What do I give up by not paying a subscription?

On Free you keep the label workflow: USPS, UPS and FedEx on every domestic parcel with DHL on international lanes, 13 store connectors, bulk CSV import, the To Ship queue, browser printing, the REST label API and the AI assistant in the web app, for up to 50 shipments a month. Pro ($40 a month) adds unlimited shipments, Billy on Telegram, unlimited address validation and PrintNode auto-print. Neither plan includes inventory or warehouse management, which some subscription tools bundle.

Is there a per-label platform fee instead?

The amount debited from the wallet is the all-in carrier rate you accepted on screen. There is no monthly fee on Free (up to 50 shipments a month) and no separate platform charge added between the quote and the debit.

Do I have to prepay a large amount?

No. You choose how much to fund, and the balance only goes down when you print a label. A wallet you stop using simply keeps its balance.

Which countries can I ship from?

US and Singapore origins. From the US, USPS, UPS and FedEx are rate-shopped side by side on every domestic parcel, with DHL on international lanes; from Singapore, UPS, FedEx, SingPost and other local couriers quote.

No fee on Free. Just labels.

Shipping labels without a monthly subscription

Fund a wallet, print a label, done.

You can buy shipping labels without a monthly subscription by funding a prepaid wallet and paying the carrier rate per label, with USPS, UPS and FedEx quoted side by side (DHL on international lanes) and no plan fee on Free, which covers 50 shipments a month.

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USPS, UPS and FedEx on every domestic parcel

USPS, UPS and FedEx quoted side by side on every domestic order in the queue; DHL joins on international lanes.

DHL: international

Live quotes One all-in price each.

No monthly fee on Free, up to 50 a month Pay per label, nothing per month.

13 connectors One To Ship queue.

A wallet, not a plan tier

Top up a prepaid wallet with the amount you choose and spend it label by label at the carrier rate.

Prepaid Spent label by label.

No minimum A slow month on Free costs nothing.

Pay-as-you-go No monthly fee on Free, up to 50 shipments a month.

No subscription, side by side

How to get labels with no subscription and keep the tools.

To buy shipping labels without a monthly subscription, fund a prepaid wallet and pay the carrier rate per label, with USPS, UPS and FedEx quoted side by side (DHL on international lanes) and no plan fee on Free, which covers 50 shipments a month. The usual worry is that dropping the subscription drops the features too. The table below shows what stays.

	GoatLabels	Subscription tools
Monthly subscription	None on Free (up to 50 shipments a month); past that, Pro is a flat $40 a month.	A plan tier chosen before the first label.
How a label is paid for	Debited from a prepaid wallet at the carrier rate quoted on screen.	Charged on top of, or inside, the plan; some add a per-label fee too.
Carriers	USPS, UPS and FedEx side by side, DHL abroad.	Varies by tool and sometimes by tier.
Store sync	13 connectors, including Shopify, Amazon, eBay, TikTok Shop, Etsy, and Walmart.	Store count is a common tier boundary.
Bulk and automation	Bulk CSV import, one To Ship queue, browser printing (PrintNode auto-print on Pro).	Often reserved for mid or upper tiers.
API	REST label API on every account.	Frequently a higher tier or a separate product.

Subscription tools are described here in general terms. Plans, fees, and carrier lists change — compare against each tool's current pricing page before you decide.

Updated 2026-09-11

Three things people expect to lose without a subscription, and do not.

Store sync

The assumption is that connectors are what the plan pays for. On GoatLabels all 13 connectors, from Shopify and WooCommerce to TikTok Shop, Etsy, Walmart, and Temu, feed the same To Ship queue on a wallet-funded account with no monthly fee on Free, up to 50 shipments a month.

The API and automation

Developers expect the API to sit behind a tier. The REST label API, bulk CSV import, and browser printing are all available without a subscription; PrintNode auto-print comes with Pro.

