tab, click **Create Bundle** in the toolbar. The **Create Bundle** panel opens on the right.
2. Expand the sections you need — **Cover Page**, **Document Upload**, **Index / Table of Contents**, **Volumes Settings**, **Tab / Page Separators**, **Bookmarks**, and **Pagination** — and configure each.
3. Optionally, in **Volumes to assemble**, enter the volumes you want — single numbers and ranges separated by commas, for example `1,2,5-7`. Leave it blank to assemble every volume.
4. Click 
at the bottom. If a setting is missing, a red **"Bundle settings need attention"** banner lists what to fix and the button stays disabled.
5. If any documents have processing issues (password-protected, unsupported type, empty, or too large), a warning dialog lists them. Click **Create Bundle Anyway** to continue — affected files appear as placeholder pages — or 
to fix them first.
6. If anything in the collection you are bundling has not been charged before, a **Confirm Export** dialog shows what it will cost. Click **Export** to commit the charge and continue, or to stop.
If your credit balance is short, BriefTech offers Export with watermark instead:
A missing subscription does not block bundle generation — credits are the only gate. There is no separate Subscription Required step: if your balance is short you are offered Export with watermark (above), and declining it cancels the export without producing a bundle.
See How credits work and Credit costs and pricing.
to keep them. **Cancelling here does not refund the credits committed in the previous step.**
8. You can navigate away while it runs — a flat **View details** button shows progress, and the job keeps running. A **Bundles created successfully** message appears when it finishes.
9. To check on a run in progress, click the 
icon in the top bar — it pulses while any job is running. It opens **Background Jobs**, where you can check status; return to the **Create Bundle** panel for the downloads.
10. To stop a bundle that is still generating, open **View details** and click 
. BriefTech confirms with **Cancellation requested** and stops the run shortly after. **Cancelling does not refund the credits you committed at step 6.** See [Job Logs](/reference/job-logs.md) for when this button is available and the full cancellation rules.
## What you get
When it's ready, a download row appears. Each volume is listed as its own white, bordered card with a navy download icon that downloads just that volume, and a bordered **Complete Bundle (ZIP)** card with a blue download icon downloads everything together as a single ZIP. Click anywhere on a card — including its 
icon — to save it.
The ZIP contains one PDF per volume. Provided the bundle was paid for — that is, you committed the charge at step 6 rather than exporting with a watermark — it also includes editable **Word** (`.docx`) copies of the structural pages your bundle contains, sorted into subfolders:
* **`cover/`** — cover pages.
* **`tab/`** — tab and separator pages, but only if you uploaded your own tab template under **Tab / Page Separators**. BriefTech's own auto-generated tab pages have no Word version, so a bundle that uses them has no `tab/` folder.
* **`toc/`** — the index printed inside the volumes themselves (every volume, or volume 1 only, depending on your **Index generation** setting).
The cover and table-of-contents copies are named after the volume they belong to, so they match that volume's PDF and follow your **Filename on Export** setting — a bundle whose volumes export as `Volume 1.pdf` gives `Cover - Volume 1.docx` and `TOC - Volume 1.docx`. See [Court bundle settings](/reference/court-bundle-settings.md). Tab pages are named from the document's serial number instead, as `tab_17.docx`, regardless of that setting.
These are not the Document Index export. To hand the index itself to counsel as a Word or Excel file, see [Export the Document Index as a Word or Excel file](/how-to-guides/export/export-index-word-pdf-excel.md).
Use these to reprint the structural pages on their own — for example on coloured paper — without regenerating the whole bundle.
## Related
| From Document Index to court bundle | How the index and the bundle share one source of truth. | From Document Index to court bundle |
| Regenerate a court bundle after making changes | Replace a stale court bundle after reordering or editing the Document Index. | Regenerate a court bundle after making changes |
| Court bundle settings | The full set of court bundle generation settings and their defaults. | Court bundle settings |
| Prepare a Bundle with BriefTech | A guided, end-to-end walkthrough — take any set of documents from upload to a finished, paginated bundle ready for filing or sharing. | Prepare a Bundle with BriefTech |