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Product labels

Last updated 2026-11-09

Product labels are the price stickers, barcode tags, and shelf labels you print for your Products (a Dymo-style label for a paint can, a shelf tag for a hardware SKU, a reprint when a price changes). This page covers printing one product's label from its detail page, bulk-printing and resetting labels from the Products list, reprinting or resetting labels after a price change (and why the list of changed products doesn't clear out on its own until you print them), designing the templates those prints come off of, and getting your label printer talking to Rundoo. To add a new label template or make smaller labels than the default Avery 5160, you build and save it yourself in the Custom Label Designer at any width and height. You design one label, then print it one per label on a roll or tiled across a sheet. The designer doesn't import Avery or Word templates, so you recreate the label once in Rundoo.

In the POS mode, open Products in the left sidebar. Single-product printing lives in the action cluster on the product's detail page; bulk printing lives in the bulk-action row at the bottom of the Products list; template design lives in the Admin mode, under Product.

Printing a single product's label

Open the product from the Products list, then click Print label in the action cluster at the top-right of the detail page. Handy at the counter when a customer asks for a fresh shelf tag, when a new SKU lands and you want a sticker on the bottle, or when you've reshuffled a display and need a tag for the new slot.

Products detail page showing product information, sales metrics, and the highlighted Print label button

Print label opens a small Print label dialog with three fields.

Print label modal showing label template, rotation, and copies fields with Cancel and Print buttons
Field What it does Default
Label template Which saved label design to use. The dropdown lists every label template saved in the Custom Label Designer (see below). Each entry shows its name and size, e.g. Test Label 2 (1" x 2.125"). The most recently used template.
Rotation Rotates the print in 90° increments, useful when your roll feeds sideways. 0°
Copies How many identical labels to print. Stepper up/down or type a number. 1

Click Print to send the job to the label printer configured on this workstation. The dialog closes; the printer starts spitting labels within a second or two.

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The View mobile label button right next to Print label in the action cluster shows the same label as a QR you can scan with a phone (handy when a staff member is doing a floor walk on an iPhone or iPad and doesn't have a label printer nearby).

Bulk printing labels

Printing one label at a time is fine at the counter; bringing in a new vendor catalog or refreshing shelf tags across a department calls for the bulk flow.

In the POS > Products tab, check the boxes at the left of the rows you want labels for. The row checkbox turns blue; a bulk-action row appears at the bottom of the table showing N products selected on the left and a cluster of bulk actions on the right: Print labels, Reset labels, Add to, Download spreadsheet.

Products page displaying a table of product data, with three rows selected and the bulk-action row including

Click Print labels to open the same Print label dialog (template, rotation, copies) but this time Copies is the per-product count (set it to 1 to print one label each for the selected products, 2 for two each, and so on). Click Print and Rundoo sends the whole batch to the label printer in one job.

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Reset labels isn't "clear selection". It's a second bulk action that reprints the selected products' labels using the last template and quantity you used on each, without reopening the dialog. Useful when a shelf move means you need to reprint yesterday's batch with the same settings; risky if you meant to change the template first. If you want to clear the selection, click Clear next to the N products selected count instead.

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If you want labels for a filtered slice of the catalog (e.g. every product in a fineline, or everything below a reorder point), use the Products list's Filter + column sorts first, then Select all in the bulk-action row to grab the whole filtered result. Pair with a custom column layout (Show/hide) to scope your selection tighter than scrolling by hand.

Where you can print labels from

  • Product page: the Print label button.

  • Products list: select products, then Print labels in the bulk actions.

  • Receiving a purchase order: print labels for what you received, one label per unit received.

  • Transfers: print labels for stock arriving from another location.

  • After a price change: filter by Price change since print, then bulk print.

  • Mobile app: open or scan a product and tap Print label. Needs a Zebra mobile printer; see Zebra mobile printers.

What the printed label looks like

The Print label dialog sends the job to the configured printer; what comes off the roll is a sticker like this (a typical paint shelf-tag template at 2” × 1”, product name + tint info + vendor + barcode + price, with the price on the right):

Printed product label showing product name, tint info, vendor, price, and barcode

The specific fields, font sizes, and layout come from whichever Label template you picked in the dialog above. The next section is where you design those.

Label formats and templates

The label templates you see in the Label template dropdown aren't baked into Rundoo (you design and save them yourself in the Custom Label Designer), and every location in your company shares the same set.

In the Admin mode, open Product in the left sidebar, scroll to the bottom of the page, and you'll find the Custom Label Designer section. It's a side-by-side editor: template settings on the left, a live preview on the right.

Custom label designer page with label settings, a list of product data fields to include, and a live label preview

The controls, top to bottom:

  • Saved Labels, a dropdown listing every label template already designed. Pick one to edit it; pick another to start from scratch.

  • Template Name, the human-readable name that shows in the Print label dropdown (Test Label 2, Paint Can Front, Aisle Tag, etc.).

