Does GoatLabels support FedEx and DHL?

Yes. Every domestic parcel is quoted against UPS and FedEx at once, and against USPS up to 70 lb; DHL joins on international lanes; and each quote is a single all-in number that is exactly the amount debited from your prepaid wallet when you buy. You do not pick a carrier for the account — you pick the winner for that parcel, and it can be a different carrier on the next one.

Do I need my own FedEx or DHL account?

No. The carriers are available through GoatLabels directly, so there is nothing to negotiate or onboard before you can quote them. Create an account, fund the wallet, and USPS, UPS and FedEx quote your first domestic parcel; DHL joins on international lanes.

Is there a monthly fee like there wasn't on Pirate Ship?

Not on Free, which covers 50 shipments a month. You fund a prepaid wallet and pay per label, so a quiet month costs nothing at all, the same model you already run on. Past 50 shipments a month, Pro is one flat monthly plan with unlimited shipments.

Will FedEx or DHL actually be cheaper than USPS?

Sometimes, and that is the honest answer. On small, light, domestic parcels USPS often wins outright. The cases where the extra carriers pay for themselves are bulky boxes priced on dimensional weight, express commitments, and anything crossing a border — which is why rate-shopping per parcel beats picking a carrier once.

How do refunds work if I buy the wrong label?

Void the shipment and, after the carrier accepts the void, the credit goes back to your prepaid wallet balance, where it buys the next label. There is no card statement to reconcile and no refund to trace back through a payment processor.

Can I keep using Pirate Ship while I try this?

Yes, and it is the cheapest way to evaluate it. Neither tool charges you to keep an account open, so quote your next parcel in both, compare the all-in numbers, and only move the parcels where the wider carrier list actually wins.

Do I have to connect a store?

No. Store connectors, Shopify, Etsy, WooCommerce, eBay and Wix, sync into the To Ship queue and push tracking back when you print, but a connector is optional. Sellers who work out of DMs paste or screenshot the order and never connect anything.

Two more carriers. Same pay-per-label model.

A Pirate Ship alternative that adds FedEx and DHL

Four carriers, still no monthly fee.

GoatLabels keeps Pirate Ship's no-subscription model on Free (50 shipments a month) but adds FedEx to every domestic quote and DHL on international lanes, so shipments where FedEx or DHL is cheapest are no longer off the table.

Create your account Log in

Two carriers you had, two you didn't

USPS and UPS came with you. FedEx joins every domestic quote, and DHL quotes international lanes.

DHL: international

More quotes Not just two.

Quote = debit No day-after invoice.

Same via API Dashboard or endpoint.

Still funded from a wallet, still no subscription

Card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, ACH, or crypto: one prepaid balance on Free or Pro.

Prepaid Spent label by label.

No minimum A quiet month on Free costs nothing.

Accepted voids credited Back to the balance.

Carrier coverage

The gap is not the price. It's the carrier list .

Does Pirate Ship use FedEx? No. Pirate Ship offers USPS and UPS labels only; its rates page lists pre-negotiated UPS and USPS discounts and no FedEx service (checked October 23, 2026). GoatLabels quotes USPS, UPS and FedEx on domestic parcels (DHL on international lanes), with no monthly fee on Free (up to 50 shipments a month).

Pirate Ship is genuinely good at what it covers, and the reason people look for an alternative is almost never the billing model — it is the moment a parcel would have been cheaper or faster on FedEx or DHL and there was no way to find out.

	GoatLabels	Pirate Ship
Carriers rate-shopped	USPS (up to 70 lb), UPS and FedEx side by side on domestic parcels; DHL joins on international lanes.	USPS and UPS, the two carriers Pirate Ship sells.
What happens when FedEx wins	It shows up in the quote list and you buy it in the same click as any other label.	It doesn't come up, because FedEx isn't quoted at all.
Cost to keep the account open	None on Free (up to 50 shipments a month): fund a wallet, pay per label, ship nothing in February and pay nothing. Past 50 a month, Pro is $40 a month.	Also nothing — this is the part worth keeping, and we kept it.
How you fund labels	Card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, ACH bank transfer, or crypto into one prepaid balance.	Pay-as-you-go per label.
Getting an order into the tool	Store sync, API call, pasted DM, voice note, or a screenshot Billy reads.	Manual entry, CSV, or a store connection.
Programmatic access	Public REST API — rate, buy, void, track — free and unlimited on every plan.	No public API to build against.

