How to batch-print shipping labels for marketplace orders
By the Seller Copilot team · · 5 min read
To batch-print shipping labels, bring every channel's unshipped orders into one list, select the batch, and generate the labels together — Royal Mail for letters and tracked items, Evri for heavier parcels — with the tracking written back to each marketplace automatically. The part that eats the hour is copying tracking numbers back one by one; batching removes it.
1. Get every channel's orders into one list
You can't batch what's split across five seller dashboards. Pull orders from eBay, Amazon, Etsy, TikTok Shop and Shopify into a single unshipped list, then filter to what's ready to go out today.
2. Choose the courier per order — or by rule
Most sellers don't use one courier for everything. Send light and letter-sized items by Royal Mail and heavier parcels by Evri. Set a rule based on weight and value so the obvious cases pick themselves, and override by hand where you need to.
3. Print the batch
Select the orders and print all the labels in one action, across both couriers if you're mixing them. Then produce the despatch manifest for hand-over. That's the day's post done in a single pass rather than order by order.
4. Let the tracking write itself back
As each label is created, its tracking number is saved to the order and sent back to the channel, so the marketplace marks the order despatched and the buyer gets tracking. This is the step that protects your despatch metrics — and the one that's most tedious to do by hand.
Common problems and fixes
- Wrong service chosen on some parcels. Your rule is too broad. Tighten the weight and value bands, or override those orders.
- Tracking not showing on eBay. The label printed but the write-back didn't run — check the channel connection is still authorised.
- Labels and picking lists out of order. Sort the batch the same way you pick, so labels come off the printer in shelf order.
FAQs
What's the point of batch-printing over printing one at a time? +
Time. Printing individually means opening each order, choosing a service, printing, then copying the tracking number back to the marketplace — repeated for every parcel. Batching does the whole day's orders in one pass and writes the tracking back for you, turning an hour into a few minutes.
Can I use Royal Mail for some orders and Evri for others in the same batch? +
Yes. You can split a batch by courier — letters and tracked items by Royal Mail, heavier parcels by Evri — either choosing per order or by a rule based on weight and value. Both print together and each tracking number goes back to the right order.
Does the tracking number go back to the marketplace automatically? +
Yes. When each label is generated, its tracking number is saved to the order and pushed back to the channel it came from, so eBay and Amazon mark the order despatched and show the buyer their tracking without you retyping anything.
Can I pick the cheapest correct service automatically? +
Set rules by weight and order value so each order gets the right service without you choosing by hand — for example, small light items on a letter service and heavier parcels on a tracked parcel service. You keep control; the rule just does the obvious cases.
Seller Copilot batch-prints Royal Mail and Evri labels from your marketplace orders and writes the tracking back for you. It's on the free plan. Start free.