How to add a custom note or text on postage label using Pirateship
I don't use Pirateship very often but I recall a few months ago I found a way to include a line or two of text that will print out at the very bottom of the postage label in Pirateship.
I'm not seeing that function anywhere anymore. I recall it used to be somewhere above or below the package dimensions area. It was a button of box you check I think.
Does anyone know how to do this?
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rfmtm
·3 years agoFrom PirateShip Help:
You can create Rubber Stamps in several ways:
In the Create a Single Label form, check the "Rubber Stamps" checkbox.
When uploading a spreadsheet to create labels, you can map columns of your spreadsheet data to the three Rubber Stamp fields.
When Importing Orders from an eCommerce Integration, you can go to Settings / Integrations / Edit your Integration / Edit Field Mapping to assign data from your eCommerce platform to Rubber Stamps.
Where are Rubber Stamps printed?
Rubber Stamps are printed on the bottom box of a label. You can have up to four Rubber Stamps with USPS labels, but they have strict character-length restrictions of 25 characters per line.
Pro Tip: Rubber Stamps are different for UPS than for USPS. UPS only allows for two Rubber Stamps instead of four like USPS does, and you can include up to 35 characters each for each line.
Rubber Stamps don't have much room!
If the data goes over the character restrictions on a line, instead of cutting it off Pirate Ship will force a line break onto the next Rubber Stamp line... but once all the lines are filled, then the rest of the data will be cut off. Because of this, if the data you're using is very long, it's recommended to ONLY assign it to Rubber Stamp 1, and leave the other rubber stamps unused, so that it can flow into those lines.
Remember: USPS gives you up to four lines of 25 characters for Rubber Stamps, while UPS gives you up to two lines of 35 characters!
Common uses for Rubber Stamps:
Order ID, so you can match the label to a packing list generated by another system (but have you thought about using Pirate Ship's packing lists instead?)
Order Items, which works if your order item names are very short, and if you don't get orders with lots of different items.
Batch Name, which is a custom name you give a batch when you're creating it in Pirate Ship. This gives you the freedom to come up with unique ways to group & reference orders.
NOTE: If you’re shipping with USPS® or Simple Export Rate®, Rubber Stamps cannot be applied to international labels. However, Rubber Stamps do appear on UPS® international labels 😉
iamalwaysright
OP3 years agoYes that's it's called, rubber stamp. Thanks. Darn. Doesn't work how I want it to for Imported Orders.
rfmtm
·3 years agoWhat are you trying to do and where are the imported orders from?
Might be a workaround, or I have found PirateShip very open to suggestions and they also have other features in the works.
richard1rst
·3 years agoPirateship has an extraordinarily efficient rapid response chat box. Log in and look for the blue square in the lower right corner. Ask them.
Something about the Horse's Mouth comes to mind.
iamalwaysright
OP3 years agoLooking at a gift horse in the mouth? Ha ha jk I get what you mean. I never tried PS CS I as much assumed it was like ebay. But I'll give it a shot thanks.
richard1rst
·3 years agoThat is NOT what I meant. That would be insulting. The cliche was "getting it straight from the horse's mouth".
richard1rst
·3 years agoMINOR CORRECTION.
The chat box used to be a blue square. I just logged in and saw that it has been changed to a small white circle inside a small blue circle with three dots in it.
iamalwaysright
OP3 years agoLol, I know. I was being facetious. I wonder where these sayings come from. Like what's so special about a horse vs another animal?
djvp53
·3 years agoLooking in a horse's mouth tells you it's age, at least if you know about horses. So "don't look a gift horse in the mouth" means, if someone gives you a gift, don't start questioning how much it's worth (presumably because it's rude and you won't get more gifts from them). And "get it straight from the horse's mouth" means don't trust secondary sources ("I heard from Joe that....") when you can go right to the best source of information instead.
richard1rst
·3 years agoWell if you really are curious I can answer that. Over my many years I have often wondered about various cliches and superstitions. So, on those occasions when I have been bored out of my skull, I did some research.
Curiously both cliches come from the same incident. Prior to the automobile horses were the main means of travel. Just as there are used car salesmen today there were used horse salesmen then. Probably with the same reputation. An experienced horseman can tell the approximate age of a horse by the amount of wear on their teeth. So when the salesman says “This horse is only 2 years old†the horseman examines the teeth and gets the truth “from the horse’s mouthâ€.
Likewise, if someone gave you a gift it would be incredibly rude to ask how much did it cost. Well, that same level of rudeness applies to checking the teeth of a horse you received as a gift. It was a gift. You don’t look into the mouth a a gift horse. At least not in front of the giver.
Ain’t trivia fun.
iamalwaysright
OP3 years agoI admit that I actually do think it's fun. I didn't consider the horses were a primary mode of transportation back then. Makes total sense now.
So if you wanna buy a horse, go see Cal! -Cal Worthington and his dog Spot.