**Hello from Fordeer**,

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Shopify Metafields is powerful features that allow you to add custom data to your store’s products, variants, customers, orders and with Fordeer, you can show all of them on the invoices.

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This guide will walk you through everything you need to know about using metafields and ensuring they appear correctly on your invoices.

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**Before you start, please ensure that you have already created metafield definitions and added values.**

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If you haven't, please follow [these instructions](https://help.fordeercommerce.io/en/article/how-to-create-a-metafield-with-shopify-1bt19d/) to create a metafield easily.

###### **Product metafields**

1. Go to **Customization** page ⇒ Select the template you want to add the product metafields and click **Customize**

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1. Select **Line items & total section**

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1. On Item column, activate the option: **Show item’s metafields**

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1. Enter the **meta_key**. Each meta key is on a separate line

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**Where to find the meta_key?**

* Please go to **Settings** on the Shopify admin => **Custom data** => **Products**

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* Then select one of metafields you are having

* Copy the key after **custom.**

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1. Click Save the end to save all the changes

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1. Check out the metafield display on the invoices

Please go to **Orders** on our app, select orders and click **Print/download** invoices to check out.

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If the metafields display correctly, that’s great! For more details on why this is necessary, please refer to [this article](https://help.fordeercommerce.io/en/article/metafields-value-not-showing-properly-on-the-invoices-i3etwl/?bust=1724294354558).

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**This feature is now available for Professional users.**

###### **Variant metafields**

1. On the **Line items and total** section, go to **Description** column

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1. Activate the option: **Show variant’s metafields**

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1. Enter the variant metafield key and click **Save** at the end

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**You can get the key from your variant metafield settings**

1. Print/download the invoices on **Orders** in our app to check out the variant metafield display.

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**This feature is now available for Professional users.**

###### **Order metafields**

1. Go to **Overview** section on **Customization** page

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1. Go to **Extra options**, activate the option: **Orders metafield**

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/190039ccb2373600/image_7p95xf.png)

1. Click **Save** at the end

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/190039ccb2373600/image_1s92z2z.png)

1. Go to **Orders** on our app to print/download the invoices to check out the orders metafield display.

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/190039ccb2373600/image_h857mu.png)

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**This feature is now available for Professional users**

###### **Customer metafields**

1. Go to **Shipping info** section on **Customization** page

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/190039ccb2373600/image_1ry77m6.png)

1. Go to **Display options**, activate the option: **Show customer metafields**

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/190039ccb2373600/image_ashpfa.png)

1. Click **Save** at the end

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/190039ccb2373600/image_gdnc5h.png)

1. Go to **Orders** on our app to print/download the invoices to check out the orders metafield display.

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/190039ccb2373600/image_zmwafl.png)

||| This feature is now available for Professional users\
Please give it a try and do not hesitate to contact us if the metafields does not display on your invoices, we will be more than happy to assist you.

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