Pirate Ship is a trademark of its owner and is not affiliated with GoatLabels. Their carrier lineup and rates change — check their current site before you decide.

Three parcels where the missing carriers cost you money.

The dimensional-weight parcel

A big, light box is priced on the space it occupies, and the carriers do not agree on how to charge for that. With two carriers you see two answers to that question. Add FedEx and you see another, and the spread on a bulky parcel is where the difference actually shows up.

The parcel that has to land tomorrow

Express is exactly the lane where FedEx and DHL compete hardest. If a buyer needs it overnight and your tool only quotes two carriers, you are not choosing the fastest cheap option — you are choosing between the two you happen to have.

The one going overseas

International is the clearest case of all: DHL and FedEx run their own cross-border networks, and a quote list without them is missing the services those networks were built for. Every quote sits on one screen, one all-in number each.

And when Pirate Ship is the right choice

Everything you ship is domestic USPS, and it is already the cheapest option on every parcel you send. FedEx cannot beat a carrier that already wins, and DHL quotes only international lanes.
You have a workflow you like, nobody on your team wants to learn a new dashboard, and no parcel has ever made you wish for a third quote.
You need a carrier neither of us rate-shops: our carriers are USPS, UPS and FedEx on domestic parcels and DHL on international lanes, and that is the honest list.

What Pirate Ship's own pages say, checked 2026-10-23

Its rates page lists pre-negotiated USPS and UPS discounts with no minimum volumes or commitments, and no FedEx or DHL services. (pirateship.com/rates)
For international parcels up to 20 lb it also sells Simple Export Rate: you hand the parcel to USPS on a domestic label addressed to an export sorting center, where it is relabeled for the recipient and tracked on the Asendia USA portal with an AHOY number. (Pirate Ship help: Simple Export Rate)
Its help center lists a 70 lb limit per USPS shipment and 150 lb per UPS shipment, except UPS Ground Saver at 70 lb. (Pirate Ship help: how shipping rates are calculated)
Pirate Ship's homepage says it has no monthly fees, markup or hidden costs, and that it is paid by the carriers, not by you. (pirateship.com)
It takes any credit or debit card, PayPal, Venmo or a linked bank account for ACH payments, charges only when you buy postage, and lets you preload an account balance. (Pirate Ship help: how do I pay for postage)
Its help center says Pirate Ship does not offer an API and points to its store integrations and spreadsheet uploads instead. (Pirate Ship help: does Pirate Ship have an API)

Checked on 2026-10-23 from Pirate Ship's own pages. Plans, fees and policies change, so confirm on the vendor's current page before you decide. Pirate Ship is a trademark of its owner and is not affiliated with GoatLabels.

Adding FedEx and DHL

The same pay-per-label workflow. With FedEx in the quote and DHL abroad.

Nothing about the pricing model changes: you fund a prepaid wallet with card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, ACH, or crypto, and each label is a debit against it, so on Free (up to 50 shipments a month) a month with no orders costs nothing. What changes is the middle step. Instead of comparing USPS against UPS and buying the better of two, every domestic parcel is quoted against UPS and FedEx at once, and against USPS up to 70 lb (DHL joins on international lanes), each as one all-in number that is exactly what leaves your balance. Orders arrive however they arrive — a store connector, an API call, a pasted DM, or a screenshot Billy reads — and print from your phone or a thermal printer when you confirm the draft.

Any order shape in

Store sync, API, DM, or screenshot

maya_boutique

Hey! 2x hoodies (M) 1x tee (L) 😅 Ship to: Maya R. Austin, TX 78701

Shopify

Synced into To Ship

Etsy

Synced into To Ship

DM screenshot

Order: #1847
Customer: Jordan Lee
Items: 1x Hoodie (L)
Address: Brooklyn, NY

Drop the screenshot or paste the DM

Connectors, REST API, DMs, and screenshots — one queue, no import mapping.

Billy AI

Rate-shopping across more than two carriers.

Reads a DM, comment thread, voice note, or screenshot
Fills the addresses and the package details
Quotes USPS, UPS and FedEx side by side, DHL on international lanes
Preselects whichever is cheapest for that parcel

Drafted. Checked. Yours to confirm.

