The EPISHIP Shipping Quotes API allows you to programmatically generate and manage shipping cost estimates. You can develop applications that integrate real-time rate quoting into ecommerce checkouts, enabling customers to see accurate shipping costs before purchase, or build internal tools for auditing potential shipping expenses.
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The following figure shows the relationship between your EPISHIP app, the EPISHIP API, and Quoting services.
Figure 1. EPISHIP API relationship diagram. Quote creation, retrieval, and management flow.
EPISHIP’s quoting interface provides a historical view of all generated rate estimates. Administrators can review quotes generated by external sources (like a shopping cart), manually delete obsolete quotes, or email quote details directly to customers.
The REST API that powers the quoting engine. It supports both public-facing endpoints for creating new quotes (ideal for frontend integrations) and administrative endpoints for listing, deleting, and managing existing quotes within the system.
Secured via Bearer tokens in the Authorization header. While creating a quote can be integrated into public-facing tools, administrative actions like listing all quotes or deleting records require elevated permissions and authentication.
A comprehensive calculation engine that takes package dimensions, weight, and line items into account to return a precise cost estimate. It factors in carrier specific logic to ensure the quoted price matches the eventual label cost as closely as possible.
Users can use the EPISHIP Shipping Quotes API to perform common workflows, such as:
Quote properties available to view and filter through the EPISHIP Shipping Quotes API:
