diff --git a/src-ui/src/app/components/document-list/bulk-editor/bulk-editor.component.ts b/src-ui/src/app/components/document-list/bulk-editor/bulk-editor.component.ts
index 208c5d40b..dfb06b7f4 100644
--- a/src-ui/src/app/components/document-list/bulk-editor/bulk-editor.component.ts
+++ b/src-ui/src/app/components/document-list/bulk-editor/bulk-editor.component.ts
@@ -513,6 +513,7 @@ export class BulkEditorComponent
       .bulkDownload(
         Array.from(this.list.selected),
         downloadFileType,
+        this.downloadForm.get('downloadAsSingleFile').value,
         this.downloadForm.get('downloadUseFormatting').value
       )
       .pipe(first())
diff --git a/src-ui/src/app/services/rest/document.service.ts b/src-ui/src/app/services/rest/document.service.ts
index 9c1d4b61d..1a4d3e6a2 100644
--- a/src-ui/src/app/services/rest/document.service.ts
+++ b/src-ui/src/app/services/rest/document.service.ts
@@ -191,6 +191,7 @@ export class DocumentService extends AbstractPaperlessService<PaperlessDocument>
   bulkDownload(
     ids: number[],
     content = 'both',
+    mergeIntoSingleFile: boolean = false,
     useFilenameFormatting: boolean = false
   ) {
     return this.http.post(
@@ -198,6 +199,7 @@ export class DocumentService extends AbstractPaperlessService<PaperlessDocument>
       {
         documents: ids,
         content: content,
+        single_file: mergeIntoSingleFile,
         follow_formatting: useFilenameFormatting,
       },
       { responseType: 'blob' }