Can GoatLabels ship prescription drugs or controlled items?

No. GoatLabels offers no regulated-goods, hazmat, or cold-chain service and gives no advice on them. This page covers ordinary, non-regulated supplies only. Anything else must be checked against each carrier's current rules and shipped through a program built for it.

Which carriers can medical supply parcels 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 medical supply shipping software cost?

GoatLabels 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 funded by card, ACH, and other methods. There is no contract.

Does it connect to my distribution ERP or inventory system?

Not natively. GoatLabels has 13 store connectors, including Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, and Magento, but no ERP, WMS, or EDI connector. Orders from those systems come in by CSV import of up to 500 rows per file or through the REST API.

Can I track shipping cost per clinic or customer account?

Yes. Every label writes a dated ledger entry with the amount debited and the reference you supplied, such as a customer account or purchase order number. Carrier re-weigh adjustments post to the same ledger. Export it and total by reference.

Can I talk to someone about our supply orders first?

Yes. Email contact@goatlabels.io with the kinds of supplies you ship, your monthly parcel volume, typical carton weights, and a sample order export. We check the file against the bulk importer and price the parcels across USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL. Support is by email, not phone.

For medical and dental supply distributors.

Medical supply shipping software for parcel orders

Clinic orders in. Four carriers out.

Medical supply shipping software turns clinic and dental office orders into carrier labels and records what each parcel cost. GoatLabels does this for ordinary, non-regulated supplies: it rate-shops USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL per parcel on Free at $0 a month or Pro at $40 flat. It offers no cold-chain, hazmat, or regulated-goods service.

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Four carriers on every clinic order

USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL quoted together on each carton of gloves, disposables, or consumables, from one account with no carrier contracts to set up.

all quoted

Four quotesOne all-in number each.

Bulk CSV500 rows per import.

Multi-cartonOne order, many labels.

Freight cost per clinic account

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

PrepaidCard, ACH, and more.

Pro $40 flatUnlimited shipments.

Your referenceOn every ledger line.

Medical supply shipping options, compared

What are the ways to ship medical supply orders by parcel?

A supply distributor usually picks between four routes: a label service such as GoatLabels, the carriers' own websites and tools, a subscription shipping platform, or an enterprise multi-carrier or freight system. The alternatives are described generically here because plans differ by vendor. Everything on this page concerns ordinary, non-regulated supplies only.

Updated 2026-10-06

Medical supply 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 from your order system.	Typed or uploaded separately on each carrier's site, one carrier at a time.	Store and marketplace connectors, with file import on most products. Check the vendor's page.	Integrated with the ERP or WMS by the vendor or a partner as a project.
Carrier accounts	None to set up. Labels are bought on GoatLabels' accounts; your own negotiated rates cannot be imported.	One account, login, and invoice per carrier.	Often your own accounts plus the platform's rates where offered.	Your own carrier contracts, usually several.
Rate shopping	USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL quoted on every parcel, one all-in number each.	None across carriers. You compare by opening each site.	Yes, across the accounts and rates you have connected.	Yes, usually rule-based across contracted carriers.
Regulated or cold-chain goods	Not offered. No hazmat, cold-chain, or regulated-goods service of any kind.	Each carrier publishes its own rules and any special services. Read them at the source.	Not stated here. Depends on the vendor and the carrier accounts behind it.	Depends on the system and on your carrier contracts.
Pallets and LTL	No. Parcel only.	Booked separately with a freight carrier.	Varies by product. Check the vendor's page.	Commonly 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.	A monthly subscription, often 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: Priority Mail weight and size limits (read 2026-10-06); UPS: avoiding additional shipping fees, Additional Handling (read 2026-10-06); USPS: shipping restrictions, hand sanitizer (read 2026-10-06). Plans and features change, so confirm on the vendor's current page before you decide.

What does medical supply shipping software do?

Medical supply shipping software takes the orders a distributor has picked and packed for clinics, dental offices, and care facilities, buys a carrier label for each carton, and records the tracking number and cost against the order. It replaces retyping addresses into several carrier websites during the afternoon rush.

For a supply house the pattern is steady: many small replenishment orders, the same few hundred ship-to addresses, and cartons of gloves, masks, gauze, and other consumables. Software earns its place by quoting several carriers on each carton, printing labels in a batch, and leaving a cost record that finance can tie to a customer account. Whether you call it medical supply distributor shipping software, dental supply shipping software, or shipping software for medical supplies, that is the job.

Which medical supplies can ship as ordinary parcels?

