USPS
Ground Advantage
2–5 days$7.40
$1.20 of Premium insurance included
all-in · tracked, with the number ready to paste
Flat bands average. Live rates weigh.
Check the band against a live quote.
Shipping labels for Depop sellers
Check the band against a live quote.
US Depop sellers choose per listing: Depop's prepaid label, priced in flat weight bands, or shipping on your own with live rates and mandatory tracking on the sale. Flat bands overprice parcels sitting just under a band's ceiling; live quotes track actual weight. The comparison is checkable on your own parcel.
Four live quotes, priced on your ounces
USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL priced on the parcel's actual weight and size — light apparel parcels are exactly where the four diverge most.
tracked services Weighed, not banded Ounces set the price.
Address validated The receipt address, checked.
All-in price Nothing added at buy.
A wallet for a shop that sells in bursts
Card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, ACH, or crypto fund one prepaid balance — spent per label, with nothing owed in the week nothing sells.
Prepaid balance Label by label.
No subscription Quiet weeks cost zero.
Void to wallet Wrong buys come back.
How Depop's prepaid label bands price a parcel
Depop's prepaid US labels price by band, not by scale reading. When you list, you pick a size class; when the item sells, the label costs whatever that whole band costs, and every parcel inside the band pays the same. That is a step function, and step functions have a predictable shape: they are kindest to a parcel sitting just over the previous ceiling and cruelest to one sitting just under its own. A featherweight slip dress and a chunky knit can land in the same band and pay the same postage, even though a live carrier quote would price them far apart. The band is not a discount and not a markup — it is an average, and averages are always subsidised by somebody.
The seller-side consequence is that band pricing punishes exactly the inventory fashion resale is made of: light, soft goods that compress into small mailers. A live rate slides down with the ounces; a band cannot. Whether your parcels sit on the expensive side of their band is not something this page can know — but it is checkable in about a minute. Weigh a typical sold item in its mailer, get a live quote for it, and put that number against the band price you have been paying. Repeat for your two or three usual parcel shapes and you have an answer that is about your shop, not about averages.
Ship on Your Own: what Depop requires from you
Depop's other path is shipping on your own, chosen per listing, and it swaps convenience for obligations that are easy to underestimate. The parcel must go to the address on the Depop receipt — not a corrected version the buyer messaged you afterwards. The shipment must be tracked, and the tracking number must be entered against the sale so Depop can see movement; an own-label sale with no tracking on it is, from the platform's point of view, a sale that never shipped. And the clock matters: Depop expects dispatch within its stated window, and slow or invisible shipping is what triggers disputes, not the label's logo.
None of these requirements is onerous if the workflow assumes them. A live quote across USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL comes back with tracking included on every service worth using, the address from the receipt is validated before you pay — with the residential or commercial classification shown — and the tracking number exists the moment the label does. The only genuinely manual step Depop leaves you is pasting that number back onto the sale, and no outside tool can do that for you.
Policy reference — Depop sets these rules, we do not. Band boundaries, band prices, dispatch windows, and protection conditions are Depop's to change, and this page deliberately prints none of those figures anywhere: they are the parts that rot fastest, and the third-party articles quoting them disagree with each other. The governing source is Depop's own Help Centre articles on shipping and seller protection. Mechanisms above verified against those articles on 2026-08-15; re-checked every six months by the named marketing owner recorded with this page.
What protection follows which label
Protection is where the two paths genuinely differ, and the difference is about evidence, not loyalty. Depop's seller protection is conditional on the platform being able to see what happened: a sale shipped to the address on the receipt, with tracking that shows the journey, inside the expected window. The prepaid label satisfies those conditions automatically, because Depop issued it and watches it. An own label satisfies them only if you do — which is why the tracking-paste step from the previous section is not admin, it is your protection coverage being switched on.
So read the choice honestly. If a sale goes wrong — item not received, a dispute, a payment reversal — the seller with a tracked own-label shipment to the receipt address is standing on the same evidence as the seller with a prepaid label. The seller who shipped untracked to be frugal, or shipped to a DM-corrected address to be kind, is standing on nothing. The savings from a better label price are real, but they are only durable if the own-label path is run with the same discipline the prepaid path enforces for you.
