Daily

See what you spent on EasyPost labels today

Every evening you get the number of labels bought and what they cost in total.

Runs: Daily
Apps: EasyPost
AI: Not needed
Access: production key

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every day at 8pm, list the EasyPost shipments created today and email me how many labels I bought and the total postage, split by carrier.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

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Why use it

Why teams use this automation

An online store, print shop or fulfillment team buys shipping labels all day through EasyPost, and postage is one of the largest variable costs. But the total is usually visible only on a monthly invoice or an account page nobody opens, so a mistaken service level, an unexpected surcharge or a spike from a bulk order goes unnoticed. By the time finance sees it, hundreds of labels have been bought at the wrong rate.

Each day the automation lists the shipments created that day, adds up their rates and emails you the total with a count of labels. It gives you a number to compare against what you expected, while there is still time to correct a rule or a rate selection.

Ecommerce owners, operations managers and bookkeepers who watch margins will value having this every day.

What you get out of it

Postage mistakes caught on the same day
If the day's total is double normal, you can look at the shipments right away. Fixing a wrong default service level the same day saves far more than finding it on the monthly invoice.
Accurate cost of goods
Daily totals feed straight into margin calculations. When you know what postage really cost, you can price shipping fairly and avoid quietly losing money on heavy orders, which is where free-shipping promises often go wrong.
Label counts reveal order volume
The number of labels bought alongside the spend gives you a quick read on how busy the day was. It is a simple operational pulse that does not need a dashboard.
Spot expensive carrier changes
A rate increase from a carrier shows up as a rising cost per label. You will see it within days, and can adjust your shipping options or renegotiate before margins suffer for a whole quarter.
Bookkeeping is easier at month end
A series of daily emails is a ready record of postage spend by day. That saves reconstructing figures from the invoice when it is time to reconcile, and makes it easy to explain a strange month to an accountant.

How it works

What happens, step by step

Every evening, ClickRuntime lists the EasyPost shipments you bought labels for today.
It adds up the number of labels and their cost for each carrier.
You get an email with the day's total and a line per carrier, such as USPS or FedEx.

Before it runs live

Connect EasyPost

What you get

RunsDaily

See what you spent on EasyPost labels todaytoday, 9:00Succeeded

Email · EasyPost labelsEasyPost today: 31 labels, $264.18 USPS: 22 labels, $141.90 · FedEx: 9 labels, $122.28

Build your own

Need it to work differently?

This template is a starting point. Copy the prompt and change it, or describe a different automation from scratch, with your own conditions, more apps or an AI step. Your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

Your own rules
Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.
Any number of apps
One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.
AI where it helps
Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.
On a schedule or on each event
Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

Changes you can ask for

Run it at a different time, more or less often, or only on weekdays
Add an AI step, for example to summarize, sort or draft a reply
Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
Combine it with other EasyPost steps into one automation

Under the hood

The code that runs this automation

This is the Python script that runs each time the automation starts. Your AI assistant writes it for you when you send the prompt, and you allow each step in your assistant. To change how the automation works, describe the change to your assistant and it updates the script for you. For every function it can use, see the script reference.

daily_label_spend_report.pyexample

from collections import defaultdict
from datetime import date
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http, notify

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    shipments = http.get("https://api.easypost.com/v2/shipments", auth=(credentials.secret("EASYPOST_API_KEY"), ""),
                         params={"start_datetime": date.today().isoformat() + "T00:00:00Z", "page_size": 100,
                                 "purchased": True}).json()["shipments"]
    per_carrier = defaultdict(lambda: [0, 0.0])
    for s in shipments:
        rate = s.get("selected_rate")
        if rate:
            per_carrier[rate["carrier"]][0] += 1
            per_carrier[rate["carrier"]][1] += float(rate["rate"])
    total = sum(c for _, c in per_carrier.values())
    count = sum(n for n, _ in per_carrier.values())
    notify.email_me(f"EasyPost today: {count} labels, ${total:,.2f}",
                    "\n".join(f"{c}: {n} labels, ${cost:,.2f}" for c, (n, cost) in per_carrier.items()) or "No labels today.")
    return {"labels": count, "total": total}

FAQ

Common questions

Does the total include refunds for unused labels?

It adds up the rates of shipments created that day. Refunds for voided labels are processed separately by the carrier, so they would not reduce that day's figure unless you ask for the refunds to be included in the report as a separate line.

Which rate is counted when there are several options?

The rate that was actually purchased for each shipment is used, not the other quotes shown at checkout. That means the total reflects what you were charged, not what you might have paid, and it matches the postage line on your carrier statements more closely.

Can I see spend broken down by carrier?

Yes. Each shipment records its carrier, so the email can include a subtotal for each one. Tell your AI assistant if you want a per-carrier breakdown alongside the daily total, and it will appear in the next run.

What permissions does it need?

production key. Nothing else in your accounts is used.

Does it need AI?

No. It runs without AI, so it doesn't use your plan's AI allowance.

How many runs does it use?

One run each time it runs (daily). Checks that find nothing to do and stop right away aren't counted.

Can I change how it works?

Yes. Describe the change to your AI assistant, for example a different schedule, channel or filter. It updates the automation, tests it and tells you what changed.

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