USPS
Priority Mail Intl
10–15 days$18.30
$10.00 of taxes & duties included
all-in · no surprises
Built for one big fulfillment wave.
Ship the wave. Then stop paying.
A ShipStation alternative for one-off crowdfunding batches
Ship the wave. Then stop paying.
For a single fulfillment wave, GoatLabels beats a ShipStation subscription: upload a CSV, rate-shop every parcel across four carriers, pay from a wallet, then walk away with no recurring fee.
Every backer parcel quoted four ways
USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL on each row of the CSV — mixed reward tiers land on different carriers.
all quoted Bulk CSV The whole backer list.
Four quotes Per parcel, not per batch.
Quote = debit No day-after invoice.
Top the wallet up once, spend it down
Card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, ACH, or crypto — one prepaid balance, and no plan running after it.
Pre-funded Budget the whole wave.
No recurring fee Quiet months cost nothing.
Voids credited Back to the balance.
One wave, side by side
Fulfilling a campaign is a burst, not a business.
Shipping software is priced for shops that ship every week. A campaign ships everything in a fortnight and then nothing for a year, which makes the interesting comparison not features but the shape of the bill either side of the wave.
| GoatLabels | ShipStation | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost shape for one wave | Fund a wallet once, spend it on labels, stop. Nothing recurs after the last parcel. | A monthly subscription that keeps running after fulfillment ends unless you remember to cancel. |
| Getting the backer list in | Upload the CSV your campaign platform exported and rate-shop every row. | CSV import and store sync, shaped by the plan you are on. |
| Address changes before shipping | Edit in the queue, or paste the backer's message and let Billy redraft the label. | Edit in the order record and re-run the automation rules. |
| Carriers per parcel | USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL quoted together — useful when a reward tier changes the box size. | Broad carrier list — see their site for current coverage. |
| International backers | Quoted with duties handled up front, so the number you see is the number that leaves the balance. | International supported; check their current terms. |
| What happens after the wave | Nothing. The account goes quiet and costs nothing until the next campaign. | The plan keeps billing until cancelled. |
ShipStation is a trademark of its owner and is not affiliated with GoatLabels. Their plans and carrier list change — compare against their current pricing page before you decide.
Three reasons campaigns ship here.
One wave is the worst possible fit for a subscription
Crowdfunding volume is a spike with a year of silence on either side. A monthly plan prices the silence too: you sign up to ship the wave, then keep paying while nothing moves, or you cancel and lose the setup you just did.
Pre-fund once, then spend down
A prepaid wallet matches how campaign money actually arrives — a lump sum you are budgeting against. Top it up before the wave, watch it draw down label by label, and know that whatever is left when the last parcel goes out is still yours.
Backer messages are not order records
Every campaign generates a pile of address corrections, split shipments, and replacement requests arriving as email and comments. Paste the message and Billy drafts the corrected label, rather than you re-keying it into a form between packing runs.
And when ShipStation is the right choice
- You need a carrier GoatLabels does not rate-shop — we quote USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL, and that is the honest list.
- You are handing the wave to a fulfillment partner who already works inside ShipStation. Do not make them learn a new tool for your campaign.
- The campaign is the start of an ongoing product with warehouse operations behind it — at that point you are choosing shipping software, not fulfilling one batch.
From backer survey to printed stack
Upload the list. Rate-shop every row. Print the whole wave.
Fulfillment day is one long batch, so the tool should behave like a batch. Export the backer addresses from your campaign platform, upload the CSV, and every row is quoted against USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL at the all-in price — mixed reward tiers end up on whichever carrier is cheapest for that box rather than whichever one the tool defaults to. Buy from a wallet you funded once, print the stack, and let the corrections that arrive afterwards go through Billy instead of back through a spreadsheet. When the last parcel is out, nothing recurs.
1
The backer list in
CSV export, API, or a pasted correction
backer_4182
Hi! I moved since the survey — please ship to: J. Okafor, Portland, OR 97209
Shopify
Post-campaign pre-orders
TikTok Shop
Synced into To Ship
CSV row
- Backer
- #4182
- Tier
- Deluxe box
- Items
- 1x Kit + 2x Pin
- Address
- Portland, OR
Drop the backer CSV or paste the correction
One queue for the batch and for the messages that arrive after it — no second import mapping.
2 Billy AI
Address corrections without reopening the spreadsheet.
- Reads a pasted backer email, comment, or screenshot
- Fills the corrected address and the package details
- Rate-shops USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL at the all-in price
- Hands the drafted label back for you to confirm
Drafted. Checked. Yours to confirm.
3
Clean label out
Bought from the wallet
Paid from your prepaid balance
Card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, ACH, or crypto
$12.47
Label purchased
USPS Priority Mail — all-in rate
$12.47
Bulk print the stack, and void a mistake straight back into the balance you funded.
After the campaign, if there is an after.
Connectors for the storefronts, AI for everything else.
