printer print from orders, per the pages we read in October 2026.
- Mark as paid
- No second charge; the customer gets an order confirmation only if the draft has their email or phone.
- B2B drafts
- Create order also completes a B2B draft.
- App claims
- Draft printing is the developer's listing claim, read October 2026 — test it on one draft first.
What does Shopify's help say about printing drafts?
Shopify's printing overview names the condition:
Draft orders must be completed and converted to regular orders before they can be printed.
Your browser can still print the draft page itself. A May 2021 Shopify changelog entry described a print preview of draft order details, and in our October 2026 test store browser printing hid the menus and buttons but kept the products and totals; the draft's More actions menu had no Print item.
- Orders
- Drafts
- Draft order
- More actions
Order document templates (early access) and the free Shopify Order Printer app print from orders. None of their help pages, nor the app's listing, described printing drafts when we read them in October 2026. The legacy Order Printer is deprecated — see which Order Printer app is current.
What changes when you complete a draft?
Accepting payment turns a draft into an order. On the draft, Collect payment offers Mark as paid and, with Shopify Payments, Credit card. Mark as paid is for money you've already received: nothing is captured again, and the customer gets an order confirmation only if you add their email or phone first; it can't be sent later.
- Orders
- Drafts
- Draft order
- Collect payment
Don't mark the draft paid before the customer pays: the invoice link then won't work.
B2B drafts also complete with Create order. Which payment route suits your customer is in our guide to how a draft order gets paid.
How do you share a draft before payment?
Send the invoice: by default it carries a link to a checkout where the customer pays. None of the draft-order help pages we read in October 2026 describes printing a draft or a PDF of its invoice.
For paper or a PDF first, apps make that claim themselves: Invoice Falcon's listing covers “orders & draft orders”, and Order Printer Pro lists “Print and export draft orders”. We read these listings in October 2026; they aren't an exhaustive list, so test one draft first.
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