Can I ship high volume without a monthly subscription?

Not past 50 shipments a month, but you need only one flat plan. GoatLabels bills per label from a prepaid wallet: Free covers 50 shipments a month with no monthly fee, and above that Pro is a flat $40 a month with unlimited shipments, with no per-seat, per-store, or per-connector tiers. Orders come in through 13 storefront connectors, bulk CSV import, or the REST API, every domestic parcel is rate-shopped across USPS, UPS and FedEx, with DHL on international lanes, and labels auto-print via PrintNode or the browser.

Is there a shipment cap or tier?

Free is capped at 50 shipments a month. Pro removes the cap for a flat $40 a month, with no seat, store, or connector tiers on either plan. For any other vendor's caps or tiers, their current pricing page is the source of truth.

How do I bulk import thousands of orders?

Use bulk CSV import. Header aliasing maps the column names in your export to the recipient, address, and parcel fields, so a file from a WMS, an ERP, or a marketplace report imports without a template per source. The rows land in the To Ship queue ready to rate-shop and buy.

Which carriers can I rate-shop at volume?

From a US origin, USPS, UPS and FedEx quote every domestic parcel side by side, and DHL joins on international lanes. From Singapore, UPS, FedEx and local couriers such as SingPost quote instead. That is the complete list, and a shipper that depends on a carrier outside it should keep the tool that covers it.

Can my own system buy labels instead of the dashboard?

Yes. The REST label API takes one Bearer header, so a WMS or order system can create the shipment, compare rates, and buy the label directly. Auto-print via PrintNode sends the label to the station, and the API spends the same prepaid wallet as the dashboard.

Built for volume, billed per label.

High-volume shipping labels without a subscription

Pay for labels, not for a tier.

High-volume shipping labels do not need a per-seat or per-store subscription: GoatLabels bills per label from a prepaid wallet, Free covers 50 shipments a month with no monthly fee, and Pro is one flat $40 a month above that, with bulk CSV import, 13 storefront connectors, a REST API, and USPS, UPS and FedEx rate-shopped on every domestic parcel, with DHL on international lanes.

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USPS, UPS and FedEx on every domestic parcel

DHL joins on international lanes, and UPS and FedEx quote from Singapore too, however many labels you print.

DHL: international

Live quotes Side by side, one screen.

Bulk CSV Header aliasing built in.

Label API One Bearer header.

A wallet, not a volume tier

Fund a prepaid wallet and spend it label by label, in the peak month and the quiet one.

Prepaid Spent label by label.

No monthly fee on Free, up to 50 a month A slow month is a slow bill.

Pay as you go The bill tracks the dock.

Updated 2026-09-11

Per label vs per tier

What does high volume cost without a subscription?

High-volume shipping labels do not need a per-seat or per-store subscription: GoatLabels bills per label from a prepaid wallet, Free covers 50 shipments a month with no monthly fee, and above that Pro is one flat $40 a month with unlimited shipments. Orders come in through 13 storefront connectors, bulk CSV import with header aliasing, or the REST API, and every domestic parcel is rate-shopped across USPS, UPS and FedEx, with DHL on international lanes. Brands bringing fulfilment back from a 3PL meet the same per-label maths, covered in bringing fulfilment back in-house from ShipBob. The table sets that against how volume-tiered platforms are typically structured.

	GoatLabels	Volume-tiered platforms
What you pay in a peak month	The labels you printed from a prepaid wallet, plus Pro's flat $40 a month once you ship more than 50 a month.	The tier that covers your peak shipment count, usually chosen in advance — see the vendor's pricing page for current tiers.
What you pay in a slow month	Only the labels you printed. No monthly fee on Free (up to 50 shipments a month), so a quiet month is a quiet bill.	Typically the same tier as the peak month unless you remember to downgrade.
Getting thousands of orders in	13 storefront connectors into one To Ship queue, bulk CSV import with header aliasing, and a REST label API.	Connectors and bulk tools are common; some sit behind higher tiers.
Rate-shopping every parcel	USPS, UPS and FedEx quoted side by side on each domestic label, DHL on international lanes; UPS, FedEx and local couriers from Singapore.	Multi-carrier comparison is common; carrier and origin coverage vary by vendor.
Printing at scale	Auto-print via PrintNode to the printer at each station, or print from the browser.	Print workflows vary; some require a desktop agent or a specific integration.
Adding people or stations	A login and a printer. Labels are the unit of billing, not users.	Often seat-based; more users can mean a higher tier.

The right-hand column describes common patterns, not any one vendor. Plans, tiers, and caps change — compare against each vendor's current pricing page before you decide.

Why do high-volume shippers drop the subscription?

A subscription is sized to the month you fear

A tier chosen to survive peak season is paid for in every off-season month too. Pay-as-you-go labels from a prepaid wallet invert that: any month bills the labels that printed, plus Pro's flat $40 in the months you stay on Pro; a month under 50 shipments can run on Free.

