How to Create Multiple PDFs from One Elementor Form

One submission often needs more than one document: a welcome letter and a membership card, an invoice and a receipt, a contract and a cover sheet. PDF for Elementor Forms + Drag And Drop Template Builder (free on WordPress.org) adds several PDF actions to the Elementor form: PDF, PDF 2, PDF 3… Each one has its own template, file name, password and recipients, and all of them can be attached to the same email. This guide sends a new club member a welcome letter (A4) and a membership card (A6) from one signup form. See How to Generate PDFs from Elementor Form Submissions for the basics.

1. Two Templates for One Form

Create one template per document and point both at the same target form (Membership Signup).

The Welcome Letter template with the letter text using the name, city, plan and email fields
Template 1: Welcome Letter (A4).
The saved Welcome Letter template with the sample member Sofia Rossi
The welcome letter with a sample submission.
Settings PDF of the Membership Card template with size A6 and orientation Landscape
Template 2: Membership Card, A6 landscape.
The saved Membership Card template: PREMIUM MEMBER, the member name, city, email and member since date
The membership card.

2. Add PDF and PDF 2 to the Form

In Elementor, open Actions After Submit and add PDF and PDF 2 (plus Collect Submissions, Email and Email 2). Each PDF action gets its own settings section.

Actions After Submit with Collect Submissions, Email, Email 2, PDF and PDF 2
PDF and PDF 2 in Actions After Submit.
PDF Settings with the Welcome Letter template and the name welcome-[field id=name]
PDF Settings: the welcome letter.
PDF Settings 2 with the Membership Card template and the name membership-card-[field id=name]
PDF Settings 2: the membership card.
ActionTemplatePDF NameAttach
PDFWelcome Letterwelcome-[field id="name"]Yes, all emails
PDF 2Membership Cardmembership-card-[field id="name"]Yes, all emails

Email 2 goes to the member ([field id="email"]) with a short welcome; both PDFs travel with it.

The Email 2 settings sending the welcome email to the member
Email 2 to the new member.

3. The Result

The Join the Club form filled in by Sofia Rossi with the Premium plan selected
Sofia joins with the Premium plan.
The welcome email to Sofia Rossi with two attachments: welcome-Sofia-Rossi.pdf and membership-card-Sofia-Rossi.pdf
One email, two PDFs.
The welcome letter PDF for Sofia Rossi
PDF 1: the welcome letter.
The membership card PDF for Sofia Rossi
PDF 2: the membership card.

4. Create a PDF Only When It Applies (Conditional Logic)

Basic members should get the letter but not the Premium card. Each PDF action has a Conditional Logic option that appears once the free Conditional Logic for Elementor Forms add-on is active:

SettingValue for the card (PDF 2)
Enable Conditional LogicYes
Display modeCreate if (or Disable if for the opposite)
When to TriggerAll rules match, or Any rule matches
Fields ifField ID plan, operator contains, value Premium

Operators include is, not is, empty, not empty, contains, does not contain, starts with, ends with, greater than, less than and list checks. Without the add-on, every PDF action runs on every submission.

5. Tips

  • Different recipients per PDF. Use List of attached emails on each action: for example the invoice to the customer only, an internal sheet to the team only.
  • Different passwords. Each action has its own PDF Password.
  • Unique file names. Give every action a different PDF Name so recipients can tell the attachments apart.
  • Submissions keep one link. The submission’s PDF row stores the link of the last PDF action; send the others by email or keep their names predictable.
  • Download redirect. Redirect Download PDF opens one file, so use email for multi-document packs.

6. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

How many PDFs can one form create?

The plugin registers several PDF actions (PDF, PDF 2, PDF 3 and more). Each one you add to Actions After Submit creates one file per submission.

Can two PDF actions use the same template?

Yes, for example the same contract with different passwords for the customer and for your archive.

Do multiple PDFs slow down the submission?

Each PDF adds a fraction of a second; templates with large images take longer. Keep images small.

Can I merge the documents into one PDF instead?

Put both layouts in one template and add a Page Break element (Pro) between them.

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