USPS
Priority Mail Intl
10–15 days$18.30
$10.00 of taxes & duties included
all-in · no surprises
Migration guide.
One afternoon. No downtime.
Switching from Stamps.com, step by step
One afternoon. No downtime.
Switch before your next Stamps.com billing date: a GoatLabels account is free to open, the wallet funds instantly, and Billy AI drafts your first labels the same day.
Keep printing USPS and gain three carriers
USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL — live all-in rates, no monthly minimum to print.
all quoted Four quotes One all-in price each.
Quote = debit No day-after invoice.
Same via API Free on every plan.
Fund the wallet today, cancel before renewal
Card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, ACH, or crypto — one prepaid balance.
Instant top-up Ship the same day.
No overlap cost Run both for a day.
Voids credited Back to the balance.
Six steps
The move off Stamps.com, in order.
The migration itself is short. What makes it feel risky is doing the steps in the wrong order — so the sequence below opens the new account first, proves it on a real parcel, and only cancels the old one once labels are already printing.
1
Find your renewal date first
Open your Stamps.com billing page and write down the day the next charge lands. Everything below is scheduled backwards from that date, because the only expensive way to migrate is to do it slowly enough to pay for one more month you never used.
2
Open a GoatLabels account and fund the wallet
Signing up is free and takes seconds, and the wallet accepts card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, ACH bank transfer, or crypto. Load only what your next few days of shipping needs — a prepaid balance is not a deposit, and it is not a plan you are now committed to.
3
Reconnect the stores, or skip that entirely
Shopify, Etsy, WooCommerce, and TikTok Shop sync into the To Ship queue and push tracking back when you print. If your orders come out of DMs instead, connect nothing: paste the message or drop the screenshot and Billy drafts the label from it.
4
Run one real parcel through both tools
Take the next order you were going to ship anyway, quote it here against USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL, and compare the all-in number with what you were about to buy. One parcel is a faster answer than a week of spreadsheet comparison.
5
Print the rest of the day's queue here
This is the whole migration. There is no data import, no CSV mapping, and no address book to move by hand — type or paste an address once and it is saved. Most sellers reach this step the same afternoon they started.
6
Cancel before the renewal date, not after
Follow Stamps.com's own cancellation process from their support pages, and do it with days to spare rather than hours — that is the single detail that decides whether this move costs you an extra billing cycle. Keep the account open until you have printed here for a couple of days if that makes you more comfortable; nothing on our side charges you for the overlap.
Stamps.com is a trademark of its owner and is not affiliated with GoatLabels. Their cancellation process and billing terms are theirs to change — follow the instructions on their own support pages.
What "no downtime" means on a switch like this.
Shipping migrations go wrong in one specific way: the old tool is off before the new one has printed anything real, and a day's orders sit in a box while somebody reads a help article. Nothing in this sequence requires that. Both accounts can be live at once, the prepaid wallet has no minimum making the overlap expensive, and there is no import job that has to finish before you can print. The hand-over is a decision you make after the first label comes out of the printer, not before.
And when Stamps.com is the right choice
- You need a carrier or a specialised USPS service GoatLabels doesn't rate-shop — we quote USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL, and that is the honest list.
- Your postage runs through leased hardware or a desktop client that your team is trained on and your process depends on.
- You are mid-quarter with accounting built on Stamps.com reporting — finish the quarter, then move on a clean boundary.
Day one, after the switch
The same queue you ran yesterday. Minus the renewal date.
Once the account is open, the working day looks like the one you already know, with the parts that used to be manual taken over. Orders arrive from Shopify, Etsy, WooCommerce, or TikTok Shop, from the REST API, or as a pasted DM or screenshot, and land in one To Ship queue. Billy fills in the addresses, the package details, and the service, then hands the draft back for you to confirm. Every label is a debit against the prepaid wallet you funded with card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, ACH, or crypto, so the month after the switch costs exactly what you shipped and nothing more. Rate-shop USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL at the all-in price, print from your phone or a thermal printer, and let signed webhooks and idempotency keys carry the same events on the API side.
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, and no import job to run first.
2 Billy AI
Your first labels, drafted on the day you switch.
- 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
USPS Priority Mail — all-in rate
$12.47
No renewal date to work around. Signed webhooks push tracking back to the store and to your stack.
Reconnecting takes minutes.
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, so the storefronts you had wired up are reconnected in the time it takes to authorise them. The orders that never had a connector are the easy part here: paste an Instagram or Facebook DM, or a screenshot of one, and Billy builds the label anyway.
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 arrives with the move. Everything you shipped with, still here.
Everything you shipped with, still here.
Without the renewal date.
A migration is only worth doing if nothing important is left behind. USPS is still there, the carriers multiply rather than shrink, the API comes free, and the recurring charge is replaced by a balance you top up when you feel like it.
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 it funds instantly enough to print on the day you open the account. Void a shipment and the credit lands back in the wallet.
Wallet balance
$1,247.36 USD
AI
Billy drafts your
first labels the same day
A DM, a comment thread, a voice note, a screenshot — Billy reads any of them and drafts the whole label. There is no learning curve to clear before the first parcel goes out, which is exactly what a switch day needs.