Getting a Depop sale into a label without a connector
There is no Depop connector — store sync covers Shopify, Etsy, WooCommerce, and TikTok Shop only, and this page will not pretend otherwise. The Depop-shaped workflow is copy-out, paste-in: open the sold receipt, copy the buyer and address block, and paste it into GoatLabels, where Billy drafts the label and the address is validated before any money moves — the full paste-and-draft workflow is the AI shipping labels page's territory. The parcel then gets four live quotes, and light apparel parcels are precisely where the four carriers disagree most; the cheapest ground services comparison owns the question of where each carrier's cheap tier actually wins, so the crossover is not re-derived here.
Buy the winner from the prepaid wallet, print the 4×6, and paste the tracking number back onto the Depop sale before the parcel leaves your hands — that last step is the one Depop grades you on. A wrong buy is recoverable: voiding the label credits the wallet, spendable on the corrected one immediately.
Depop is a trademark of its owner and is not affiliated with GoatLabels. Its label bands, windows, and protection terms are its own and change — check Depop's Help Centre for today's specifics.
One Ship on Your Own sale, end to end
From the sold receipt to tracking on the Depop sale.
Shipping on your own is the same loop as any other sale with three obligations bolted to it: the receipt address, a tracked service, and the number entered back on the sale. This is that loop in the order it happens — copy the receipt block, let Billy draft and validate, price the parcel's real ounces against three carriers, pay from one prepaid balance, and hand the tracking number back to Depop yourself.
1
The sale as Depop shows it
Receipt address, real ounces
depop buyer
bought the corduroy jacket — shipping to Providence, RI 02903
Shopify
Synced order — same queue
TikTok Shop
Synced order — same wallet
Depop sold receipt
- Ship to
- The receipt address, not a DM
- Parcel
- Weighed in the mailer it ships in
- Service
- Tracked — the platform grades this
- Tracking
- Entered on the sale by you
Paste the buyer and address block from the sold receipt
There is no Depop connector, so nothing lands in a queue by itself. Copy the address block out of the sold receipt — and weigh the parcel in its mailer, because the size class you picked at listing time was a guess and the scale is not.
2 Billy AI
Reading the receipt, checking the address you owe.
- Pulls the buyer and the ship-to out of a pasted sold receipt
- Validates that receipt address before money moves, with a residential or commercial badge
- Prices the parcel's actual ounces instead of the size class you chose when you listed it
- Included on every plan, so a three-sale weekend costs nothing extra to draft
Receipt address validated. Three quotes ready.
3
One tracked label out
Then the number goes on the sale
Paid from the prepaid wallet
Card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, ACH, or crypto
all-in
Tracked label purchased
Bought on the day it actually goes
all-in
Paste the tracking number onto the Depop sale before the parcel leaves your hands. Nothing writes back for you, and an own-label sale with no tracking on it looks unshipped to the platform — which is where disputes come from.
Depop is not on this grid, and this page will not imply it is
No Depop connector. The sold receipt is the handoff.
Store sync covers Shopify, Etsy, WooCommerce, TikTok Shop, Amazon, eBay, Squarespace, Wix, Walmart, Square, BigCommerce, Magento, and Temu — thirteen storefronts whose orders land in one To Ship queue with tracking pushed back on print. Depop is on none of them. A Depop sale reaches a label the way any unconnected order does: copy the buyer and address block out of the sold receipt, paste it, and put the tracking number back on the sale yourself.
Via AItiles: paste the receipt block or a screenshot and Billy builds the label — the same path a Depop sale takes, because no connector exists for it.
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Wix 
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Zoho Inventory Soon Built for the own-label path Everything Depop asks of an own label,
Everything Depop asks of an own label,
already in the flow.
Ship on Your Own is a set of obligations: the receipt address, a tracked service, movement Depop can see. Each piece below exists so meeting them is the default rather than a discipline.
Postage money that waits
between sales
Resale is bursty: three sales on a good weekend, silence for a week. One prepaid balance funded by card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, ACH, or crypto spends per label with no monthly minimum to print — so the quiet week costs nothing, and the band price is compared against postage alone, not postage plus a subscription.
Wallet balance
$1,247.36 USD
AI
Paste the receipt,
skip the retyping
Copy the buyer and address block from the sold receipt and Billy drafts the label from the paste — validated against the receipt address before you pay, because Depop's protection follows that address and not the one corrected in a DM afterwards.
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...
A price that answers
the band question
Each carrier returns one all-in number for the parcel's real ounces, and that exact amount leaves the wallet. Put it next to the band price you have been paying and the prepaid-vs-own-label question stops being folklore — it becomes arithmetic on your own inventory.
