USPS
Ground Advantage
2 to 5 days$11.40
all-in · no surprises
Built for the pack station.
One queue in, thermal labels out.
Warehouse shipping labels from one queue
One queue in, thermal labels out.
Warehouse shipping labels work best when every order lands in one queue and each label prints at the station that packed it, which GoatLabels does with 13 connectors, bulk CSV import, a REST API, four carriers quoted side by side, and auto-print via PrintNode or the browser.
Four carriers at every station
USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL quoted together on every parcel, from US and Singapore origins.
all quotedFour quotesSide by side, one screen.
Auto-printPrintNode or the browser.
Label APIOne Bearer header.
A wallet, not a seat per station
Fund one prepaid wallet and every pack station spends it label by label.
PrepaidSpent label by label.
No monthly feeAn idle station costs nothing.
Pay as you goThe bill tracks the dock.
Which way in, for which order
How do orders get into a warehouse label queue?
Warehouse shipping labels work best when every order lands in one queue and each label prints at the station that packed it. GoatLabels takes orders from 13 storefront connectors, bulk CSV import, a REST API, or a pasted message, rate-shops USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL, and auto-prints via PrintNode or the browser. The table below matches each kind of order to its intake path.
Updated
| Kind of order | How it gets in | When to use it |
|---|---|---|
| Orders from a connected store | Sync from any of 13 connectors (Shopify, WooCommerce, Amazon, eBay, TikTok Shop, Etsy, Walmart, BigCommerce, Squarespace, Wix, Square, Magento, Temu) straight into the To Ship queue. | Tracking is pushed back to the store when the label prints, so nobody keys it in afterwards. |
| Orders exported from a WMS or ERP | Bulk CSV import. Header aliasing maps the system's column names to recipient, address, and parcel fields without a template per export. | Best for the daily pick-list dump: up to 500 rows per import; errors name the row and field, and one bad row does not fail the batch. |
| Orders your system creates in real time | The REST label API with one Bearer header. Create the shipment, compare rates, buy the label from the WMS itself. | Best when the warehouse system already knows the box and the weight at pack time. |
| Orders that arrive as an email or a message | Paste it or drop a screenshot; the AI assistant drafts the recipient, parcel, and service for you to confirm. | Best for the rush order or the one-off that never became a record anywhere. |
| Getting the label onto the printer | Auto-print via PrintNode to the printer at the station that bought the label, or print from the browser. | One path per station; no PDF download and no shared print folder. |
| Paying for the labels | Pay-as-you-go from a prepaid wallet. No monthly fee, no seat count. | One balance for every station and every intake path above. |
Every path above lands in the same To Ship queue and buys from the same prepaid wallet. Mix them freely — a warehouse rarely gets all of its orders one way.
What does a warehouse label workflow have to get right?
One queue for every intake path
A warehouse takes orders from stores, from spreadsheets, from a WMS, and from the phone. Each of those has its own way in — connector, CSV, API, or assistant — but they all land in the same To Ship queue, so the pack station works one list ordered by pickup time.
The label should print where the box is
Auto-print through PrintNode routes each purchased label to the thermal printer at the station that bought it. A station without PrintNode prints straight from the browser. Either way there is no download step between buying the label and applying it.
Stations should not cost seats
Adding a second or fifth pack station is a printer and a login, not a plan upgrade. Labels are pay-as-you-go from one prepaid wallet with no monthly fee, so a station that is idle in a slow week costs nothing that week.
And when you should stay where you are
- You need carriers outside USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL, or you ship from an origin other than the US and Singapore.
- You are looking for a WMS with bin locations, wave picking, and inventory counts. GoatLabels is the label and rate layer that sits beside a WMS, not a replacement for one.
- Your existing print setup is wired into a platform your carrier contract depends on, and nothing about it is broken.
Orders in, labels out
Connect the stores. Import the rest. Print at the station.
