Starshipit API Overview

Overview

• eShip integrates with the world’s leading eCommerce and online platforms. Our app enables you to seamlessly integrate your online store with your couriers.
• But sometimes our integrations don’t work for some larger or enterprise retailers. This might be because eShip doesn’t integrate with the online platforms you use, or because you’ve built a custom website.
• eShip has already done the hard work of integrating with NZ Post. Use the Starshipit API to build your own integration with your eCommerce and online platforms. Then you will have access to our full arsenal of features including a powerful rules engine and integrations.

Benefits of integrating with the Starshipit API

• Using the Starshipit API means that you only need to build one API integration (the one between your platform and eShip).
• Using the Starshipit API saves large retailers and enterprise companies loads of time and money, because we have already done the hard work integrating with the couriers for you. All you need to do is integrate with us.
• By integrating with the Starshipit API, you gain access to a full arsenal of features, including:
  • An intuitive user interface that you can access anywhere in the world, which clearly shows you which orders are ready to ship and which have shipped, and enables easy orders, generating reports, tracking status updates, and creating returns
  • Label printing, packing slips and customs documentation
  • Branded email and SMS notifications, and branded tracking pages
  • A powerful rules engine that you can use to fully automate your dispatch processes, and amend at any time to change how your orders are sent out
• We generate labels locally for NZ Post so if their APIs go down you can continue printing labels.
• Retailers who use the Starshipit API can manage 20 requests per second with no daily limit.
• Retailers who integrate with eShip can use our other integrations as well, e.g. you could connect some orders into eShip via the API, and others through other channels like Shopify and Magento.
• You will have access to any new features, platforms and couriers as we add them to our services.
• We are very stable during peak periods and on average we process over half a million labels every day.
• eShip is hosted on Microsoft Azure which grants us limitless scalability when extra performance is required during busy periods.

What’s next?

Read more about the Starshipit API and how to get started.