This page covers only ordinary, non-regulated consumables that carriers accept as regular parcels, such as exam gloves, paper and plastic disposables, and dental or clinic consumables with no special handling needs. Prescription drugs, controlled items, temperature-sensitive products, and anything a carrier classes as hazardous are outside what this page covers.

Do not assume a product is ordinary because it looks routine. USPS, for example, says hand sanitizers, including wipes, are handled as hazardous matter and limited to surface transportation in domestic mail. Check every such product against each carrier's current published rules before you ship it. GoatLabels has no hazmat, cold-chain, or regulated-goods service and cannot advise on classification.

How do heavy cases of supplies affect parcel cost?

Heavy or bulky cases can trigger carrier surcharges or exceed a service's limits, so weigh and measure every carton before you buy the label. USPS Priority Mail has a maximum weight of 70 pounds and a maximum combined length and girth of 108 inches.

UPS states that Additional Handling applies automatically to packages with an actual weight of more than 50 pounds, and its criteria include a longest side over 48 inches or a second-longest side over 30 inches. In clinic supply parcel shipping, a full case of gloves or liquids can pass 50 pounds quickly. Because GoatLabels quotes four carriers on each carton, you see the all-in number for each before choosing, and splitting an order into two lighter cartons is one order with two labels.

How do I ship a day of clinic orders in one batch?

Export the day's ready orders from your order system as a CSV file and import it into GoatLabels, which accepts up to 500 rows per file. Errors name the row and the field, and one bad row does not fail the batch, so a clinic with a missing suite number holds back one order, not the whole run of medical supply shipping labels.

Each label debits a prepaid wallet and writes a dated ledger entry carrying the reference you supplied, such as the clinic's account number or purchase order. A multi-carton order produces several labels with the same reference. GoatLabels has no native ERP or WMS connector and does not write back to your system; a file export, the API, or a webhook on your side carries tracking and cost home.

When is GoatLabels the wrong medical supply shipping software?

It is the wrong choice if you ship prescription drugs, controlled items, temperature-sensitive products, or hazardous goods, because GoatLabels provides no service, documentation, or advice for any of them. It is also the wrong choice if you need your own negotiated carrier rates, LTL or pallet freight, an SLA, or phone support.

With a mixed catalog you can split the work: regulated and special-handling lines stay with a carrier program or an enterprise system built for them, and the ordinary consumables go out as parcels. GoatLabels suits that second stream, where the job is many plain cartons a day, compared across four carriers, with a clean cost record per customer.

Looking for the category view first? See B2B shipping software. Shipping from a wholesale warehouse? Read wholesale distributor shipping labels.

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Public API v1

An order system that labels its own cartons.

If your order system or ERP can call a web service, the REST API can quote and buy a label when an order is packed. Calls are unlimited on every plan, with live and test keys, Idempotency-Key support, signed replayable webhooks, an OpenAPI 3.1 spec, and rate-limit headers. There is no packaged ERP connector, so your team owns the script.

Quote four carriers and buy in a few calls

Idempotency-Key so a retry never buys twice

Signed, replayable tracking webhooks

Test keys for a dry run before go-live

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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 }
}

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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 trial one week of small clinic 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

Medical supply shipping software: FAQ

Can GoatLabels ship prescription drugs or controlled items?: No. GoatLabels offers no regulated-goods, hazmat, or cold-chain service and gives no advice on them. This page covers ordinary, non-regulated supplies only. Anything else must be checked against each carrier's current rules and shipped through a program built for it.
Which carriers can medical supply parcels 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 medical supply shipping software cost?: GoatLabels 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 funded by card, ACH, and other methods. There is no contract.
Does it connect to my distribution ERP or inventory system?: Not natively. GoatLabels has 13 store connectors, including Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, and Magento, but no ERP, WMS, or EDI connector. Orders from those systems come in by CSV import of up to 500 rows per file or through the REST API.
Can I track shipping cost per clinic or customer account?: Yes. Every label writes a dated ledger entry with the amount debited and the reference you supplied, such as a customer account or purchase order number. Carrier re-weigh adjustments post to the same ledger. Export it and total by reference.
Can I talk to someone about our supply orders first?: Yes. Email contact@goatlabels.io with the kinds of supplies you ship, your monthly parcel volume, typical carton weights, and a sample order export. We check the file against the bulk importer and price the parcels across USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL. Support is by email, not phone.

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Test it on one day of clinic orders.

Supply orders in, parcel labels out.
Four carriers compared.

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

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