Early access — we're not selling labels yet
Ship at commercial rates.
Keep the difference.
USPS prints two price lists: the one at the counter, and a lower one for shippers who move volume. At launch, Shipify buys from the second list, adds one flat markup, and hands you the label. Set a package on the deck and both prices print.
Free to join, no card, nothing to cancel — there's nothing on sale here yet. Prices come from the USPS rate book, Notice 123, and we print the counter price, the commercial price and ours on the same piece of paper — including the packages where the counter wins.
The math, printed
One rate table. Nothing behind it.
Every number on this site is transcribed from the USPS rate book and published in full, including the prices where we come off worse. Here's the widest gap in our table, printed with the package it belongs to.
- — off the counter price on the box printed to the left — Ground Advantage, 10 lb, zone 8. It is the single widest gap in our table, not a typical one.
- — is the median gap across every price we publish. That's the number to plan with.
- — is our markup per label at launch. Flat, not a percentage — the same amount on the lightest package in our table and the heaviest. That markup is the entire business.
And sometimes the counter wins.
On a few packages, USPS's own commercial and counter prices sit within pennies of each other, and our flat markup eats the gap. We publish those rows too, and the quote deck says so out loud the moment you land on one.
Source: USPS Notice 123, the Price List (pe.usps.com).
How it works
Quote it, pay for it, print it.
Three steps, one page each. Step one already works — you just used it.
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01
Quote
Weight, zone, service. The counter price and our price print together, so you can see the whole trade before you commit to anything.
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Pay
Pay per label or draw down a balance. No subscription, no minimum volume, no per-seat pricing — the markup on the label is the only thing we charge.
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03
Print
A 4×6 label sized for a thermal printer, or a letter sheet if you are still cutting and taping. Tracking starts the moment it scans.
At launch
Want to walk the whole flow before we open? Open the demo — same rate table, every label stamped so nobody mistakes one for postage.
On the truck
What we are building for launch day.
None of this is live yet — we're pre-launch, and we'd rather say so than dress a roadmap up as a product. Every card below is a commitment, not a screenshot.
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BULK
Labels by the sheet
Drop in a file of orders, get every label back in one pass. Built for the night you sell forty things at once.
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BOOK
Address book
Your ship-from addresses and your repeat buyers, saved. Typing the same return address four hundred times is not a feature.
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TRACK
Tracking that stays attached
Every scan lands next to the order it belongs to, so "where is it" is a look, not an investigation.
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REFUND
Refunds on labels you never used
Printed it, then the buyer cancelled? Request the postage back from the label itself, our markup included, instead of eating it.
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NO FEE
No monthly anything
No subscription, no minimum, no seats. You pay for labels; if you print nothing this month, you pay nothing.
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USPS
The two services we price today
Ground Advantage and Priority Mail — the same two the deck above quotes. More carriers only when we can publish their real table the same way.
At launch
Support
A person answers. That is the entire promise.
We're not going to print a response-time badge we haven't earned yet. Early access is a short list and a small team: you write to us, a human writes back, and nobody asks you to open a ticket about it first.
The moment we have enough history behind us to state an honest average, it goes here — with the number, and with how we measured it.
Questions
The three we get first.
How are the labels cheaper than the Post Office?
They're the same labels. USPS publishes a counter price and a lower commercial price for shippers moving volume, and platforms that pool a lot of small shippers together buy at the commercial one. At launch Shipify buys there, adds a flat markup per label, and the difference between the two prices is what stays with you.
Is it cheaper on every package?
No — and we're not going to pretend otherwise. There are Priority Mail prices where the counter beats ours, because USPS's own commercial and retail numbers are nearly identical there. The quote deck flags it the moment you land on one, and every row is published on the rates page.
When does it open?
We haven't committed to a date, so we're not going to invent one. The early-access list is how you find out — one email, the day labels go on sale.
Early access
Get on the list.
One email when Shipify opens for labels. No card, no charge, nothing to cancel.