In the world of e-commerce, shipping can make or break your business. You've got products flying out the door, customers expecting fast delivery, and carrier rates that seem to change every other week. It's enough to make anyone want to pull their hair out.
Enter Goshippo—a shipping platform that's been quietly helping online sellers since 2013. No fancy promises, no revolutionary buzzwords. Just a straightforward tool that connects you to multiple carriers, prints labels, and tracks packages. Think of it as the Swiss Army knife of shipping software, except it won't take up space in your junk drawer.
Let's cut through the noise. Goshippo is a multi-carrier shipping API and platform that lets you compare rates, print labels, and track shipments across USPS, UPS, FedEx, DHL, and a bunch of other carriers—all from one dashboard.
The interesting part? They've negotiated pre-negotiated commercial rates with major carriers. Translation: You get discounts of up to 90% on USPS and up to 70% on UPS, even if you're shipping just a handful of packages per month. It's like having the buying power of a Fortune 500 company while running your operation from a spare bedroom.
The platform integrates with pretty much every e-commerce system you've heard of—Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Etsy, eBay, Amazon. You connect your store, orders flow in automatically, you print labels in batches, and boom—packages are ready to ship. No copy-pasting addresses into different carrier websites like it's 1999.
Goshippo offers three main tiers, and here's where it gets practical:
Cost: $0/month
What you get: 30 free shipment labels per month, access to discounted carrier rates, basic integrations
Who it's for: Testing the waters, ultra-low volume sellers, or folks who ship occasionally
👉 Start with Goshippo's Free Plan
Cost: $10/month
What you get: 100 shipment labels included, then $0.05 per additional label, all premium features unlocked
Who it's for: Small businesses shipping 100-500 packages monthly
Cost: Custom pricing (enterprise-level)
What you get: Dedicated support, custom integrations, volume discounts, white-label options
Who it's for: High-volume shippers (1,000+ packages/month) or businesses with complex logistics needs
The math works out nicely. If you're shipping 200 labels a month on the Starter plan, you're paying $10 for the first 100, then $5 for the next 100 (100 × $0.05). Total: $15/month. Compare that to paying retail rates at the post office, and you'll save that $15 before breakfast.
You input package dimensions and destination, Goshippo shows you prices from every carrier simultaneously. USPS Priority Mail is $8.50. UPS Ground is $7.20. FedEx Home Delivery is $9.75. You pick the cheapest (or fastest, if you're feeling generous), click once, done.
No more opening five browser tabs, manually entering the same information repeatedly, and second-guessing if you got the best deal.
Got 50 orders that came in overnight? Select all, choose carrier, print labels. The whole process takes about 90 seconds if your printer cooperates (and we all know that's the real wildcard).
The labels come out thermal-printer-ready or on standard 8.5"×11" paper with four labels per sheet. Your choice. No wrestling with formatting or margins that mysteriously shift.
Customs forms are the bane of international shipping. Goshippo auto-fills most of the information from your product database. HS codes, declared values, country of origin—it's all there. You review, make tweaks if needed, and print everything together with the shipping label.
They support 🌍 over 70 countries and handle both documents and packages. Whether you're shipping handmade soap to Germany or electronics to Japan, the process is roughly the same.
Ever shipped to "123 Main St" only to discover later it should've been "123 Maine St"? Goshippo checks addresses against USPS databases before you print. If something looks fishy, it flags it. You fix it. Package arrives. Customer is happy. You avoid a support ticket.
Once labels are printed, tracking numbers automatically sync back to your store. Customers get tracking emails. You can monitor everything in the Goshippo dashboard. When someone inevitably asks "Where's my package?", you have an answer in five seconds instead of five minutes.
Goshippo plays nice with most platforms you're probably already using:
E-commerce platforms: Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Magento, Wix, Squarespace
Marketplaces: Etsy, eBay, Amazon, Walmart
Inventory management: ShipStation, Ordoro, Veeqo
ERPs: NetSuite, QuickBooks, Xero
There's a REST API if you're running custom software or have a developer on hand who enjoys building things. Documentation is solid—not "we'll figure it out" vague, but actual code examples and clear explanations.
No platform is perfect, and Goshippo has its quirks:
Learning curve exists: The interface is powerful, which means there's more to learn upfront. First-time users might spend an hour clicking around to understand how everything connects. Not a dealbreaker, just reality.
Support can be slow on the free plan: You get email support, but response times vary. Paid plans get priority, which makes sense but can be frustrating when you're stuck on a Saturday and need an answer.
Label costs add up on Starter: If you're shipping 500+ labels monthly, that $0.05 per label beyond the first 100 starts to feel noticeable. At that volume, you might want to negotiate custom pricing or look at the Professional tier.
You're not drowning in orders yet, but you're past the "I'll just go to the post office" stage. Goshippo's free or Starter plans give you professional-grade shipping without enterprise costs.
You need automation, better rates, and integrations that don't require a dedicated IT person. Goshippo handles this sweet spot well.
Selling on Shopify, Etsy, AND eBay? Goshippo pulls orders from all three, lets you manage everything in one place, and syncs tracking back automatically.
If you're shipping cross-border regularly, the customs form automation alone is worth the subscription cost.
Connect your e-commerce platform or marketplace (takes about 3 minutes)
Add your warehouse address and printer settings
Test with one shipment—compare rates, print a label, see how it feels
If it works, keep going. If not, you've spent zero dollars finding out.
ShipStation: More features, higher starting price ($9.99/month for 50 shipments). Better if you need advanced automation workflows.
Pirate Ship: Free forever, but USPS-focused. Limited multi-carrier options.
EasyShip: Good for international, slightly more expensive.
Easypost: Developer-focused API, no built-in dashboard.
Goshippo sits in the middle—more accessible than pure APIs, more affordable than full-featured platforms like ShipStation, and more multi-carrier capable than Pirate Ship.
Goshippo isn't going to revolutionize your life or make you an overnight millionaire. It's shipping software. It does what it says: saves you money on carrier rates, automates label printing, and integrates with your existing tools.
If you're shipping products and currently paying retail rates or manually entering addresses into carrier websites, switching to Goshippo is a no-brainer. The free plan lets you test risk-free. The Starter plan costs less than two fancy coffees per month. And the time saved from batch processing alone probably pays for itself in week one.
Is it perfect? No. Will it solve every logistics challenge? Also no. But it's solid, reliable, and pragmatic—which is exactly what you need when you're trying to run a business and not become a full-time shipping department.
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No credit card required. Cancel anytime. Just straightforward shipping software that does its job without the drama.