Amazon's PDF is shaped differently from Flipkart's
Flipkart puts the label and the invoice on the same A4 page. Amazon doesn't. Amazon
gives you alternating pages: a full A4 page carrying the shipping label, then one or
more A4 pages carrying that order's tax invoice, then the next label, and so on. A long
invoice can even spill onto a continuation page before the next label appears.
That means cropping Amazon labels is not a matter of slicing every page in half. The tool
has to work out which pages are labels and which are invoices, crop only the former,
and keep the invoice pages intact and in order. It does that automatically — you don't
select anything.
The label is an image, and that has real consequences
Amazon's label page is a single flattened picture — the barcodes, the address, the courier
block, all of it. There is no text underneath it. This surprises people, so it's worth
being precise about what follows from it:
- Cropping works perfectly. Cropping is geometry, not reading. We measured the ink on
the label across every page of real Amazon PDFs and found the printed label always sits in
exactly the same box inside the A4 margins — and that box has almost exactly 4×6
proportions already. We cut it out and rebuild it at true 4×6. Nothing is stretched.
- Dispatch fields cannot be extracted. The AWB number, the weight, the delivery
station code — those are printed only on the label, which is a picture. No tool can
read text out of it without OCR, and OCR on a barcode-dense label guesses. So the Amazon
order Excel has no dispatch columns, and we would rather tell you that than quietly
ship you a column full of wrong AWB numbers. (The Flipkart sheet does have them,
because Flipkart's label keeps its text layer.)
What you actually get back
- The labels PDF. One 4×6 page (≈100×150 mm) per parcel, fitted without distortion so
the barcode stays scannable.
- The invoices PDF, separately. Every invoice page, untouched, still A4 — because a
tax invoice belongs on A4, not squeezed onto a label roll. Continuation pages stay with
the invoice they belong to.
- An order Excel — 29 columns, listed below.
Two options worth turning on for a big batch
- Sort labels by SKU. All parcels of the same SKU print together, so you pick one
shelf at a time instead of criss-crossing your storeroom.
- 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.
Printing it correctly
The commonest failure is scaling: the print dialog defaults to “Fit to page”, which
re-adds the margins we just cut off and shrinks the barcode until a scanner struggles.
- Paper size:
4×6 in / 100×150 mm. - Scale: 100% or Actual size — never “Fit”.
- Margins: None. Headers and footers off.
No thermal printer? Print the 4×6 PDF on A4 at actual size and cut around the label.
Paper is wasted, but the label comes out correctly sized and scans.
The order Excel — 29 fields from the tax invoice
Everything here is read from the invoice pages, which do carry text. Amazon's invoice
is richer than Flipkart's in one respect: it gives you the ASIN and the payment transaction
ID, which Flipkart's does not.
Core
- Order Date
- Order Number
- SKU
- Qty
- Net Amount
- Tax Type
- Tax Amount
- Place of Supply
GST & invoice
- Invoice No
- Invoice Date
- HSN
- ASIN
- Unit Price
- Discount
- Tax Rate
- Total
- Invoice Value
- Payment Mode
- Payment Txn ID
- State Code
- Seller
- Seller GSTIN
- Seller PAN
- Product
Buyer
- Buyer
- Shipping Address
- Pincode
- Billing Name
- Billing Address
One row per invoice line item — so an order with three different products gives you
three rows, each with its own HSN, tax rate and amount. That is the shape you need for GST
reconciliation, not one lumped row per order.
We will never invent a number to fill a gap. If Amazon changes its invoice layout
and an amount doesn't parse cleanly, that cell is left blank and you get a warning
naming the order.
We never write a 0 or a 1 as a placeholder. A sheet that quietly
under-reports your tax is far more dangerous than one with an obvious hole you can go and
check against Seller Central.
Your PDF never leaves your browser — and you can prove it
Amazon labels carry your buyers' full names, addresses and phone numbers. CropSheet never
receives them: the PDF is read and cropped by code running in your own browser tab. That's
not a policy, it's the architecture — this is a static site with no application server,
so there is nowhere on our side for a file to go.
Check it yourself in ten seconds: load this page, turn on aeroplane mode, and crop
your labels anyway. It works. A tool that uploads your file cannot do that. Run the test on
any label cropper you use — including this one.