Wholesale shipping rates for e-commerce.
ShipStation, Shopify, Amazon FBM — credentials-swap integration.
A Shopify shipping discount or FedEx bulk rate at retail tier looks like 10–15% off — useful, but not what Fortune 500 e-commerce operators actually pay. At our volume tier, your Shopify or Amazon FBM orders print at wholesale rates that land 30–45% below what the retail tier offers.
The integration lives in ShipStation or your storefront's native shipping config — you don't change anything about how labels print, how tracking syncs back to Shopify, or how Amazon FBM metrics update. The only observable change is that the per-label cost drops.
The numbers on a typical e-commerce operator.
Returns generate at the same wholesale rate as outbound.
What a Shopify apparel brand typically sees.
The figures below are an illustrative scenario, not a specific customer result. Actual savings vary by shipping volume, lane mix, weight, and product type.
Consider a Shopify-native apparel brand running 5,000 orders a month at an $8 average retail label — almost entirely UPS Ground with SurePost fallback on the low-AOV long-zone orders, on a Shopify → ShipStation → Klaviyo stack with no manual label printing.
Onboarding is typically a 20-minute credentials swap inside ShipStation. A brand at that volume would commonly see its shipping line drop from around $40,000/mo to roughly $27,000/mo, with nothing else about the customer experience — tracking, returns, Klaviyo triggers — changing. That kind of $13,000 monthly difference is often redirected straight into paid ads.
Why e-commerce operators choose Priority Shippers.
- ShipStation, Shopify, WooCommerce, and Amazon FBM integrations — credentials-swap setup, no workflow disruption.
- Return labels generate at the same wholesale rate as outbound, line-item visible on weekly invoices.
- Accessorials (residential, dim weight, address correction) pass through at carrier-published rates — no markup.
- No peak-season rate lockouts — you keep wholesale pricing through Q4 (peak surcharges still apply, same as on direct accounts).
Onboarding for e-commerce.
- 1Send an invoice or a ShipStation export.
We project savings off your actual label history — by service level, zone, and weight class. Returned as a line-item spreadsheet within one business day.
- 2Sign off and we provision credentials.
You receive UPS and FedEx carrier credentials the next morning. If you use DHL for international, those come bundled.
- 3Swap credentials in ShipStation (or Shopify/WooCommerce/Amazon).
Each platform has a carrier-credentials section. Paste ours in, remove yours. First wholesale-rate label prints within minutes.
- 4Weekly invoice, margin-visible.
Every Monday you get a spreadsheet-ready invoice per shipment: retail, your rate, our margin, accessorials. Accessorials pass through at exact carrier-published amounts.
Frequently asked
Does Priority Shippers integrate with ShipStation, Shopify, and WooCommerce?
Yes. Integration is a credentials swap — you replace your existing UPS/FedEx account connection in ShipStation (or Shopify Shipping, WooCommerce Shipping, ShipBob, ShippingEasy) with Priority Shippers credentials. Nothing about your order-to-label workflow changes; only the rate engine your platform quotes against.
How do return labels work?
Return labels generate against the same Priority Shippers account at the same wholesale rates. A Shopify or Amazon seller creating a return-label PDF in their platform inherits the wholesale rate exactly like on an outbound label. We bill return-label usage identically — line-item on your weekly invoice with retail, your rate, and margin shown.
What about address correction fees and residential surcharges?
Those are carrier accessorials. UPS and FedEx charge them at published rates; Priority Shippers passes them through without markup. If you see a $19 address-correction line on your invoice, that's the carrier's fee — you'd pay the same amount on a direct UPS account.
Do wholesale rates apply during peak season (November–December)?
Yes, but carriers add peak-season surcharges across the board — on direct accounts and on wholesale-broker accounts. Your base rate stays at the wholesale level; the peak surcharge is a carrier-published line item applied on top. Our customers typically see peak-season invoices roughly 15–25% higher per label than the rest of the year, same as anyone else shipping in that window.
I ship Amazon FBM — does this work?
Yes. Amazon's Buy Shipping API integrates with ShipStation, which integrates with us. Or if you're printing Amazon Buy Shipping labels directly, you can use your own carrier account (Priority Shippers credentials) as the billing account — Amazon supports third-party carrier accounts on FBM. The wholesale rate applies to every label you print.
What's the minimum volume for ecommerce pricing to make sense?
Roughly 50 orders a day, or about 1,500 orders a month. Below that, the per-label savings accumulate slowly enough that the workflow change isn't usually worth it. Above 200 orders/day, most customers save between $15,000 and $40,000 monthly depending on service mix and destination pattern.
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