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 renewal date
to plan around
Fund the wallet, pay per label, and ship nothing in February without paying for February. 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
Live all-in rates side by side, and the number you see is the exact amount that leaves your balance. That is the honest carrier list — if your current setup depends on a service outside it, finish the switch on your old account first. Shopify, Etsy, WooCommerce, and TikTok Shop reconnect in minutes and push tracking back when you print.
Compare rates
UPS $12.48 FedEx $13.22 DHL $14.10 USPS $11.79
Duties & taxes paid
Rewiring an integration
if you had one
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. Point a staging key at it, run one shipment through, then flip production when it passes.
POST /v1/shipments
{
"to" : { "name" : "Maya" },
"from" : { "name" : "Alex" },
"service" : "ups_ground" ,
"label_format" : "pdf"
}
Webhook delivered
Label ready
CL-1038 · Brooklyn, NY
Nothing to install on switch day
No desktop client, no setup afternoon.
Half the dread of moving shipping tools is the install-and-configure evening. There isn't one. The browser you are reading this in is the client, the phone in your pocket runs the same queue, and the first label can be printed before you have finished cancelling the old account.
Paste the DM, snap the thread, or drop the screenshot — Billy pulls the name, the address, and the parcel out of it.
No software to install and no address book to import: addresses save as you ship.
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.
The fastest way to print label one
Talk to Billy, not to a setup wizard.
On switch day the question is how quickly a real parcel gets out the door. Hold the mic, say who it 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. That is a faster first label than any onboarding checklist. 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 install and nothing to migrate · 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. This is the comparison to run on your first day: quote the parcel here, look at what you were about to pay, and let one real number decide the migration.
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
Repointing an integration without a rewrite week.
If something in your stack talks to your current provider, this is the step to schedule before the cancellation date, not after. REST, JSON, one Bearer header. Real idempotency keys so a retried request cannot double-buy a label, signed webhooks for tracking and label events instead of polling, and errors that name what to fix.
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"
}
No plan to clear first
No plan to clear first.
Free covers 50 shipments a month with the public API, the store connectors, and Billy all unlimited underneath it — we make a little on each label instead. Pro is a flat monthly fee for unlimited shipments, cheaper label pricing, and Billy on Telegram. Neither is a subscription you have to hold to keep printing, which is the whole reason the overlap during a switch costs nothing.
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 to finish the migration without paying for two tools.
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. Stamps.com's plans move, so compare against their current pricing page rather than a figure on ours. Full pricing details
Who this switch is easiest for
Not every Stamps.com user should move.
The migration is shortest for sellers whose shipping never really needed the desktop-and-plan model in the first place — spiky volume, off-platform orders, and small teams printing from a phone.
Seasonal and drop-driven sellers
TikTok Shop & live commerce
Switch during a quiet stretch and the move costs nothing at all: pre-fund before the next drop, print all night, then pay nothing through the weeks after it.
4 carriers per quote no monthly minimum bulk print
goatlabels.io/dashboard/shipments
Shops that also sell off-platform
Etsy & independent creators
Connect the stores that have connectors, and handle the market stall, the comment sale, 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
Sellers living in the DMs
Orders no import job could carry over
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 moved mid-cycle and never went back.
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 Stamps.com FAQ
- How long does switching from Stamps.com actually take?
- An afternoon for most sellers. Opening the account and funding the wallet is a few minutes, connecting Shopify, Etsy, WooCommerce, or TikTok Shop is a few more, and there is no data migration step because there is nothing to import — orders arrive from the connectors, the API, or a pasted message, and addresses save themselves as you use them.
- When in the billing cycle should I switch?
- Start a few days before your next renewal date rather than just after it. Open and fund the GoatLabels account first, print here for a day or two while the old account is still live, then cancel with time to spare. Moving in that order means the overlap costs nothing on our side and you never pay for a month you did not ship in.
- Will I lose my saved addresses or shipping history?
- Your Stamps.com history stays in Stamps.com — export anything your bookkeeping needs before you close the account, as you would with any provider. On this side there is no address book to import: addresses save as you ship, and Billy pulls them straight out of a pasted order or a screenshot.
- Can I keep printing USPS exactly as I do now?
- Yes, and you gain three more carriers alongside it. Every parcel is quoted against USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL at once as all-in prices, so the USPS service you print today is still there and now has three competitors on the same screen.
- Do I have to cancel Stamps.com before I can start?
- No, and you should not. Nothing here requires exclusivity and there is no monthly minimum making the overlap expensive, so run both for a day or two, confirm the labels and the rates look right, and only then cancel.
- What happens to money left in my postage account?
- That balance belongs to your old provider, so follow their process for it before you close the account. The GoatLabels wallet is separate and prepaid: you fund it with card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, ACH, or crypto, and voided labels credit straight back into it.
- Is there a contract or a minimum on the new account?
- No contract and no monthly minimum to print. Free covers 50 shipments a month with the API, the store connectors, and Billy unlimited underneath it; Pro is an optional flat plan for unlimited shipments and cheaper label pricing when volume makes that worthwhile.
Still weighing it up? Stamps.com vs free shipping software compares the fee against what free actually includes, and the billing friction people report covers why the timing of the cancellation matters. Developers should start with the API alternative.
Start before the next renewal lands.
Open the account today.
Cancel before you're billed again.
Fund a wallet with card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, ACH, or crypto, print the rest of today's queue here, and compare the all-in USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL rate against what you were about to buy.
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