  • Label Size, the physical sticker format. Pick a preset from the dropdown and Rundoo fills in Width and Height for you. The presets are:

    • Avery 5160: 1" × 2.625" sheet (default)
    • Centurion UN G4: 1.25" × 1.93" sheet
    • ULINE S-20247: 1.25" × 2" sheet
    • 3/8" Yellow Bar: 1" × 2" sheet
    • Dymo 30336: 1" × 2.125" roll
    • Centurion CSGENYRR: 1.125" × 2" roll
    • Centurion 40030: 1.25" × 2.325" roll
    • Tree tag: 4" × 10" sheet (four 1" × 10" tags across)
    • Custom

    For a size that isn't listed, or smaller labels than the 5160, pick Custom and type your own Width and Height in inches (the Avery 5167 label die is 0.5" × 1.75", for example).

  • FIELDS (the data fields available for the label). Each row is a toggle: flip a field on and it appears on the preview live; flip it off and it disappears. The ten fields: UPC / Barcode, Product Name, Primary Identifier, Price, Vendor Name, Vendor SKU, Unit of Measure, Date, Store Name, Case Quantity. UPC / Barcode carries a req pill. Its toggle is locked on, so every label includes a barcode. Click any row (or the field on the preview) to select it for editing; the styling panel appears below the FIELDS list with Size, Bold, $ Symbol (for Price), Font, and a POSITION block (Anchor, Align, and R/B percentage offsets) for fine placement. Once selected, the field on the preview can also be nudged by dragging. The tag line above the preview reads Drag to move • Drag corners to resize.

  • Add Static Field. Drop fixed text onto the label (store slogan, "Made in USA," a promo line). Unlike the data fields above, static text doesn't change per product.

  • Font controls (below the preview), Arial font dropdown, ↔ H horizontal alignment, ↕ V vertical alignment, size stepper. Select a field in the preview first, then tweak.

  • Save / reset / delete. At the bottom: Save Design commits the label template (new or edited); Reset to Default wipes your layout back to Rundoo's starter layout for that size; Delete Design removes the label template entirely from the Saved Labels list.

Once saved, the label template shows up in every cashier's Print label dropdown immediately. No republish step.

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Making an Avery sheet, or a multi-up label layout? Design one label in the Custom Label Designer, then set the paper size, margins and gaps when you print. Rundoo prints it one per label on a roll, or tiled across a sheet. It doesn't import Avery or Word templates, so recreate the label once in the designer: pick Custom under Label Size, set the Width and Height you need (including sizes smaller than the 5160, such as the Avery 5167's 0.5" × 1.75" die), name it, and Save Design. Email support@rundoo.ai if you want a size added to the preset list.

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Most stores end up with two or three label templates: a small shelf tag for display (barcode + product name + price), a larger tag for paint cans or heavy stock (product name + vendor + price), and occasionally a dedicated promo or date-stamped sticker. Keep the template names short, the Print label dropdown shows the full string.

Reprinting or resetting labels after a price change

When you bump prices (a Benjamin Moore tier reset, a vendor cost change, a department-wide markup) the bulk-print flow above is the cleanest reprint path:

  1. In POS > Products, click Filter and pick Price change since print > Price changed since print. That narrows the list to exactly the products whose price has moved since you last printed their label, so you're not hunting through the whole catalog. (Turn on the Labels columns from Show/hide to see each product's Last printed date alongside it.)

  2. Check the row checkboxes for the products you want fresh labels for. The bulk-action row appears at the bottom of the table.

  3. Click Print labels, pick your shelf-tag template, and click Print.

If you've already done one price-change reprint with the same template, Reset labels (right next to Print labels) reprints the selected products' labels using their last-used template and quantity. No dialog. Convenient when the only thing that changed is the price.

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"Reset my labels" is this button. When you need to reset or reprint your labels (for one location or the whole shop), that's the Reset labels bulk action above, not a back-office request. Labels aren't scoped to a store on their own, so you reset them by picking the products you want: filter the Products list down to the ones you're after (by department, tag, or the Price change since print filter), check the rows, then click Reset labels.

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Why old labels don't clear out after a price change, and "Clear" vs "Reset". That list isn't a print queue you empty, it's the live Price change since print filter: a product lands on it the moment its price moves past the date on its label (Labels > Last printed), and it only drops off once that date updates, which happens when you Print labels or Reset labels for it. There's no separate "dismiss" or "mark as printed" button, so a product can't leave the list without its label being reprinted. The two buttons do different things, and that trips people up: Reset labels reprints the selected products (it does not empty the list), while Clear next to the N products selected count only drops your current selection, not the price-change flags. So you don't have to print the whole list every week: to print just this week's price changes (say the 20 that moved, not all 250 on the list), filter to Price changed since print, check only those rows, and Print labels on them. Leave the rest flagged, it's harmless, the flag just means "the price moved since this tag printed".

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Custom prices and per-customer pricing tiers don't affect printed shelf labels. Labels always show the product's base Price (the retail price set on the product), not a customer-tier price. Painter-tier and custom prices surface on the cart and the receipt, not on the shelf tag.