Help drafting the label

The AI assistant that reads a pasted message or a screenshot and drafts the label is not a premium add-on. It is part of the same Free account, alongside rate shopping across USPS, UPS and FedEx on every domestic parcel, with DHL on international lanes.

And when a subscription is the better deal

You ship high, steady volume every month and a subscription tool's negotiated rates beat the carrier rates you would pay per label. Their current pricing page is the place to check.
You need more than labels: inventory, warehouse management, or a returns portal that comes bundled with a plan.
Your team is settled in a subscription tool and the workflow is working. Nothing on this page is a reason to break something that is not broken.

Orders end to end

Sync the stores. Handle the rest too.

Connect any of the 13 live connectors — Shopify, WooCommerce, Amazon, eBay, TikTok Shop, Etsy, Walmart, BigCommerce, Squarespace, Wix, Square, Magento, and Temu — and orders land in one To Ship queue. Import a spreadsheet in bulk by CSV, paste a message, or drop in a screenshot, and the AI assistant drafts the recipient, the parcel, and the service for you to confirm. Every label is a pay-as-you-go debit against a prepaid wallet with no monthly fee on Free (up to 50 shipments a month), and the quote you accepted for USPS, UPS, FedEx, or DHL is the exact amount that leaves the balance.

Orders from anywhere

Store sync, CSV, message, or screenshot

maya_boutique

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

Shopify

Synced into To Ship

TikTok Shop

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

13 connectors, bulk CSV import, DMs, and screenshots — one queue.

Billy AI

Drafting the order no feed carries.

Reads a message, a voice note, or a screenshot
Fills in the buyer, the address, and the parcel details
Rate-shops USPS, UPS and FedEx at the all-in price, DHL on international lanes
Hands the drafted label back for you to confirm

Drafted. Checked. Yours to confirm.

Clean label out

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 — all-in rate

$12.47

No monthly fee on Free (up to 50 shipments a month) and no minimum to print. Browser printing (PrintNode auto-print on Pro).

Where orders actually come from.

13 connectors for the stores, AI for the messages.

Shopify, WooCommerce, Amazon, eBay, TikTok Shop, Etsy, Walmart, BigCommerce, Squarespace, Wix, Square, Magento, and Temu sync into one To Ship queue. The orders that never became a record — the custom request agreed in messages, the repeat buyer who asked by text — go into the same queue by paste or screenshot, without a connector existing for them at all.

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

Patreon

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Connect a store Or use the API

What sellers without a plan keep, and what they stop paying for.

Everything you had before.
Without a monthly fee.

Leaving a subscription tool 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 on Free, up to 50 shipments a month, and what is new is an assistant that turns a message into a drafted label.

One prepaid wallet,
pay-as-you-go

Top up the wallet with the amount you choose and every label is debited at the carrier rate quoted on screen. Free has no monthly fee and covers 50 shipments a month, so a slow month costs nothing and the balance waits for the next order.

Wallet balance

$1,247.36 USD

AI drafting for orders
that are not JSON

A message or a screenshot is not a structured order. The AI assistant reads it and drafts the whole label from it — recipient, parcel, and service — for you to confirm. For a shop that sells through conversations, that is most of the week.

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
on Free

Fund the wallet, pay the carrier rate per label, and ship nothing in a quiet month without paying for the quiet month. Free covers 50 shipments a month; past that, Pro is one flat monthly plan.

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 all-in rates from USPS, UPS and FedEx side by side on every domestic parcel from a US origin, DHL on international lanes; Singapore origins quote UPS, FedEx and local couriers. The number on screen is the exact amount that leaves your balance. That is the honest carrier list; if you need one outside it, that is a fair reason to stay where you are.

Compare rates

UPS $12.48

FedEx $13.22

DHL $14.10

USPS $11.79

Duties inside the quote where DDP applies

The API you did not
want to give up

A REST label API with JSON in and out, so the queue, the bulk CSV import, and your own code all buy labels from the same prepaid wallet. Nothing about it sits behind a subscription.

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

The packing table, not the desk

A message is a valid order input.