Clean label out

Bought from the wallet

Paid from your prepaid balance

Card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, ACH, or crypto

$12.47

Label purchased

Cheapest quote, all-in rate

$12.47

No monthly fee on Free, up to 50 shipments a month. The winning carrier is whichever one won that parcel, not whichever one was available.

Where your orders actually come from.

Connectors for the storefronts, AI for everything else.

Shopify, Etsy, WooCommerce, eBay and Wix sync into To Ship and push tracking back when you print. Orders that never became a record, a DM, a comment, a screenshot, go through Billy instead, and either way the parcel gets quoted against every carrier that serves it before you buy.

Shopify

Etsy

WooCommerce

eBay

Wix

Connect a store Or use the API

What you keep, and the two carriers you gain.

Everything that made Pirate Ship worth using.
Plus the two carriers it does not sell.

The pay-per-label math, no monthly fee on Free (up to 50 shipments a month), and the plain workflow all came with you. What is new is the width of the quote: FedEx alongside USPS and UPS on domestic parcels and DHL on international lanes, plus AI drafting and a public API that had no equivalent before.

One prepaid wallet,
five ways to fund it

Card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, ACH bank transfer, and crypto all top up the same balance, and every method buys identical rates, carriers, and features. Void a shipment and, after the carrier accepts the void, the credit lands back in the wallet.

Wallet balance

$1,247.36 USD

AI drafting for orders
that are not JSON

A DM, a comment thread, a voice note, a screenshot: Billy reads any of them and drafts the whole label, then preselects the cheapest carrier for that parcel. Nothing to retype, nothing to map.

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...

No monthly fee
to print

Most of what you liked stays: no monthly fee on Free (50 shipments a month), fund the wallet, pay per label. Past 50, Pro is one flat monthly plan with unlimited shipments.

Shipment summary

UPS Ground $12.49

Insurance $0.75

Fuel surcharge $0.32

Total $13.56

USPS, UPS and FedEx
in one quote

USPS (up to 70 lb), UPS and FedEx as live all-in numbers on domestic parcels, DHL added on international lanes, and the one you pick is the exact amount that leaves your balance. FedEx and DHL are the reason this page exists: a bulky box, an overnight commitment, or an international leg is where they stop being theoretical. Shopify, Etsy, WooCommerce, eBay and Wix sync into To Ship and get tracking pushed 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

An API where there
wasn't one

REST and JSON, one Bearer header, idempotency keys so a retry cannot double-buy a label, and signed webhooks for tracking and label events instead of polling. The dashboard and the API buy from the same balance.

POST /v1/shipments

{

"to": { "name": "Maya" },

"from": { "name": "Alex" },

"service": "ups_ground",

"label_format": "pdf"

}

Webhook delivered

GoatLabels mobile shipments queue with all-in carrier prices

Billy drafting a label from a pasted DM on mobile

Label ready

CL-1038 · Brooklyn, NY

Every quote in your hand

The whole carrier comparison, on the phone at the packing table.

Comparing two carriers is something you can hold in your head. Comparing more is not, and it should not have to be: the phone does it, shows you the all-in prices on one screen, and buys the winner from the prepaid balance.

Paste the DM, snap the thread, or drop the screenshot — Billy pulls the name, the address, and the parcel out of it.

USPS, UPS and FedEx come back as all-in prices on one screen, DHL on international lanes, sorted cheapest first.

The winner is per parcel, not per account — a bulky box and a small box can go out on different carriers the same afternoon.

Buy from the prepaid balance and one-tap print to a share sheet or a thermal printer over Wi-Fi.

Hold the mic at the packing table and say the address — Billy drafts it and reads the rate back.

Ask which carrier won

Talk to Billy, not to a stack of rate tables.

Say who the parcel is going to and how big it is. Billy looks up the buyer, quotes USPS, UPS and FedEx (DHL on international lanes), tells you which one came out cheapest and by how much, and queues the label against your prepaid balance, then answers for it afterwards. This is the real product, not a render.

Billy reading back a parcel's tracking history over the purchased labels list

Listening

"Where's Maya's package?"

