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A shipping label is the printed sticker fixed to the outside of every parcel that tells the courier where to deliver the package, who to return it to, and how to identify the shipment in the carrier's system. A complete label includes the sender's return address, the recipient's delivery address, a tracking number (often as a barcode), the service type (Standard, Express, Priority), the parcel weight, and the order or reference number. Most ecommerce sellers print labels in the standard 4 x 6 inch (100 x 150 mm) thermal format using a Zebra, Munbyn, or Rollo printer, but plain A4 paper works fine for low-volume shipments.
These three documents travel with every shipment but serve different purposes. A shipping label goes on the outside of the box and tells the courier where to deliver it. A packing slip goes inside the box and lists the items so the customer can verify the contents. A commercial invoice is required for cross-border shipments and declares the value, origin, and HS code of goods for customs clearance. For freight shipments by sea or land, you also need a bill of lading. Domestic ecommerce orders typically need only a shipping label and a packing slip; international orders need all four documents.
A complete ecommerce shipping label should always include: sender name and return address (so couriers can return undeliverable packages), recipient name, full delivery address, and phone number (the most prominent block on the label), the tracking number as both human-readable text and a scannable barcode, the service level (Standard, Express, Priority, which affects routing and SLA), the parcel weight in kilograms (used for billing and dimensional weight checks), the order or reference number for warehouse cross-checking, and any special handling flags such as Fragile, This Side Up, or Cash on Delivery. Marketplaces such as Shopee, Lazada, and TikTok Shop also require their marketplace order ID printed on the label so first-mile staff can route the parcel to the correct sortation lane.
The 4 x 6 inch (100 x 150 mm) format is the global ecommerce standard. It is what Shopee SPX, Ninja Van, J&T, DHL eCommerce, FedEx, and most marketplace label generators output by default. Other common sizes include 4 x 4 inch (used by USPS for some priority products), 6 x 4 inch landscape, and A4 (210 x 297 mm) sheets with 1, 2, 4, 6, or 10 labels per page. This generator outputs a 4 x 6 portrait label that prints cleanly on a thermal label printer or scales to fit a single A4 page in your browser's print dialog. Your data stays in your browser and is never sent to any server.
For volumes under 30 parcels per day, an A4 inkjet or laser printer with adhesive label sheets is the cheapest setup. Expect to pay around S$0.05-0.10 per label in materials. Above that volume, a dedicated thermal label printer (Zebra ZD220, Munbyn ITPP941, Rollo, or the local SPX/Ninja Van branded units) is faster, uses no ink, and produces sharper barcodes, at S$200-450 upfront and S$0.02-0.04 per label in thermal media. Always test the barcode with the carrier's scanning app before shipping a batch. Many marketplaces such as Shopee and Lazada provide their own pre-formatted labels in seller centre, so use this generator only for orders that come from your own website, manual orders, or marketplaces that do not auto-generate labels (such as some Temu semi-managed shipments and direct B2B orders).
If you would rather keep the template inside a document you already own, both Microsoft Word and Google Docs can produce a usable 4 x 6 shipping label, though neither is built for it. In Word, go to Mailings > Labels > Options and pick a label vendor and product code that matches the adhesive sheets you bought (Avery 5164 is the common 3.33 x 4 inch shipping size in the US; Avery L7166 is the closest A4 equivalent). For a true 4 x 6 thermal label, create a New Label with a custom height of 6 inches, width of 4 inches, and all four margins set to zero. In Google Docs there is no native label tool, so the practical route is File > Page setup with a custom 4 x 6 inch page and zero margins, then a single borderless table for the address blocks.
The catch with both is barcodes. Word can render a Code 128 barcode through a mail-merge field or an installed barcode font, and Google Docs cannot do it at all without an add-on. If your courier scans a barcode at pickup, a Word or Docs label will usually fail the scan test. Actionable Insight: use Word or Docs only for internal transfers, B2B deliveries where the courier writes the consignment note by hand, and return labels. For anything scanned by SPX, Ninja Van, J&T, or DHL eCommerce, generate the label above or pull it from the marketplace seller centre.
Every browser can turn this template into a PDF without extra software. Click Print, then choose Save as PDF (Chrome and Edge) or PDF > Save as PDF (Safari) as the destination. Three settings decide whether the PDF prints at the correct physical size:
For batch printing, save each order as its own PDF and merge them into one file before sending it to the printer, so the whole run goes through in a single job. Print one label first and scan it with the carrier's driver app before committing a batch. A thermal printer at 203 dpi is enough for a Code 128 barcode at 4 x 6; 300 dpi is worth having if you print small QR codes or dense 2D symbols. Declare the same chargeable weight on the label that you gave the courier at booking, otherwise the parcel gets reweighed and surcharged in transit.
Manually pasting addresses into a label template works for a handful of orders per day. Once you scale past 20-30 orders per day across multiple sales channels, the manual approach becomes the bottleneck. Copy-paste errors, wrong tracking numbers, and labels printed for the wrong parcel start eating into margin. Multi-channel order management tools like OneCart pull orders from Shopify, Shopee, Lazada, Amazon, TikTok Shop, WooCommerce, and other platforms into a single dashboard, then auto-generate shipping labels and packing slips with the correct carrier, tracking number, and marketplace ID for every order. This eliminates the manual step entirely and means every parcel leaves your warehouse with the right label on the first try.
The global ecommerce standard is 4 x 6 inches (100 x 150 mm) printed on a thermal label printer. Other common sizes include 4 x 4 inches and A4 sheets with 1, 2, 4, 6 or 10 labels per page. SPX Express, Ninja Van, J&T Express, DHL eCommerce and FedEx all default to the 4 x 6 portrait format.
Yes. For low-volume shipments you can print a 4 x 6 label on plain A4 paper using an inkjet or laser printer, then attach it to the parcel with clear packing tape. Above roughly 30 parcels a day, a thermal label printer such as a Zebra ZD220, Munbyn ITPP941 or Rollo is faster, uses no ink and produces sharper barcodes.
Word has a built-in label tool at Mailings > Labels > Options, where you pick a vendor product code such as Avery 5164, or define a custom 4 x 6 inch label with zero margins. It works for the address blocks, but Word cannot reliably produce a scannable Code 128 barcode without a mail-merge barcode field or an installed barcode font, so it is best kept for internal transfers and hand-written consignment notes rather than scanned courier pickups.
Fill in the generator above, click Print, and choose Save as PDF as the print destination. Set the paper size to 100 x 150 mm, scale to 100% rather than Fit to page, and margins to None. Scaling is the most common cause of a printed barcode that will not scan.
The sender's return address, the recipient's full delivery address and phone number, a tracking number as both text and barcode, the service level (Standard, Express, Priority), the parcel weight, the order or reference number, and any special handling flags such as Fragile or Cash on Delivery. Marketplace orders should also display the marketplace order ID so first-mile staff can sort the parcel correctly.
Yes. The shipping label goes on the outside of the box and tells the courier where to deliver it. The packing slip goes inside the box and lists the items so the customer can verify the contents. International shipments also need a commercial invoice for customs, and freight shipments need a bill of lading. Most warehouses print both documents in the same pass during pick, pack and ship.
Yes. This shipping label template is completely free with no signup required. Your data stays in your browser and is never sent to a server. You can print directly to any printer or save as a PDF using your browser's print-to-PDF feature.
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