The MachShip API
How to Obtain Tracking, Consignment or Proof of Delivery (POD) information from the MachShip API
Being able to easily and accessibly obtain tracking, pricing and consignment information from despatched orders is another core capability of the MachShip platform. Furthermore, MachShip's RESTful API can be utilized in order to allow for easy ...
Customer integration overview and questionnaire
MachShip – Customer-Side Integrations We offer several methods of integration so that a customer's system can integrate directly with MachShip so as to avoid manual intervention or duplicate data entry. These systems differ in complexity and ...
FTP integration and set up
FTP/SFTP FTP refers to ‘File Transfer Protocol’ which is an internet-based data transfer mechanism much like HTTP (Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol) which is what you would be used to seeing at the start of web addresses that you type into your browser. ...
API introduction and authentication
Our API documentation is designed to be used as a guide for integrating your system directly into MachShip. This documentation describes the technical details of dealing with MachShip’s API layer, the security requirements and provides links to ...
How to Generate and Revoke an API Token
All requests to MachShip API require a valid API token. This token can be generated by logging in to MachShip and adding a new token to your user account. How to Create an API Token The My API Tokens option lets users create/generate their own API ...
How to Generate and Revoke an API Token for Another User
All requests to MachShip API require a valid API token. This token can be generated by logging in to MachShip and adding a new token to your user account. Generate a valid API token via the View User page Firstly, you need to access your user list by ...
Common API Error Responses
MachShip does its best to return meaningful error messages when there is something wrong with the API calls. If there is any error, MachShip will return a response that looks similar to the one below: { "object":null, "errors":[ { ...
Machship API Integration Workflow Guide
The objective of this article is to give you a quick-start guide in working with our API to achieve common integration workflows, and how that affects which API endpoints you wish to use. API Authentication & Documentation Our API accepts and returns ...