Connect a Shopify, WooCommerce, Amazon, eBay, TikTok Shop, Etsy, Walmart, BigCommerce, Squarespace, Wix, Square, Magento, or Temu store and its orders land in the To Ship queue. Orders that arrive as a spreadsheet come in through bulk CSV import, where header aliasing maps whatever the sender called each column. Orders that arrive as a message or a screenshot go to the AI assistant, which drafts the label for you to confirm. Every label is rate-shopped across USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL, paid from a prepaid wallet with no monthly fee, and auto-printed through PrintNode or the browser at the station that needs it.
1
Every source, one queue
Connector, CSV, API, or message
ops_northside
Rush order: 3x cartons (12 lb) to Maya R., Austin, TX 78701 — needs to go today
Shopify
Synced into To Ship
TikTok Shop
Synced into To Ship
CSV import
- Order
- #1847
- Customer
- Jordan Lee
- Items
- 1x Carton (12 lb)
- Address
- Brooklyn, NY
Drop the CSV or paste the order
13 connectors, bulk CSV with header aliasing, the REST API, and pasted orders — one To Ship queue.
2AI assistant
Drafting the order that arrived as a message.
- Reads a pasted order, an email, a voice note, or a screenshot
- Fills in the recipient, the address, and the parcel details
- Rate-shops USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL side by side
- Hands the drafted label back for you to confirm
Drafted. Checked. Yours to confirm.
3
Label out at the station
Bought from the wallet
Paid from your prepaid balance
Pay-as-you-go, no monthly fee
$12.47
Label purchased
USPS Priority Mail — rate shown is the debit
$12.47
Auto-print via PrintNode or the browser. Tracking is pushed back to the connected store when the label prints.
Where the orders actually come from.
13 connectors for the stores, CSV and API for everything else.
Shopify, WooCommerce, Amazon, eBay, TikTok Shop, Etsy, Walmart, BigCommerce, Squarespace, Wix, Square, Magento, and Temu sync into To Ship and get tracking pushed back when you print. Orders that never lived in a storefront — a spreadsheet from a client, a call from a WMS, a pasted email — go into the same queue by CSV import, the REST API, or the AI assistant.
Shopify
Etsy
WooCommerce
TikTok Shop
Amazon
eBay
Squarespace
Wix
WalmartShopify PlusSoon
Square
BigCommerce
Magento
ZapierSoon
NetSuiteSoon
EcwidSoon
Temu
SheinSoon
ChannelAdvisorSoon
SkuVaultSoon
Zoho InventorySoon
PatreonWhat an operation keeps, and what it stops paying for.The connectors, the carriers, the API.
The connectors, the carriers, the API.
Without a subscription under them.
Moving a label engine should not cost you the carriers, the store sync, or the API. Those all come with you. What does not come with you is a monthly fee sized to your peak month — and what is new is an assistant that turns an unstructured order into a drafted label.
One prepaid wallet,
spent label by label
Fund the wallet and every label is a pay-as-you-go debit against it. There is no monthly fee and no plan tier to clear, so the balance you fund is the only number to reconcile at month end.
Wallet balance
$1,247.36USD
AI
AI drafting for orders
that are not structured
An email from a client, a screenshot of a form, or a spoken address is not an order record. The AI assistant reads it and drafts the whole label — recipient, parcel, and service — for you to confirm.
BillyLIVE
Where's the package to Maya?
It's in transit via UPS. Expected Friday, Aug 7.
1Z8923A6B05G4123456
In transit
Austin, TX → Dallas, TX
Ask Billy anything...
No monthly fee
to print
Fund the wallet, pay for each label as you go, and pay nothing in a month with no shipments. Volume is never a gate you clear before a label will print.
Shipment summary
UPS Ground$12.49
Insurance$0.75
Fuel surcharge$0.32
Total$13.56
USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL
in one quote
Live rates from USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL side by side, from US and Singapore origins, on every parcel. That is the honest carrier list; if you need one outside it, a broader network is the reason to stay elsewhere. Thirteen storefront connectors sync into To Ship and push tracking back when you print, but a connector is never a prerequisite.
