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Shippo

Shipping API for label creation, package tracking, rate shopping, and carrier management across e-commerce.

Best for rate quotes, label printing, tracking polls, and reacting when shipments are delivered, returned, or fail.

Example Use Cases

These are the Shippo actions Snow can use when building apps with you. Connecting an account does not make Snow run these on its own.

Create Live Rate

Tool to generate live shipping rates from multiple carriers for a given shipment. Use when you need real-time pricing for shipping from origin to destination with specific items. Returns available rates with costs and delivery estimates.

Create Merchant Shipment

Tool to create a new shipment for a merchant using Shippo's Platform API. Use when you need to create a shipment with origin/destination addresses and parcel details to get shipping rates. This endpoint is part of the Platform API and requires a merchant ID.

Create Merchant Transaction

Tool to create a shipping label transaction for a merchant using the Shippo Platform API. Use when you need to purchase a shipping label for a specific merchant account using an existing rate ID.

Create Shipment

Tool to create a new shipment with Shippo. Use when you need to generate shipping rates for a package by providing origin and destination addresses and parcel details.

Create Shippo Address

Tool to create a new address in Shippo. Use when you need to store sender or recipient addresses for shipping labels and transactions. Addresses can be validated against carrier databases before creation by setting validate=true.

Create Transaction

Tool to create a shipping label transaction with Shippo. Use when you need to purchase a shipping label either from an existing rate ID or by specifying shipment details directly.

Get Address

Tool to retrieve a previously created address from Shippo. Use when you need to get the details of an existing address using its object ID.

Get Merchant Rate

Tool to retrieve a specific shipping rate for a merchant using the Shippo Platform API. Use when you need to fetch detailed rate information for a merchant's shipment, including pricing, carrier details, and service level.

Get Merchant Shipment

Tool to retrieve a shipment for a merchant from the Shippo Platform API. Use when you need to fetch details of a shipment that belongs to a specific merchant.

Get Merchant Tracking Status

Tool to retrieve tracking status for a merchant from Shippo Platform API. Use when you need to get the current status, location, and history of a package for a specific merchant using carrier and tracking number.