What are Yamato Transport Shipping Services supported by Ship&co?

Ship&co is the only shipping software that allows you to connect your ecommerce platforms and easily create shipping labels to ship domestically with Yamato Transport (Kuroneko Yamato). In this guide, we'll give you an overview of the Yamato Transport shipping services supported by Ship&co.

Please Note: The Yamato B2 Cloud API does not support label creation for international shipping service, International TA-Q-BIN (国際宅急便) service, which means that Ship&co is also unable to support label creation for international shipping for Yamato Transport.

Supported Yamato Transport Shipping Services

Ship&co supports Yamato Transport label creation for domestic shipments. With Ship&co, you can ship your orders with the following services from Yamato Transport:

1. TA-Q-BIN (宅急便)

Ship&co support multiple shipping options for Yamato Transport's TA-Q-BIN including shipping with normal temperature (常温) and shipping with Cool TA-Q-BIN (クール宅急便) which helps maintain your parcels chilled at 0-10℃ (クール冷蔵) or frozen at -15℃ or lower (クール冷凍) conditions during delivery.

・Package size: size 60 ~ size 160

• TA-Q-BIN Regular Delivery Prepaid (宅急便 発払い)
• TA-Q-BIN Freight on Delivery (宅急便 着払い)
• TA-Q-BIN Cash on Delivery (宅急便コレクト)
• TA-Q-BIN Time Service (宅急便タイムサービス)
  Note: TA-Q-BIN Time Service cannot be shipped with Cool TA-Q-BIN option or Cash on Delivery option.

2. TA-Q-BIN Compact (宅急便コンパクト)

・Package size: smaller than size 60

• TA-Q-BIN Compact (宅急便コンパクト)
• TA-Q-BIN Compact Cash on Delivery (宅急便コンパクトコレクト)

3. NEKOPOS (ネコポス)* 

・Package size: smaller than square A4 size 

* Nekopos is gradually being transitioned to "Kuroneko Yu-Packet" in each region from October 1st, 2023.

Kuroneko Yu-Packet

・Flat rate nationwide according to thickness of 1cm, 2cm, 3cm
・Total of 3 sides within 60cm (long side within 34cm, thickness within 3cm), weight within 1Kg
・Available for bulk collection 365 days a year
・Delivered to the recipient's mailbox via Japan Post's delivery network.
・Special label sheet required (cannot be printed on Nekopos sheet)

4. Kuroneko DM-Bin (クロネコDM便)

・Package size: linear dimensions of up to 60cm, longest side up to 34cm and thickness up to 2cm

Shipping supplies required to create Yamato shipping labels

It is mandatory to use the dedicated paper provided by Yamato Transport to print shipping labels (waybill). You can request for this shipping supply from Yamato Transport by filling out the Shipping Labels, Shipping Handling Stickers, Shipping Suppliers Order (送り状・荷扱いシール・資材のご注文) form in Yamato Business Member dashboard or order these suppliers directly from a Yamato Transport's driver.

Types of shipping label paper by printer

There is a specific type of shipping labels required depending on the printer you use to print shipping labels for Yamato Transport.

1. Laser Printer

2. Inkjet Printer

3. Label Printer (Thermal)

The label printer (Thermal printer) is not supported printing label for TA-Q-BIN Freight on Delivery and TA-Q-BIN Compact.