Out for delivery

CL-1039 · Austin, TX · by 6 PM

Plain English in: names, addresses, weights, carriers, services · every eligible carrier quoted · reads the all-in rate back before a cent leaves the wallet · phone, browser, or Telegram on Pro.

All-in quotes

Every quote, one all-in number each.

The same parcel priced by more than one carrier, each an all-in number that is exactly what leaves your prepaid balance. A carrier re-weigh posts as its own line on that shipment, and an accepted void credits the wallet rather than a card statement three weeks out.

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

No carrier invoice the day after Accepted void → credit back to the wallet you funded Multi-currency display

Public API v1

The carriers via API, not just via dashboard.

REST, JSON, one Bearer header. Rate the carriers, buy the winner, void it (the credit posts to the wallet after the carrier accepts the void), and get signed webhooks for tracking instead of polling. Free and unlimited on every plan, including the free one.

Create, rate-shop, and buy: three calls

Signed webhooks for tracking and label events instead of polling

Real idempotency keys — a retried request never buys two labels

OpenAPI 3.1 spec, no SDK lock-in, unlimited calls on every plan

Read the API docs Get an API key $0 on every plan

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 plan to clear first

No plan to clear first.

Free covers 50 shipments a month with all four carriers, the public API, the store connectors, and Billy unlimited underneath it — the quoted label price is what you pay from a prepaid wallet. Pro is a flat monthly fee for unlimited shipments. Neither one is a minimum you have to hit before a label prints, which is exactly the part of Pirate Ship worth keeping.

Pro

Free

$0 / forever

Everything the no-subscription model gave you, with four carriers behind it.

50 shipments a month, no monthly fee

UPS and FedEx on every domestic parcel, USPS up to 70 lb; DHL on international lanes

The full REST API with unlimited calls and signed webhooks

Billy AI in the web app, unlimited — paste, screenshot, or speak

Store connectors included: Shopify, Etsy, WooCommerce, eBay and Wix

Start free

Billy is not a paid tier

The assistant that reads a DM, a screenshot, or a voice note into a drafted label runs unlimited in the web app on Free. Pro adds Billy on Telegram.

Web, every plan

Telegram, Pro

API free on every plan

GET /api/v1/shipments

200 OK · plan: free

Unlimited calls on Free — still unlimited on Pro.

Bring the invoice you pay today

High-volume shippers can ask about custom pricing, which we review account by account. Compare it against what you pay on

ShippoPirate ShipShipStation

No contracts No monthly fee Free to sign up

Label prices are quoted live from USPS, UPS and FedEx (plus DHL on international lanes) and shown as one all-in number — the same number that leaves your wallet. Pirate Ship's rates and carrier lineup move, so compare against their current site rather than a figure on ours. Full pricing details

Who the extra carriers actually help

Not every Pirate Ship user needs four carriers.

If every parcel you send is small, domestic, and already cheapest on USPS, two carriers is a complete answer. These are the sellers for whom it is not.

Drop sellers with mixed parcel sizes

TikTok Shop & live commerce

Prepaid

A drop ships bubble mailers and bulky boxes in the same night, and those two shapes rarely win on the same carrier. Side-by-side quotes per parcel mean the split happens automatically instead of by rule of thumb.

carriers side by side no monthly fee bulk print

GoatLabels shipments queue with purchased labels

Shops shipping heavy or oversized goods

Etsy & independent creators

Weight and dimensions are where carriers diverge most, and FedEx and DHL price them differently enough to matter. Being able to see every answer is the whole point.

One queue, connector or not

Order #1024 · pasted from a comment thread

Sellers living in the DMs

The orders that never became JSON

got the dress! can you ship to Austin?

Label drafted · CL-1024

Devs who want the dashboard too

REST and the UI, one balance

wallet behind the API and the dashboard

Real sellers, real words

Sellers who stopped guessing which carrier was cheapest.

