Supplement shipping is mostly ground, until it is not
Supplement brands ship a lot of small, dense bottles and a lot of tubs of powder. Dense bottles bill on scale weight. Tubs and mailers often bill on dimensional weight. Subscription boxes add a monthly spike. The rate that matters is the one on that mix, not a single-bottle test to the founder's house.
The Shipping Savers prices UPS and FedEx for that file. Shopify can stay the store. ShipStation can stay the label screen. No monthly fee from us.
Where the invoice moves
- Residential delivery on direct-to-consumer orders.
- Dimensional weight on light tubs and insert-heavy mailers.
- 2-day upgrades when a subscription renewal ships late.
- The difference between a case to a retailer and a jar to a customer.
Supplement orders, not a single jar
Subscription renewals that ship on the same day create a zone mix that a launch week will not show. Send a normal renewal week if you have one.
Tubs of powder and bottles of capsules do not bill alike. Tubs lose to dimensional weight. Bottles lose to scale weight and to the minimum, if the carton is small.
A retailer case and a consumer mailer are different services even when both say Ground. Split them.
We will not advise you on whether a given ingredient may move by air. If your compliance rule says ground only, the comparison stays on ground.
How it works
- Send a recent UPS or FedEx invoice, or a shipment export with ZIP codes, service, weight, dimensions and charges.
- We compare the same packages and the same service. The price you see is the label price.
- If the numbers work, you ship with UPS or FedEx on our account. Our fee is one cent per label, already included. There is no monthly fee and no contract.
What you pay us
The Shipping Savers fee is $0.01 per purchased label. It is already inside the price on the label. We do not add a monthly membership. Carrier charges, residential fees, fuel, delivery-area fees and other accessorials are part of that label price, not a second bill from us. Read the pricing page for the full explanation.
The only published before-and-after figure on this site is one real shipment: a 10 lb UPS Next Day Air package, 10 × 10 × 10 inches, New York to Los Angeles. It was $35.75 before and $16.78 with The Shipping Savers. That is not a rate for your lane. Your price comes from your own file.
Shopify and ShipStation
You can keep the software you already use to take orders. Shopify stays the store. ShipStation can stay the place where the team buys labels. On ShipStation, our Chrome add-on shows the rate next to the order, including when the order uses third-party billing. See discounted rates inside ShipStation and Shopify shipping rates.
Questions
Do you give compliance advice on what can ship by air?
No. What may go by air is a product and carrier rule. We price the service you are allowed to buy. If a product is restricted, that is your compliance step, not a rate step.
Is there a contract, monthly fee, or minimum volume?
No contract, no monthly fee, and no minimums. The only fee from The Shipping Savers is one cent per label, and it is already included in the price you see.
Do the packages still ship with UPS and FedEx?
Yes. The same UPS and FedEx services, drivers, and tracking. What changes is the account the label is priced on.
How do I get a real price?
Send a recent invoice or a shipment export. We price your packages. We do not publish a table of sample lanes, because a lane that is not yours is not your price.