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If you have a Paypal account and a scale, you can take advantage of Paypal’s shipping label service:
1. Log in to Paypal, you’ll be on the “My Account Overview” page.
2. Click the “Profile” link to go to the Profile Summary page.
3. Under “Selling Preferences”, click on “Shipping Preferences”.
4. There you can select your default shipping carrier and opt to display the ship button next to transactions on the “My Account” page. Save each of your changes.
5. Now go back to the “My Account Overview” page. You should see a column that is labeled “Order status/Actions”. A drop down menu for printing shipping labels should now appear for payments you’ve received (you also have the option of just adding tracking info or just marking a package as shipped). If you click the link and ship the package through it, the ship button will change to say Shipped, Track. Clicking “Track” will take you to the tracking page for the service you sent the package through.
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Important Notes:
- Every label you print through Paypal will get Delivery Confirmation automatically–you can’t opt out of it.
- Delivery Confirmation is free on Priority Mail packages, and discounted to 19¢ on First Class and Parcel Post.
- First Class Mail Envelopes/Packages with Delivery Confirmation must be at least 3/4 inch thick or in a rigid mailer (see here for rigid mailer info, section 9.2.2.c), or it will be bumped up to Priority Mail. (And it may arrive “postage due” for the amount between the price you paid and the rate for sending the package Priority Mail.)
You can even use Paypal shipping if your customer didn’t pay you using Paypal–see here:
Shipping Through Paypal
Regardless of How the Customer Paid
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Ok this infomation is great but becauase i’m new to all this where do you get the special paper to print out these labels can you also order this special paper online and yes having a scale is a great idea also which I dont have yet. So with all this stuff does this eliminate the trips to the post office and you can just give it to your post man cuz that would be great Thanks So very Much for all your info Roxy
Roxy–You’re welcome! You can print the shipping label on plain paper and tape it to the package if you want, we did it that way for a long time.
Once we used peel and stick labels we never looked back though–the time and effort (and tape!) saved is worth the few pennies a label costs. (We put a little piece of scotch tape over the address because our printer ink isn’t waterproof.)
You can buy half-sheet labels online, just give it a google search.
If you are using online labels you can leave the packages for the postman, take them to the post office or drop them in the mailbox.
Everytime I sell something on Etsy and have what it cost to ship through them and paypal gets paid the shipping cost is not there. So I never see the buyers payment with shipping in PayPal even though its on there through Etsy. Help
Here’s the wrong shipping fix:
1. Log in to Paypal.
2. Click Profile.
3. On the right, under “Selling Preferences”, click Shipping Calculations.
4. Check the box for domestic shipping and click edit.
5. Next to:
“Use the shipping fee in the transaction instead of my calculator’s settings”
select the “yes” radio button.
6. Click save changes.
Do the same for international.
If you don’t see shipping profiles, create one and then override it.
I, too, am just getting started with Etsy, after much planning. I was considering shipping primarily by Priority Mail because it just seemed easier, reliable, and faster. I’m convinced now that this is just what I will do. Paypal offers many advantages.
This Forum is great.
Thanks so much.
Thanks for this!
juno
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Juno’s Place
Thank you for this great information!
I have a question though, is there a way to opt out of printing the paypal reciept that is the other half of the page when you print a paypal shipping label? It seems a shame to me to waste the other label when you’re using half sheet labels.
Thanks.
You’re welcome!
To turn off the receipt: In Paypal, go To My Account–Profile, then Shipping Preferences (on the right), click Edit printer settings, and uncheck the Print Receipt box and click the save button.
Thank you so much!
I’m still new to this process and after a couple tries now, I’m feeling a bit “challenged”. I’m trying to simply print a shipping label through PayPal. On the “My account overview” page I have the “Print Shipping Label” button. When I click on that, it gives me two options: Add tracking info. and Mark as shipped. The first option wants me to add a tracking # I don’t have yet or designate it as having no tracking info., and the second option marks it as shipped with no where to print a label! What am I missing or doing wrong? Also, could you walk me through the “Multi-Order Shipping” process using a SCAN form? Thanks!
When you are on the account overview page click the main part of the “Print Shipping Label” button, not the right end which is just a drop down menu.
Multi-order Shipping: On the right side of the main account page there is a link under “My account tools” to “Multi-order Shipping”.
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Thank you so much, I knew it was something simple (which can seemingly be the hardest, sometimes). Forgive the delay in my gratitude. I didn’t save this link and couldn’t find it again until today, when I finally got down off my high horse and asked my teenage daughter how to find it. She showed me in less than 30 seconds. (sigh)
Hello!
Thanks for this wonderful guide, I was able to easily follow it step by step! I want to start using Paypal to ship and have one quick question…usually at the post office delivery confirmation costs $.80, but if I do it through paypal it is only $.19?
Thank you!
Elisabet
Yes–only 19 cents. The only difference is that some packages with electroinic Delivery Confirmation won’t get scanned until they arrive at their destination, but it is “delivery confirmation” and not “tracking”, so it is as its name implies.
Great website.
I hope you can help me with this one – I am using the multiorder shipping in Paypal. I am also using peel and stick labels with 2 on a page. When I print one label I get html across the bottom of the page which ruins the second label. Any ideas?
Usually that is a setting in your web browser’s preferences. There should be someplace to uncheck a box for printing the webpage address on items, where that option is depends on which browser you use.
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