Label station
Workshop automation, 2026
The label station reduces shipping to a single scan: the barcode on the packing slip produces a SendCloud label straight from the Zebra printer. The same label is never bought twice.
- Role
- Design and build
- Stack
- SendCloud, Zebra, scanner
- Status
- In internal use
- Type
- Product
The problem
Creating a shipping label took several steps per parcel, and a label bought twice by mistake costs money.
Approach
A scan of the packing slip looks up the order, requests the label from SendCloud and sends it to the Zebra printer.
The tool records which orders already have a label, so a second scan never results in a second purchase. Several brands can use it.
Result
The label station is built for, and used on, our own shipments from the workshop.
Worth noting
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One scan
From packing slip to label.
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Never twice
An order gets one label.
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For several brands
One tool for every brand shipping through SendCloud.
Facing something similar?
Describe briefly what is done by hand today. You get an honest answer, even if the answer is that it does not pay off.