USPS
Priority Mail Intl
10–15 days$18.30
$10.00 of taxes & duties included
all-in · no surprises
A migration that costs nothing either way.
Same pricing philosophy. More underneath it.
Switching from Pirate Ship, step by step
Same pricing philosophy. More underneath it.
Moving from Pirate Ship costs nothing either way — both are subscription-free — but GoatLabels adds FedEx, DHL, Billy AI drafting, and an unlimited free API on top.
Two carriers come with you, two are new
USPS and UPS work exactly as you expect. FedEx and DHL join the same quote list.
all quoted Four quotes Two of them new.
Quote = debit No day-after invoice.
Same via API Dashboard or endpoint.
Still no subscription, still pay per label
Card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, ACH, or crypto fund one prepaid balance. Nothing to cancel.
Prepaid Spent label by label.
No minimum A quiet month costs nothing.
Voids credited Back to the balance.
Before you move anything
What actually changes when you switch .
This is an unusually cheap migration, because there is no contract on either side and nothing to cancel. You are not trading a pricing model for capability — you are keeping the pricing model and adding the capability, and you can run both accounts side by side for as long as you like while you check that.
| GoatLabels | Pirate Ship | |
|---|---|---|
| What it costs to keep both open | Nothing. No monthly minimum to print — an idle account is free. | Also nothing, which is why running both in parallel is easy. |
| Carriers after the move | USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL rate-shopped on every parcel. | USPS and UPS. |
| Getting orders in | Store sync, REST API, pasted DM, voice note, or a screenshot Billy reads. | Manual entry, CSV, or a store connection. |
| Funding labels | One prepaid wallet topped up by card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, ACH, or crypto. | Pay-as-you-go per label. |
| Refunds on a voided label | Credited back to the wallet balance, available immediately for the next label. | Handled through their own refund process. |
| Automation | Public REST API, unlimited calls, signed webhooks, idempotency keys. | 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.
The switch in three steps.
1. Fund a wallet, ship one parcel
Create the account and top the balance up with card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, ACH, or crypto — as little as one label's worth. Take the next order you were about to print and buy it here instead. That single parcel tells you more than any comparison table, because it is your box going to your buyer.
2. Compare four quotes against your habit
Look at what USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL each want for that parcel. If your usual carrier wins, that is useful information and you have lost nothing. If one of the two new carriers wins, you have just found the parcels worth moving first.
3. Move the queue, not the history
Connect Shopify, Etsy, WooCommerce, or TikTok Shop if you use them, or just start pasting orders in. There is no data migration to perform — old labels stay where they were bought, and nothing needs to be exported before you stop using the other tool.
And when Pirate Ship is the right choice
- Everything you ship is small, domestic, and already cheapest on USPS. The two extra carriers will not win parcels they cannot beat.
- Your team knows the workflow, nothing is broken, and no parcel has made you wish for a third quote. A migration needs a reason.
- You need a carrier neither of us rate-shops — we quote USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL, and that is the honest list.
Switching from Pirate Ship
The same habit you already have. With more of it done for you.
Nothing about the day changes shape: an order arrives, you weigh the parcel, you look at a price, you print. What changes is what happens on either side of that. Orders no longer have to be typed in by hand — a store connector, an API call, a pasted DM, or a screenshot all land in the same To Ship queue, and Billy drafts the addresses, the parcel details, and the service. Then all four carriers are priced instead of two, each as one all-in number that is exactly what leaves your prepaid wallet. Fund the wallet with card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, ACH, or crypto, print from your phone or a thermal printer, and let a slow month cost nothing at all.
1
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 import mapping and no data to migrate.
2 Billy AI
The typing you used to do by hand.
- Reads a DM, comment thread, voice note, or screenshot
- 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.
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
Cheapest of four — all-in rate
$12.47
No monthly minimum to print, on either tool. Running both in parallel while you decide costs nothing.
Reconnect what you had. Add what you didn't.
Connectors for the storefronts, AI for everything else.
Shopify, Etsy, WooCommerce, and TikTok Shop sync into To Ship and push tracking back when you print, so a connected store takes minutes to re-point. The orders you used to key in by hand — the DM, the comment, the screenshot — go to Billy instead of to your keyboard.
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 you keep, and what is strictly new. Everything you liked about Pirate Ship.
Everything you liked about Pirate Ship.
Plus four things it didn't have.
No subscription, pay per label, print and go — that is the part worth protecting and none of it changes. New on top: two more carriers in every quote, AI drafting, a public API, and a wallet that credits voids straight back.
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 rather than waiting on a payment processor.
Wallet balance
$1,247.36 USD
AI
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. This is the manual typing step disappearing, which is usually the first thing people notice after the switch.
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 minimum
to print
The model you are switching to is the model you already have: no monthly minimum to print, fund the wallet, pay per label, and pay nothing in a month you ship nothing. Pro is an optional flat plan for when volume makes cheaper label pricing worth it.
