Buying shipping labels in bulk using Shopify Shipping

You can buy and print up to 100 shipping labels at the same time from the Orders page in your Shopify admin.

Depending on your fulfillment locations, you can purchase labels from the following carriers through Shopify Shipping:

Shipping carriers available per region

Fulfillment location	Shipping carriers
United States	USPS UPS (not available in Puerto Rico) DHL Express (continental United States only) FedEx by Shippo
Canada	Canada Post UPS
Australia	Sendle
United Kingdom	Evri (for businesses based in the United Kingdom) DPD (for businesses based in the United Kingdom)
France	Colissimo (for businesses based in France) Mondial Relay (for businesses based in France) Chronopost (for businesses based in France)
Italy	Poste Italiane (for businesses based in Italy)
Spain	Correos (for businesses based in Spain)

Considerations for buying shipping labels

Review the following considerations when buying shipping labels:

• DDP (delivered duty paid) is supported only with Managed Markets. If you collect duties and import taxes at checkout and you don't use Managed Markets, then you can't purchase a Shopify Shipping label for orders where duties have been collected. You need to purchase the label externally or refund the order.
• If you're shipping internationally using Shopify Shipping, then your shipment's declared value can't exceed $2,500 USD.
• You can print your shipping labels during the label purchase flow or from the Shipping labels page at any time after you purchase your labels.

Buy and print shipping labels in bulk

The following orders aren't included when buying shipping labels in bulk:

• orders that contain only items that don't require shipping
• orders that don't have a valid shipping address
• orders that are already fulfilled

You can select labels in bulk for up to 100 orders that are paid and require shipping (or ready to fulfill), or select orders to buy labels for in bulk manually.

Select labels in bulk

1. From your Shopify admin, go to Orders > Shipping labels.
2. Click Buy labels for [x] orders.
3. If you fulfill from multiple locations, then select the appropriate location, and then click Continue.

After you select your fulfillments, you can then review and purchase labels.

Select labels in bulk manually

1. From your Shopify admin, go to Orders.

2. Select the checkbox next to each order that you want to create a shipping label for.

3. Click Create shipping labels.

4. If you fulfill from multiple locations, then select the appropriate location, and then click Continue.

After you select your fulfillments, you can then review and purchase labels.

Buy shipping labels

Afer you select fulfillments to create shipping labels for, you can review and purchase your shipping labels.

Steps:

1. Optional: Group your fulfillments by product name or quantity:
   1. On the Create shipping labels page, next to Group by, click None to open the grouping menu.
   2. Select either or both of the available grouping options. Select Same item name to group your fulfillments by the name of the product in the order. Select Same item quantity to group your fulfillments by the quantity of products in the order. Select both options to group your fulfillments by both product name and quantity.
   3. Select the orders that you want to create shipping labels for. If you've grouped your fulfillments, then you can select an entire group by selecting the checkbox next to the group title.
   4. Click Review [x] labels.
2. Optional: If there are orders selected to fulfill that have errors, then do one of the following:
   • To display only fulfillments that have errors to address them before purchasing, click Review errors.
   • To display only fulfillments that have no errors and can be purchased immediately, click Ready to buy.
3. For domestic shipments, verify the weight of the items in each shipment by clicking the Items field for an order:
   1. Optional: Select Save weight to product details and then click Save to save the weight to product details for use in future shipping labels.
   2. Optional: Select Copy to all labels with this product and then click Save to update information for all the labels being purchased.
4. For international shipments, review or add missing customs information by clicking the Items field for an order. Do the following:
   1. Review and update the item weight, value, description, country/region of origin, and Harmonized System (HS) code for each item in the order as necessary.
   2. Optional: Select Save to product details and then click Save to save the weight and customs information to product details for use in future shipping labels.
   3. Optional: Select Copy to all labels with this product and then click Save to update information for all the labels being purchased.
5. To adjust the total package weight, enter the weight in the Total Weight field for each shipment.
6. On the Create shipping labels page, make any edits to your labels.
7. Optional: If you want to buy labels only for specific orders on the Create shipping labels page, then use the checkboxes to select the orders that you want to buy labels for.
8. Click Review [x] labels.
9. Optional: Change the shipping date.
10. Optional: Change whether an order fulfillment email is sent to your customers.
11. Click Buy shipping labels.

Orders are grouped by exact matches. Variants, or combinations of products, are sorted into separate groups.

For example, you have nine shirt orders to fulfill. Six orders are for one green shirt, and three orders are for one green shirt and one blue shirt. When you group your fulfillments by product name, these orders are placed in separate groups: Green shirt - 6 fulfillments and Green shirt, Blue shirt - 3 fulfillments.

Print shipping labels

1. From your Shopify admin, go to Orders > Shipping labels.
2. Select the orders that you want to print labels for, and then click Print documents.
3. Select the documents that you want to print.
4. Review or edit the document size, and then click Print documents. If only shipping labels are being printed, then click Print shipping labels.

Suggested shipping services

When you buy Shopify Shipping labels, a Suggested shipping service might be automatically selected. This Suggested service is based on services that you've used for similar orders in the past. A Suggested service is available for more orders after you purchase more Shopify Shipping labels.

Edit the shipping labels

If you use a desktop computer, then you can edit multiple shipping labels at the same time. If you use a mobile device, then you can view each label individually and make any necessary adjustments.

Edit a single shipping label

1. From the Create shipping labels page, click the field that you want to edit.
2. Make the changes to the cell.

Edit multiple shipping labels

On desktop, the Create shipping labels page lets you set a value for multiple shipping labels at the same time. For example, you can edit or add a package, change the total weight, adjust the shipping service, or update insurance coverage.

Steps:

1. From the Create shipping labels page, select the orders that you want to change.
2. Click the header for the detail of the label that you want to change.
3. Make the desired change, and then click Apply.

Remove a label from the bulk purchase

1. From the Create shipping labels page, select the order that you want to remove.
2. Click the X order selected drop-down menu, and then click Remove X order.

Addressing errors

If there is an issue with a shipping label, then an error icon is displayed next to the label:

• Warning - A yellow circular icon with an exclamation mark is displayed. This error doesn't prevent you from purchasing the label, but it might cause issues with the shipping carrier or customs.
• Critical error - A red circular icon with an exclamation mark is displayed. This error prevents you from buying the label, but after you fix the error, you can continue with your label purchase.

Clicking the field with the error icon displays the error message.

If any of your labels have a critical error, then the Review and buy button is deactivated. You need to either fix the error or remove the label from the bulk purchase.