Compare rates
UPS$12.48FedEx$13.22DHL$14.10USPS$11.79
Duties & taxes paid
The API your
warehouse system calls
REST and JSON with one Bearer header. Create the shipment, compare rates, buy the label, and auto-print it via PrintNode — the dashboard and the API spend the same prepaid balance.
POST /v1/shipments
{
"to": { "name": "Maya" },
"from": { "name": "Alex" },
"service": "ups_ground",
"label_format": "pdf"
}
Webhook delivered
Label ready
CL-1038 · Brooklyn, NY
The dock, not the desk
An email is a valid order input.
Subscription platforms expect the order to already exist somewhere they can read. When it arrives as a message, you become the integration — retyping a name, an address, and a weight into a laptop you are not sitting at. GoatLabels takes the message itself, on the phone that is already at the pack station.
Paste the order or drop a screenshot — the AI assistant pulls out the recipient, the address, and the parcel.
Bulk CSV import with header aliasing for the files that arrive by the hundred.
USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL come back as four rates on one screen.
Buy from the prepaid balance and auto-print via PrintNode or the browser.
Hold the mic at the station and say the address — the assistant drafts it and reads the rate back.
Hands full of cartons
Talk to the assistant, not to an import screen.
Packing is a two-hands job, and most software's answer is a form. Hold the mic, say who the parcel is going to, and the assistant drafts the label, rate-shops USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL, and queues it against your prepaid balance — then answers for it afterwards when a client asks where the parcel is. This is the real product, not a render.
goatlabels.io/dashboard/shipments — assistant
Listening
"Where's the Austin rush order?"
Out for delivery
CL-1039 · Austin, TX · by 6 PM
Plain English in — names, addresses, weights, carriers, services · nothing to import and nothing to map · reads the rate back before a cent leaves the wallet · phone or browser.
Side-by-side quotes
The quote is the debit.
Carriers quoted on the same parcel, each a number that is the exact amount leaving your prepaid balance. Nothing is added on the way through, and nothing has to be reconciled against a subscription invoice at month end.
CA → NY2.6 lbs12×8×4 in
Cheapest
UPS
Ground
1 to 5 days$9.85
all-in · no surprises
FedEx
Ground
1 to 5 days$11.20
all-in · no surprises
Pay-as-you-go, label by labelOne wallet across every clientMulti-currency display
Public API v1
An operation with a WMS behind it.
A warehouse system already knows the order, the bin, and the box. REST, JSON, and one Bearer header let it request the rate and the label directly, and auto-print via PrintNode puts the result at the station. The dashboard and the API buy from the same prepaid balance.
Create, rate-shop, and buy — a few calls, no SDK required
One Bearer header — no signing scheme to implement
USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL rates in one response
Auto-print via PrintNode from the same call
Read the API docs Get an API key$0 monthly fee
curl https://api.goatlabels.io/api/v1/shipments
201 Created · 187msPOST /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"
}
No tier to clear first
No plan tier to clear first.
Labels are pay-as-you-go from a prepaid wallet, with no monthly fee. The 13 connectors, bulk CSV import, the REST API, auto-print, and the AI assistant all sit underneath that. Nothing is a minimum you clear before a label prints.
Pro
Most popular$40/ month
The same carriers, connectors, and queue
Auto-print via PrintNode at every station
AI assistant — draft a label from a message, screenshot, or voice
API access on the same prepaid balance
Volume pricing
illustrativeless volumemore volume
pay for labels, not for seats
Free
$0 / forever
Enough to run an operation through a slow quarter without a subscription under it.
