Can I ship perishable or refrigerated food with GoatLabels?

No. GoatLabels offers no cold-chain or perishables service, and this page covers shelf-stable packaged goods only. Perishable and temperature-controlled goods must be checked against each carrier's current rules.

Can I ship beer, wine, or spirits with GoatLabels?

No. GoatLabels offers no alcohol shipping service. Carriers set their own rules: USPS says beer, wine, and liquor may not be sent through the mail, except in limited circumstances. Check each carrier's current rules before shipping alcohol with anyone.

Which carriers can my wholesale cases ship with?

USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL, rate-shopped on every parcel from one account with one all-in number per carrier, plus an international network. Parcels ship from US and Singapore origins. You cannot add your own carrier accounts or negotiated rates.

How much does food and beverage wholesale shipping software cost?

The software is $0 a month on Free with 50 shipments a month, or $40 a month flat on Pro with unlimited shipments and cheaper label rates. Labels are paid from a prepaid wallet. There is no contract.

Does GoatLabels ship pallets to distributors or grocery warehouses?

No. GoatLabels is parcel only and does not quote or book LTL or freight. It also does not produce retailer compliance labels such as GS1-128 or EDI documents. Keep your freight tool for pallets and use GoatLabels for the orders that leave as cases.

Can I talk to someone about my wholesale shipping first?

Yes. Email contact@goatlabels.io with what you ship, your monthly parcel volume, typical case weights and sizes, and a sample order export if you have one. We check the file against the bulk importer and price the cases across USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL. Support is by email and the in-app assistant, not phone.

For food and beverage wholesalers.

Food and beverage wholesale shipping software for shelf-stable parcels

Shelf-stable cases. Four carriers.

Food and beverage wholesale shipping software turns wholesale orders for packaged goods into carrier labels and records what each case cost to send. GoatLabels rate-shops USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL on every parcel, on Free at $0 a month or Pro at $40 a month flat. It covers shelf-stable parcels only: there is no cold-chain, perishables, or alcohol shipping service.

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Four carriers on every case

USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL quoted together on each case of coffee, snacks, or sauces you send to a cafe, shop, or office, from one account.

all quoted

Four quotesOne all-in number each.

Bulk CSV500 rows per import.

Multi-cartonOne order, many labels.

Freight cost per wholesale order

Every label debits the quoted amount to a dated ledger entry that carries your order or customer reference.

PrepaidCard, ACH, and more.

Pro $40 flatUnlimited shipments.

Your referenceOn every ledger line.

Food and beverage shipping options compared

What can a food and beverage wholesaler use to ship parcels?

A wholesaler sending cases of packaged goods picks between each carrier's own website, a subscription shipping platform, an enterprise multi-carrier or freight system, or a label service. GoatLabels quotes four carriers per case from one account and keeps a prepaid ledger, but it is parcel only and offers no cold-chain or alcohol service. The last three columns describe typical products, not a named vendor.

Updated 2026-10-06

Food and beverage shipping options compared, sources checked 2026-10-06
	GoatLabels	Carrier websites and tools	Subscription shipping platform	Enterprise multi-carrier or freight system
How orders arrive	Bulk CSV import of up to 500 rows per file, 13 store connectors, or a REST API call.	Typed or uploaded into each carrier's own tool, one carrier at a time.	Store and marketplace connectors, plus file import on most products.	Integrated with your ERP or WMS as an implementation project.
Carriers compared per case	USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL quoted on every parcel, one all-in number each.	One carrier per site. Comparing means entering the same case several times.	Several carriers, across the accounts and plan you have.	Many carriers, usually rule-based across your own contracts.
Heavy cases and size limits	Each quote reflects the weight and dimensions you enter. Carrier limits still apply and re-weigh adjustments post to the ledger.	Each carrier sets its own. USPS Priority Mail allows up to 70 lb and 108 inches combined length and girth. UPS applies an additional handling charge to packages over 50 lb.	The carriers' limits and surcharges pass through.	The carriers' limits apply to parcels; heavier orders can move as freight.
Perishables, cold chain, and alcohol	No cold-chain, perishables, or alcohol service. This page covers shelf-stable goods only.	Set by each carrier. USPS says beer, wine, and liquor may not be sent through the mail, except in limited circumstances.	Depends on the carriers behind it. Check each carrier's current rules.	Depends on your contracts. Check each carrier's current rules.
Pallets and LTL	Not offered. Parcel only.	Offered by some carriers through a separate freight service.	Varies by product. Not stated here for any vendor.	Often included, alongside parcel.
Price and commitment	Free $0 a month with 50 shipments, or Pro $40 a month flat with unlimited shipments. No contract.	No software fee. You pay each carrier's own rates on separate accounts.	A monthly subscription, usually tiered by volume or users.	Quoted by sales, typically with implementation fees.

