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How should you ship: label software or a 3PL?

Pack it yourself with label software, or pay a warehouse per order: the answer is your volume and your labor.

DecisionShippoSkuvelo LiveShipStationSkuvelo LiveShipBobSkuvelo BetaFBA and Multi-ChannelSkuvelo Live
CostFree up to 30 labels a month; Pro from $17 a month. Discounted carrier rates on every plan.1From $14.99 a month for 50 shipments; the price rises with monthly volume.2Custom quote covering receiving, storage and pick, pack and ship per order.3Per-unit fulfillment and monthly storage fees, set by Amazon by size and weight.
Who packsYour team.Your team.ShipBob's warehouse staff.Amazon's fulfillment network.
Who it suitsLower volume packed in house.Higher in-house volume across several channels.Teams out of packing space or staff.Catalogs that sell mostly on Amazon.
Multichannel ordersLabels for orders from any channel.Orders from connected stores and marketplaces in one queue.Turnkey integrations with Amazon, Walmart and Shopify.4Ships orders from other sites, marketplaces and social channels, unbranded by default.5
Where stock sitsYour shelves.Your shelves.Split across ShipBob's fulfillment centers.Split across Amazon's fulfillment centers.
Your planning jobUnchanged: you hold and count the stock.Unchanged: you hold and count the stock.Still yours: reorder against ShipBob's units plus your own.Still yours: send inbound before FBA stock runs out.
What Skuvelo connectsBuy labels through your own Shippo account; Shippo bills the postage. Tracking stays beside the shipment. See connection and limitsShipments, carriers, tracking and delivery status. Read-only; no label buying. See connection and limitsShipBob's on-hand stock as one location, about every 15 minutes. Read-only. See connection and limitsFBA stock, orders and settlements. Read-only; never creates Multi-Channel orders. See connection and limits
  1. 1. goshippo.com/pricing, read 2026-10-14
  2. 2. shipstation.com/pricing, read 2026-10-14
  3. 3. shipbob.com/pricing, read 2026-10-14
  4. 4. shipbob.com/product/apps-api, read 2026-10-14
  5. 5. supplychain.amazon.com/multi-channel-fulfillment, read 2026-10-14

Skuvelo capability reviewed October 14, 2026 against its connector catalog.

  • Pick Shippo if you pack in house and want discounted carrier labels without a large monthly plan.
  • Pick ShipStation if you pack in house at volume and want every channel's orders in one queue.
  • Pick ShipBob if packing labor or space is the bottleneck and its per-order fees cost less than hiring.
  • Pick FBA alone if most units sell on Amazon; Multi-Channel Fulfillment ships your other orders from the same stock.

Skuvelo never buys postage for you: every label is billed to the shipping account you bring, and stock held by a 3PL or FBA is still yours to plan.

In Skuvelo, Shippo is Live; ShipStation is Live; ShipBob is Beta; Amazon Seller Central is Live.

External facts read 2026-10-14; each one links its source. Prices and terms can change; confirm them with the platform.

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