Shipment summary
UPS Ground $12.49
Insurance $0.75
Fuel surcharge $0.32
Total $13.56
USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL
in one quote
USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL as four live all-in numbers on the same parcel, and the one you pick is the exact amount that leaves your balance. USPS and UPS behave exactly as you are used to; FedEx and DHL are simply two more competitors for the parcels where they would have won. Shopify, Etsy, WooCommerce, and TikTok Shop 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 & taxes paid
An API you never
had before
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. You do not have to use it — but it is there the day you want to automate something.
POST /v1/shipments
{
"to" : { "name" : "Maya" },
"from" : { "name" : "Alex" },
"service" : "ups_ground" ,
"label_format" : "pdf"
}
Webhook delivered
Label ready
CL-1038 · Brooklyn, NY
Day one, from your phone
The first label you buy here should take under a minute.
There is no onboarding to sit through and no import to plan. Fund the balance, put in a parcel, look at four prices, and print. If it does not feel faster than what you do now, you have spent a minute finding that out.
Paste the DM, snap the thread, or drop the screenshot — Billy pulls the name, the address, and the parcel out of 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.
Nothing to export or import first — old labels stay where you bought them.
Hold the mic at the packing table and say the address — Billy drafts it and reads the rate back.
The part with no equivalent
Talk to Billy, not to a keyboard.
The step that disappears in this switch is typing. Hold the mic, say who the parcel is going to, and Billy looks up the buyer, prices USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL, and queues the label against your prepaid balance — then answers questions about it afterwards. 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.
Carriers priced on the same parcel, each an all-in number that is the exact amount leaving your prepaid balance. Nothing arrives the day after with an adjustment on it, and voiding a shipment credits the wallet rather than a card statement three weeks out.
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
Automation you could not write before.
REST, JSON, one Bearer header. Create a shipment, rate-shop four carriers, buy the winner, void it back to the wallet, and receive signed webhooks for tracking. Free and unlimited on every plan, whether you use it on day one or never.
Create, rate-shop, and buy — three calls, no SDK required
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"
}
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 — we make a little on each label instead. Pro is a flat monthly fee for unlimited shipments and cheaper label pricing. If a subscription-free model is why you used Pirate Ship, nothing here asks you to give that up.
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
The same subscription-free arrangement, with more behind it.
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. Pirate Ship's rates move, so compare against their current site rather than a figure on ours. Full pricing details
Who this switch is really for
Not every Pirate Ship user should move.
If nothing about your current setup annoys you, stay. These are the sellers for whom the extra carriers, the AI drafting, and the API add up to a real difference.
Sellers outgrowing manual entry
TikTok Shop & live commerce
Typing addresses was fine at ten orders a night and is not fine at a hundred. Pasting the order and confirming a draft is the same job with the typing removed.
4 carriers per quote no monthly minimum bulk print
goatlabels.io/dashboard/shipments
Shops whose parcels stopped being uniform
Etsy & independent creators
As the catalogue widens, one carrier stops winning everything. Four quotes per parcel handles that without you maintaining any rules about which box goes where.
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
1
wallet behind the API and the dashboard
Real sellers, real words
Sellers who switched and kept the part they actually liked.
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
Switching from Pirate Ship — FAQ
- Is there anything to cancel before I switch?
- No. Neither tool charges a monthly fee, so there is no subscription to end and no contract to exit. You can leave the old account open indefinitely and use it whenever you want — most people run both for a few weeks and then simply stop opening one of them.
- Do I have to migrate my data?
- No. Past labels stay where they were bought, and nothing needs exporting first. If you use Shopify, Etsy, WooCommerce, or TikTok Shop, you connect the store here and orders start syncing into the To Ship queue — that is the whole migration for most sellers.
- What actually improves after the switch?
- Four things: FedEx and DHL join USPS and UPS in every quote, Billy drafts labels from pasted text, screenshots, or voice instead of you typing them, a public REST API exists for automating any of it, and voided labels credit straight back to your prepaid wallet balance.
- Does it cost more than what I pay now?
- The pricing model is the same one: no monthly minimum to print, fund a prepaid wallet, pay per label. Label prices are quoted live and shown as one all-in number, so the only fair comparison is quoting the same parcel in both tools — which costs nothing to do.
- How long does the first label take?
- Minutes. Create the account, top the wallet up with card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, ACH, or crypto, paste or type the order, and buy the cheapest of the four quotes. There is no onboarding call, no carrier account to set up, and no approval to wait on.
- Can I keep shipping on Pirate Ship while I test?
- Yes, and it is the sensible way to do it. Because neither account has a monthly cost, running them in parallel is free — send a few real parcels through each and let the all-in numbers and the workflow decide rather than a comparison page.
- What if I only ship USPS?
- Then be honest with yourself about whether this switch is worth it. USPS is often the cheapest option on small domestic parcels, and if that describes everything you send, the extra carriers will rarely win. The switch pays off when your parcels vary — bulky, heavy, urgent, or international.
Deciding what changes: the FedEx and DHL carrier gap, the API Pirate Ship doesn't have, and how four-carrier rate shopping works. For the full side-by-side, see GoatLabels vs Pirate Ship.
One parcel is the whole evaluation.
Keep the model you liked.
Add everything it was missing.
Fund a wallet with card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, ACH, or crypto, put in the next order you were about to print, and compare four all-in quotes against the one you were going to buy.
Sign up in seconds. No card required. No monthly minimum.