Is there really no monthly fee on GoatLabels?

Really none. You fund a prepaid wallet — card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, ACH bank transfer, or crypto — and pay only the all-in label price when you print. A month you ship nothing in bills you nothing. Pro exists as an optional flat plan for high volume, but it is never a gate on printing.

How is that different from Stamps.com's pricing?

Stamps.com charges a recurring subscription for access to its software, billed whether you print that month or not — their pricing page has the current figure. GoatLabels charges nothing for access; we make a small amount on each label instead, so the cost tracks your actual shipping.

Which carriers can I use without a subscription?

USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL, all rate-shopped on every parcel. Each quote is one all-in number, and that exact amount leaves your wallet balance when you buy — no postage account to pre-load per carrier and no invoice arriving later.

Do I lose discounted postage rates by leaving a subscription service?

No. GoatLabels quotes discounted commercial rates across all four carriers on every plan, including Free. Because four carriers compete on each parcel, the winning rate is often better than any single carrier's discount table.

What happens to money I put in the wallet?

It sits as your prepaid balance until a label spends it. Void a label and the full all-in amount is credited straight back to the balance rather than drip-refunding through a card statement.

Can I try GoatLabels while my Stamps.com account is still active?

Yes, and it is the sensible way to switch. There is no fee on our side, so running both for a billing cycle costs you nothing extra — print a few real orders here, compare the all-in totals, then cancel the subscription once the numbers convince you.

Does GoatLabels do anything Stamps.com doesn't?

Billy, the built-in AI assistant, drafts a complete label from a pasted DM, an order screenshot, or a spoken address — inputs subscription postage software has no field for. There is also a full REST API with unlimited calls on every plan, funded from the same wallet as the dashboard.

No subscription. Ever.

A Stamps.com alternative with no monthly fee

Pay for labels. Not for access.

GoatLabels eliminates Stamps.com's monthly subscription entirely: you fund a prepaid wallet and pay only rate-shopped carrier prices, even in months you ship nothing.

Start free, pay per label Log in

Four carriers, zero subscription

USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL rate-shopped on every parcel — live all-in prices, nothing billed monthly.

all quoted

Four quotes One all-in price each.

Quote = debit No later invoice.

Same via API Free on every plan.

A prepaid wallet, not a monthly bill

Card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, ACH, or crypto — top up once, spend it label by label.

Prepaid Spent only on labels.

No fee Quiet months cost $0.

Voids credited Back to the balance.

Side by side

Where GoatLabels and Stamps.com actually differ.

Both print carrier labels from your desk. The interesting difference is not the printing — it is whether a month you ship nothing in still sends you a bill, and whether one carrier gets your parcel by default or four have to compete for it.

	GoatLabels	Stamps.com
What you pay before the first label	Nothing. Fund a prepaid wallet with whatever you like and buy the first label from it.	A monthly subscription billed whether you print that month or not — see their pricing page for the current figure.
A month with no orders	Costs nothing. The wallet balance just sits there until the next sale.	The subscription still bills. Pausing means cancelling.
Carriers on one quote	USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL rate-shopped side by side, each as one all-in price.	Historically USPS-centred, with UPS added — check their site for current coverage.
Getting an order in	Store sync, the REST API, or just paste the DM or drop a screenshot — Billy drafts the label.	Store integrations and manual entry inside their software.
How labels are funded	Card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, ACH bank transfer, or crypto into one prepaid balance, spent label by label.	Subscription billing plus postage purchases.
Voiding a label	The all-in amount is credited straight back to your wallet balance.	Postage refund flows run through the carrier's process.

Stamps.com is a trademark of its owner and is not affiliated with GoatLabels. Their plans, trial terms, and carrier list change — compare against their current pricing page before you decide.

Three reasons shippers leave the subscription behind.

The fee is the product you use least

A subscription makes sense when it buys capacity you use every month. For most small shippers the fee buys admission to software, and admission is exactly the thing a pay-per-label wallet makes free. On GoatLabels the only recurring cost is the labels you actually print.

Your volume is lumpy, your bill shouldn't be

A drop month and a dead month cost a subscriber the same fee. A prepaid wallet bends with the volume instead: top it up before the rush, print all week, and let the quiet weeks that follow cost precisely zero.

Four carriers beat one default

Cutting the fee is half the saving; the other half is never defaulting to a single carrier. Every parcel gets quoted against USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL at once, and the all-in number you pick is the exact amount that leaves the balance.

And when Stamps.com is the right choice

You lean on NetStamps sheets or postage printed for mail rather than parcels — printing postage for envelopes is Stamps.com's original home turf.
Your office workflow is built around their desktop software and a postage meter replacement, and nobody wants to retrain it.
You need a carrier or mail class GoatLabels doesn't quote — we rate-shop USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL, and that is the honest list.

Switching from Stamps.com

The same label at the end. No subscription under it.

