Title: DadsFam Invoice Manager Author: dadsfam Published: August 1, 2026 Last modified: August 1, 2026 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/dadsfam-invoice-manager/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=3631327) ![](https://ps.w.org/dadsfam-invoice-manager/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=3631327) # DadsFam Invoice Manager By [dadsfam](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dadsfam/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/dadsfam-invoice-manager.2.1.5.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/dadsfam-invoice-manager/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/dadsfam-invoice-manager/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/dadsfam-invoice-manager/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/dadsfam-invoice-manager/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/dadsfam-invoice-manager/) ## Description **DadsFam Invoice Manager** is the free base plugin of a freemium WooCommerce invoice solution. It handles secure upload, management, payment tracking and delivery of PDF invoices. Install **DadsFam Invoice Manager PRO** alongside it for the full invoice generator, automatic PDF creation, PDF status sync, automated payment reminders, bulk upload and the audit log. The PRO add-on requires this free plugin to be installed and active. **Free Features:** * Upload and manage PDF invoices per WooCommerce order * Protected folder storage (blocks direct URL access) or Media Library mode * HMAC-signed, single-token expiring customer download links * Payment status tracking (Paid / Unpaid / Overdue / Cancelled) with one-click change * Email status tracking (Uploaded / Sent / Resent) * Resend an invoice email to the customer at any time * CSV export of all invoice records * Missing-invoices tracker with ignore / restore * Customer My Account Invoices integration (download + email-me) * Custom From Name / From Email (fixes the wordpress@ sender bug) * Full email branding — logo, header/button/text colours, footer text and social links * Complete HTML email template editor with live preview and placeholders * Configurable download-link validity * Accent colour customisation **PRO Features (get PRO at [plugins.dadsfam.co.za](https://plugins.dadsfam.co.za/)):** * **Invoice Creator** — generate professional PDF invoices from any WooCommerce order in one click * **Auto-Generation** — create invoices automatically when an order reaches a chosen status * **Smart Email Triggers** — email the customer on a separate configurable status * **PDF Status Sync** — the invoice PDF re-stamps itself from UNPAID to PAID when the order (or the manual status dropdown) changes — no delete-and-recreate * **Product Variations & Bundles on the PDF** * **Invoice Settings** — company logo, address, tax/VAT number, banking details, payment terms and numbering * **Automated Payment Reminders** (cron) * **Bulk Upload** via ZIP + CSV mapping * **Audit Log** of every admin action ### Support Email: support@dadsfam.co.za Website: https://plugins.dadsfam.co.za ## Installation 1. Upload the `dadsfam-invoice-manager` folder to `/wp-content/plugins/` 2. Activate through the **Plugins** menu in WordPress 3. Go to **Invoices** in your WP Admin sidebar 4. Set your From Email in **Invoices Email Settings** 5. _(Optional)_ Install and activate **DadsFam Invoice Manager PRO** to unlock generation, PDF status sync, branding and more ## FAQ ### What is the difference between free and PRO? The free plugin lets you upload, manage, track and deliver existing PDF invoices. PRO adds the Invoice Creator (generates PDFs from WooCommerce orders), auto-generation, PDF status sync, automated payment reminders, bulk upload and the audit log. PRO requires this free plugin to be active. ### Where are invoices stored? By default in a protected folder inside your WordPress uploads directory, blocked from direct public access via .htaccess. You can switch to Media Library mode in General Settings. ### Can customers download their invoices? Yes — invoices appear in the customer’s My Account Invoices tab with signed, expiring download links, plus an “Email Me” button. ### When I change the payment status, does the PDF update? The badge updates everywhere immediately. Re-stamping the actual PDF document (e. g. UNPAID PAID) is done by the PRO add-on for invoices the plugin generated. Uploaded PDFs keep their original file. ### Why are my emails going to spam? Set a real From Email address on your own domain in Email Settings (e.g. invoices@ yourdomain.com). ### Does this work with WooCommerce HPOS? Yes — fully compatible with WooCommerce High Performance Order Storage. ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “DadsFam Invoice Manager” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ dadsfam ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dadsfam/) [Translate “DadsFam Invoice Manager” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/dadsfam-invoice-manager) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/dadsfam-invoice-manager/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/dadsfam-invoice-manager/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/dadsfam-invoice-manager/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/dadsfam-invoice-manager/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 2.1.5 * Changed: all plugin and support links now point to https://plugins.dadsfam.co. za/ (the plugin site) rather than the main DadsFam site. Support email is unchanged at support@dadsfam.co.za. #### 2.1.4 * Security: colour values are now re-validated as literal hex colours at the moment they are written into a stylesheet, a style attribute or an email body, rather than being trusted from the options table. Options can be written by WP-CLI, an import or another plugin, so sanitising on save is not enough on its own — escaping now happens late, at the point of output, in the front-end My Account styles, the admin styles, the branded email header and the email template placeholders. * Security: every placeholder substituted into the email template is now escaped for the context it lands in — the download link through `esc_url()`, the customer name and site name through `esc_html()`, and the order number and link expiry as integers. * Security: the logo URL and its pixel dimensions