# AfterShip

> Branded order tracking pages and delivery emails for online stores

AfterShip Tracking is mainly a tool for what happens after a label is printed, not for buying labels: it follows parcels across more than 1,100 carriers, puts a branded tracking page on your store and sends automatic email and text updates. It also shows delivery date estimates and reports on late or stuck shipments, and plans are priced by shipments tracked each month.

- **Category:** Shipping Software
- **Made by:** AfterShip
- **Website:** https://www.aftership.com
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 18, 2026

## Pricing

AfterShip has a free plan. Paid plans start at $11 per month for up to 100 shipments, billed monthly.

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** 50 shipments a month (up to 500 on the first import), 1,100+ carriers, service-level tracking updates, an order tracking dashboard and carrier delivery estimates.
- **Free trial:** 7-day free trial of Essentials.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | 50 shipments a month, tracking dashboard and carrier delivery dates; no branded page or customer notifications. |
| Essentials | $11 per month for up to 100 shipments, billed monthly | Branded tracking page with your logo, email and SMS notifications, reports. Extra shipments cost $0.08 each; first month $1. |
| Premium | $70 per month for up to 500 shipments, billed monthly | Tracking page on your own domain, AI delivery estimates, product recommendations, full analytics, API and webhooks. $0.12 per extra shipment. |

Read from https://apps.shopify.com/aftership on Oct 18, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with AfterShip before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **About 16 to 18% off with yearly billing** (Annual discount): Essentials is $108 a year against $11 a month (save 18%), and Premium is $708 a year against $70 a month (save 16%). Source: https://apps.shopify.com/aftership
- **First month for $1** (Other savings): Essentials and Premium cost $1 for the first month, then renew at the regular monthly price. Source: https://apps.shopify.com/aftership

## Key features

- **Tracking across 1,100+ carriers:** Detects the carrier automatically on paid plans and follows each parcel, importing shipments from your store, a CSV file or the API.
- **Branded tracking page:** Essentials adds a tracking page with your logo; Premium moves it onto your own domain and adds product recommendations.
- **Email and SMS notifications:** Paid plans send automatic shipment updates by email and text, so customers do not have to ask where their order is.
- **Estimated delivery dates:** Every plan shows the carrier's delivery estimate; Premium adds AI-predicted delivery dates for product and checkout pages.
- **Dashboard and analytics:** A shipment dashboard flags exceptions and delays, with reports on Essentials and a full analytics suite on Premium.
- **API and webhooks:** The Tracking API and webhooks start at Premium; Essentials users import shipments by app, CSV or hand instead.

## Good for

- Shopify stores that get many "where is my order?" messages
- Brands that want a tracking page and delivery emails in their own style
- Teams already buying labels elsewhere that need tracking across carriers

## Worth knowing

- It tracks parcels rather than buying labels; AfterShip sells labels and returns as separate products.
- Plans are billed per shipment tracked, and each shipment over the quota costs $0.08 on Essentials or $0.12 on Premium.
- The API, webhooks and a tracking page on your own domain need Premium at $70 a month.
- The Free plan has no branded tracking page or customer emails, so shoppers see only the carrier's own updates.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Oct 18, 2026. AfterShip doesn't buy labels: it follows parcels across 1,100+ carriers and keeps your customers posted with a branded tracking page and emails or texts. So we graded it against the label tools it's listed beside, most of which send tracking emails too. It does that one job thoroughly, but the API and a page on your own domain need Premium at $70.

- **Value for money: C.** Graded against its listed rivals, on Shopify prices. Essentials is $108 a year for 100 shipments a month, and the other 100 of a 200-parcel month cost $0.08 each, $8 a month more. That's mid-pack against tools that mostly print the labels as well.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** Free tracks 50 shipments a month with a dashboard and carrier delivery dates, but no branded page and no customer emails, which are the reasons to buy it. Essentials has a 7-day trial and costs $1 for the first month.
- **Features: C.** It does tracking fully: 1,100+ carriers, a branded page, email and text updates, delivery estimates and reports on late parcels. That's a smaller job than its listed rivals do, since they also buy the labels. The API and your own domain need Premium.
- **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. It installs from the Shopify App Store and pulls in shipments from your store, a CSV file or the API, then you style the tracking page. Ordinary setup.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with Shopify, Klaviyo, Gorgias, Zendesk, Attentive, ShipStation, Loox and Amazon Seller Central. The API and webhooks start at Premium, and there's no phone or desktop app listed.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from AfterShip's own help pages and its Shopify App Store listing on 18 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among shipping software

- AfterShip's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 1 of the 10 other shipping software we grade, and level with 2.
- It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 1 of 10) and worst on free plan and trial (C, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $11 a month, against a middle price of $19.49 for the category: 0 of the 9 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/shipping

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** The plain part of AfterShip you could make: reports. What surrounds it you could not. The 3 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 7 of the 10 other shipping software grade higher. It costs $132 a year.

- You could make: Reports: an app builder makes this well.
- You could not: Connections that pull numbers from dozens of other services.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, Shopify, Klaviyo and Gorgias among them, and has an API.
- You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## Works with

Shopify, Klaviyo, Gorgias, Zendesk, Attentive, ShipStation, Loox, Amazon Seller Central

**Tags:** Dashboards, Reports, AI features, Public API

## Alternatives

- [Shippo](https://toolgpa.com/tools/shippo): Multi-carrier shipping app and API, priced by labels a month. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/aftership-vs-shippo)
- [ShipStation](https://toolgpa.com/tools/shipstation): Shipping software for online sellers, priced by shipments a month. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/aftership-vs-shipstation)
- [Sendcloud](https://toolgpa.com/tools/sendcloud): European shipping platform for labels, tracking and returns. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/aftership-vs-sendcloud)
- [Easyship](https://toolgpa.com/tools/easyship): Shipping software with 550+ courier services and duty estimates. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/aftership-vs-easyship)
- [Veeqo](https://toolgpa.com/tools/veeqo): Amazon's free multichannel shipping app, with paid inventory tools. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/aftership-vs-veeqo)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 18, 2026:

- https://apps.shopify.com/aftership
- https://support.aftership.com/en/tracking/articles/15703637-which-aftership-tracking-plans-include-api-access-for-shipment-tracking
- https://support.aftership.com/en/tracking/articles/15840065-understanding-automatic-plan-tier-upgrades
- https://support.aftership.com/en/tracking/articles/16755609-connect-amazon-seller-central-store-to-aftership-tracking
- https://support.aftership.com/en

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