Overview Flow Guide
This guide will walk you through a streamlined process for using Easyship shipping API to seamlessly integrate and manage your shipments from start to finish.
By following this guide, you'll quickly dive into essential functionality and learn how to collect shipment details, retrieve shipping rates, select a courier, create shipments, generate labels, and keep track of your shipments through real-time updates. Whatever needs you have, Easyship will simplify your shipping experience.
Before you begin
As a prerequisite on your side, you will need sender and recipient addresses, dimensions of a package, weight of all items to be delivered and delivery terms to create a shipment.
Step-by-step description
- Request rates. Use Request Rates to retrieve a list of available shipping options and their corresponding costs based on shipment destination, package, total dimensions and weight.
- Select a courier. After obtaining the rates, select a courier from the options returned by the Request Rates API. Your choice can be based on cost, delivery speed, best value for money, or other preferences. You can automate this step applying Shipping Rules.
- Create a shipment. Use Create a Shipment to create a new shipment with previously selected courier. Add delivery and packaging details on this step. Here's a How to Create a Shipment guide to help you. To save time and optimise your costs, you can create batches of shipments.
- Generate label. Once the shipment is created, use Create Labels to confirm a shipment, generate a shipping label and other shipping documents. Generating the label will trigger delivery. From this step, shipment information will be transferred to the courier.
- Obtain tracking updates. You can track the shipment status in two ways:
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