Plenty of campaigns turn into a small shop, so Shopify, Etsy, WooCommerce, and TikTok Shop sync into the same To Ship queue and push tracking back when you print. But nothing requires it — a CSV of backers and a pile of correction emails is a complete workflow on its own.
Via AI tiles: an order that never became a record still becomes a label.
13 connected today 2 via AI 8 coming soon
Connected today 13 storefronts sync to To Ship
Shopify 
Etsy 
WooCommerce 
TikTok Shop 
Amazon 
eBay 
Squarespace 
Wix 
Walmart 
Square 
BigCommerce 
Magento 
Temu Coming soon Shopify Plus Soon 
Zapier Soon 
NetSuite Soon 
Ecwid Soon 
Shein Soon 
ChannelAdvisor Soon 
SkuVault Soon 
Zoho Inventory Soon
Shopify Plus Soon Zapier Soon NetSuite Soon Ecwid Soon Shein Soon ChannelAdvisor Soon SkuVault Soon Zoho Inventory Soon What a fulfillment wave actually needs. Bulk labels, four carriers, one funded balance.
Bulk labels, four carriers, one funded balance.
And nothing recurring.
A campaign does not need inventory forecasting or a warehouse role model. It needs to turn several hundred rows into several hundred labels at the best price each, absorb the corrections, and then stop costing money. That is the list below.
One prepaid wallet,
funded from the campaign
Card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, ACH bank transfer, and crypto all top up the same balance, which is convenient when campaign funds arrive as one payout you are budgeting against. Void a shipment and the credit lands straight back in the wallet.
Wallet balance
$1,247.36 USD
AI
AI drafting for the
post-survey corrections
Every campaign has a second wave made of address changes, missed tiers, and replacements, and none of it arrives as a clean record. Paste the message and Billy drafts the corrected label — the part of fulfillment that usually eats an evening.
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 subscription
after the last parcel
Pay only for the labels the wave actually buys. When it is done the account goes quiet and costs nothing, which means there is no cancellation to remember and no year of fees for a fortnight of shipping.
Shipment summary
UPS Ground $12.49
Insurance $0.75
Fuel surcharge $0.32
Total $13.56
USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL
per parcel, not per batch
Every row is quoted individually, so the small reward tier and the heavy one can take different carriers — on a mixed-tier campaign that difference compounds across hundreds of parcels. That is the honest carrier list; if you need one outside it, ShipStation's broader network is a real reason to stay. Store connectors exist for the shop that comes after the campaign, but nothing requires one.
Compare rates
UPS $12.48 FedEx $13.22 DHL $14.10 USPS $11.79
Duties & taxes paid
An API for the
backer database you built
REST and JSON, one Bearer header, idempotency keys so a retried batch cannot double-buy a label — which matters more on a several-hundred-row run than anywhere else — and signed webhooks for tracking. Free and unlimited on every plan.
POST /v1/shipments
{
"to" : { "name" : "Maya" },
"from" : { "name" : "Alex" },
"service" : "ups_ground" ,
"label_format" : "pdf"
}
Webhook delivered
Label ready
CL-1038 · Portland, OR
Fulfillment happens on a folding table
The packing room is rarely an office.
Campaign fulfillment tends to happen in a garage, a studio, or a rented unit with a laptop balanced on a box. A desktop-shaped shipping suite assumes otherwise. Everything below works from the phone in your hand while the boxes are still open.
Upload the backer CSV once, then work the queue from the phone at the table.
Paste a correction email or drop the screenshot — Billy redrafts the label from it.
USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL come back as four all-in prices on one screen.
Buy from the prepaid balance and one-tap print to a share sheet or a thermal printer over Wi-Fi.
Hold the mic and say the address for the replacement someone just asked for.
For the questions backers ask afterwards
Ask Billy where it is instead of searching the batch.
The week after a wave ships is made of one question repeated: where is mine? Ask by name and Billy pulls the parcel out of a batch of hundreds and reads its status back. Drafting works the same way — say who the replacement is going to and the label is queued against your prepaid balance. This is the real product, not a render.
goatlabels.io/dashboard/shipments — Billy
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.
All-in quotes
The quote is the debit.
Several carriers on the same parcel, each an all-in number that is the exact amount leaving your prepaid balance. On a campaign that is a budgeting property as much as a pricing one: the wallet draws down by exactly what you were quoted, so the shipping line in your backer spreadsheet stays true to the end of the wave.
US → DE 2.6 lbs 12×8×4 in
Best balance
FedEx
Intl Connect Plus
3–5 days$22.80
$11.00 of taxes & duties included
all-in · no surprises
DHL
Express Worldwide
1–2 days$26.20
$12.20 of taxes & duties included
all-in · no surprises
No carrier invoice the day after Void → credit back to the wallet you funded Multi-currency display
Public API v1
Script the wave if you'd rather.
Plenty of creators already have the backer data in a database or a spreadsheet script. REST, JSON, one Bearer header, idempotency keys so a retried batch cannot double-buy a label, and signed webhooks for tracking instead of polling. Free and unlimited on every plan, which matters when one run makes several hundred calls in an afternoon.
