A free plan that never expires.
Never per label.
Shipping Hub has a free plan with no expiry and no label cap, and for your first six months every paid feature of both apps is switched on as well. You still buy your own postage, and Arub AI is charged only if you use it. Two rules we are not going to break: add the whole warehouse to your account and the price does not move, ship ten thousand parcels and the price does not move. We make money when you grow, not when you click.
Unlimited seats, always
Every instance gets unlimited users on every plan, including the free one. Packers, VAs, your bookkeeper, a seasonal hire for six weeks — add them all. There is no seat charge and there never will be.
No cut per label
Arub does not take a slice of your postage. Connect your own carrier accounts and you pay your contracted rate directly, with nothing added. We want your volume to go up, not to tax it.
Your price is your price, for good
Whatever a plan costs on the day you take it is what it costs you for as long as the account stays open. If the published price goes up later, new customers pay the new number and you stay on yours. No renewal letter, no annual uplift, no discount code that quietly expires.
Both apps are free for your first six months
Start today and you pay us nothing for six months — Shipping Hub and Listing Manager, every feature switched on, no card on file, no countdown in the corner. What follows is the shape of pricing after that, published early so nobody is surprised by it.
What happens when the six months end
You choose. Pick the plan that matches how you are actually working by then, or take the free Shipping Hub plan and stay on it indefinitely — it has no expiry and no label cap. Nothing upgrades you automatically, no card is charged without you choosing a plan first, and the price you pick is locked to your account for as long as it stays open.
You still pay for postage
Free is the software, not the shipping. Every label is paid for out of your own postage balance or billed to your own carrier account, at the carrier's price, with nothing added by us. Surcharges, duties and USPS re-weigh adjustments are the carrier's charges and they are yours too.
You pay for Arub AI only if you use it
AI writing and photo work run on credit you top up yourself. A run is not priced up front — what it costs depends on how much work it turns out to be — so it is metered as it happens and logged with its real cost afterward, which is how you can read a bulk job back line by line. Work by hand and you spend nothing, because nothing generates on its own.
One of these three stays free forever.
If all you need is orders in, a fair rate, and a label out, that is the free plan and it is not crippled to push you upward. The paid plans buy you volume tooling, the warehouse side, and Listing Manager Free along with them. Every plan connects every marketplace.
One person or a small bench shipping a manageable day, one order at a time.
Not a trial. No card, no expiry, no label cap.
- Unlimited users and unlimited orders
- All marketplace connections
- Live rate shopping across every carrier
- Buy and print labels one at a time
- Standard packing slips
- Tracking pushed back to the shop
- Listing Manager for 30 days, then it stops
You have stopped shipping one order at a time and the day is now a batch.
Free for your first six months, then locked at this price for the life of your account.
- Everything in Free
- Listing Manager Free included
- Batches: buy and print a whole day at once
- Package presets and multi-package shipments
- Your own slip and invoice designs
- Full reporting and branded buyer emails
- Merge, split, permissions and customs papers
A real warehouse: stock on shelves, staff at stations, and rules doing the boring parts.
Free for your first six months, then locked at this price for the life of your account.
- Everything in Standard
- Listing Manager Free included
- Inventory, receiving and low-stock alerts
- Customers with history and merge
- Print stations and the Windows print agent
- Order rules and per-shop carrier restrictions
- REST API, MCP server and webhooks
What is actually in each plan.
No asterisks. If a row says yes, it is the same feature described everywhere else on this site, not a reduced version of it.
| Feature | Free | Standard | Complete |
|---|---|---|---|
| Users | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Orders and labels | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Marketplace connections | Every one | Every one | Every one |
| Listing Manager | 30-day trial | Listing Manager Free | Listing Manager Free |
| Your own carrier accounts | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Live rate shopping | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Single label buying | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Tracking pushed back to shops | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Packing slips | Standard design | Your own designs | Your own designs |
| Batches and combined print files | — | Yes | Yes |
| Package presets | — | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-package and customs documents | — | Yes | Yes |
| Merge and split orders | — | Yes | Yes |
| Reports | — | All nine | All nine |
| Branded buyer emails | — | Yes | Yes |
| Products and SKU images | — | Yes | Yes |
| Permissions and permission groups | — | Yes | Yes |
| Inventory and receiving | — | — | Yes |
| Customers | — | — | Yes |
| Print stations and print agent | — | — | Yes |
| Order rules | — | — | Yes |
| Carriers allowed per shop | — | — | Yes |
| REST API, MCP and webhooks | Add-on | Add-on | Included |
| Buying labels over the API | USPS only | Every connected carrier | Every connected carrier |
Nothing here is enforced during your first six months — every account has all of it while the promotion runs.
One price. Every marketplace.
Listing Manager is $19.99 a month on its own, and that covers every marketplace it supports and as many shops as you run on each of them. Standard and Complete include Listing Manager Free, so if you are already on one of those you have a way in without adding anything.
