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DEVELOPER PLATFORM

Build shipping into your application.

Connect your commerce platform, OMS, ERP, WMS or internal applications to RC:Ship through APIs and real-time webhooks.

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REQUEST
POST /v1/shipments
Authorization: Bearer sk_live_•••••••••

{
  "orderId": "RC102948",
  "destination": {
    "name": "Sanjay Kumar",
    "address1": "123 Main St",
    "city": "Mumbai",
    "state": "MH",
    "zip": "400001",
    "country": "IN"
  },
  "parcel": {
    "weight": 1.2,
    "dimensions": { "length": 10, "width": 8, "height": 4 }
  }
}
RESPONSE
{
  "id": "shp_9x8c7v",
  "status": "created",
  "carrier": "delhivery",
  "trackingNumber": "1928374650",
  "labelUrl": "https://api.ship.retailcoder.com/v1/labels/shp_9x8c7v.pdf"
}

Everything your shipping workflow needs.

Rates

Compare available services across multiple carriers via a single unified API.

Shipments

Create and manage multi-carrier shipments programmatically without leaving your platform.

LabelsSOON

Generate compliant shipping labels in ZPL or PDF formats natively.

Tracking

Track shipment lifecycle with normalized, uniform statuses across all carrier networks.

Webhooks

React to shipping events in real-time, instantly notifying your customers of delivery updates.

Automation

Connect RC:Ship's routing engine and shipping logic to your own internal business processes.

ARCHITECTURE

From order to delivery, through one API.

YOUR APPLICATION
1
AUTHENTICATE
2
GET RATES
3
CREATE SHIPMENT
4
GENERATE LABEL
5
TRACK SHIPMENT
6
RECEIVE EVENTS
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Build with the Shipping Infrastructure API

A robust, RESTful API designed by developers, for developers.

Integrating shipping carriers is notoriously difficult due to archaic SOAP APIs, inconsistent documentation, and varied label formats. RC:Ship abstracts away this complexity, providing a unified developer experience.

Unified Carrier Abstraction

Instead of building and maintaining 10 different carrier integrations, you build one integration to the RC:Ship API. We handle the carrier-specific quirks, API updates, and edge cases, allowing your engineering team to focus on core product features.

Our API normalizes the entire shipping lifecycle—from live rate fetching to label generation and real-time tracking webhooks.

This means that adding a new carrier to your stack is a configuration change in our dashboard, not a three-week sprint for your engineering team.

Reliable Webhooks & Event Streams

Stop polling for tracking updates. Our infrastructure handles millions of carrier pings and distills them into clean, standardized webhook events sent directly to your endpoints. Whether a package is out for delivery or returning to origin, you receive instant, structured JSON payloads.

API Capabilities

RESTful Design
Predictable resource-oriented URLs and HTTP status codes.
Sub-second Responses
Optimized for live checkout rate fetching without latency.
Webhooks
Reliable event delivery with built-in retry mechanisms.
Sandboxed Testing
Generate test labels without incurring real carrier charges.