Create, rate-shop, and buy — the same three calls you already write
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 POST /api/v1/shipments
Authorization: Bearer sk_live_…
Idempotency-Key: ord_8421
{
"to": { "name": "Joyce", "city": "Berlin", "country": "DE" },
"parcel": { "weight": 1.2, "weight_unit": "kg" },
"service": "fedex_intl_priority"
}
Pay for the wave, not the year
No plan to cancel afterwards.
Free covers 50 shipments a month with the public API, the store connectors, and Billy all unlimited underneath it. Pro is a flat monthly fee for unlimited shipments and cheaper label pricing — the sensible choice for the month a several-hundred-parcel wave goes out, and equally sensible to drop the month after. Neither one is a minimum you have to hit before a label prints.
Pro
Most popular $40 / month
Unlimited shipments — no monthly cap
Cheaper label pricing that scales down as your volume grows
Billy AI on Telegram — draft a label without opening the dashboard
API access still free and unlimited
Volume pricing
illustrative less volume more volume
more volume → lower per-label rates
Free
$0 / forever
Enough for a small campaign, and the starting point for a large one.
50 shipments a month, no monthly minimum to print
USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL rate-shopped on every parcel
The full REST API with unlimited calls and signed webhooks
Billy AI in the web app, unlimited — paste, screenshot, or speak
Shopify, Etsy, WooCommerce, and TikTok Shop sync included
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
On Pro we will work with you to beat the label rates you are already getting from
ShippoPirateShipShipStation No contracts No monthly minimum to print 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. ShipStation's plans move, so compare against their current pricing page rather than a figure on ours. Full pricing details
Who ships this way
Bursty volume is the whole argument.
Campaign creators are the clearest case, but they are not the only people whose year is one spike and eleven quiet months — and the operations that should stay on a subscription are named on this page too.
Campaign creators fulfilling in-house
Kickstarter & Indiegogo waves
Several hundred parcels over a fortnight, then nothing. Fund the wallet from the payout, bulk-buy the labels, and let the account go quiet when the last box goes out.
4 carriers per quote bulk CSV labels no recurring fee
goatlabels.io/dashboard/shipments
Creators with mixed reward tiers
Different boxes, different carriers
Because each row is quoted individually, the pin-badge tier and the heavy-box tier do not have to travel with the same carrier — which is where the savings on a mixed campaign actually come from.
One queue, connector or not
Backer #4182 · corrected from an email
Creators drowning in post-survey messages
Corrections that are not order records
I moved! new address is Portland OR
Label redrafted · CL-1024
Technical creators scripting fulfillment
REST and the UI, one balance
1
wallet behind the API and the dashboard
Real sellers, real words
Shippers whose volume arrives all at once.
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
Crowdfunding fulfillment FAQ
- Do I need a subscription to ship a crowdfunding batch?
- No. GoatLabels has no monthly minimum to print: you fund a prepaid wallet, buy labels from the balance, and stop when the wave is done. That matters for a campaign specifically, because a subscription taken out for one fulfillment run keeps billing long after the last parcel ships unless someone remembers to cancel it.
- Can I upload the backer list as a CSV?
- Yes. Export the addresses from your campaign platform, upload the file, and every row is rate-shopped across USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL before you buy. Bulk purchase and bulk print then handle the batch in one pass rather than one parcel at a time.
- What if reward tiers have different box sizes?
- Set the parcel per row rather than per batch. Because every shipment is quoted against all four carriers individually, the tier that ships in a padded mailer and the tier that ships in a large box can land on different carriers — which is usually where the money is on a mixed-tier campaign.
- How do I handle the address changes that arrive after the survey closes?
- Edit the row before you buy, or paste the backer's message into Billy and let it redraft the label with the corrected address. If a label is already bought, void it and the amount credits back to the wallet balance rather than to a card statement weeks later.
- Can I ship internationally to backers?
- Yes. International parcels are quoted across the same four carriers with duties handled up front, so the all-in number you see is the amount that leaves your balance and the parcel is not held at the door for a surprise charge.
- What happens to the account after fulfillment?
- It goes quiet and costs nothing. There is no plan to cancel and no renewal date, so the account is still there — with your addresses and label history — whenever the next campaign or restock happens.
- Is there an API if I built my own backer database?
- Yes, free and unlimited on every plan. Create a shipment, rate-shop the four carriers, buy the label, and receive signed webhooks for tracking, so a fulfillment script can run the whole wave without anyone opening the dashboard.
Want the full head-to-head? Read GoatLabels vs ShipStation or ShipStation vs free shipping software. Scripting the wave? The API alternative page covers the endpoints, and label pricing works like this.
Price one backer parcel before you commit to anything.
Fund it once. Ship the wave.
Walk away clean.
Top up a wallet with card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, ACH, or crypto, upload a slice of your backer CSV, and compare the all-in USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL rates against the quote you were about to buy.
Sign up in seconds. No card required. No monthly minimum.