$19.99 a month, whatever you sell on
Not per marketplace and not per shop. Run one Etsy shop or seven of them, add Amazon, Walmart and Shopify alongside, and the price does not move. A listing tool that costs more than it saves is not a tool.
No usage fees and no limits
Unlimited shops per marketplace, unlimited listings, unlimited edits and unlimited photo slots. Nothing in Listing Manager is metered and nothing runs out mid-job. Arub AI is the one thing charged separately, and only when you use it.
| Marketplace | Editor | Shops included | Extra cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Etsy | Full editor | Unlimited | None |
| Amazon | Full editor | Unlimited | None |
| Walmart | Full editor | Unlimited | None |
| Shopify | Full editor | Unlimited | None |
| Temu | Coming soon | Unlimited | None |
| TikTok Shop | Coming soon | Unlimited | None |
One price for the whole list, including the ones still to arrive, and it stays at whatever it was the day you subscribed.
Wide open today. An add-on later.
What you get today
The REST API, the MCP server and carrier webhooks are unrestricted on every account. No request charge, no rate tier, no key limit. Build against it and tell us where it is awkward.
How it is packaged
API access is included with Complete and an add-on for the other plans. If usage limits ever arrive they will be published first, and anyone already building against it will be told directly rather than throttled quietly.
On the free plan, the API buys USPS labels
Reading orders, quoting every connected carrier, tracking and reports work the same on every plan. Buying a label is the one call that follows your plan: a free account can buy USPS labels over the API, and buying UPS or FedEx labels over the API is part of a paid plan. This is an API rule only — inside the app, a free account still buys from any carrier it has connected.
The policy, in plain words.
"Unlimited" on this page means what it says: we are not counting your orders, your labels, your users or your listings, and we are not going to invent a ceiling once you rely on us.
What fair use covers is the small number of cases that are not really a customer using a product. Reselling access to your instance to other businesses. Automated traffic that is hammering the API for its own sake rather than running your operation. Anything that degrades the service for other people on the platform.
If your account ever looks like one of those, the first thing that happens is a conversation. We come to you, explain what we are seeing, and work out what is going on. Nothing gets throttled, suspended or charged without us speaking to a human first. There is no automated enforcement, and there is no clause here that lets us bill you for a busy month.
What this is not
It is not a soft cap. A seasonal spike is normal use, Black Friday is normal use, and importing six years of order history is normal use. If you are running your own business through Arub, fair use will never come up.
Pricing questions
Can my price go up later?
No. The price on this page the day you sign up is your price for the life of the account. If the published price rises later, that applies to new customers only and you stay on the plan and the price you already have.
It is not an introductory rate that resets after a year, and there is no annual uplift. The only way your bill changes is if you change your plan yourself.
Is there really no per-seat charge?
None. Every instance has unlimited users on every plan, free included. Add your whole team, your accountant and a temp for the holidays and the bill does not change.
Permissions are per user, so adding someone does not mean giving them the run of the place.
Do you take a cut of postage?
No, and there is no per-label fee on any plan. Connect your own USPS, UPS or FedEx accounts and you pay your negotiated rate directly with nothing added by us.
The one exception is Arub USPS, which exists for sellers who have no carrier account at all. That rate is discounted off retail and includes a small margin, and the price is shown before you buy.
Is the free plan a trial?
No. The Shipping Hub free plan has no expiry, no card and no countdown. It is a genuinely usable shipping plan for someone doing a modest daily volume, and you can stay on it indefinitely.
Listing Manager is the exception: on the free plan you get 30 days of it, or the full six months while the current promotion runs, and after that it stops unless you take Standard, Complete or Listing Manager on its own.
If I only want Listing Manager, do I pay for Shipping Hub?
No. They are separate. Listing Manager is $19.99 a month on its own, and you can leave Shipping Hub on the free plan or ignore it entirely.
The other direction also works: Standard and Complete include Listing Manager Free, so a paid shipping plan gets you into the listings side without adding anything.
Does adding a second Etsy shop cost more?
No. Listing Manager is one flat $19.99 a month covering every marketplace and every shop on each of them. Add a second Etsy shop, or Amazon and Walmart on top, and the price does not move.
What happens to my data if I stop paying?
It stays yours. Your orders, listings, customers and history remain in your instance, and we will export them for you on request. Nothing is held hostage behind a renewal.
Can I buy labels through the API on the free plan?
USPS labels, yes. A free account can read orders, quote every carrier it has connected and buy USPS labels over the API. Buying UPS or FedEx labels over the API is part of a paid plan.
This limit is only on the API. In the app itself, a free account buys labels from any carrier it has connected, with nothing held back.
Lock in today's price for good.
Whatever a plan costs on the day you take it is what it costs you from then on. It costs nothing to find out whether Arub suits how you work.