Hiding price or cost on labels

Two questions come up a lot at the counter: "Can I print this without the price?" and "Can I print without the barcode?" The answers split:

  • To print without the price, design a label template with the Price toggle turned OFF. Open the Custom Label Designer, flip the Price row's toggle off (it disappears from the preview live) then save the template under a distinct name (e.g. Shelf Tag (no price)). Cashiers can pick that template from the Print label dropdown whenever a customer asks for a price-less sticker.
Custom label designer page showing the Price field toggle turned off and no price displayed on the label preview

  • You can't print without a barcode. The UPC / Barcode row carries a req pill and its toggle is locked on. Every Rundoo label includes a barcode by design. It's how the product is later scanned at the register or counted in inventory. If a sticker genuinely needs to be barcode-less (a hand-written shelf talker, a promo card), that lives outside Rundoo (a hand-written tag or your label printer's own software).

  • Cost never appears on printed labels. The Cost field (what you pay the vendor) isn't in the designer's FIELDS list (there's no toggle for it). Printed labels only ever show the ten fields above, and Price is your retail price, not cost. So cost is safe by default.

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Keep a No price template alongside your standard one instead of editing the default. It's faster to switch templates in the Print label dialog than to re-edit a saved design every time.

Tree tags

Pick Tree tag as the label size, load four-across 1" × 10" weatherproof tags (for example LODA TT10014WH), and print from a product, a purchase order or a transfer. Sidco Horticulture sells the same 1" × 10" four-across format. For a full printer, ribbon and tag setup, see Printing wrap tags for the first time under Label printer setup. Use a thermal transfer printer so tags survive sun and rain. Using a different tag size? Create a custom label design.

Label printer setup

Labels open in your browser's print dialog, just like printing a web page. If your computer can print to a printer, Rundoo can print labels to it: USB or network, Dymo, Zebra, Brother or an office printer.

  • Indoor shelf labels: any printer your computer can print to. A Dymo LabelWriter is the simplest choice.

  • Outdoor labels and tree tags: a thermal transfer printer, which prints with a ribbon so the label doesn't fade. Use a Zebra ZD421t for labels and wrap tags up to 7.5 mil thick, and a Zebra ZT231 (thermal transfer version) for thick tree tags up to 10 mil. The ZD421d is direct thermal and isn't suitable outdoors. Already print tags on another printer? Contact Support and we'll help set it up.

  • From your phone: a Zebra mobile printer. See Zebra mobile printers.

When a label won't print, start with the usual suspects: printer powered on, the right label size loaded, and the print dialog set to your label size. The full checklist lives in Printer troubleshooting.

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Label size in the label template must match the roll you've loaded. Rundoo happily sends a 1" × 2.125" job to a printer loaded with 1.125" × 3.5" stock and vice-versa. The printer prints exactly what you asked for, just onto the wrong paper. If labels come out truncated or shifted, check Label Size in the label template before blaming the driver.

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Use Chrome (or another Chromium-based browser) for the label designer and the Print label dialog. Other browsers can drop the Rotation setting, selecting 90° on a 1×2 Dymo label can still print vertically, or rotate further than asked. If rotation is coming out wrong on Dymo stock, switch to Chrome first (see Internet, Computer, Monitor, and Printer Compatibility for the full browser checklist) before re-editing the template.

Printing wrap tags for the first time

Looking to print wrap tags for the first time? Here's one complete setup for weatherproof tree tags and outdoor price labels. Everything below runs off the same ribbon, so a single printer covers both.

  • Printer: Zebra ZT231, thermal transfer version, 203 dpi. It takes tags up to 10 mil thick on a 3" core.

  • Ribbon: LODA ZW0433L1476O24, a 4.33" × 1,476 ft general-purpose resin-enhanced wax ribbon, wound out (ink on the outside).

  • Tree wrap tags (either works): LODA TT10014WH (Sato), 1" × 10" four-across white slip-on tags with a 2" tear-off, or Sidco Horticulture's end-to-end 1" × 10" (4" web) thermal slip-on tags with a 2" tear-off, white, 1,000 tags per roll.

  • Weatherproof price labels: Uline S-22059, 2" × 1" white polypropylene thermal transfer labels on a 3" core. Uline rates them for up to a year outdoors with a wax/resin ribbon.

Tips:

  • The printer holds one roll at a time. When you switch between tree tags and price labels, load the new roll, slide the media guide to its width, and run a media calibration.

  • Print tree tags with the Tree tag label size. For the price labels, create a custom label design at exactly 2" × 1".

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Already print wrap tags, or want us to confirm this setup first? If you already print wrap tags on other hardware, reach out to us and we'll check compatibility with your current wrap-tag printing setup, you may not need to change a thing. If you're starting fresh, we can confirm the exact printer, ribbon and tag combination for your store before you order (the components above are field-proven on a Zebra nursery printer, and we'll verify the one you choose).