Shipment summary
UPS Ground $12.49
Insurance $0.75
Fuel surcharge $0.32
Total $13.56
Four carriers on parcels
where carriers disagree
Light, soft, compressible parcels are where USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL diverge most, so a default carrier costs the most exactly where fashion resale lives. Quoting all four per sale means the winner is chosen by the parcel, not by habit.
Compare rates
UPS $12.48 FedEx $13.22 DHL $14.10 USPS $11.79
Duties & taxes paid
Tracked services,
so the number exists
Every service worth buying here carries tracking, and the number exists the moment the label does — ready to paste back onto the Depop sale, which is the one step the platform grades you on and the one no outside tool can do for you.
POST /v1/shipments
{
"to": { "name": "Maya" },
"from": { "name": "Alex" },
"service": "ups_ground",
"label_format": "pdf"
}
Webhook delivered
Label ready
Tracked service · paste the number on the sale
Sold on a phone, shipped from one
Depop lives on your phone. The label can too.
A Depop shop is run from a couch, a thrift aisle, and a post office queue. The whole own-label loop — paste, quote, buy, print — fits on the phone the sale happened on, so shipping on your own does not mean shipping from a desk.
Copy the buyer and address block from the sold receipt and paste it — Billy drafts the label.
The receipt address is validated before you pay, with a residential or commercial badge on it.
USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL come back as four all-in prices for the parcel's actual ounces.
Buy from the prepaid balance and print the 4×6 — then paste the tracking number back on the sale.
Grabbed the wrong mailer weight? Void the label and the credit is back in the wallet for the rebuy.
Billy is included, not a resale-tier extra
Ask where a sale got to without unpacking the pile.
A resale shop runs in bursts: three sales, one evening, a table covered in mailers. Ask out loud which parcel a buyer is chasing and Billy finds the shipment and reads the tracking status back, so the reply you owe takes a sentence instead of a search. Included on every plan, which matters when the entire point is to compare a live rate against a band with no subscription sitting in between. This is the real product, not a render.
goatlabels.io/dashboard/shipments — Billy
Listening
"Where's the corduroy jacket?"
Out for delivery
Providence, RI · scanned this morning
Speaks plain English · remembers repeat buyers and saved mailer sizes · included on every plan, never a pricier tier.
Live rates
A size class is a guess. A scale reading is not.
A banded prepaid label charges the whole band, so a soft, compressible piece sitting low in its class pays for ounces it does not have. Three carriers priced against the same weighed mailer give you one all-in number each, and the column you pick is exactly what leaves the prepaid balance — the figure to put next to the band price on your own sale. Figures are illustrative.
Denver, CO → Austin, TX 1.4 lb 10×7×4 in
Cheapest for this parcel
UPS
Ground
3–4 days$10.80
$1.20 of Premium insurance included
all-in · tracked, with the number ready to paste
FedEx
Home Delivery
2–4 days$11.40
$1.20 of Premium insurance included
all-in · tracked, with the number ready to paste
No carrier invoice the day after Void → credit straight back to your wallet Tracked services, so the sale keeps its evidence
Public API v1
For the closet that became a cross-listed inventory.
Most Depop sellers will never open this section, and should not have to. It is here, free, for the resellers running hundreds of listings across several apps out of one spreadsheet — because finding out later that your shipping tool charges for an API is a migration nobody wants to do twice.
REST and JSON over one Bearer header — no SDK lock-in, OpenAPI 3.1 spec
Signed webhooks for tracking events, so the number the sale needs arrives on its own
Real idempotency keys, so a retried sale never buys a second label
Unlimited calls on every plan, Free included
Read the API docs Get a free API key $0 on every plan
curl https://api.goatlabels.io/api/v1/shipments
201 Created · 187ms 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"
}
Pricing that keeps the band comparison honest
Pay per label. Never per quiet week.
A subscription would quietly rig the comparison this whole page is about: a monthly fee has to be recovered across however many sales happened, which moves the crossover against the own-label path before a single parcel is weighed. Free covers a typical resale shop outright, so the number you put next to Depop's band is postage and nothing else.
Pro
Most popular $40 / month
Unlimited shipments — for the month the whole rail sells
Cheaper label pricing as your sales volume grows
Billy AI on Telegram — check a sale's tracking without opening the app
API access still free and unlimited
Volume pricing
illustrative less volume more volume
more sales → lower per-label rates
Free
$0 / forever
Three sales on a good weekend, silence for a week, and nothing owed for the silence.
