Title: invoice date
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# invoice date

 *  [bartdeman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bartdeman/)
 * (@bartdeman)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invoice-date-2/)
 * Ewout,
 * Thanx for this beautyfull plugin.
    We’re only missing one thing. The invoice 
   date isn’t set but is always the printdate. So if I reprint an invoice for tax
   purposes, I’ve an issue with the IRS.
 * My alternative is, that I don’t print the invoice date. Or that I change the 
   template description of the orderdate into invoice date. But that can’t be a 
   permanente solution.
 * please help.
 * Regards,
    Bart
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce-pdf-invoices-packing-slips/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce-pdf-invoices-packing-slips/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Ewout](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pomegranate/)
 * (@pomegranate)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invoice-date-2/#post-6141308)
 * Hello Bart, the invoice date is set at the date the invoice is first created.
   If you reprint, it will use the ‘old’ invoice date. It is not, as you suggest,
   the ‘today’ date (that would indeed be wrong).
    If you would set an invoice date
   before the invoice is actually created, the IRS wouldn’t like that either 🙂
 * That said, if you would like the Invoice Date field to actually show the Order
   Date, you can add this code to your themes functions.php:
 *     ```
       add_filter( 'wpo_wcpdf_invoice_date', 'wpo_wcpdf_invoice_date', 10, 2 );
       function wpo_wcpdf_invoice_date ( $formatted_invoice_date, $invoice_date ) {
       	global $wpo_wcpdf;
       	return $wpo_wcpdf->get_order_date();
       }
       ```
   
 * Ewout

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 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Ewout](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pomegranate/)
 * Last activity: [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invoice-date-2/#post-6141308)
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