The problem is the shape of the page, not the label
Marketplaces hand you an A4 PDF. Thermal printers want a 4×6 inch label and nothing else.
Those two facts are the whole reason this tool exists.
Flipkart puts the shipping label and the tax invoice on the same A4 sheet, one above
the other. Amazon alternates whole pages — a label page, then the invoice pages for that
order, then the next label. Either way, if you send the raw PDF to a thermal printer you get
a label shrunk to postage-stamp size with a barcode no courier scanner can read, or a strip
of the page with the address missing. Print it on A4 instead and you burn a full sheet per
parcel and reach for the scissors.
CropSheet cuts the label region out of each page and rebuilds it as its own 4×6 page — same
barcode, same address, same resolution, without the A4 paper wrapped around it. It detects
which marketplace the PDF came from on its own; there is nothing to choose.
And the data was in the PDF the whole time
This is the part no other label cropper does. The tax invoice inside that same PDF is a
structured document: order number, SKU, HSN code, taxable value, the GST split, place of
supply, your GSTIN. It is all real text sitting in the file you already downloaded.
So instead of printing the labels and then retyping those figures into a spreadsheet
for your accountant, take both out of one drop: the 4×6 labels for the printer, and an order
Excel with one row per invoice line item — the shape GST reconciliation actually
needs. That's 32 columns for
Flipkart and 29 for
Amazon.
Two things that make a fifty-order day shorter
- Sort labels by SKU. Every parcel of the same item prints together, so you pick one
shelf at a time instead of criss-crossing the storeroom in the order the marketplace
happened to give you.
- Add a pick list page. One extra 4×6 page at the front listing each SKU and the
total quantity to pull. Pick everything in a single pass, then pack against the labels.
We will never invent a number to fill a gap. Marketplaces change their invoice
layouts without warning. When an amount doesn't parse cleanly, we leave the cell
blank and show a warning naming the order — we never write a 0 or a
1 as a placeholder.
A spreadsheet that quietly under-reports your tax is far more dangerous than one with an
obvious hole you can go and check. The gap is the honest answer.
Your files never leave your browser — run the test yourself
Your labels carry your customers' names, home addresses and phone numbers. CropSheet never
receives them. The PDF is opened, cropped and read by code running inside your own browser
tab. That is not a promise about our conduct — it is a fact about the architecture:
CropSheet is a static site with no application server at all, so there is nothing on
our side that a file could be sent to. We could not read your customers' addresses if we
were compelled to; we never have them.
Ten-second proof: load this page, switch on aeroplane mode, and crop your labels
anyway. It still works. A tool that uploads your file to a server cannot do that. Run that
test on any label cropper you use — including this one. And read exactly what the ads do and
don't see in the privacy policy; we keep those two things separate,
on purpose.