Depop + Evri: Printed Label or QR Code?

When you create a listing you choose Depop Shipping and a size tier: Small (under 1 kg), Medium (under 2 kg) or Large (under 5 kg). The buyer pays the postage for that tier at checkout, so the label costs you nothing. When the item sells, Depop emails you an Evri QR code and shows it in the order, with a link to a printable version. The label is a standard Evri tracked label with £20 of cover, and Depop Protection applies on top for Depop Shipping orders.

The tier you chose is the tier the buyer paid for. A parcel that is clearly heavier than the tier can be surcharged or refused at the counter, so weigh the packed item on kitchen scales before you list rather than guessing.

Most of Evri's 9,000-plus ParcelShops have a printer at the counter: show the code, staff scan it, the label prints and is attached, and you get a receipt. ParcelShop parcels are usually scanned into the network at the evening collection, so tracking can show nothing until the next morning. Evri's own lockers, installed from March 2026, print the label at the terminal and scan immediately; they take parcels up to 62 × 57 × 39 cm and 15 kg and are open outside shop hours. Either way the order is marked as shipped at Evri's first scan, which is what stops Depop's automatic cancellation of unshipped orders.

Screenshot the code before you leave. Shops in basements and on forecourts often have no signal, and the screenshot scans just as well as the live code.

The printed version is useful in three situations: a ParcelShop whose printer is out of action (rare, but it happens); the letterbox-sized Postable service, where Evri's own pages are inconsistent about in-shop printing; and sellers who post in volume and want parcels labelled and ready at home so the counter visit is a hand-over and nothing more. Print it on plain paper, attach it flat with clear tape over the whole label and do not tape across the barcode.

Choose 'Other' when you want to ship with Royal Mail, InPost or any courier Depop Shipping does not cover, when the buyer is in the Scottish Highlands or islands (Depop Shipping is mainland UK only), or for parcels over 5 kg. You buy the postage yourself and must enter the tracking number in the app when you mark the order as shipped; it cannot be edited afterwards, so copy it carefully. With 'Other' nothing is marked as shipped until you do it, and Depop's dispatch-window rule still applies. An Evri label bought on evri.com can still be a QR code: choose 'print in ParcelShop' at checkout.

Depop Shipping: the buyer pays the tier price Depop sets. The last figures Depop published were £2.99 for Small, £4.49 for Medium and £6.49 for Large; check the current tiers in the app before you list. Your own Evri label under 'Other': £2.62 to a ParcelShop or £3.04 to a home address for a small parcel under 1 kg, £3.52 for a 1 to 2 kg small parcel (£4.79 standard size) and £6.59 for 2 to 5 kg, including VAT, tracking and £20 of cover. Royal Mail Tracked 48 Small Parcel is £3.75 online since 5 October 2026, and InPost direct is £1.99 to £3.99 by compartment size.

A vintage denim jacket listed with Depop Shipping in the Medium tier (it weighs 1.3 kg packed). It sells on Tuesday night and the Evri QR code is in your inbox by the time you look. On Wednesday morning you show the screenshot at the Co-op counter, the label prints, you take the receipt. The order shows 'shipped' on Wednesday evening when the driver's collection scans it. Had the buyer been on Orkney, Depop Shipping would not have been offered and you would have used 'Other' with Royal Mail Tracked 48 at £3.75, entering the tracking number yourself.