Most tools expect the order to already exist somewhere they can read. When a buyer messages instead, you become the integration. GoatLabels takes the message itself, on the phone that is already next to the tape gun.

Paste the message or drop a screenshot — the AI assistant pulls out the buyer, the address, and the parcel.

No CSV export and no import mapping: the message is the order record.

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

Buy from the prepaid balance and print from the browser (PrintNode auto-print on Pro).

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

Hands full of packing tape

Talk to Billy, not to an import screen.

Packing is a two-hands job, and most software's answer is a form. Hold the mic, say who it is going to, and Billy looks up the buyer, rate-shops USPS, UPS and FedEx (DHL on international lanes), and queues the label against your prepaid balance, then answers for it afterwards when the buyer asks where the parcel is. 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 · nothing to import and nothing to map · reads the all-in rate back before a cent leaves the wallet · phone, browser, or Telegram on Pro.

All-in quotes

The quote is the debit.

Three carriers on the same parcel, each an all-in number that is the exact amount leaving your prepaid balance. No monthly fee sits underneath it on Free, up to 50 shipments a month. Figures are illustrative.

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 Pay-as-you-go from the wallet you funded Multi-currency display

Public API v1

A REST label API on every account.

Create, rate-shop, and buy in a few REST calls with JSON in and out. The dashboard, the bulk CSV import, and the API all spend from the same prepaid wallet, and none of them sit behind a subscription.

Create, rate-shop, and buy — three calls, no SDK required

USPS, UPS and FedEx quoted in one response, DHL on international lanes

The same prepaid wallet as the dashboard and the CSV import

Available on every account, Free and Pro alike

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 }
}

Two plans, one wallet

Free for 50 a month, then one flat plan.

Pay-as-you-go labels from a prepaid wallet: fund it and print at the carrier rate, with no monthly fee on Free for up to 50 shipments a month. The 13 store connectors, bulk CSV import, the REST label API, and the AI assistant come with the account rather than with a tier. Past 50 a month, Pro is one flat $40 monthly plan with unlimited shipments.

Pro

Free

$0 / forever

Enough to run a shop through a slow season without a subscription under it.

Pay-as-you-go labels, no monthly fee on Free (up to 50 shipments a month), no minimum to print

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

The REST label API and bulk CSV import

The AI assistant that drafts labels from a message or a screenshot

13 store connectors into one To Ship queue

Start free

Billy is not a paid tier

The assistant that reads a message or a screenshot into a drafted label comes with the account. Pro adds Billy on Telegram.

Web, every plan

Telegram, Pro

API on every plan

GET /api/v1/shipments

200 OK · plan: free

The REST label API is not gated by tier.

Bring the invoice you pay today

On Pro we will work with you to beat the label rates you are already getting from

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 all-in number — the same number that leaves your wallet. Other tools' plans and fees move, so compare against their current pricing page rather than a figure on ours. Full pricing details

Who this actually suits

Not everyone should move.

These are the sellers for whom pay-as-you-go labels, the shared queue, and the AI drafting add up to a real difference. The ones who should stay put are named on this page too.

Seasonal and launch-driven shops

Q4 rush, quiet spring

Prepaid

Volume that arrives in bursts fits a prepaid wallet better than a subscription. Pre-fund before the rush and print all night; on Free (up to 50 shipments a month) the quiet months after cost nothing.

4 carriers in one account no monthly fee bulk CSV import

GoatLabels shipments queue with purchased labels

Shops on more than one channel

13 connectors, one queue

Connect the storefronts that have connectors, and handle the market-stall sale, the wholesale enquiry, and the friend-of-a-friend order in the same queue as everything else.

One queue, connector or not

Order #1024 · pasted from a comment thread

Made-to-order sellers living in messages

The orders that never became JSON

got the dress! can you ship to Austin?

Label drafted · CL-1024

Teams with a developer on call

REST and the dashboard, one balance

wallet behind the API and the dashboard

Real sellers, real words

Sellers who stopped paying for months they did not ship.

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