Manage Your ShipStation Balance

Your ShipStation Balance pays for the labels you create with ShipStation Carriers. To purchase a label successfully, you must have a positive balance in the account.

The Payments & Subscription settings allow you to manage your ShipStation Balance to ensure you can always create labels when you need to. You can manually add funds to the account at your preferred time or set ShipStation to auto-fund the balance.

Add Funds to Your Balance

Manually adding funds to your account allows you to control exactly how much you add to your balance and when.

And that's it! You're ready to continue creating labels with ShipStation Carriers.

Set Up Your Payment Method

If you haven't added a payment method for your ShipStation Balance yet, choose Get Started first and you'll be prompted to add your payment details. Once added, you can then add funds to your balance as needed.

Payment and Subscription page with a highlight around the Notice containing the link Get Started.

Auto-Fund Your ShipStation Balance

You can set ShipStation to automatically fund your balance once it reaches a certain threshold. You can set the threshold, the amount to add to the balance, and the maximum number of times per day auto-funding is allowed to happen.

Auto-funding works by detecting when the balance falls below a certain threshold at the time of a label purchase. It then adds a pre-specified amount to your balance to bring it above the threshold again.

For example, say you wanted to purchase $100 by default any time your account balance falls below $250. You would check the box to enable ShipStation to automatically add funds to this balance. Then you would set the Add if balance below amount to 250 and the Auto-fund amount to 100. Then in the Max Funding field, you would set the maximum number of times that ShipStation can automatically add funds in a day.

About Auto-Funding

  • This feature tells ShipStation to add funds when we detect the ShipStation Balance has fallen under your set threshold at the time of your label purchase.

  • The minimum purchase amount is $10/£10/€10. The maximum purchase amount is $500/£500/€500.

Update ShipStation Balance Payment Method

To change the payment method details for your ShipStation balance:

  1. Click the action menu for ShipStation Balance and select Update payment method.

    The update payment method option is shown for ShipStation balance.
  2. Update your billing details and click Save changes.

🇨🇦 AMEX Not Supported for Canada

American Express cards (AMEX) are not supported as a payment method for ShipStation Carrier labels for accounts based in Canada.

View Transaction History

Transaction History is where you can view an itemized list of transactions that affect your ShipStation Balance.

The Transaction History grid lists transactions chronologically by date starting with the most recent. It includes the following transaction types:

  • Label purchases

  • Insurance purchases

  • Service charges/adjustments

  • Debits and credits to the ShipStation balance

  • Refunds

Non-US Accounts Only

The Transaction History page as shown here is currently available to all ShipStation accounts based outside of the United States. We are working to make this page available to our US-based accounts. Thank you for your patience!

For US-based accounts to view a report of funds added to the account balance, run an Accounting Insights Report.