Can't Print eBay Shipping Labels 7-21-22

Liz Morton
Liz Morton


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UPDATE 7-25-22

This issue has been added to eBay's list of ongoing technical issues. Impacted users should reference ALERT13975 when contacted customer support.

Ongoing technical issues
Hi everyone - there have been a number of reports in the last week of members impacted by one or several ongoing technical issues. We have detailed them below. If you are impacted by one or multiple of these please consider contacting Customer Support (link here) to be added to the open tickets. W…

Sellers are unable to purchase shipping labels getting error "We are unable to load payment options, please try again later" (July 20, 2022)

Members have reported clearing cache and cookies could help clear the issue. It's also been noted that using the bulk label option and deleting out all listings but the one you want to print has worked for some.

Reference ID: ALERT13975

Provided Member ID:

Provide Item number:
Provide Screenshot:

Shipping Courier :
Seller using Web or Mobile App:
Printing Bulk or Individual label:


UPDATE 7-23-22

Some sellers in the community have been able to use the bulk shipping page as a workaround, even if they only have one label to print.

Label Printing Failure work around ...
I have had the off and on issue with Labels not printing and in some cases not even being able to pay for them, my Payment button goes gray. The failure occurs on 2 browsers, Firefox & Edge ... So I decided to try the Print labels in Bulk link (green arrow in pic below) ... that worked, I removed…

I have had the off and on issue with Labels not printing and in some cases not even being able to pay for them, my Payment button goes gray. The failure occurs on 2 browsers, Firefox & Edge ...

So I decided to try the Print labels in Bulk link (green arrow in pic below) ... that worked, I removed all but one label and processed it, paid for it and printed it out.


Many eBay sellers are reporting problems with printing shipping labels today - either sizing on labels is not correct or error messages saying something went wrong or that eBay is unable to process payment for the label using your preferred payment method.

Printing a shipping label not working
Getting an error message: We’re unable to process your payment using your preferred method. Please update your preferred payment method and try again. Except I have PLENTY of available funds & I just successfully printed a label right before it. There’s a thread on the Selling Board, I’m not…

Getting an error message:

We're unable to process your payment using your preferred method. Please update your preferred payment method and try again.

Except I have PLENTY of available funds & I just successfully printed a label right before it. There's a thread on the Selling Board, I'm not the only one having problems. Even if I didn't have avl funds, there is a backup source on file.

Have tried 4x & keep getting this bogus error. Hopefully it's working later, as I have labels I have to print tonight!

Ok - what’s going on with shipping labels?
Yesterday, labels would not print - just endless “try again later” messages. I cleared my laptop’s cache and things were back to normal. Same thing happens this morning - either “try again later” or “could not load payments at this time.” I called tech support and they said it’s been an ongoing issu…

Yesterday, labels would not print - just endless "try again later" messages. I cleared my laptop's cache and things were back to normal. Same thing happens this morning - either "try again later" or "could not load payments at this time." I called tech support and they said it's been an ongoing issue, and to try clearing my cache again. I did that and, at the moment, I can print labels again but now they are about a third of the usual size and I can't get them back to normal.

Anybody else having issues with the purchase shipping label button and/or no services available?
I was in the middle of printing out my orders for the day and suddenly when I click on the purchase shipping label it isn’t taking me to where I can print it out or anywhere. Also many times I’m seeing no services available. This is for eBay standard envelopes I was able to get a bubble mailer sta…

I was in the middle of printing out my orders for the day and suddenly when I click on the purchase shipping label it isn't taking me to where I can print it out or anywhere. Also many times I'm seeing no services available. This is for eBay standard envelopes I was able to get a bubble mailer standard tracking to work. Anybody else seeing issues like this in the last ten minutes or so? Or is this unique to me? I tried restarting my computer in case it was me but that didn't seem to fix the issue


Some users have reported the clearing cache and cookies or trying a different browser resolved the issue temporarily but then it came back, so this may not be a reliable workaround.

Ebay shipping label glitch workaround from Flipping

eBay support on Twitter has acknowledged the issue but of course it is not reflected on the eBay system status page.


I'll update as more information becomes available - in the meantime, if you're experiencing problems printing labels from eBay today, let us know in the comments below!

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prmoller
8-1-22, Just started having issues with printing labels. The bar codes were coming out really large and/or missing information. Tried multiple ways to print differently and deleted cache, etc. Finally tried using a different browser and so far, fingers crossed, it is working.
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thesouthpaws
After spending an hour with a couple of eBay helpers online yesterday 7/29/22 they finally told me to try Chrome as my browser instead of Firefox or Safari. It works now.
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Jup
@Ebay why is this still an issue and why aren't you addressing it publicly instead of us having to search and wonder what's going on? Labels still not printing correctly.
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Chrissyk723
I have had the exact same problems ! The last 2 days I can print intermitten labels .. no clue or reason why some work and some don’t ! I get same sorry error code page ! If I can’t get my packages shipped I’m hung to lose customers and sales !! Any idea how to get them to print ??
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MoonChild1974
I purchased the shipping label yet it's missing in the 'manage label' tab. I boughtvone yesterday and it's under the tab. I'm getting so frustrated.
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winchestermysterykitchen
I was able to use the multi-order shipping tool yesterday to get my labels printed so it is definitely not your payments or the shippers or whatever, it is an Ebay programming error. Unfortunately if you only have one order you cannot use the multi order shipping tool as it redirects you to the single label tool if only one box is checked.

Hopefully the crack Ebay programming team can band together and find the typo or missing quote mark or whatever in the code they made live yesterday afternoon and we can use the tools as intended again later today.
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patchwork-cat
I have tried for a day and a half to print my Ebay shipping label and comes up cannot find correct payment source ... yesterday it said USPS and Fed Ex were having problems ... So what is wrong and when will it be corrected?
Let me know.
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CB-2019
Continue receiving the same error message(s) when trying to select/purchase shipping labels. Have reported to Ebay, still a problem after 48+ hours.
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alenglund
I tried purchasing a shipping label several hours ago and it went to a page stating "Something Went Wrong". Just keeps doing that. It worked fine yesterday, but not today. Haven't experienced this before. Hope this gets fixed ASAP.
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destron-designs
eBay can't make labels today...here's a screenshot. I have orders that need shipping today, I guess I'll have to find an alternative. Ebay, fix this now!

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Avatar PlaceholderjannicksYesterday
Order number: 05-12869-97956, Item was counterfeit, cant leave feedback due to "we can't find this transaction"
Avataralexclifford93Yesterday
Absolutely agree with other people here - this Ebay "simple postage" is a wheeze to squeeze more out of private sellers. I live walking distance to the post office (2 minute walk) and it's 4 miles to my local Evri drop off point. I don't have a car. So will have to opt for Royal Mail only - which in turn adds an extra few pence to the postage. Previously a 2nd mail parcel was £3.25, with this it's going to be an increase of nearly 50%. The biggest increase is for the 1-2kg parcels, which previously qualified as small parcels.

As many of the items I sell are £10 or less, this makes it not worth the bother and I'll probably have to give it away to the charity shop.

Add that to the "buyer protection" fee they've added on - and the costs are making it untenable for people trying to clear the house, or make a few bob from old bits and pieces. Not happy at all and there doesn't seem to be a way of opting out.

The sooner these sleazebags at the top can be got rid of, or some community-run buy/sell/swap sites come up - the better. We don't need ebay.