Every order, every carrier,
one queue
Your orders come in from Etsy, Amazon, Walmart and Shopify by themselves and land in one list, with the postage price already worked out. Pick a price, print the label, done. USPS pricing is built in, so there is no carrier account to set up first — you buy the postage itself, at the carrier’s price, with nothing added on top.
Free for six months — and what that does not cover
The six months is the software: every feature, every user, no card on file. Postage is separate and always yours. A label is paid for out of your own postage balance or billed to your own carrier account, at the carrier's price, and Arub adds nothing to it. Duties, surcharges and any USPS re-weigh adjustment are the carrier's charges too, and they land on your account, not ours.
After the six months you choose: Standard at $39.99 a month, Complete at $99.99 a month, or the free plan, which has no expiry and no label cap. See pricing.
Price a parcel when there is no order yet
Rate Quote is a screen of its own, separate from the order queue. Put in a destination, a weight and a box, and every carrier you have connected answers at once, cheapest first. Nothing is created, nothing is bought, and no order has to exist — it is there for the question a customer asks before they buy, and for checking what a size or service change would really cost you.
- Bring your own accounts. Your USPS, UPS and FedEx contracts, your negotiated pricing. Arub never marks them up.
- Or use ours. Arub USPS is built in at negotiated pricing — nothing to apply for, no monthly minimum, no volume promise.
- Economy services included. UPS Ground Saver and FedEx Ground Economy do not show up in an ordinary rate shop. Arub asks for them by name.
- Same prices as the order screen. A quote here is the same live carrier call an order makes, so the number you tell a customer is the number you will pay.
Rates on the order, without opening a second screen
Orders are rated where they live. Arub asks every connected carrier for the order's own address, box and weight, keeps the answer on the order so the queue already shows a price before you open it, and throws that quote away the moment you change the box or the weight rather than leaving it to go stale. Pick a rate and it stays picked, including when a batch buys it later.
The rest of the parcel is on the same screen: items, personalization, buyer notes, address, weight, declared value and the rate list, without a single tab change. Arrow keys walk the list you filtered, so you can work a queue without going back to it.
- Extras priced live. Signature, adult signature and insurance are re-quoted against the carrier on the order, not estimated.
- Paste an address. Drop a block of text and Arub pulls the name, street, city, state and ZIP code out of it.
- Merge and split. Combine two orders from the same buyer into one parcel, or split one order across several.
- Multi-package shipments. Quote and buy several boxes as one shipment; the labels come back merged into a single file.
- Customs handled. International orders build their declaration from the line items automatically.
Buy a hundred labels the way you buy one
Group the orders you want, press buy once, and get a single print file back — label then packing slip, ordered by product so the picking follows the paper.
Nothing buys silently
Before a run spends anything, Arub checks every order in the batch. If one cannot ship, the whole run stops and tells you which and why — it does not buy the rest and leave you to notice.
A second label is a question
An order that already has a live label does not silently get another. Arub names the carrier, service and tracking number already on it, and waits for you to confirm.
One file, in picking order
The combined PDF groups single-product orders together and puts mixed orders first, so the stack you carry to the shelves matches the order you pull in.
Paper size is a setting, not a surprise
Letter, 4x6 thermal, or a split sheet with the label on one half and the slip on the other. Raster labels are trimmed, rotated and scaled to fill the sheet properly rather than printing small in a corner.
The parts you should not have to think about
Most of a shipping day is repetition. These are the pieces Arub does on its own once you have told it the rule.
Rules and tags
Match on channel, SKU, destination or order text and apply a tag, a package preset or a surcharge. Re-run rules over orders that are already here when you change your mind.
Hold and auto-release
Park an order until a date and time. It comes back into the active queue by itself, so a made-to-order item stops cluttering today's list.
Tracking pushed back
The moment a label exists, the number goes back to Etsy, Amazon, Walmart or Shopify. If a push fails, it lands on a report you can retry from, not in a log nobody reads.
Order reconcile
If an order is canceled or shipped on the marketplace itself, Arub notices on its next pass and closes it here, so nothing sits in the queue forever.
Print stations
A small Windows agent puts a printer at the end of the workflow. Labels go straight to the thermal printer at the bench, and a bench can be shared with the rest of the team.
Documents that look like yours
Packing slips and invoices are edited visually with plain tokens, not template code. Pick the columns, add your logo, and it is the same on every order.
Know what is on the shelf and what is on a boat
Stock by location, incoming purchase orders from your factories, and a receiving log that records what arrived and where it was put away. Low-stock alerts email whoever you choose, only on the days something is actually low.
- Per-location counts with a rolled-up total per item
- Printable QR shelf labels and a phone scan screen behind a PIN
- A per-item threshold when one product needs a different rule
Eleven reports, one date range, your own numbers
Orders due today, shipment status, tracking sent to shops, sales and revenue, this year versus last year, carriers and shipping cost, fulfillment speed, products and SKUs, where orders ship, sales channels, and USPS adjustments — every one filterable by date range and built from your own shipments.
Analytics & Reporting walks through every report in both apps, with example screens and where each figure comes from.
What connects to what
| Connection | What Arub does with it | Status |
|---|---|---|
| USPS | Rates and labels on your own account, or on Arub's managed account with no application | Live |
| UPS | Rates and labels including Ground Saver, which needs its own named request | Live |
| FedEx | Rates and labels including Ground Economy and One Rate flat pricing | Live |
| Etsy | Orders, personalization, buyer notes, gift wrap, tracking pushed back | Live |
| Amazon | Orders including Custom personalization files, tracking pushed back | Live |
| Walmart | Orders and line-level tracking pushed back | Live |
| Shopify | Orders, discounts and per-item images; fulfillments created on ship | Live |
Ship your next order in Arub
Connect a shop, quote a rate, print a label. Coming from another platform? Your past orders, shipments and tracking can come across too — if it has an API or an export, we can build the import. Accounts are set up by hand, usually inside a business day.