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Migration guide from 2023-01

We have introduced several essential updates in Public API 2024-09, including:

  • Transitioning label creation to a batch process
  • Redirects API
  • Implementing new scopes that give you flexibility to manage access to each APIs
  • Bug fixes
  • We encourage you to upgrade to the latest version to take full advantage of these enhancements and improve your integration experience.

To use the new Public API 2024-09, you must set up a new API Integration (see Scopes).

Labels

Label creation has been updated from 2023-01 to the 2024-09 Batch Labels API. If you’re using 2023-01, no changes are required.

2023-01

For label creation in 2023-01, the request body looks like this:

{
  "shipments": [
    {
      "easyship_shipment_id": "ESSG10006001",
      "courier_id": "01563646-58c1-4607-8fe0-cae3e33c0001"
    }
  ]
}

The request is sent via:POST /2023-01/labels

2024-09

In 2024-09, the request body should look like this:

{
  "shipments": [
    {
      "easyship_shipment_id": "ESSG10006001",
      "courier_service_id": "01563646-58c1-4607-8fe0-cae3e33c0001"
    }
  ]
}

The request is now sent via: POST /2024-09/batches/labels

Refer to the Create a Batch of Labels documentation for complete usage details.


Courier Accounts and Couriers Migration


Courier Accounts

We are changing courier accounts to couriers starting in 2024-09. The changes involve parameters that we send through the request body, response body, and path name.

Key Changes

Path name and parameter changes

You may recognize that on 2023-01, we used the parameters courier_account_id on the courier accounts endpoints. In 2024-09, we renamed it to courier_id.

Let's take “Get a Courier Account” as an example. Here is the path that we are using for 2023-01.

GET https://api.easyship.com/2023-01/courier_accounts/{courier_account_id}

We can see that we are using the courier_account path with the courier_account_id as the path param on the URL

In 2024-09, we change it to:

GET https://api.easyship.com/2024-09/couriers/{courier_id}

The new version changes the path and parameters to courier and courier_id.


Couriers

We are changing couriers to courier services starting in 2024-09. The changes involve parameters that we send through the request and response bodies and path names.

Key Changes

Path name and parameters change

In the new version, we are changing the path from couriers to courier_services. Here is an example of Listing estimated delivery dates for a courier.

What we have on 2023-01. We are still using couriers and courier_id as the path parameters.

https://api.easyship.com/2023-01/couriers/{courier_id}/estimated_delivery_dates

In 2024-09, we change it to this.

https://public-api.easyship.com/2024-09/courier_services/{courier_service_id}/estimated_delivery_dates

We change couriers to courier_services and path params to courier_service_id.


Shipments

Creating a Shipment

On the shipment creation, we also updated the params for courier_selection on the 2024-09. On the 2023-01, we have this as request body params.

{
  "incoterms": "DDU",
  "insurance": {
    "is_insured": false
  },
  "courier_selection": {
    "selected_courier_id": "01563646-58c1-4607-8fe0-cae3e33c0001",
    "allow_courier_fallback": false,
    "apply_shipping_rules": true
  },
  "shipping_settings": {
    "additional_services": {
      "qr_code": "none"
    },
    "units": {
      "weight": "kg",
      "dimensions": "cm"
    },
    "buy_label": false,
    "buy_label_synchronous": false,
    "printing_options": {
      "format": "png",
      "label": "4x6",
      "commercial_invoice": "A4",
      "packing_slip": "4x6"
    }
  }
}

You can see that we are using selected_courier_id under courier_selection to select courier service on the 2023-01. But, on the new version, we rename the courier_selection to courier_settings. Please see the example of request body below for the 2024-09.

{
  "incoterms": "DDU",
  "insurance": {
    "is_insured": false
  },
  "courier_settings": {
    "courier_service_id": "01563646-58c1-4607-8fe0-cae3e33c0001",
    "allow_fallback": false,
    "apply_shipping_rules": true
  },
  "shipping_settings": {
    "additional_services": {
      "qr_code": "none"
    },
    "units": {
      "weight": "kg",
      "dimensions": "cm"
    },
    "buy_label": false,
    "buy_label_synchronous": false,
    "printing_options": {
      "format": "png",
      "label": "4x6",
      "commercial_invoice": "A4",
      "packing_slip": "4x6"
    }
  }
}

We rename the selected_courier_id to courier_service_id under the courier_settings.

Please visit this page to create a shipment for 2023-01 or this page for 2024-09.


Requesting Rates

When requesting rates on the 2023-01, we use courier_selection on the request body.

{
  "destination_address": {
    "country_alpha2": "AD"
  },
  "incoterms": "DDU",
  "insurance": {
    "is_insured": false
  },
  "courier_selection": {
    "show_courier_logo_url": false,
    "apply_shipping_rules": true
  },
  "shipping_settings": {
    "units": {
      "weight": "kg",
      "dimensions": "cm"
    }
  },
  "parcels": [
    {
      "items": [
        {
          "contains_battery_pi966": true,
          "contains_battery_pi967": true,
          "contains_liquids": true,
          "origin_country_alpha2": "AD",
          "quantity": 1,
          "declared_currency": "AED"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

In 2024-09, we renamed it to courier_settings. Here is an example of the request body on the new version:

{
  "destination_address": {
    "country_alpha2": "AD"
  },
  "incoterms": "DDU",
  "insurance": {
    "is_insured": false
  },
  "courier_settings": {
    "show_courier_logo_url": false,
    "apply_shipping_rules": true
  },
  "shipping_settings": {
    "units": {
      "weight": "kg",
      "dimensions": "cm"
    }
  },
  "parcels": [
    {
      "items": [
        {
          "contains_battery_pi966": true,
          "contains_battery_pi967": true,
          "contains_liquids": true,
          "origin_country_alpha2": "AD",
          "quantity": 1,
          "declared_currency": "AED"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}