Why labels get sorted by courier at all
A day’s orders come off the marketplace as one PDF, in whatever order the marketplace felt like. The parcels leave in a different arrangement entirely: each courier sends its own rider, at its own time, and wants its own parcels handed over together with nothing else mixed in. The gap between those two arrangements is filled, on most packing desks, by a person reading logos off a stack of printed sheets.
That is the job this tool removes. Upload the batch, and you get back one PDF per courier — each ready to print as its own pile, in the shape the handover actually happens in.
How the courier is identified
There is no field on a marketplace label that says “courier” in a machine-readable way. What there is, reliably, is the courier’s own name printed somewhere on the sheet. The tool reads the text of each page and matches it against the couriers that actually carry Indian marketplace parcels:
- Ekart, Delhivery, XpressBees, Ecom Express, Shadowfax and Valmo
- Blue Dart, DTDC and Shree Maruti
- Amazon Shipping (also printed as Amazon Transportation)
- India Post, including Speed Post
Matching happens in a set order, which matters more than it sounds: a Flipkart label can mention more than one company, and the carrier actually moving the parcel should win over a name that appears for another reason.
When it cannot tell
A page with no recognisable courier name is put in an Unknowngroup rather than guessed into the nearest pile. This is deliberate. A mis-sorted parcel handed to the wrong rider is worse than one you were told to look at — it leaves your building on the wrong van and comes back days later. A small Unknown pile is a normal result, usually a courier new to your account or a label style that changed; the fix is to eyeball those few rather than to trust a guess about all of them.
It works on the batch you already have
Flipkart, Meesho and Amazon labels are all read, and they are genuinely different documents. Flipkart and Meesho print the label and the tax invoice on the same page, one above the other. Amazon puts them on separate pages. The tool handles both shapes, so a mixed batch from more than one marketplace sorts in a single pass rather than needing three runs.
Where this sits in the packing routine
Sorting is rarely the first thing you should do. The sequence that wastes least paper is:
- Check for duplicatesfirst — a label printed twice is a parcel shipped twice, and finding it after sorting means re-sorting.
- Split by courier here, so each pile matches a pickup.
- Crop the labels to drop the invoice half, which roughly halves what you feed the printer.
- If anything prints faint, re-render itrather than re-downloading from the marketplace — re-downloading is one of the commonest ways a duplicate enters the batch.
If you want to know what is actually in the day’s batch before you pack it — order value, SKU counts, which states it is going to and the courier split as numbers rather than piles — Order Summary reads the same files and reports on them without producing a PDF at all.
What happens to the files
Labels carry customer names and addresses, so it is worth saying plainly what happens to them. The PDF is sent over an encrypted connection, split, and discarded once you have your download. It is not stored, not kept after the download, and not used for anything else. No account is needed to use the tool. The details are in our privacy policy.