Third-party details checked on 2026-10-06 from each vendor's own pages: USPS: shipping restrictions (alcoholic beverages), viewed 2026-10-06; USPS: Priority Mail weight and size limits, viewed 2026-10-06. Plans and features change, so confirm on the vendor's current page before you decide.

What is food and beverage wholesale shipping software?

Food and beverage wholesale shipping software takes wholesale orders for packaged goods, compares carriers for each case, prints the labels, and records the cost against the order. For a roaster, snack brand, or sauce maker, that replaces retyping cafe and shop addresses into one carrier website after another. Searches for food wholesale shipping software, beverage distributor shipping software, or shipping software for food distributors describe the same tool.

On this page the term means parcel shipping of shelf-stable goods: bagged coffee, boxed snacks, jarred sauces, and bottled non-alcoholic drinks sent to cafes, shops, and offices. Perishables, temperature-controlled goods, and alcohol are outside what this page covers. Those goods must be checked against each carrier's current rules before you ship them with anyone.

How do I ship a week of wholesale orders to cafes and shops at once?

Export the orders that are ready to go as a CSV file and import it into GoatLabels, which accepts up to 500 rows per file. Each row is rate-shopped across USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL, and any error names the row and the field. One bad row does not fail the batch, so a cafe with a missing suite number holds back one order, not the whole run.

If your wholesale orders come through a storefront, 13 store connectors including Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, and Square pull them in directly. The same import produces coffee wholesale shipping labels, wholesale snack shipping labels, and labels for a mixed case of sauces, so a roaster that also sells granola runs one batch. An order that needs three cartons produces three labels that share one reference. PrintNode auto-print sends the labels to the packing bench printer without a download step.

Which carrier should a heavy case of sauces or drinks go with?

The right carrier depends on the weight, the box size, and the destination, so compare all four on each case instead of fixing one carrier for everything. Liquids in glass are dense, and a mixed case of sauces or bottled drinks reaches carrier thresholds quickly. USPS Priority Mail allows up to 70 lb and 108 inches in combined length and girth, and UPS applies an additional handling charge to packages over 50 lb.

GoatLabels shows one all-in number per carrier for the weight and dimensions you enter, which makes the choice between one heavy case and two lighter ones visible before you buy. Enter measured weights. If a carrier re-weighs the parcel, the adjustment posts to the same ledger as its own line.

How do I track shipping cost per wholesale account?

Send your order number or customer code as the reference on each label, and every charge lands in a dated ledger entry that carries it. Export the ledger and group by reference to see what you spent delivering to each cafe, shop, or office over a month.

Labels are paid from a prepaid wallet funded by card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, ACH, or crypto, so there are no separate carrier invoices to match at month end. That makes it practical to check whether a free-shipping threshold or a flat delivery fee on your wholesale price list actually covers the freight. GoatLabels does not write into your accounting or ERP system; the export or the API is the source.

When is GoatLabels the wrong fit for a food and beverage wholesaler?

It is the wrong fit if you ship perishables, temperature-controlled goods, or alcohol, because GoatLabels offers no cold-chain, perishables, or alcohol shipping service. Those goods are outside what this page covers, and each carrier's current rules decide whether and how they can move at all.

It is also the wrong fit if most of your volume moves on pallets to distributors or grocery warehouses, since GoatLabels is parcel only and does not book LTL or freight. It prints carrier labels, not retailer compliance labels or EDI documents, and you cannot bring your own negotiated carrier rates. It suits wholesalers whose shelf-stable orders leave as cases.

Looking for the category view first? See B2B shipping software. Orders getting too heavy for parcel? Read LTL vs parcel shipping.

