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Multi Carrier Shipment Tracking API

Optimize your logistics operations with Shipium’s developer-friendly package tracking API — built to consolidate delivery updates for high-volume shippers with robust multi-carrier networks.

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Developer-friendly approach

A package tracking API built for simplicity

Managing fulfillment across a large mix of carriers can be complex – from handling diverse vendor-specific language and update frequency to varied data formats. Our shipment tracking API provides access to a single source for standardized data across your shipping network.

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API integration

Easily connect to your systems using our API documentation. Authenticate with unique credentials for quick multi carrier tracking set up.

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Shipment registration

Shipments are registered for tracking automatically. Each receives a unique Shipium ID linked to the carrier’s number.

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Flexible tracking retrieval

Access data via Shipium ID or carrier details. Perform single or bulk searches for up to 100 shipments simultaneously.

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Data processing

Retrieve the latest carrier information and streamline your status events. With Shipium, you can choose between recent events or complete history.

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Data normalization

Interpret and align event types, statuses, and terminologies automatically, eliminating the need to decipher varied carrier-specific information and reducing potential errors.

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Data delivery

Receive timely tracking data in consistent JSON format, simplifying your data flow for a cohesive delivery tracking API experience.

Reduce wasted IT resources

Implement our shipping tracking API once — and let us handle the maintenance

Coordinating shipment visibility across various logistics providers presents technical challenges for IT teams. Service providers have different API structures, authentication methods, and data formats, requiring significant development effort for in-house teams.

 

Our unified shipping tracking API eliminates the need for multiple carrier integrations, saving your team valuable development time.

 

As carriers implement system changes, we handle the maintenance, ensuring your tracking capabilities remain current without ongoing IT investment. This approach streamlines your initial setup and provides long-term efficiency, allowing your team to focus on core business innovations rather than juggling various carrier updates.

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BUILT FOR YOUR EXISTING STACK

Easily connect existing systems with the delivery tracking API from Shipium

Implementing our shipment tracking API into your existing fulfillment solution is a smooth process designed to minimize disruptions due to technical challenges and maximize efficiency. Whether using popular ecommerce solutions like Shopify or custom-built software, our flexible API adapts to your current systems rather than forcing you to overhaul your entire setup.

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SHIPIUM API BENEFITS

Multi carrier tracking API that lowers costs and keeps customers informed

Working alongside our Fulfillment Engine, the Shipium package tracking API allows modern operators to enhance their processes, reduce expenses, and boost efficiency.

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Operational cost reduction

Our shipment tracking API substantially reduces development and upkeep expenses. It also minimizes IT resource needs, reduces customer service inquiries, and helps prevent shipping errors. Combined with our Carrier Selection tool, it optimizes shipping costs across your network.

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Enterprise-level SLAs

With Shipium’s enterprise-level SLA, you gain access to high-performance carrier APIs, ensuring rapid response times and frequent updates. Real-time data empowers you to proactively manage shipments and keep customers informed, enhancing overall satisfaction while meeting demanding business expectations.

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Comprehensive carrier capabilities

Use a comprehensive suite of monitoring capabilities across your shipping ecosystem, including advanced options like photo confirmation that a customer received the package. The Shipium API gives you access to carrier-specific capabilities through a single interface, enhancing your ability to provide detailed shipment information to customers.

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Enhanced customer experience

Offer a seamless experience from the packing stage to home delivery — regardless of your service level or the carrier used. Reduce customer inquiries, increase satisfaction, and build loyalty by providing consistent, detailed tracking information. Our delivery tracking API empowers you to transform shipment status from a basic necessity into a competitive advantage.

Frequently asked questions

What is a shipment tracking API?

A shipment tracking API is a technology that allows developers to automate accessing and retrieving up-to-the-minute status updates on packages shipped through carriers in their networks.

A typical API response includes:

  • Shipment status: A standardized label, from registration to delivery, including returns to sender
  • Tracking events: Every carrier scan, with its status code, location, and timestamp
  • Key dates: Ship date, delivery date, and the carrier’s estimated delivery dates
  • Carrier tracking link: A URL to share with customers
  • Identifiers: The carrier, tracking number, and your own order or shipment reference

Shipium’s multi carrier shipping API sends the response fields to your order management, customer notification, and support tools in a single format across all logistics partners. Transit data also feeds shipping analytics, such as on-time performance by carrier and service method.

How can I track a parcel with Shipium’s delivery tracking API?

Shipium’s delivery tracking API enables straightforward parcel monitoring across various shipping partners. Simply send an API request with the tracking number and carrier information. Our system goes through five steps:

  1. Authentication of your request using your unique API credentials
  2. A query to the appropriate carrier’s system in real time
  3. Retrieval of the most up-to-date tracking data
  4. Normalization of the data into a standardized format
  5. A response in a consistent JSON structure

Read our tracking API documentation.

What systems can the Shipium API integrate with?

The Shipium API integrates with the core systems in your fulfillment stack:

  • Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to unify logistics, finance, and inventory data
  • Order management systems (OMS) to automate and track order fulfillment
  • Warehouse management systems (WMS) like Manhattan Associates to enhance inventory control and shipping processes
  • Transportation management systems (TMS) for carrier selection and route optimization
  • Ecommerce platforms like Shopify, Magento, or WooCommerce
  • Carrier networks to enable real-time shipment tracking across different providers

When you implement the Shipium API, our integration team maps your data across these systems, so tracking updates reach every tool your operators already use.

Does the Shipium parcel tracking API support estimated delivery date predictions?

Yes, our parcel tracking API uses ML-powered time-in-transit modeling and carrier performance data to predict estimated delivery dates. This process ensures accurate package tracking and reliable delivery promises to customers.

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How long does it take to implement Shipium’s APIs?

Shipium’s modular platform allows businesses to start with tracking and expand into other capabilities over time. Unlike legacy shipping technology, which can take up to six months to deploy, a typical Shipium API implementation can take as little as two months, with these key steps:

  • Requirements gathering to align with your business goals
  • Data mapping to integrate with ERP, OMS, WMS, or TMS systems
  • API integration using Shipium’s developer-friendly documentation
  • Comprehensive testing to ensure accuracy and performance
  • Hypercare phase post-launch for support and optimization

Shipium’s platform lets you start with tracking and add other shipping APIs over time. If you’re looking to go beyond tracking, our enterprise parcel management software runs your carrier network, labels, and volume commitments from one platform.

Can I use the Shipium API to track all packages across different carriers?

Yes, the Shipium API allows you to track all packages across multiple carriers in real time. You can also refine searches using country code and postal code for accurate package tracking and location-specific insights.

What carriers does Shipium work with?

Shipium works with multiple carriers, including major national companies and regional services. Carriers in our expansive partner network handle over 99.2% of all domestic parcel shipments.

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What kinds of organizations can best use Shipium’s parcel tracking API?

Organizations that can best use Shipium’s parcel tracking API are high-volume shippers working with multiple logistics partners. Use cases vary by business model:

  • Ecommerce brands: Share real-time order status with customers on order pages and in notifications
  • Third-party logistics providers (3PLs): Monitor shipments for every client account through one tracking feed
  • Retailers with omnichannel operations: Follow orders shipped from warehouses and stores in a single view

Shipium’s multi carrier tracking API connects all of an organization’s carriers through one integration and returns each update in the same format.