How to Never Pay DTF Shipping Twice in One Day

One label per customer per day.

When you place an order, we check whether you already have an unshipped order from today. If you do, the new one joins it — same box where it fits, one label, one shipping charge on the first order and none on the second.

There is nothing to activate. It applies automatically to any order on the same account placed on the same shop day, and you will see it in the second order's totals.

Because it is one package.

Most shipping rules exist to recover a cost. This one exists because the cost is not there to recover — if two of your orders are in the same box on the same truck, charging twice would be charging for a shipment that never happened.

It also removes a bad incentive. Without bundling, a customer who forgets a design has to choose between paying a second shipping fee and delaying their order until tomorrow. Neither is good for them, and the second is worse for us — it moves work off today's press for no reason.

Four ways this changes how you order.

1. Order the thing you forgot. Immediately.

The instinct is to wait and add it to next week's order to avoid paying shipping twice. Do the opposite — order it now, while today's shipment is still open, and it costs nothing to ship. Waiting is the expensive option.

2. Do not split an order to “think about” part of it

If half the job is decided and half is not, place the decided half now. The undecided half can follow this afternoon at no shipping cost, and the first half is already printing.

3. Let different people in your shop order separately

If two people place orders under the same account on the same day, they bundle. Nobody has to coordinate a single combined order to avoid a duplicate shipping charge.

4. Combine deliberately to clear the free-shipping threshold

Bundling and the $275 free-shipping threshold work together. Two orders that each fall short of the threshold separately may clear it together, in which case the shipping on the first drops away as well. How the threshold is calculated →

When it does not apply.

It compounds if you order often.

For a shop placing several orders a week, bundling quietly removes a meaningful number of shipping charges a year — and it removes them without you doing anything, which is why most customers never notice it happening.

If you run a wholesale account, it stacks with the rest of the account mechanics: your rate applies automatically, orders can be paid on one bundled invoice, and same-day orders ship as one package. Wholesale accounts → · How wholesale pricing works →

Bundling questions

Do I pay shipping on every order?

Only the first order of your day. Later orders placed the same day join that shipment and add no further shipping charge, as long as the first order has not shipped yet.

How is "the same day" defined?

The shop's calendar day, in Toronto time. An order placed at 11 PM Eastern on Monday and another at 8 AM Tuesday are two different days and two shipments.

What if my first order has already shipped?

Then there is nothing left to bundle with, and the new order is treated as the first of a fresh shipment with its own shipping charge. In practice this means orders placed before the cut-off bundle reliably; one placed the following morning does not.

Do I need to do anything to make bundling happen?

No. It applies automatically to orders under the same customer account. You do not need to tell us, tick a box or ask.

Does bundling delay my first order?

No. Bundling groups orders that are already going out together — it does not hold the first one back waiting for a second. Everything still prints on the normal schedule.

Does bundling work across different addresses?

No. Orders going to different destinations are different shipments and each carries its own shipping. Bundling is one package to one address.