Make TCGplayer labels with one button

How it works

1. In TCGplayer, open your Orders. A green ⚡ Make labels button sits in the bottom right corner.
2. Press it. It ticks all your orders (or uses the ones you ticked), presses TCGplayer's own Export Shipping for you and catches the file before it is saved.
3. Print. Your labels open in Chrome's print window, in the format you picked. Nothing lands in your Downloads folder.

Already have an export file? The green button in Chrome's toolbar still opens the labels page, where you can choose or drop it.

The first time, sign in with the same email and password as tcgspeedshipper.com. Labels you make count toward the same monthly allowance as the website, and your return address, label format and packing-slip choice stay in step on both.

Pick 4x6 thermal, 8.5x11 sheets (1 to 4 per page), label plus packing slip on one page, Avery 5160 address labels or a #10 envelope. Your return address and choices are remembered for next time. The labels are drawn by the same code as the website, so they come out the same.

Install it (about 2 minutes)

This early version is not in the Chrome Web Store yet, so you add it yourself. It is the same thing Chrome does for any extension, just one step by hand.

For paid plans only (from $2.99 a month): you sign in with your tcgspeedshipper.com account. On the free plan, use the website (15 free labels a month).

1. Unzip it and keep the folder somewhere permanent, such as Documents. On Windows, right-click the file and choose Extract All. On a Mac, double-click it. Chrome reads the extension from that folder every time, so do not delete it.
2. In Chrome, paste chrome://extensions into the address bar and press Enter. Turn on Developer mode (top right).
3. Click Load unpacked and choose the folder you unzipped (the one with manifest.json inside).
4. Click the puzzle-piece icon in Chrome's toolbar and pin “TCG Speed Shipper: Labels for TCGplayer” so the button is always there.

You need Chrome 116 or newer on Windows, Mac, Linux or a Chromebook. Extensions do not run on iPad, iPhone or Android, so use the website there. A Chrome Web Store version, with one-click install and automatic updates, is on the way.

What it can and cannot do

• Your orders never leave your computer. The labels are made right in Chrome. Nothing is uploaded.
• On TCGplayer it does one thing, only when you press ⚡: it presses Export Shipping, the same button you would press, and takes that file instead of saving it. It does not read your order pages, log in for you, or run in the background.
• Two small permissions: storage, to hand your orders from the TCGplayer tab to the labels page (kept in memory, never on disk), and downloads, so that if TCGplayer sends the export as a plain download, it can be read and removed instead of filling your Downloads folder. It connects only to tcgspeedshipper.com, for your account: sign-in, your plan, how many labels you've made and your return address. Buyer names and addresses are never sent.

The details are in the privacy policy.

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