How to Add a Postal Scale to Windows

Calculating shipping costs is an important part of doing business online, so having a postage scale built into your Windows computer will help you make the right business decisions when it comes to selling and shipping your goods. This can be accomplished by buying a commercially-available digital postage scale for your computer.

Step 1

Plug one end of the USB cable into the digital postage scale.

Step 2

Connect the other end into an available USB port on your computer.

Step 3

Restart your computer to auto-detect the scale.

Step 4

Insert the software CD in your CD drive.

Step 5

Click on the install button and follow the onscreen instructions for your specific model of scale to install the necessary software.

Step 6

Restart your computer again.

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