Volume needs a queue, not a tab per store

High volume usually means several channels at once. All 13 connectors, every CSV drop, and every API call feed one To Ship queue, so the team works one list sorted by pickup time and service rather than switching between stores.

The print step is where volume actually stalls

Buying a thousand labels is fast; downloading a thousand PDFs is not. Auto-print through PrintNode sends each purchased label to the printer at the station that bought it, and a browser print covers any station without it.

And when you should stay where you are

You ship on carriers outside USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL, or from an origin other than the US and Singapore.
Your volume contract with a platform includes something GoatLabels does not offer, and that thing is load-bearing for your operation.
Your team is already fast on the current tool and nobody is unhappy. A pricing structure is not on its own a reason to migrate.

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 the carriers that serve it, paid from a prepaid wallet with no monthly fee on Free (up to 50 shipments a month), and auto-printed through PrintNode or the browser at the station that needs it (PrintNode on Pro).

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.

AI 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 and FedEx side by side, DHL on international lanes
Hands the drafted label back for you to confirm

Drafted. Checked. Yours to confirm.

Label out at the station

Bought from the wallet

Paid from your prepaid balance

Pay-as-you-go, no monthly fee on Free, up to 50 a month

$12.47

Label purchased

USPS Priority Mail — rate shown is the debit

$12.47

Auto-print via PrintNode or the browser (PrintNode on Pro). 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

Walmart

Shopify Plus Soon

Square

BigCommerce

Magento

Zapier Soon

NetSuite Soon

Ecwid Soon

Temu

Shein Soon

ChannelAdvisor Soon

SkuVault Soon

Zoho Inventory Soon

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Connect a store Or use the API

What an operation keeps, and what it stops paying for.

The connectors, the carriers, the API.
On a flat plan, not a tier sized to your peak.

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 contract. Free covers 50 shipments a month at $0, and Pro is a flat $40 a month with unlimited shipments, so the balance you fund, plus Pro's one flat fee if you are on Pro, is all you reconcile.

Wallet balance

$1,247.36 USD

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.

Billy LIVE

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...

One flat plan
past 50 a month

Fund the wallet and pay for each label as you go. Free covers 50 shipments a month with no monthly fee; past that, Pro is $40 a month flat with unlimited shipments and no minimum term, so you can cancel it when volume drops.

Shipment summary

UPS Ground $12.49

Insurance $0.75

Fuel surcharge $0.32

Total $13.56

USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL
in one account

Live rates from USPS, UPS and FedEx side by side on every domestic parcel, with DHL on international lanes; from Singapore, UPS, FedEx and local couriers. 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 $12.48

FedEx $13.22

DHL $14.10

USPS $11.79

Duties inside the quote where DDP applies

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

GoatLabels mobile shipments queue with side-by-side carrier prices

The AI assistant drafting a label from a pasted order on mobile

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 and FedEx come back as rates on one screen, DHL on international lanes.

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 and FedEx (DHL too on international lanes), 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.

The AI assistant reading back a parcel's tracking history over the purchased labels list

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 the only plan charge is Pro's flat $40 a month, which you need once you ship more than 50 a month.

CA → NY 2.6 lbs 12×8×4 in

USPS

Ground Advantage

2 to 5 days

$11.40

all-in · no surprises

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 label One wallet across every client Multi-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 (PrintNode on Pro). 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 and FedEx rates in one response, DHL on international lanes

Auto-print via PrintNode from the same call (on Pro)

Read the API docs Get an API key $0 monthly fee

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

201 Created · 187ms

request response

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 }
}

No contract, no seats

One flat plan, no seat or store tiers.

Labels are pay-as-you-go from a prepaid wallet, with no monthly fee on Free for up to 50 shipments a month; past that, Pro is $40 a month flat with no shipment cap. The 13 connectors, bulk CSV import, the REST API, browser printing and the AI assistant come with both plans; PrintNode auto-print comes with Pro.

Pro

Free

$0 / forever

Up to 50 shipments a month with no subscription: enough to run the workflow on real orders before you need Pro.

Pay-as-you-go labels, no monthly fee, up to 50 shipments a month

USPS, UPS and FedEx on every domestic parcel; DHL on international lanes

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

Start free

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 plan

Telegram, 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 ShipShipStation

No contracts No monthly fee Start 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

Prepaid

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 when they ship, plus Pro's flat $40 a month once your total passes 50 shipments a month.

4 carriers in one account no monthly fee bulk CSV

GoatLabels shipments queue with purchased labels

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

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

TikTok Shop

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

Etsy

The API is what every shipping API pretends to be. Idempotency that actually works.

Sasha R.

Staff engineer, marketplace

API user