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Public API v1

Wholesale orders that label themselves.

If your order desk or wholesale portal already holds the ship-to and the case weights, the REST API can rate-shop and buy the label when an order is packed. It has unlimited calls on every plan, live and test keys, Idempotency-Key support, signed replayable webhooks, and rate-limit headers. The dashboard and the API draw on the same prepaid wallet.

Quote four carriers for a case in one request

Idempotency-Key so a retry never buys twice

Signed, replayable webhooks for tracking events

OpenAPI 3.1 spec to generate a client

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curl https://api.goatlabels.io/api/v1/shipments

201 Created · 187ms

requestresponse

POST /api/v1/shipments
Authorization: Bearer sk_live_…
Idempotency-Key: ord_8421

{
  "to": { "name": "Joyce", "city": "Berlin", "country": "DE" },
  "parcel": { "weight": 2.6, "weight_unit": "lb" },
  "service": "fedex_intl_priority"
}

← 201 Created // buy it with POST /api/v1/shipments/{id}/purchase
{
  "id": "shp_44819",
  "status": "draft",
  "amount": { "subtotal": 72.25, "duty_and_tax": 14.20, "total": 86.45 }
}

Pay for labels, not a tier

Two plans. No contract.

Free is $0 a month with 50 shipments a month. Pro is $40 a month flat with unlimited shipments and cheaper label rates. Bulk CSV, 13 connectors, and the REST API come with both, and labels are paid from a prepaid wallet.

Pro

Free

$0 / forever

Enough to test a week of cafe and shop orders.

50 shipments a month at $0

USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL rate-shopped on every parcel

REST API with unlimited calls

Bulk CSV import, up to 500 rows per file

13 store connectors included

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The assistant is included

The in-app assistant drafts a label from a pasted order or email for you to confirm. It is part of the product, not an add-on.

Web, every planTelegram, Pro

API on every plan

GET /api/v1/shipments

200 OK · plan: free

Unlimited calls. The same wallet as the dashboard.

Bring last month's shipments

Put real parcels through the side-by-side quotes and compare against what those labels cost you on

ShippoPirate ShipShipStation

No contractNo card for FreeFour carriers

Label prices are quoted live from USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL and shown as one number, the same number that leaves your wallet. Other vendors' plans move, so compare against their current pricing page. Full pricing details

Food and beverage wholesale shipping software: FAQ

Can I ship perishable or refrigerated food with GoatLabels?: No. GoatLabels offers no cold-chain or perishables service, and this page covers shelf-stable packaged goods only. Perishable and temperature-controlled goods must be checked against each carrier's current rules.
Can I ship beer, wine, or spirits with GoatLabels?: No. GoatLabels offers no alcohol shipping service. Carriers set their own rules: USPS says beer, wine, and liquor may not be sent through the mail, except in limited circumstances. Check each carrier's current rules before shipping alcohol with anyone.
Which carriers can my wholesale cases ship with?: USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL, rate-shopped on every parcel from one account with one all-in number per carrier, plus an international network. Parcels ship from US and Singapore origins. You cannot add your own carrier accounts or negotiated rates.
How much does food and beverage wholesale shipping software cost?: The software is $0 a month on Free with 50 shipments a month, or $40 a month flat on Pro with unlimited shipments and cheaper label rates. Labels are paid from a prepaid wallet. There is no contract.
Does GoatLabels ship pallets to distributors or grocery warehouses?: No. GoatLabels is parcel only and does not quote or book LTL or freight. It also does not produce retailer compliance labels such as GS1-128 or EDI documents. Keep your freight tool for pallets and use GoatLabels for the orders that leave as cases.
Can I talk to someone about my wholesale shipping first?: Yes. Email contact@goatlabels.io with what you ship, your monthly parcel volume, typical case weights and sizes, and a sample order export if you have one. We check the file against the bulk importer and price the cases across USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL. Support is by email and the in-app assistant, not phone.

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Test it on one week of orders.

Wholesale cases in, parcel labels out.
Four carriers compared.

Import a CSV of wholesale orders, compare USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL on each case, then decide. Free is $0 a month; Pro is $40 flat with unlimited shipments.

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