How to send parcels in bulk from Ireland, and what it costs

Start with your orders, parcel weights and destinations. These determine the postage calculation and the information you need to create labels. If your shop can supply an order CSV, you can use an upload route. A connected sales channel gives you another way to bring orders into a carrier portal.

Choose the route around the work you need to do. Buying labels online covers label purchase and printing. A CSV upload brings order information into the shipping process. A shop connection can also support fulfilment and tracking updates where the tool offers them.

An Post’s promotional copy on Business Plus describes the Advantage Card as a way to buy labels and stamps in bulk for businesses sending up to 50 parcels a week. The same copy describes eCommerce Hub as designed for businesses sending over 50 parcels a week.

Confirm the applicable account terms with An Post before choosing an account route.

For home label purchase and printing, Shiptheory describes An Post Click & Post as an option.

DPD Ireland’s online shipping portal lets you link sales channels or upload a CSV file. Use the sales-channel route to connect your shop, or the CSV route to bring an exported order file into the portal.

Label tools offer another route when you want to turn existing orders into printable labels. EirPost says it takes an Etsy or Shopify order CSV and generates labels for every order in one go.

On Shopify, EirLink connects orders to a seller’s own An Post eCommHub account; without one, EirPost sells discounted An Post labels to small businesses and online sellers.

Software can also have its own subscription charge. According to its Shopify App Store listing, Shiptheory’s Earth plan costs $62 a month or $600 a year. It covers 1 user, 1 sales channel and 2 carriers, with a limit of 1,500 shipments a month. Include that subscription in your shipping budget alongside postage.

Add the per-parcel prices for each weight and destination in your batch. With EirLink’s An Post own-account route, postage bills at the rates agreed with An Post.

These were the cheapest bookable prices for those weights and destinations in prices checked on 26 October 2026. A mixed batch containing both rows would total €1,085.50 for 100 parcels.

For your own batch, group parcels by weight and destination, multiply each group’s parcel count by its price, then add the group totals. Use the quote tool to compare prices for each group. If you have agreed account rates, use those rates in the calculation.

Check the service’s stated limits before processing your orders.

For a label tool, check how many orders it can process in a batch. For a paid software plan, count the users, sales channels, carriers and monthly shipments you need.

For Shopify fulfilment, choose a workflow that explicitly sends tracking back to the shop if you need that update automated.