50 shipments a month, no monthly minimum to print
USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL rate-shopped on the parcel's actual ounces
Tracked services throughout, so the number exists the moment the label does
Billy AI in the web app — paste the sold receipt, unlimited use
REST API with unlimited calls; fund by card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, ACH, or crypto
Billy is not an upsell
The assistant that turns a pasted Depop receipt into a validated draft label runs on Free, unlimited, in the web app on the phone the sale happened on. 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.
We'll beat your current rates
Bring your invoice — on Pro we work with you to beat the rates you're getting from
ShippoPirateShipShipStation No contracts No monthly minimum to print Start in seconds
Label prices are quoted live from USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL as one all-in number, and that exact amount leaves the prepaid balance. Depop's own band pricing is Depop's — take today's figures from its Help Centre and set them beside a quote. Full pricing details
Where a size class costs a resale shop the most
Four rails, and the one a band overprices.
Depop inventory is not one shape. These are the four it usually comes in, and which label wins is decided by the parcel rather than by the platform.
Light, soft, compressible pieces
Slip dresses, tees, silk scarves
The clearest case for buying your own label: a size class charges the whole band, and a garment that compresses into a small mailer is paying for ounces it does not have. Weigh it in the mailer and the difference becomes a number before you commit.
3 carriers on one weighed parcel priced on ounces, not a class tracked services throughout
goatlabels.io/dashboard/shipments
Chunky knits and heavy denim
The pieces that cleared into the next class
Sometimes repackaging is the cheaper fix and sometimes the band was already the better deal. Weigh it packed, quote it live, and let the arithmetic answer instead of the folklore in your saved posts.
Weighed in its mailer
Mailer, tissue, and the thank-you card all count
Sellers whose grid is the shop window
Cross-posted, sold wherever it goes first
still have the corduroy jacket from your story?
Receipt address validated · tracked label bought
Resellers listing across several apps
Depop plus a shop of your own
1
prepaid balance and one queue behind every app you list on
Depop shipping labels — FAQ
- How do Depop's prepaid label weight bands work?
- You choose a size class at listing time, and the label price is the band's price — every parcel inside the band pays the same regardless of its exact weight. That averaging overprices parcels sitting just under a band's ceiling and flatters ones just over the previous ceiling. The current band boundaries and prices live in Depop's Help Centre, which is the only source worth trusting for them.
- When does shipping on my own beat a Depop label?
- When a live quote for your actual parcel beats the band price you would otherwise pay — which is most likely on light, compressible items sitting low in their band, and least likely on parcels that just cleared into a new band. There is no universal answer: weigh a typical sold item, quote it live across four carriers, and compare against the band. The comparison takes a minute and is specific to your shop.
- What tracking does Depop require for own-label sales?
- A tracked service, shipped to the address on the Depop receipt, with the tracking number entered against the sale so Depop can see the parcel move. An own-label sale without tracking on it looks unshipped to the platform, which is how disputes start. Every worthwhile service quoted here includes tracking, so the requirement costs nothing — the only manual step is pasting the number back onto the sale.
- Does buyer protection change when I use my own label?
- The conditions stay, but meeting them becomes your job. Protection turns on evidence: tracked shipping, to the receipt address, in the expected window. A prepaid label satisfies that automatically; an own label satisfies it when you run the same discipline yourself. Ship untracked or ship to an address the buyer corrected in a DM, and you are outside the conditions — the current terms live in Depop's Help Centre.
- Does GoatLabels connect to Depop?
- No — there is no Depop connector, and Depop requires the tracking number to be entered on the sale yourself either way. Copy the address block from the sold receipt, paste it here, and Billy drafts the label with the address validated before you pay. Buy from the prepaid wallet, then paste the tracking number back onto the Depop sale. Sync is reserved for Shopify, Etsy, WooCommerce, and TikTok Shop.
Related: Mercari labels vs Ship on Your Own, the cheapest ground services compared, AI shipping labels, and what makes a label cheap.
Real sellers, real words
What sellers say once the scale sets the price.
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
One minute settles the band question.
Weigh one sold item.
Quote it four ways.
Put a live all-in price against the band you have been paying, on your own parcel — then ship on your own with the receipt address validated and tracking ready to paste back.
Sign up in seconds. No card required. No monthly minimum to print — Depop sets its own rules, and this page tells you where to check them.