One API for every carrier
EliteShipping wanted merchants to ship through several carriers, at home and abroad, from a single API: compare rates, print labels, track parcels, handle customs, log problems and send receipts to customers automatically.
We built it as a REST API with multi-carrier integration through Shippo and others, documented as a Postman collection so that e-commerce platforms and merchant systems can integrate with it directly.
What happens to a shipment
- Before dispatch: rate comparison and carrier selection, package dimensions and weight, dynamic label generation
- Crossing borders: customs declarations and commercial invoices for international shipments
- In transit: tracking with carrier status updates, and custom metadata for transaction tracking
- Afterwards: automated receipt emails to customers, and an issue and complaint tracker for anything that goes wrong
With customs handled in the same API, merchants on the platform can fulfil orders internationally as well as at home.