Documents, exports & manufacturer email

Everything on this page lives on the manufacturing order’s Attachments tab, its Actions menu, and the list page’s bulk export — all Elevate-plan features.

The production PDF

The production PDF is generated per build, not for the whole order — if a manufacturing order has more than one build, each gets its own PDF, so a subcontractor only ever sees their own build’s targets, never another manufacturer’s.

It shows:

A build details block — expected completion, execution mode, material source, created date.
Any manufacturing notes you’ve added to the order.
The items being built — name, SKU, barcode and image where available — with the target quantity, and optionally what’s already built and what’s remaining.
The materials the build needs. A subcontract build lists what you’re sending the manufacturer and which document it’s coming on; an internal build shows a shop-floor pick list — required, allocated, arrived and available.
The manufacturer’s details on a subcontract build, or your production location’s details on an internal one.

Each of these — the Built quantity, the Remaining quantity, the build details block, the notes, and the materials table — can be switched off independently in the template, so a subcontractor-facing copy can be trimmed down without losing the sections you want to keep.

The production PDF never shows a price, no matter how your document settings are configured elsewhere — manufacturing orders don’t carry cost information.

To get a PDF: open the order’s Actions menu and choose Export… under Export & tools, or Quick PDF export, which downloads the default template’s PDF immediately. Both use the templates configured at Settings → Manufacturing Orders → Export.

Attachments

The Attachments tab holds every file associated with the order — files you upload yourself (drawings, spec sheets, quotes, certificates) plus every document Logistified generates for it (PDFs, exports, labels, and anything sent by email).

Uploading — from the Attachments tab, choose a file and a document type, then upload. Files can be added or removed regardless of the order’s status, so you can still attach a completion certificate to a finished run.
Removing — delete a file from the same tab; this can’t be undone.
Auto-attached files — a PDF or export downloaded with “Attach to my documents” checked, and any file sent by email, are saved here automatically, labeled by type (PDF Export, Excel Export, CSV Export, Email Attachment).

Emailing a subcontractor

Send to manufacturer appears on a subcontract build that has a manufacturer assigned — it’s not offered on an internal build, since there’s nobody to email.

When you send:

Choose the attachment format — PDF, XLSX or CSV — and either reuse a file already on the Attachments tab or generate a fresh one.
Logistified emails the production document to the manufacturer’s contact and files a copy on the Attachments tab as an Email Attachment.
The first send moves the order from Draft to In Progress. Sending again (a resend) doesn’t change the status.

If the order is already Completed or Cancelled, sending is blocked.

A record of every send — recipient, status, and timestamps for delivery, bounces or failures — appears on the Email History card at the top of the Attachments tab.

If the sender identity used for the email (company name, reply-to address, logo) can’t be loaded, the Send to manufacturer button stays visible but disabled, with a note explaining why — reload the page to try again.

Undoing a send

If a manufacturing order was moved to In Progress by an email send and no production has been recorded against it yet, you can roll it back to Draft. This is offered wherever the send happened, and the confirmation is explicit that it can’t recall the email itself — only reset the order’s status so you can make changes and send again.

Rolling back is blocked once any production has actually been recorded against the build.

CSV / XLSX exports

A manufacturing order can be exported at three levels of detail:

Export	One row per	Where to get it
Items	item being built	Export… on the order’s Actions menu
Materials	material required for the build	Export… on the order’s Actions menu
Manufacturing order	manufacturing order (summary)	Export… on the order’s Actions menu, or the list page’s bulk export

Each export is template-driven — pick which columns to include and in what order at Settings → Manufacturing Orders → Export. As with the PDF, checking “Attach to my documents” during export also saves a copy to the Attachments tab.

Bulk-exporting from the list page

The manufacturing orders list has a selection column and an Export button. Select individual orders (selections carry across pages), the current page, or every order matching your current filters, then export:

Items — one row per item across all the selected orders.
Manufacturing order — one summary row per selected order.

The materials grain isn’t available in bulk — it’s a detail-page export only, since “one row per material across many orders” is closer to a reporting question than a bulk download.

Finished-goods labels

Print labels, on the order’s Actions menu under Export & tools, opens the same label printing dialog used elsewhere in Logistified, pre-loaded with the items this run is producing (not its materials). Quantity presets let you set the label count to each item’s target or to what’s actually been built so far. Printed label sheets are saved to the Attachments tab as Labels.

See Printing Studio for how label templates and designer-mode printing work generally.