Quickstart — first label in 30 minutes

This page takes you from an empty OrderOps organisation to a printed, manifested label on a real order. Budget about 30 minutes, a Mac near your label printer, and your AusPost account details on hand.

1. Connect your Shopify store

Sign in with a magic link — we email you a sign-in link, there is no password. Then install OrderOps into your store through Shopify. Each store installs separately and lands in the same organisation, so multi-store floors share one queue. Products, variants and open orders sync across. Full detail: Connect your Shopify stores.

2. Set your sender address

In shipping settings, enter the address parcels actually leave from. One address per organisation — it prints on every label and doubles as your return address. OrderOps runs a single dispatch location today, so pick the real one.

3. Connect AusPost

StarTrack connects the same way; Team Global Express is beta, and we can integrate other carriers on request. Setup detail: beta. Setup detail: AusPost MyPost Business setup.

4. Pair the Mac print client

Install the macOS print client. It sits in the menu bar and only listens on that Mac — pairing is one click from the browser on the same machine, no tokens to copy. Map each label type to a printer (4×6 thermal for labels, the office printer for A4 manifests), then send a test print before trusting it with a live order. Full detail: Install the macOS print client.

5. Pack one order with live quotes

Open an order that is ready to pack. Enter box dimensions and weight — saved variant dimensions pre-fill the first box. Live rates from your connected carriers update as the numbers change. Pick a service, add signature or authority-to-leave where the product supports it, and check the address validation result before committing. More in Live rates, signature, ATL & cover and The pack bench & keyboard shortcuts.

6. Print, then manifest at day end

Press Enter to print and move to the next order. The label comes out of the thermal printer silently — no browser dialog. Within a minute the tracking number pushes to Shopify, and Shopify emails your customer. At day end, printed shipments group by carrier on the manifests page: close the manifest, get the carrier's manifest number, and print the summary PDF for your driver. Detail: End-of-day manifests.

That is the whole loop. From tomorrow, your day is steps 5 and 6.