Nothing about the pipeline requires a fee. Orders arrive however they arrive — a store sync, an API call, a pasted DM, a screenshot — and Billy drafts the label: addresses, package details, service. Every parcel is quoted against USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL at once, and the all-in price you pick is debited from a prepaid wallet you topped up with card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, ACH, or crypto. Print from your phone or a thermal printer. The month you ship nothing, nothing bills.

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

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

Connectors, REST API, DMs, and screenshots — one queue, no desktop software to install.

2 Billy AI

The assistant a postage subscription never included.

Reads a pasted order, a screenshot, or a spoken address
Fills the addresses 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.

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

No fee cleared first, no software licence — just the label price leaving the balance.

Where your orders actually come from.

Connectors for the storefronts, AI for everything else.

Shopify, Etsy, WooCommerce, and TikTok Shop sync into To Ship and get tracking pushed back when you print. And the orders that never touch a storefront — a DM, a comment thread, a screenshot — go through Billy instead of through manual entry in desktop software.

Via AI tiles: an order that never became a record still becomes a label.

maya_boutique

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

Label ready

$12.47

13 connected today 2 via AI 8 coming soon

Connect a store Or use the API

Connected today 13 storefronts sync to To Ship

Shopify

Etsy

WooCommerce

TikTok Shop

Amazon

eBay

Squarespace

Wix

Walmart

Square

BigCommerce

Magento

Temu

Via AI

Instagram AI

Facebook AI

DM and screenshot parsing — the AI builds the label.

Coming soon

Shopify Plus Soon

Zapier Soon

NetSuite Soon

Ecwid Soon

Shein Soon

ChannelAdvisor Soon

SkuVault Soon

Zoho Inventory Soon

Everything the fee used to gate. Ungated.

Everything a postage subscription sold you.
Without the subscription.

Discounted rates, store connectors, an address checker, batch printing — the features that justified a monthly fee are simply included here. The recurring cost is gone; the label price is all that is left.

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 the credit lands back in the wallet.

Wallet balance

$1,247.36 USD

AI drafting for orders
that are not records

A DM, a comment thread, a voice note, a screenshot — Billy reads any of them and drafts the whole label, then validates the address before a cent is spent. Included unlimited on the Free plan.

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
at any volume

Fund the wallet, pay per label, and ship nothing in a quiet month without paying for the quiet month. Pro is an optional flat plan for when volume makes cheaper label pricing worth it — never a gate on printing.

Shipment summary

UPS Ground $12.49

Insurance $0.75

Fuel surcharge $0.32

Total $13.56

USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL
in one quote

Four live all-in prices side by side on every parcel, and the number you pick is the exact amount that leaves your balance. A subscription tool built around one carrier asks you to trust its default; four carriers competing per parcel means you never have to.

Compare rates

UPS $12.48

FedEx $13.22

DHL $14.10

USPS $11.79

Duties & taxes paid

A REST API
postage software never had

REST and JSON, one Bearer header, idempotency keys so a retry cannot double-buy a label, and signed webhooks for tracking and label events. Unlimited calls on every plan, funded from the same wallet as the dashboard.

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

No desktop software to install

The whole workflow fits in your pocket.

Stamps.com grew up as software you install and a printer on a desk. GoatLabels runs where your orders actually happen: paste the message, snap the screenshot, buy the cheapest of four carriers, and print — all from the phone already in your hand.

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

No install, no desktop client, no import mapping: the browser is the whole product.

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

Included on every plan

Talk to Billy, not to a desktop client.

Hold the mic, say who the parcel is going to, and Billy looks up the buyer, rate-shops USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL, and queues the label against your prepaid balance — then answers for it afterwards. No software to update, no subscription to keep it running. 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 install and nothing to renew · reads the all-in rate back before a cent leaves the wallet · phone, browser, or Telegram.

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 subscription line on top, nothing arriving the day after with an adjustment, and voiding a shipment credits the wallet rather than a card statement three weeks out.

US → DE 2.6 lbs 12×8×4 in

USPS

Priority Mail Intl

10–15 days

$18.30

$10.00 of taxes & duties included

all-in · no surprises

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

An API the fee never bought you.

Postage subscriptions sold desktop software; this is a platform. REST, JSON, one Bearer header, real idempotency keys so a retried request cannot double-buy a label, and signed webhooks for tracking and label events instead of polling. Unlimited calls on every plan — including Free.

Create, rate-shop, and buy — three calls, four carriers

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": 1.2, "weight_unit": "kg" },
  "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 }
}

Pricing without a fee at the front door

No fee to clear first.

Free covers 50 shipments a month with the API, the store connectors, and Billy all unlimited underneath it — we make a little on each label instead of billing you for access. Pro is a flat monthly fee for unlimited shipments and cheaper label pricing: the plan for when volume, not access, is what you are paying for. Neither one is a minimum you have to hit before a label prints.

Pro

Free

$0 / forever

Enough to run a small shop with no subscription under it.

