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Shipping: API Guides

  • Getting Started

    How to get up and running with the Shipping API.

    • Introduction to the Shipping API
    • Creating your API User
    • Creating a SOAP Project from a Service
    • Creating your first Request to a Service
  • Quick Start

    Recommended quick start API sequence, including a downloadable Postman collection of the sequence.

    • Shipping API Postman Collection
    • From Pre-Ship through to Manifesting
  • Best Practices for different Workflows

    Recommended sequences of API calls for common seller operations.

    • Summary
    • Basic Shipping
    • Ship and Hold
    • Pre-Ship Picking Optimisation
    • Rate Shopping
    • Store the Paperwork and Print Later
    See all 8 articles
  • Consignment Building Blocks

    The constituent parts of the Shipping API.

    • Properties needed to Call or Create a Consignment
    • Parcels Array
    • Products Array
  • Allocation Building Blocks

    How to allocate a consignment.

    • Booking Codes and the Allocation Filter
    • Filtering and Sorting
  • Printing (Despatch) Building Blocks

    How to generate labels and customs documents.

    • Printing Properties
  • Allocation Service

    How to create, allocate and despatch consignments using the API.

    • Allocation Service Methods
    • allocateConsignments
    • allocateConsignmentsWithBookingCode
    • createAndAllocateConsignments
    • createAndAllocateConsignmentsWithBookingCode
    • createAndAllocateConsignmentsWithBookingCode (Return)
    See all 12 articles
  • Debug Service

    API version of the 'Why Not?' feature.

    • Debug Service Methods
    • debugConsignmentWhyNot
    • debugConsignmentWhyNotWithBookingCode
  • Consignment Service

    How to manage consignments using the API.

    • Consignment Service Methods
    • addConsignmentsToGroup
    • addInnerToOuter
    • appendParcelsToConsignment
    • createConsignments
    • createPaperworkForCarton
    See all 21 articles
  • Consignment Search Service

    How to search for consignments using the API.

    • Consignment Search Service Methods
    • findConsignmentsByCarrierConsignmentCode
    • findConsignmentsByCartonId
    • findConsignmentByConsignmentCode
    • findConsignmentsByOrderReference
    • findConsignmentsByParcelCode
  • Manifest Service

    How to manifest using the API.

    • Manifest Service Methods
    • createManifest
    • createManifestAsPdf
    • createManifestForFutureDespatch
    • findConsignmentsOnManifest
    • findManifests
    See all 7 articles
  • Information Service

    How to return config. information using the API.

    • Information Service Methods
    • findCarriers
    • findCarrierServices
    • findGroups
    • findServicesInGroups
    • findWarehouses
  • FAQs

    Common questions on features offered by the API.

    • How do I Print and Manifest separately?
    • How do I tell a carrier that a product contains Dangerous Goods?
    • How do I create consignments in Imperial Weights and Measures?
    • How do I specify a what3words location?
  • What's New

    New API enhancements.

    • What's New in June 2020
    • What's New in September 2020

    Featured Articles

    • Preparing for Brexit
    • Current Despatch Pipeline
    • End-to-End Delivery Metrics
    • Carrier SLA
    • Customer Delivery Promise
    • Inflight Delivery Issues

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