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 "schema_version": "1.0",
 "id": "shippo",
 "name": "Shippo",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "goshippo.com",
 "category": "Operations & Workflow",
 "task": "E-commerce & inventory ops",
 "summary": "Multi-carrier shipping software for e-commerce. Compare rates, print discounted labels and automate tracking across carriers — shipping that scales with your store.",
 "best_for": "e-commerce sellers shipping across multiple carriers who want rate comparison, label printing and tracking in one place with genuine rate discounts",
 "skip_if": "you ship a handful of packages monthly through one carrier (their native tools are fine), or you're big enough for direct carrier contracts to beat aggregated rates",
 "honest_knock": "The pricing is honest but layered. The free tier stops at 30 labels a month, and its 5¢ per label on your own carrier accounts quietly adds up. Pro looks like a flat $17 a month until you read the comparison table: it covers up to 10,000 shipments and then bills $0.08 for every label beyond that, so a good sales month adds a variable line to a subscription that reads as fixed. Address validation outside the US is metered too, at 9¢, 8¢ or 6¢ depending on plan. The real money is elsewhere anyway — in the carrier rate discounts, which vary by lane and weight. Run your five most common shipments through it against your current rates; that comparison decides, not the subscription price.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$19",
  "entry_price_terms": "per month for 1-200 labels, or $205/yr",
  "from_price_usd_month": 19.0,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "Read on their own pricing page, re-verified 25 September 2026. Starter is free: up to 30 labels a month, discounted USPS, UPS, FedEx and DHL Express rates, 1 user login, and 5¢ per label if you connect your own carrier account. Pro is banded by monthly label volume, priced monthly or annually: 1-200 labels $19/mo or $205/yr; 201-500 $29 or $313; 501-1,000 $54 or $583; 1,001-2,500 $79 or $853; 2,501-5,000 $139 or $1,501; 5,001-10,000 $199 or $2,149. Annual billing saves about 10% at every band. Labels beyond 10,000 a month cost $0.08 each. Pro makes your own carrier accounts free and adds branded tracking, chat and phone support. Premier is contact-us: unlimited shipments, 15+ logins, a dedicated account manager. Non-US address validation is metered separately at 9¢, 8¢ and 6¢ per validation on Starter, Pro and Premier. API calls not tied to a Shippo label, and the Estimate API, bill at API Starter rates.",
  "verified_at": "2026-09-25",
  "source_url": null,
  "schema_offer": null,
  "source_quotes": null,
  "recent_change": null,
  "price_history": {
   "status": "stable",
   "tracked_since": "2026-08-11",
   "last_read": "2026-09-21",
   "read_days": 9,
   "stable": {
    "since": "2026-08-11",
    "until": "2026-09-21",
    "reads": 9,
    "days": 41
   },
   "changes": [],
   "method": "Stable = every amount on the vendor's pricing page identical across >= 3 of our reads over >= 30 days. A change is listed only after we confirmed the new price on the page, with a verbatim quote. Differences in raw readings are never published on their own."
  }
 },
 "free_plan": true,
 "free_plan_evidence": "Starter is free: up to 30 labels a month, discounted USPS, UPS, FedEx and DHL Express rates, 1 user login, and 5¢ per label if you connect your own carrier account.",
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "usage_metered",
   "label": "Usage-metered",
   "evidence": "Non-US address validation is metered separately at 9¢, 8¢ and 6¢ per validation on Starter, Pro and Premier.",
   "verified_at": "2026-09-25",
   "source_url": null
  },
  {
   "id": "annual_lock",
   "label": "Annual commitment",
   "evidence": "Annual billing saves about 10% at every band.",
   "verified_at": "2026-09-25",
   "source_url": null
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "ShipStation or EasyPost",
  "why": "the direct shipping-software peers — compare discounted rates on your actual lanes and the workflow features your volume needs"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/shippo.json",
  "review": "https://officesoftwaremarketplace.com/shippo-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/shippo/",
  "vendor_site": "https://goshippo.com"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://try.shippo.com/bt14md940onh",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Plan-by-plan prices are not structured in this record yet; pricing.notes has the full text.",
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "Being verified: free trial and refund terms are not yet matched to a verbatim line on the vendor's own pages. Not matched does not mean there is none.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "verification": {
  "price": "read",
  "free_trial": "being_verified",
  "refund": "being_verified"
 },
 "status_page": null,
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "shippo:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "shippo:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "shippo:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "shippo:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": {
   "what": "Server at mcp.shippo.com: compare carrier rates, buy labels, track packages, validate addresses and handle customs.",
   "plan": "Works across all plan types. Reads — rates, address validation, tracking — cost nothing; buying a label charges your live account and asks for confirmation first.",
   "status": "Live",
   "source": "https://docs.goshippo.com/guides/mcp-server",
   "checked": "2026-07-28",
   "note": "The vendor's own MCP server, from our MCP research; it works with your own account at the vendor."
  },
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_found",
   "detail": "No explicit support for purchases by AI agents on the vendor's own pages.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 }
}