50 shipments a month, no monthly fee 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

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

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

Stamps.comShippoPirate Ship

No contracts No monthly fee 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. Stamps.com's plans move, so compare against their current pricing page rather than a figure on ours. Full pricing details

Who the missing fee matters most to

The lower your volume, the bigger the fee looms.

A recurring fee is a rounding error at a thousand labels a month and the whole cost story at ten. These are the sellers where dropping it changes the maths outright.

Seasonal and drop-driven sellers

TikTok Shop & live commerce

Prepaid

Volume that arrives in bursts fits a prepaid wallet better than a subscription. Pre-fund before a drop, print all night, then pay nothing at all through the quiet weeks after it.

4 carriers per quote no monthly fee bulk print

GoatLabels shipments queue with purchased labels

Low-volume, every-week shippers

Etsy & independent creators

At a handful of parcels a week, a recurring fee can rival the postage itself. Pay-per-label means the cost of shipping is just the shipping.

One queue, no subscription

Order #1024 · pasted from a comment thread

Sellers living in the DMs

The orders desktop software never sees

got the dress! can you ship to Austin?

Label drafted · CL-1024

Devs automating the label step

REST and the UI, one balance

wallet behind the API and the dashboard

Real sellers, real words

Sellers who stopped paying for the months they didn't 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

Stamps.com alternative FAQ

Is there really no monthly fee on GoatLabels?: Really none. You fund a prepaid wallet — card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, ACH bank transfer, or crypto — and pay only the all-in label price when you print. A month you ship nothing in bills you nothing. Pro exists as an optional flat plan for high volume, but it is never a gate on printing.
How is that different from Stamps.com's pricing?: Stamps.com charges a recurring subscription for access to its software, billed whether you print that month or not — their pricing page has the current figure. GoatLabels charges nothing for access; we make a small amount on each label instead, so the cost tracks your actual shipping.
Which carriers can I use without a subscription?: USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL, all rate-shopped on every parcel. Each quote is one all-in number, and that exact amount leaves your wallet balance when you buy — no postage account to pre-load per carrier and no invoice arriving later.
Do I lose discounted postage rates by leaving a subscription service?: No. GoatLabels quotes discounted commercial rates across all four carriers on every plan, including Free. Because four carriers compete on each parcel, the winning rate is often better than any single carrier's discount table.
What happens to money I put in the wallet?: It sits as your prepaid balance until a label spends it. Void a label and the full all-in amount is credited straight back to the balance rather than drip-refunding through a card statement.
Can I try GoatLabels while my Stamps.com account is still active?: Yes, and it is the sensible way to switch. There is no fee on our side, so running both for a billing cycle costs you nothing extra — print a few real orders here, compare the all-in totals, then cancel the subscription once the numbers convince you.
Does GoatLabels do anything Stamps.com doesn't?: Billy, the built-in AI assistant, drafts a complete label from a pasted DM, an order screenshot, or a spoken address — inputs subscription postage software has no field for. There is also a full REST API with unlimited calls on every plan, funded from the same wallet as the dashboard.

Digging into the fee itself? Read what the monthly fee actually buys, or the step-by-step cancellation guide. Selling on Etsy? There is a version of this comparison for Etsy sellers, and one for small business shipping.

Test it against one real order before you decide.

Keep the discounted rates.
Drop the monthly fee.

Fund a wallet with card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, ACH, or crypto, paste in your next order, and compare the all-in USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL rate against what the same parcel costs you today — subscription included.

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A Stamps.com alternative with no monthly fee

Four carriers, zero subscription

A prepaid wallet, not a monthly bill

Where GoatLabels and Stamps.com actually differ.

Three reasons shippers leave the subscription behind.

The fee is the product you use least

Your volume is lumpy, your bill shouldn't be

Four carriers beat one default

And when Stamps.com is the right choice

The same label at the end. No subscription under it.

The assistant a postage subscription never included.

Connectors for the storefronts, AI for everything else.

Everything a postage subscription sold you. Without the subscription.

One prepaid wallet, five ways to fund it

AI drafting for orders that are not records

No monthly fee at any volume

USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL in one quote

A REST API postage software never had

The whole workflow fits in your pocket.

Talk to Billy, not to a desktop client.

The quote is the debit.

USPS

FedEx

DHL

An API the fee never bought you.

No fee to clear first.

Pro

Free

Billy is not a paid tier

API free on every plan

Bring the invoice you pay today

The lower your volume, the bigger the fee looms.

Seasonal and drop-driven sellers

Low-volume, every-week shippers

Sellers living in the DMs

Devs automating the label step

Sellers who stopped paying for the months they didn't ship.

Stamps.com alternative FAQ

Keep the discounted rates. Drop the monthly fee.

Everything a postage subscription sold you.
Without the subscription.

One prepaid wallet,
five ways to fund it

AI drafting for orders
that are not records

No monthly fee
at any volume

USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL
in one quote

A REST API
postage software never had

Keep the discounted rates.
Drop the monthly fee.