A complete pack-and-ship store.
Free forever.
Full point of sale, multi-carrier labels, mailbox and package operations, and your books — in one system. No dealer. No per-terminal fee. Add paid packs only if you ever need them.
Nothing to install USPS, UPS & FedEx rates Unlimited staff logins
An illustration of the ship desk and register. Figures are examples, not live quotes.
Choose how you want to join
Four front doors, one platform
Whether you run the counter, the mailroom, a territory of stores, or you are building on top of us — start where you actually are.
Pack & Ship Store
Sell, ship, and manage mailboxes at the counter. Free to start — we set your store up with you.
Request an invite →Corporate Mailroom
Receive, log, and route inbound mail and parcels for your building or campus.
Request an invite →Dealer / Reseller
Sign and support stores across your territory and earn on every location.
Explore the dealer program →Integrator / Developer
Build on the Pack and Kin Studio API. Stores authorize your app for the permissions they choose — and can withdraw it any time.
Create a developer account →See it for your business: pack-and-ship stores · corporate mailrooms · online sellers
Getting started
Open the doors in three steps
1 · Request an invite
Tell us about your store. We set it up with you — directly or through a local dealer — and email your sign-in. Nothing to install and no card to enter.
2 · Add funds to your wallet
Pack and Kin Studio fronts every label you buy and takes it from that balance, so postage never waits on a statement.
3 · Ring the first sale
Rate the parcel, add the box and the packing, take the payment, print the label and the receipt together.
At the counter
The register already knows it’s a shipping store
Shipping is a line on the sale, not a separate app you reconcile afterwards. Rate the parcel, drop the box and the packing onto the same ticket, and take one payment for all of it. Park a sale when the next customer walks in, and recall it when they come back.
- Park & recall, quick keys, returns and store credit
- Split tender, email receipts and age / ID verification
- Live scale weight straight onto the ticket
- Cash drawer, day close, and reprints
Shipping
Three carriers, one comparison, one click
Enter the parcel once and see USPS, UPS and FedEx side by side, with the service and the transit time next to each price. Buy the label from the same screen. Your markups apply automatically, so what the customer pays is your price, not the carrier’s.
- Rate shopping across USPS, UPS and FedEx
- Per-service markups and packaging extras
- Extra services: signature, insurance, return labels
- Bring your own UPS or FedEx account if you have one
Mailboxes & packages
Every box, every parcel, every renewal
Rent boxes, log what arrives, notify the holder, and hand it over with a record of who collected it. Renewals and charges run on their own schedule, and the CMRA paperwork is generated from the same rentals you already keep — not typed a second time.
- Rentals, renewals and box-holder billing
- Inbound logging, notifications and pickup records
- Authorized recipients and stored ID forms
- CMRA box-holder reporting from live rentals
On the free plan
What you get without paying anything
Not a trial and not a crippled tier — this is the whole counter. Paid packs exist for capability most stores never need.
At the counter
- Point of sale & cash drawer
- Park & recall a sale
- Merchandise returns
- Store credit
- Split tender & email receipts
- Age / ID verification
- Live scale weight
Shipping
- USPS, UPS & FedEx rating
- Label printing & voids
- Per-service markups
- Packaging & extra services
- Insurance and claims
- Return labels
- Pickups & manifests
Mailboxes & packages
- Box rentals & renewals
- Inbound package logging
- Holder notifications
- Pickup records & signatures
- Authorized recipients
- CMRA box-holder reporting
- Mail forwarding & holds
Back office
- Accounting & general ledger
- Invoicing & statements
- Bank reconciliation
- Cash flow statement
- Customers & tasks
- Reporting & day close
- Unlimited staff logins
Carriers
Rate and buy across three national carriers
Rate shopping, label purchase, voids, returns and claims are live on all three. Already have your own UPS or FedEx account? Bring it — that is a metered add-on rather than a plan change. USPS labels are always bought on Pack and Kin Studio’s USPS account.
Pricing
Start free. Add only what you need.
There are no tiers to outgrow. Free is the whole counter; each add-on pack is a monthly price, switched on and off by you, billed on your next invoice. Own Carrier Accounts and Live Transit Refresh also charge per use, and their lines below say how much.
Free
Everything to run the counter. Forever free.
- Full point of sale & cash drawer
- Multi-carrier shipping & label printing
- Mailbox & package operations
- Accounting, invoicing & reporting
- Unlimited staff logins
Custom
Everything in Free, plus the packs you switch on.
- POS Pro — promotions, loyalty & rewards, tips
- Marketing & CRM Pro — pipeline, quotes, campaigns
- Accounting Pro — budgeting, fixed assets, job costing
- Warehouse Pro — scan-directed pick/pack, waves, labor metrics
- Own Carrier Accounts — your own UPS or FedEx account, $12 per account a month, plus $0.08 per label
- Live Transit Refresh — a faster Transit board, $9 a month plus $0.03 per carrier tracking call
Partners
Build a territory, or build on the platform
Dealers & resellers
Sign stores across your territory and support them from a console built for it — your locations, their status, and what you earn on each one. Master dealers can recruit a downline of their own.
Integrators & developers
A documented REST API with per-store authorization: a store owner picks the permissions your app gets, your credentials act only for the stores that said yes, and withdrawing that takes effect immediately.
Questions
The things people ask first
Is the free plan really free?
How do I pay for shipping labels?
Which carriers can I ship with?
Can I use my own carrier accounts?
Do I need a dealer?
What happens when I outgrow Free?
I run a corporate mailroom, not a retail store.
Tell us about your store
Request an invite. We set the store up with you and email your sign-in; then fund the wallet and ring a sale. No card, no contract.
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