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

Pirate Ship alternative with FedEx and DHL — FAQ

Updated 2026-11-05

Does Pirate Ship support FedEx?: No. Pirate Ship sells USPS and UPS labels only, and its rates page lists no FedEx service (checked October 23, 2026). GoatLabels quotes USPS, UPS and FedEx on domestic parcels (DHL on international lanes), paid from a prepaid wallet.
Does GoatLabels support FedEx and DHL?: Yes. Every domestic parcel is quoted against UPS and FedEx at once, and against USPS up to 70 lb; DHL joins on international lanes; and each quote is a single all-in number that is exactly the amount debited from your prepaid wallet when you buy. You do not pick a carrier for the account — you pick the winner for that parcel, and it can be a different carrier on the next one.
Do I need my own FedEx or DHL account?: No. The carriers are available through GoatLabels directly, so there is nothing to negotiate or onboard before you can quote them. Create an account, fund the wallet, and USPS, UPS and FedEx quote your first domestic parcel; DHL joins on international lanes.
Is there a monthly fee like there wasn't on Pirate Ship?: Not on Free, which covers 50 shipments a month. You fund a prepaid wallet and pay per label, so a quiet month costs nothing at all, the same model you already run on. Past 50 shipments a month, Pro is one flat monthly plan with unlimited shipments.
Will FedEx or DHL actually be cheaper than USPS?: Sometimes, and that is the honest answer. On small, light, domestic parcels USPS often wins outright. The cases where the extra carriers pay for themselves are bulky boxes priced on dimensional weight, express commitments, and anything crossing a border — which is why rate-shopping per parcel beats picking a carrier once.
How do refunds work if I buy the wrong label?: Void the shipment and, after the carrier accepts the void, the credit goes back to your prepaid wallet balance, where it buys the next label. There is no card statement to reconcile and no refund to trace back through a payment processor.
Can I keep using Pirate Ship while I try this?: Yes, and it is the cheapest way to evaluate it. Neither tool charges you to keep an account open, so quote your next parcel in both, compare the all-in numbers, and only move the parcels where the wider carrier list actually wins.
Do I have to connect a store?: No. Store connectors, Shopify, Etsy, WooCommerce, eBay and Wix, sync into the To Ship queue and push tracking back when you print, but a connector is optional. Sellers who work out of DMs paste or screenshot the order and never connect anything.

Also weighing carriers? Read how multi-carrier rate shopping changes which label is cheapest, the international case, or the full GoatLabels vs Pirate Ship comparison. Ready to move? Here is the switch, step by step.

Quote one real parcel, side by side.

Keep the pay-per-label model.
Add the two missing carriers.

Fund a wallet with card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, ACH, or crypto, put in the next parcel you were about to ship, and see what USPS, UPS and FedEx each quote for it (DHL too, if it ships abroad).

Create your account Talk to us

No contract. No card required. No monthly fee on Free, up to 50 shipments a month.

A Pirate Ship alternative that adds FedEx and DHL

Two carriers you had, two you didn't

Still funded from a wallet, still no subscription

The gap is not the price. It's the carrier list .

Three parcels where the missing carriers cost you money.

The dimensional-weight parcel

The parcel that has to land tomorrow

The one going overseas

And when Pirate Ship is the right choice

What Pirate Ship's own pages say, checked 2026-10-23

The same pay-per-label workflow. With FedEx in the quote and DHL abroad.

Rate-shopping across more than two carriers.

Connectors for the storefronts, AI for everything else.

Everything that made Pirate Ship worth using. Plus the two carriers it does not sell.

One prepaid wallet, five ways to fund it

AI drafting for orders that are not JSON

No monthly fee to print

USPS, UPS and FedEx in one quote

An API where there wasn't one

The whole carrier comparison, on the phone at the packing table.

Talk to Billy, not to a stack of rate tables.

Every quote, one all-in number each.

USPS

UPS

FedEx

The carriers via API, not just via dashboard.

No plan to clear first.

Pro

Free

Billy is not a paid tier

API free on every plan

Bring the invoice you pay today

Not every Pirate Ship user needs four carriers.

Drop sellers with mixed parcel sizes

Shops shipping heavy or oversized goods

Sellers living in the DMs

Devs who want the dashboard too

Sellers who stopped guessing which carrier was cheapest.

Pirate Ship alternative with FedEx and DHL — FAQ

Keep the pay-per-label model. Add the two missing carriers.

Everything that made Pirate Ship worth using.
Plus the two carriers it does not sell.

One prepaid wallet,
five ways to fund it

AI drafting for orders
that are not JSON

No monthly fee
to print

USPS, UPS and FedEx
in one quote

An API where there
wasn't one

Keep the pay-per-label model.
Add the two missing carriers.