Maybe you want to create an invoice from some custom script or through cron script. Here is one very useful example of code.
First of all, we have to load some order over model “sales/order”, this is very easy.
$order = Mage::getModel("sales/order")->load($order_id)
// $order_id is entity_id of order from database
//also we can use method "loadByIncrementId" for loading data instead of load method but then we need to pass "increment_id" argument (example: 100000001).
Next step, when we have loaded model “sales/ored” with data, the next procedure is:
try {
if(!$order->canInvoice())
{
Mage::throwException(Mage::helper('core')->__('Cannot create an invoice.'));
}
$invoice = Mage::getModel('sales/service_order', $order)->prepareInvoice();
if (!$invoice->getTotalQty()) {
Mage::throwException(Mage::helper('core')->__('Cannot create an invoice without products.'));
}
$invoice->setRequestedCaptureCase(Mage_Sales_Model_Order_Invoice::CAPTURE_ONLINE);
$invoice->register();
$transactionSave = Mage::getModel('core/resource_transaction')
->addObject($invoice)
->addObject($invoice->getOrder());
$transactionSave->save();
}
catch (Mage_Core_Exception $e) {
}
You will notice that we have set option for capture online. This option depends on payment method. Some payment methods support capture online and some don’t. If you want to set capture offline, you can do that with next line code:
$invoice->setRequestedCaptureCase( Mage_Sales_Model_Order_Invoice::CAPTURE_OFFLINE );
I hope that this is clear 
Good tips for magento users. I’ve 2-3 e-commerce sites that using magento.
Thank you Domagoj. It’s clear a lot.
Thanks for this information, but is it possible we can provide a customer to take print out of invoice so that they can use in banking.
AWESOME
) works perfectly in magento 1.5.1.0. Thank you!
Buddy,
We need to know that we are getting message “Unable to Save Invoice” while we are trying to save invoice by going in orders.
Plesae let us know which thing needs to be fix. Please help us! Thanks in advance.
This is a great start. We also used invoice templates until our business grew so much that we had to switch to an online service called oneclick statements
-Andy
This is a very nice tip to create invoice quickly.
Cool!
Very helpful. I found 3 different variants of creating invoice, but only this works. Perfect.
Thank you very much ! Your tip helps me a lot to solve a bug between paypal and Magento 1.4.1.1 who doesn’t create an invoice where the payment is done.
What about doing a partial invoice from code
?
Any tips on how to achieve this using Cron job?
Works great. Thank you!
Chintan:
For Cron job you need a cPanel access and there you can set manually and add the file path
e.g. php -f/home/yourdomain/public_html/folder_path/to_your_file/invoice_from_order.php
Hope that helps!
Great article, worked immediately.
Just one question:
Is there a way to then set the order status to complete after the invoice has been created? I tried
but it told me I wasn’t allowed to set the order status to complete from there. What does the system normally do when an order has been completed and the payment transferred?
Thanks in advance
hello
I am new in magento.I have used magento 1.6.1.0 version.I upload new template grayscale but in this time i face big problem in admin area system-transactional email because when i create a new order email template then show all template perview in html coding and not show text perview. Please help me v v v v v urgent .
Thanks
Thanks for you tutorial. Anyone, please feel free to respond to my postl
I am new to magento, can you please tell me what file to make this change.
Does this code automatically create the invoice? The reason I ask is that am using ShipRush and it will not process shipping unless invoice was created. It is much task to manually go into each order and create the invoice.
Thanks for your attention.
I tried the code and I get this fatal error
“Fatal error: Call to a member function getModelInstance() on a non-object in /var/www/vhosts/******/httpdocs/app/Mage.php on line 432″.
What could have gone wrong?
Also one more question
How can I select the option of “Email Copy of Invoice” programatically?(like we do for capture).
thanks in advance
Good Job.
Thanks for your tutorial
Thanks it’s work perfectly.
But how can I create many invoices for one order please ?
(For a month subscription per example)
I incremented the “quantity ordered” of items.
This create invoices, but 0 as price…
Hi Domagoj,
Thank you give good code.
But I have an issue to generate invoice from cron.
When I trying to generate an invoice for an order from my cron script then it giving a Fatal Error.
PHP Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘Exception’ with message ‘Warning: strpos() [function.strpos]: Empty delimiter in /magentorootpath/lib/Zend/Controller/Request/Http.php on line 504′ in /magentorootpath/app/code/core/Mage/Core/functions.php:243
Payment method is “Check / Money order ” for this order.
My cron code is:
if ($order->getState() == Mage_Sales_Model_Order::STATE_NEW) { try { if(!$order->canInvoice()) { $order->addStatusHistoryComment('Cron Invoicer0: Order cannot be invoiced.', false); $order->save(); } //START Handle Invoice $invoice = Mage::getModel('sales/service_order', $order)->prepareInvoice(); $invoice->setRequestedCaptureCase(Mage_Sales_Model_Order_Invoice::CAPTURE_OFFLINE); $invoice->register(); $invoice->getOrder()->setCustomerNoteNotify(false); $invoice->getOrder()->setIsInProcess(true); $order->addStatusHistoryComment('Automatically INVOICED by Cron Invoicer.', false); $transactionSave = Mage::getModel('core/resource_transaction') ->addObject($invoice) ->addObject($invoice->getOrder()) ->save(); //END Handle Invoice $order->save(); $order = Mage::getModel('sales/order')->loadByIncrementId($orderId); } catch (Exception $e) { $order->addStatusHistoryComment('Cron Invoicer1: Exception occurred during automaticallyInvoiceShipCompleteOrder action. Exception message: '.$e->getMessage(), false); $order->save(); } }Thanks & Regards,
Richard Campbell
Thank you, very informative article.
Thanks for this code! Amazing!
Why even after all that the products keep on status Pending? They’re Downloadable Products. Store is 1.5.1.0.
Thanks in advance!
Bu they’re pending only on the user interface (Customer Dashboard) in admin area they’re all invoiced.
Thanks again and congrats!
Beware that if invoicing fails (throws exception) and you save something on the order object, the order items will still show up as invoiced on the order and the invoice button will have disappeared.