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Shipping Packs:
prepaid bundles, up to 35% off per label.

Shipping Packs cut your per-label cost without locking you into a contract or a monthly fee. Pay 250€ once, ship for 14 days at the discounted rate, share the cost with friends if you want.


What is a shipping pack?

A shipping pack is a prepaid bundle of label credit. You pay 250€ up-front and get 250€ of credit that can be spent on shipping labels — except those labels are priced at the carrier's wholesale rate, not the standard NullShip rate. Every InPost, Correos, DHL, UPS, GLS option that normally appears in your rate search shows up at a noticeably lower price when you have an active pack.

You're never locked into anything. If you don't ship within 14 days, the unused credit expires — but you keep your account, your saved senders, your dashboard.

Why is it cheaper?

The discount comes from the carriers themselves. Prepaid wholesale bundles cost less per label than the pay-as-you-go rate that powers normal NullShip pricing. We pass that wholesale rate through directly to pack members — no platform markup on top, no service fee per label.

Compared to standard NullShip rates, packs save 25–40% per label depending on the route and carrier. The savings compound the more you ship.

⏱ The 14-day timer doesn't start when you buy

Most prepaid services start the clock at purchase. NullShip starts the clock at the FIRST label you create on the pack.

If you buy a pack on the 3rd of the month and don't ship anything until the 10th, your 14-day window starts on the 10th, not the 3rd. Wait as long as you want — even months — between purchase and first shipment without losing anything.

Once the first label is created, you have 14 days to spend the rest of the credit. Whatever's left at day 14 is lost. Plan ahead: only kick off a pack when you have shipments lined up.

Solo or shared

Two ways to start a pack:

🧍 Solo (250€)

The whole pack is yours alone. You ship, you spend, you control the timer. Faster to start because there's no waiting for others to join.

👥 Pool (50€-249€)

You put in part of the 250€ and others fill the rest. Each member has their own balance proportional to what they paid. Up to 5 people per pack.

Pools are useful if you don't ship enough alone to justify a full 250€ bundle but want the discounted rate. Split it with regular shipping partners or family members.

Public pools vs private pools

When you start a pool, you decide who can join. Public pools are listed on the packs page — anyone with a NullShip account can browse and join one matching their origin country. Strangers fill your pack faster.

Private pools give you an 8-character invite code. Only people with the code can join. Good for splitting with specific friends without exposing the pack to randoms.

Either way, members see each other as censored handles (a***e instead of full usernames) — even pack-mates don't see each other's real account names.

Filling the gap and topping up

If you initiated a partial pool and others haven't filled it yet, you can top up your own share at any time before the pack is fully funded. No minimum — even a few euros help close the gap. Other members can also top up their own shares. Once total contributions reach 250€, the pack flips to "funded" and everyone can ship.

Spotting pack rates in search

Pack-eligible rates show up in your normal label search alongside everything else, with three visual states:

  • Gold card with 📦 PACK badge — you have an active pack covering this origin → click to ship at the discounted rate, debited from your pack credit.
  • Subtitle on a normal rate — "🔒 With a pack: 11.30€ (save 35%)" → you don't have a pack yet but one would unlock this price.
  • Nothing — pack rates aren't available for this route right now (no inventory in your origin country).

What if nobody joins my pool?

If you start a pool and 7 days pass without enough joiners to fund it, you can refund the pool yourself. Every member (including you) gets their contribution back to their main balance, and the pack returns to inventory for someone else to claim.

The 7-day lockout exists to give your pool a chance — without it, pools could be cancelled instantly and joiners would never have time to commit. After 7 days, the initiator gets full control.


Frequently asked questions

Can I use the pack credit for anything other than shipping labels? +
No. Pack credit only spends on shipping labels using carriers that the pack supports. It can't be transferred to your main balance or refunded outside the 7-day initiator window.
What happens if a label fails after I pay? +
The pack credit is automatically refunded to your share — not to your main balance — so you can retry within the 14-day window. Same flow as the standard NullShip refund logic.
Can I have multiple packs at once? +
Yes. Each pack is tied to one or more origin countries. If you ship from both Spain and Italy regularly, you can have one pack per origin (or one pack covering both). The system shows pack rates for whichever origin you're searching from.
Are pack rates really the same carriers as the standard rates? +
Yes. Same carriers, same services, same speed and tracking. The price is different, that's it.
Can I top up an active pack to extend it? +
No, that would defeat the wholesale-bundle pricing. Each pack is a 14-day window. If you need to keep shipping after that, buy another pack.
Can I cancel mid-window? +
No mid-window refund. Plan your 14 days. If you genuinely won't ship the rest of the credit, it expires at day 14 — that's part of the deal that makes the wholesale rate possible.

Try it

Browse the available packs and pick the one matching your origin country. Solo if you ship enough alone; pool if you want to split. Either way you save 25-40% per label for the next 14 days.

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