Buy postage through a shipping service, then match each label to its TCGplayer order. This guide compares several label workflows and explains where Hoard’s picking tools and ShippingEasy handoff fit.
To print a shipping label for a TCGplayer order, send the buyer’s shipping details to a postage service, buy the appropriate postage there, and match the label to the packed order. An address slip or pull sheet is not paid postage. Check the import or integration your chosen service supports before committing a batch.
TCGplayer's seller dashboard gives you order data: buyer address, item list, and a shipping-info CSV export. It does not give you a label, a rate, or a carrier account. Every seller printing a label for a TCGplayer order is either buying it manually somewhere else, or feeding TCGplayer's exported order data into a tool that buys it for them. There's no shortcut around that step, only different amounts of manual work depending on which tool sits in the middle.
Pirate Ship, ShipStation, EasyPost, and Shippo cover almost every TCGplayer seller's label workflow, but none of them talk to TCGplayer directly. Some connect through a dedicated TCG tool built on top of them. One requires a manual CSV import every time.
| Tool | Native TCGplayer connection | How TCG sellers actually reach it |
|---|---|---|
| Pirate Ship | None | Manual CSV export from TCGplayer, then CSV import into Pirate Ship |
| ShipStation | None | No TCG-specific bridge tool in common use; native integration exists for Mana Pool, not TCGplayer |
| EasyPost | None | TCG-ShipSync or TCGTracking, both built on EasyPost as the shipping backend |
| Shippo | None | ShadowPOS, a point-of-sale product built on Shippo as the shipping backend |
Pirate Ship is free USPS and UPS label buying with no monthly fee, and it's the default for small TCG sellers. It's also the one tool on this list with no automated bridge to TCGplayer at all. Mana Pool, a different card marketplace, documents the same CSV-import workaround as its own recommended pattern, because neither Mana Pool nor TCGplayer has a native Pirate Ship connection. TCGplayer sellers use the identical pattern: export the shipping-info CSV from the TCGplayer seller dashboard, then import that file into Pirate Ship to generate labels in a batch. It works, and it costs nothing beyond postage, but it's a manual export-then-import step on every batch, not a live sync. For the full walkthrough of that CSV workflow, see a closer look at Pirate Ship's free label workflow.
ShipStation has a native integration with Mana Pool. It has no native integration with TCGplayer. Sellers coming from other marketplaces where ShipStation just works often assume the same connection exists here, and it doesn't. There's more detail on why that gap exists and what to do instead in why ShipStation still can't connect to TCGplayer directly.
EasyPost doesn't sell to TCG sellers directly. It's the shipping backend behind TCG-ShipSync and TCGTracking, two tools built specifically to bridge TCGplayer order data into label creation and tracking. TCG-ShipSync's own marketing claims manual label creation takes 2 to 3 minutes per order, against roughly 10 seconds per order once the tool automates it. That's TCG-ShipSync's own comparison of its product against the manual process, not an independent measurement, but the underlying point holds regardless of the exact numbers: a seller doing labels one at a time in a carrier's own web portal is doing meaningfully more manual work per order than one running through a tool that automates the EasyPost call.
Shippo works the same way EasyPost does here: it's infrastructure, not a seller-facing product on its own for TCGplayer. ShadowPOS, a point-of-sale product aimed at card shops, runs its shipping on Shippo. A seller choosing ShadowPOS for point-of-sale reasons inherits Shippo as the label engine underneath it, rather than picking Shippo as a standalone decision.
Label printing is one step in a longer chain that starts at the pull sheet and ends at tracking. It's covered end to end in the TCG fulfillment software guide. Hoard’s Pull Sessions workflow organizes picking and printable shipping slips. With ShippingEasy connected, you can send eligible tracked orders into its shipping workflow; an order with no address on file is held back instead of pushed. You buy postage and print postage labels in the shipping service; Hoard does not sell postage. And whichever tool handles labels usually ends up handling packing slips too, since the two print jobs pull from the same order data. See pairing labels with packing slips automatically for that part of the workflow.
Hoard's own ShippingEasy integration automates that handoff: it pushes eligible tracked orders into ShippingEasy, each with an estimated package weight based on the order's card count. Hoard then checks ShippingEasy every 10 minutes for a bought label's tracking number, and uploads it to TCGplayer automatically once you turn on the Auto-ship on TCGplayer toggle. See how the ShippingEasy push works and Hoard's shipping automation page for the full loop.
No. Hoard organizes pull sessions and printable shipping slips, and its ShippingEasy integration can send eligible tracked orders to that service, where you buy postage and print labels. Orders with no shipping address yet are held back rather than pushed.
No. TCGplayer's seller dashboard gives you order data, buyer address, item list, and a shipping-info CSV export, but not a label, a rate, or a carrier account. Every seller printing a label for a TCGplayer order routes through a third party.
Yes, Pirate Ship is free USPS and UPS label buying with no monthly fee, and it's the default for small TCG sellers. There's no automated bridge to TCGplayer though, so it runs on a manual CSV export and import each batch. See the full Pirate Ship CSV workflow.
No. ShipStation has a native integration with Mana Pool, a different card marketplace, but no native integration with TCGplayer. See why that connection doesn't exist and what to do instead.
EasyPost doesn't sell to TCG sellers directly. It's the shipping backend behind TCG-ShipSync and TCGTracking, two dedicated tools built to bridge TCGplayer order data into label creation and tracking.
Tracked and Expedited orders. Plain white envelope (PWE) orders are skipped and still ship with a stamp, the same as before.
Yes. The Orders tab's Labels control offers both from the same order selection: push to ShippingEasy, or export a Pirate Ship CSV. See the Pirate Ship CSV workflow.
Use Hoard to organize picking and shipping slips, then use your shipping service to buy postage and print labels.
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