in the branded email header are escaped and type-cast on output. * Security: the payment-status badge in the Manage Invoices list is passed through` wp_kses_post()` on output instead of relying on the helper escaping its own contents. * Quality: variables in the admin views that shared a name with a WordPress global(` $order`, `$status`, `$search`, `$paged`, `$tab`, `$tabs`, `$s`) were renamed to plugin-prefixed names. * Quality: replaced the two remaining `@` error-suppression operators with real checks, made the `in_array()` comparisons strict, capped the invoice list query at 100 rows per view, and documented that the base64 helpers are URL-safe transport encoding for the signed download token, not obfuscation. #### 2.1.3 * Added: `DFIM_Loader::format_invoice_number()` and the `dfim_inv_number_format` option key, so the PRO add-on can build invoice numbers from a token pattern instead of a fixed one. As with the other PRO keys held here, the free plugin neither reads nor writes it. #### 2.1.2 * Added: `DFIM_Loader::normalize_status_list()`, a small shared helper so the PRO add-on’s auto-generate/auto-email trigger options can hold more than one order status instead of only one. Added here because this is the shared base class both plugins extend — the free plugin itself does not call it for anything and gates no functionality on it. #### 2.1.1 * Compliance: audit logging is now entirely part of the separate PRO add-on. The free plugin no longer registers an audit post type or stores any audit data — it simply fires a `dfim_log` action hook that the PRO add-on can listen to. Nothing in the free plugin is locked, limited or gated. * Removed: leftover licence-activation interface (the licence-key field handlers and its nonce) that belonged to the PRO add-on. The free plugin contains no licence checks and no licence storage of any kind. * Changed: the two JavaScript data objects were renamed to the plugin’s `dfim` prefix (`dfimAdmin`, `dfimFront`) so every registered global name is unique and distinct. #### 2.1.0 * Compliance: every feature contained in this plugin is now fully available to all users — the email branding suite (logo, colours, footer, social links, full template editor with live preview) has no licence conditions of any kind. This plugin contains no locked or limited functionality; additional features (invoice generation, reminders, bulk upload, audit log) exist only as a separate add-on plugin and are merely mentioned, per the directory guidelines. * Changed: automated-reminder settings moved out of this plugin; they are configured inside the PRO add-on, where the reminder feature itself lives. * Changed: the bundled Select2 library has been removed. Searchable dropdowns now use selectWoo, the maintained Select2 fork that ships with WooCommerce (which this plugin requires), so no third-party library is bundled. * Changed: the My Account “Email Me” script moved from an inline template tag to a properly enqueued JavaScript file. * Fixed: plugin and upgrade links now point to the live https://www.dadsfam.co. za/ site. #### 2.0.3 * Code quality: Plugin Check now reports zero errors and zero warnings. Uninstall variables carry the plugin prefix (uninstall runs in global scope), and the My Account template documents its function-local scope for the naming sniff. #### 2.0.2 * Code quality: full WordPress Coding Standards pass — the plugin now scans clean( 0 errors, 0 warnings) under the official Plugin Check security, escaping, sanitization, database and naming sniffs. * Security: every output is escaped or type-cast; every request input is unslashed and sanitized; all admin redirects use wp_safe_redirect(); direct file deletions use wp_delete_file(). * Fixed: the Missing Invoices pagination footer showed the last order’s total instead of the result count (variable shadowing). * Read-only display filters are explicitly annotated as nonce-exempt with justification. #### 2.0.1 * Security: the admin order-search AJAX endpoint now requires a CSRF nonce in addition to the existing capability check. * Security: invoice file paths resolved from stored attachment metadata are strictly confined to the WordPress uploads directory, so tampered metadata can never point at arbitrary server files. * Security: the email template preview endpoint now also verifies the WooCommerce- manager capability. * Improved: escaped all admin URL output in the changelog pagination. #### 2.0.0 * Freemium split: this is now the free base plugin. All PRO features (Invoice Creator, auto-generation, PDF status sync, reminders, bulk upload, advanced branding, audit log) have moved to the separate **DadsFam Invoice Manager PRO** add-on, which requires this plugin to be active. * New: Clean extension points (`dfim_core_booted`, `dfim_register_admin_menus`,` dfim_admin_assets`, `dfim_manage_tabs`, `dfim_render_manage_tab`, `dfim_manage_header_links`,` dfim_invoice_status_changed`, `dfim_is_pro_active`) let the PRO add-on plug in cleanly. * Improved: The Manage Invoices payment dropdown now fires a status-change event so PRO can re-stamp the generated PDF instantly — no more deleting and re-uploading to fix a Paid/Unpaid stamp. * Upgrading from a single-plugin (1.9.x) install: all your invoices, settings and license are preserved. Install the PRO add-on to restore generation and the other PRO features. #### 1.9.10 * Fixed: long invoices flow onto extra pages instead of being cut off (PRO). * Changed: download-link validity setting consolidated to Email Settings Download Links. #### 1.9.9 * Fixed: emailed download links no longer fail with “Invalid or tampered download link” — the link is now a single secure token. * New: “Link valid for (days)” setting and {link_expiry_days} placeholder. ## Meta * Version **2.1.5** * Last updated **2 hours ago** * Active installations **Fewer than 10** * WordPress version ** 6.1 or higher ** * Tested up to **7.0.2** * PHP version ** 8.1 or higher ** * Tags * [invoices](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/invoices/)[pdf](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/pdf/) [woocommerce](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/woocommerce/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/dadsfam-invoice-manager/advanced/) ## Ratings No reviews have been submitted yet. 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