The half of the page you do not need
A Flipkart or Meesho shipping label is not really a label. It is a sheet with the label on top and the tax invoice underneath, printed as one page because that is convenient for the marketplace and for nobody else. Print the batch as it arrives and you spend twice the paper, twice the printing time, and get a label that does not fit a thermal roll.
This tool trims each page down to the label, so what reaches the printer is the part that goes on the parcel.
Two different documents, two different cuts
Marketplaces do not agree on how to lay this out, and the difference decides what “cropping” even means.
- Flipkart and Meesho print label and invoice on the same page. The cut is a real cut: the tool finds where the tax invoice section begins and trims the page above it, keeping the label area and discarding the rest of the sheet.
- Amazonprints them as separate pages. There is nothing to trim — cropping means keeping the label pages and dropping the invoice pages entirely.
A mixed batch is fine. Each file is handled according to what it actually is rather than a mode you have to choose correctly.
Sorting while you are here
Cropping is the moment the batch is being rewritten anyway, which makes it the cheapest moment to put it in a useful order. Two orderings save real time at the packing bench:
- By SKU— all orders for the same product end up together, so you pick one product from the shelf and pack every parcel that needs it before moving on. On a batch with repeat products this is usually the single biggest time saving available.
- By order ID— useful when you reconcile against a marketplace export later, since the piles then match the rows.
Paper size
Cropped labels can be fitted to a thermal 4×6 roll, or tiled several to an A4 sheet if you print on a normal office printer and cut by hand. Tiling is what makes A4 printing economical — one cropped label alone on a sheet of A4 wastes most of the sheet, which is the problem you were trying to solve.
What this does not do
Cropping removes the invoice from the printout. It does not change anything on the marketplace, does not alter what the buyer receives, and does not affect your tax records — the invoice still exists in your marketplace account, which is where it is actually kept. If you need the invoices as a separate file rather than discarded, that is a different job from this one.
Nothing here improves print quality either. If a label is arriving blurry or its barcode will not scan, cropping it just gives you a smaller blurry label — re-rendering it for print is the tool for that, and it is worth doing after cropping rather than before.
A sensible order for the batch
Crop late. Checking a batch is cheaper on the original file than on one you have already rewritten, so run the duplicate check first, then split by courierso each pile matches a pickup, and crop last — at which point every sheet you print is a sheet that goes on a parcel. If you want the numbers behind the batch rather than the paper, Order Summary reads the same files.
Your files
Labels carry customer addresses. The PDF is sent over an encrypted connection, cropped, and discarded once you have downloaded the result — not stored, not retained, not used for anything else, and no account required. See our privacy policy for the full description.