For e-commerce, Amazon FBA and marketplace sellers
You ship to a fulfilment centre that sets limits for height, weight and labelling. JetPallet works from the single product through the master carton to the finished pallet: a 400 × 300 × 250 mm carton gives 8 cartons per layer on a Euro pallet. You enter your receiver’s limits, and the app shows how many layers they allow and whether the labels face outwards.
What you end up with
Most questions come up just before the goods leave:
A spreadsheet answers the first question at best, and only for the simplest grid.
Workflow
In the master carton calculator you enter product dimensions and units per carton. JetPallet suggests arrangements and outer dimensions and shows, for each one, how many products end up on the pallet. If you already have cartons in stock, check them against your product in the stock carton list.
Maximum total height, permitted weight, pallet type: these come from your receiver, not from the app. Besides the Euro pallet you can pick industrial and half pallets or the US pallet 48 × 40 in, and type inches and pounds directly.
The app calculates the layer pattern as you type and checks every layer geometrically. Under “Layer sequence” you choose whether the label sits on the long or the short side of the carton. Cartons whose label faces inwards are highlighted in the layer view.
Finally you print pallet labels with SSCC and a GS1-128 barcode and, where needed, add a PDF packing report or packing instruction for yourself or your supplier.
In detail
01
The master carton calculator starts from the single product and ranks arrangements by products per pallet, not by the neatest box. You see whether 12 or 16 units per carton put more goods on the pallet. The “Product dimension comparison” tool also shows what a small change to the retail packaging would do.
02
Every change to carton size, height or weight recalculates the pattern straight away. Besides grid and two-block, JetPallet tries pinwheel, five-block and further pattern families. The sidebar lists cartons per layer, layers, total height, gross weight and the centre of gravity of the load.
03
The label check counts, per layer, how many cartons turn their label towards the edge of the pallet – for example “Label outside: 8 of 12 per layer”. It is purely geometric: it knows which side of the carton carries the label, not at what height.
04
JetPallet creates pallet labels as PDF in A6 portrait or A5 landscape, with SSCC-18 and a GS1-128 barcode. The SSCC is built from your GS1 company prefix, which you get from GS1; the app never invents numbers and only advances the serial number when you tell it to. Gross weight is printed as its own data element.
PDF · 47 languages
Driver sheet
PDF · A6
Pallet label
PDF · A4
Packing report
Schematic view of the outputs, not original pages.
05
Enter freight per pallet, pallet cost and cost per carton, and the app works out packaging and freight cost per product. JetPallet does not estimate freight rates – the figures come from your own quotes.
Questions
No. The app has no marketplace connection and no built-in warehouse rules. You enter maximum height, weight and label side yourself; JetPallet calculates the pallet and checks it against those values.
Yes. An SSCC consists of your GS1 company prefix, an extension digit, a serial reference and a check digit. JetPallet calculates the check digit and the barcode; the company prefix has to come from you.
Yes. The web calculator on this site answers how many boxes fit on a pallet, free and in your browser. You need the app once master cartons, labels, pallet labels or reports come into play.
Read on
Start with the free web calculator or try JetPallet on your Mac for 14 days. After that the subscription is USD 99 a year, with every feature included.
Free for 14 days · then USD 99/year