Pay-as-you-go labels, no monthly fee
USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL rate-shopped on every parcel
The REST label API with one Bearer header
AI assistant that drafts labels from a message or screenshot
13 storefront connectors and bulk CSV import included
The assistant is not a paid tier
The AI assistant that reads an email, a screenshot, or a voice note into a drafted label 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
One Bearer header. The same wallet as the dashboard.
Bring the invoice you pay today
Put a real parcel through and compare the side-by-side rate against what that label costs you on
ShippoPirate ShipShipStationNo contractsNo monthly feeStart in seconds
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 and fees move, so compare against their current pricing page rather than a figure on ours. Full pricing details
Which operations this actually suits
Not every operation should move.
These are the teams for whom pay-as-you-go labels, one queue, and a label API add up to a real difference. The operations that should stay put are named on this page too.
Operations with a rotating client roster
Clients come and go monthly
Volume that arrives per client fits a prepaid wallet better than a seat count. Onboard a client, connect their store, and pay for their labels only when they ship. There are no sub-accounts; every label carries your reference, so per-client cost is a filtered ledger export.
4 carriers per quote no monthly fee bulk CSV
goatlabels.io/dashboard/shipments
Warehouses with a WMS already in place
REST API, one Bearer header
Let the warehouse system request the rate and the label, and auto-print the result at the station through PrintNode. Nothing is retyped between the two.
One queue, connector or not
Order #1024 · created via API
Ops teams living in email and chat
The orders that never became a record
rush cartons to Austin, can they go today?
Label drafted · CL-1024
Multi-channel merchants outgrowing one store
13 connectors, one balance
1
wallet behind every store and the API
Real sellers, real words
Teams that stopped paying a subscription to print a label.
A video took off and I had 80 TikTok Shop orders by morning. I printed every label from my phone on the bus to the post office.
Early customer · TikTok
TikTok Shop seller
I run my Etsy shop from the kitchen. The AI reads the order, picks the carrier, the label prints. That's the whole workflow now.
Early customer · Etsy
Etsy maker
The API is what every shipping API pretends to be. Idempotency that actually works.
Sasha R.
Staff engineer, marketplace
Warehouse shipping labels — FAQ
- How do I print shipping labels in a warehouse?
- Put every order into one queue, rate-shop each parcel, and route the purchased label to the printer at the station that packed it. In GoatLabels, orders arrive through 13 storefront connectors, bulk CSV import, the REST API, or a pasted message; each label is quoted across USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL; and auto-print via PrintNode or the browser puts it on the thermal printer at that station.
- Can I print shipping labels from multiple pack stations?
- Yes. Each station either runs auto-print through PrintNode, which sends the label to that station's printer the moment it is purchased, or prints from the browser. Every station buys from the same prepaid wallet and works the same To Ship queue.
- Can I import a pick list as a CSV and print all the labels?
- Yes. Bulk CSV import accepts the export from your WMS or ERP, and header aliasing maps its column names to the recipient, address, and parcel fields without building a template for each system. Each import takes up to 500 rows; errors name the row and field, and one bad row does not fail the batch. The rows land in the To Ship queue ready to rate-shop and buy.
- Does the warehouse need a subscription to print labels?
- No. Labels are pay-as-you-go from a prepaid wallet, with no monthly fee and no per-station seat. A slow week costs nothing beyond the labels that actually printed.
- Which carriers can the warehouse rate-shop?
- USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL, quoted side by side on every parcel, from US and Singapore origins. That is the complete list, so a warehouse that relies on a regional carrier outside it should keep the tool that covers it.
- Can my WMS create the labels directly?
- Yes. The REST label API takes one Bearer header, and a warehouse system can create the shipment, compare rates, and buy the label in a few calls. Auto-print via PrintNode then drops the label at the station, with nothing retyped between the two systems.
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Test it on the next order that lands.
Keep the carriers and the connectors.
Drop the monthly fee.
Fund a prepaid wallet, put through the next order you would have shipped anyway, and compare the side-by-side USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL rate against what that label costs you today.
No card required. No monthly fee.