Tools to Track Packages from Multiple Couriers: A Practical Comparison

If you ship packages for a living — or even just often — you will eventually run into the same problem: your shipments are split across too many carriers. A pallet via UPS, a batch of small parcels via USPS, an international express via DHL, an Etsy order via Australia Post, a bulk run via FedEx SmartPost. Each one has its own tracking portal, its own login, its own vocabulary for "in transit."

You don't want five tracking portals. You want one view of every shipment you've ever sent, searchable, sortable, and next to the order information.

This article compares the tools that solve that problem — their strengths, their pricing, who they fit best — and where the dead-simple "just use Google Sheets" approach beats the dedicated platforms.

What to look for in a multi-carrier tracking tool

Before naming names, here is the short checklist. The right tool for you depends on which of these you weight most:

• Carrier coverage. How many couriers are supported? The serious tools all cover 1,000+ global carriers. Anything under 500 is a red flag if you ship internationally.
• Ingest method. Some tools want you to forward shipping-confirmation emails. Some read your Shopify orders automatically. Some expose an API. Some are spreadsheet-native. Which matches how you already work?
• Pricing model. Per-shipment, per-user, per-month, or a flat fee? Small operations get gouged by per-shipment pricing at scale; large operations get gouged by per-user pricing.
• Customer-facing vs. ops-facing. Some tools are designed to send branded "where's my package" pages to your customers. Others are designed to give your team a dashboard. These are different products.
• Setup effort. A platform that requires a week of implementation is not free, even if the plan itself is. A formula that works in 60 seconds is.

With those in mind:

The tools worth knowing about

AfterShip

AfterShip is the best-known name in this category and a genuinely strong product. Their sweet spot is mid-to-large Shopify / BigCommerce / Magento stores that want branded post-purchase experiences — tracking pages on your own domain, delivery notifications in your brand voice, returns flows, analytics dashboards, AI estimated-delivery dates.

• Best for: DTC e-commerce at scale, enterprise customer experience
• Carriers: 1,400+
• Pricing: free tier up to ~50 shipments/month, then plans typically start in the tens of dollars and scale with volume; enterprise plans can reach thousands per month
• Tradeoff: overkill and pricey if you just need an operational view of your own shipments, and setup requires integrating it with your store platform

Ship24

Ship24 positions itself as an API-first multi-carrier tracker. If you're a developer building your own dashboard, your own customer emails, or your own internal tool, Ship24 gives you a clean JSON endpoint per tracking number and you stitch the UX together yourself.

• Best for: engineering teams building custom tracking UX
• Carriers: 1,200+
• Pricing: pay-per-tracking with volume tiers
• Tradeoff: there is no UI to speak of. If you don't have an engineer to wire it up, Ship24 on its own doesn't solve your problem

TrackingMore

TrackingMore sits between AfterShip and Ship24 — a dashboard for ops, plus APIs, plus Shopify-style integrations. Popular with small and mid e-commerce that want more than a raw API but less than the full AfterShip suite.

• Best for: small-to-mid stores wanting a dashboard and occasional API calls
• Carriers: 1,200+
• Pricing: per-shipment plans
• Tradeoff: still a separate platform to log into, and the UI is generic rather than tailored to your workflow

ParcelPanel

ParcelPanel is a Shopify-native tracking app — installs on your store, automatically ingests orders, and pushes branded tracking pages and notifications. Very popular with Shopify merchants because setup is a few clicks.

• Best for: Shopify stores that want branded tracking pages fast
• Carriers: 1,000+
• Pricing: tiered by monthly shipments
• Tradeoff: locked to Shopify (and a few other platforms). If you sell across multiple channels — Etsy, eBay, wholesale, your own site — it covers only one slice

Parcels.app (and similar consumer trackers)

A constellation of apps and websites — Parcels, Packagetrackr, Boxoh, ExtraVox — aimed at individuals tracking a handful of personal packages. Great for buyers. Not designed for sellers or ops teams.

• Best for: tracking a dozen packages a year for yourself
• Carriers: varies, many hundreds
• Pricing: free with ads; cheap pro tiers
• Tradeoff: no bulk import, no team collaboration, no spreadsheet integration

EasyPost / Shippo

These are shipping-first platforms — they print labels, compare rates, manage pickups — that also provide tracking as part of the package. If you're choosing a shipping platform, tracking comes included. If you already have a shipping stack and just need a tracking view over top of it, they're too heavy.

• Best for: teams that haven't picked a shipping platform yet
• Carriers: 100+ label-printing carriers, more for tracking
• Pricing: per-label (shipping) + per-tracking
• Tradeoff: solves more than the tracking problem, at more than the tracking price

The Google Sheets approach (Your Package Tracker)

This is our lane, and it is genuinely different enough from the above to warrant its own row.

Almost every small e-commerce operation, freight forwarder, 3PL intake team, personal seller, and office-admin shipping coordinator is already tracking orders in a spreadsheet. The spreadsheet has the order number, the customer name, the carrier, the tracking number, and enough columns for whatever else the business needs. The problem isn't "I need a dashboard." The problem is "I want the status column next to everything else."

Your Package Tracker is a Google Sheets add-on that makes that one column work. You drop =PKG_STATUS(tracking_number, carrier) into any cell and it returns the current status, live from the carrier. Five other formulas cover summaries, full event histories, and forced refreshes. Bulk Track Packages handles hundreds of rows at a time while respecting rate limits.

• Best for: small businesses, solo sellers, freight desks, office admins, anyone already tracking orders in Google Sheets
• Carriers: 1,700+ worldwide
• Pricing: 3 lookups free, then $19 / $49 / $99 per month for 200 / 1,000 / 3,000 lookups. No per-seat fee. No per-shipment overage surprises.
• Tradeoff: not a customer-facing branded tracking page (use AfterShip or ParcelPanel for that). Not an API (use Ship24 for that). Not a shipping platform (use EasyPost/Shippo). It's just the tracking column in your sheet — and for a lot of small businesses, that's the whole need.

At a glance

Tool	Primary user	Carriers	Ingest	Pricing shape	Requires a separate app?
AfterShip	DTC e-commerce	1,400+	Platform integrations	Per-shipment + tiers	Yes
Ship24	Developers	1,200+	API	Per-tracking	Yes (you build the UI)
TrackingMore	Small–mid e-commerce	1,200+	Dashboard + API	Per-shipment tiers	Yes
ParcelPanel	Shopify merchants	1,000+	Shopify auto-sync	Per-shipment tiers	Yes (Shopify only)
Parcels.app	Individuals	Hundreds	Manual entry	Free / cheap	Yes
EasyPost / Shippo	Shipping-first teams	100+ ship, more track	Platform	Per-label + per-tracking	Yes
Your Package Tracker	Small business in Sheets	1,700+	Google Sheets formula	Flat monthly, no per-seat	No — it's a Sheets add-on

Why the Google Sheets approach wins for small business

Three reasons small-business teams end up choosing our approach over dedicated platforms, even when the dedicated platforms have more features:

1. You already live in Google Sheets

A spreadsheet already holds the order, the customer, the SKU, the shipping cost, the profit margin, the notes. The tracking column is the last missing piece. Adding =PKG_STATUS(...) completes the sheet; it doesn't create a new tool to learn, log into, or pay for separately.

2. Small business pricing that doesn't punish growth

Per-shipment pricing is great for the vendor, rough on you. Ship 300 packages? $0.05 per tracking × 300 = $15 — but that's per tracking refresh. Two refreshes per shipment means $30. Across a year, that's serious money.

Our plans are flat: $19 / $49 / $99 per month for 200 / 1,000 / 3,000 lookups respectively. Cached reads are free, so checking a delivered package again doesn't count. There's no per-user fee, so your whole team can share one sheet.

3. 1,700+ carriers, not just the big US names

Most small businesses think they only need FedEx / UPS / USPS — until they do. An Etsy seller in Portugal gets a buyer in Singapore via SingPost. A Shopify store dropshipping from Shenzhen gets a tracking number from Yanwen or 4PX or China Post. An office admin orders from a European supplier shipping via GLS or DPD.

Our 1,700+ carrier coverage spans every major regional post, every major express carrier, and most of the specialized e-commerce logistics networks that don't show up in smaller trackers. If your customer base is global even occasionally, this matters.

How to choose: a decision tree

Answer these in order:

1. "Are you a Shopify-only DTC brand with over $500k/year in revenue that needs branded tracking pages sent to customers?" → AfterShip or ParcelPanel are worth the cost.
2. "Are you a developer building a custom tool?" → Ship24's API.
3. "Are you a consumer tracking a few personal packages?" → Parcels.app or one of the free trackers.
4. "Are you a shipping-first team that needs to print labels AND track?" → EasyPost or Shippo.
5. "Do you already store your shipments in a Google Sheet, and just want a working status column — for one monthly fee, without adding another login?" → Your Package Tracker is probably the right call. Install the free add-on and try it with three free lookups.

Frequently asked questions

Can I use Your Package Tracker alongside AfterShip or ParcelPanel? Yes. Many teams use AfterShip (or ParcelPanel) for customer-facing branded tracking emails, and use the Sheets add-on as their internal ops view. The two layers don't conflict.

Does the add-on work for non-e-commerce use cases? Yes. Common non-e-commerce users: offices tracking inbound purchases, freight desks tracking LTL pickups, legal teams tracking registered mail and certified deliveries, procurement teams tracking vendor shipments.

What if I need an API? We don't publish an API. If you need raw JSON per tracking number, Ship24 is the right call. If you need an ops view for your team, we are.

How does the "1,700+ carriers" count compare to the others? The serious tools in this category (AfterShip, Ship24, TrackingMore) all claim around 1,000–1,400. Our 1,700+ includes many specialized regional and e-commerce carriers — particularly across Asia and Latin America — that the customer-experience-focused tools often skip.

Is my data private? The add-on only sends the tracking number and carrier name upstream for the lookup. It doesn't read other cells, other sheets, or other files in your drive. See our Privacy Policy.

What does it cost? 3 free lookups to try. Paid plans from $19/month. Full pricing.

The takeaway

The multi-carrier tracking category has a tool for every size of operation. AfterShip is right for enterprise Shopify brands. Ship24 is right for engineers. ParcelPanel is right for Shopify merchants who just want a branded page. EasyPost and Shippo are right if you haven't picked a shipping platform yet.

Your Package Tracker is right for the enormous middle — small businesses, solo sellers, freight desks, office admins — who are already running their operation out of a Google Sheet and just want the tracking column to work, for one monthly fee, without inviting a new tool into the stack.

Install Your Package Tracker free from the Google Workspace Marketplace →

Related reading: UPS, FedEx, USPS, DHL — or browse all articles.