Create New Shipment
Creating a new shipment requires you making a post request to the shipment endpoint ensure to pass the required header parameters and body parameters to get the appropriate response
{
"origin_name": "Mrs. Hippo",
"origin_phone": "+2348170441446",
"origin_street": "Clayton St.",
"origin_city": "Ikorodu",
"origin_country": "NIGERIA",
"origin_country_code": "NG", -------->(optional)
"origin_state": "Lagos",
"origin_state_code": "LOS", ------------>(optional)
"origin_post_code":"10100",
"destination_name": "Brian",
"destination_phone": "+2348170441446",
"destination_street": "Drydock Ave Suite 610",
"destination_city": "Ikeja",
"destination_country": "NIGERIA",
"destination_country_code": "NG", ---------->(optional)
"destination_state": "Lagos",
"destination_state_code": "LOS", ---------->(optional)
"$destination_post_code":"1001",
"weight": "0.5",
"items": [
{
"name": "Test Brian Iyoha",
"quantity": "1",
"weight": "1",
"amount": "100",
"value": "120000"
}
],
"selected_courier_id": "rate_key_cb2d48e5eb1fddbe8815b154812f675f",
"channel_code": "api"
}
Staging URL: https://sandbox.staging.sendbox.co/shipping/shipments
This creates a new shipment
Request
Response
Name | Type | Description |
Authorization | String | Authorization-key |
Content-type | String | application/json |
Name | Type | Description |
origin_country | String | senders country |
origin_state | String | senders state |
origin_street | String | senders street |
origin_city | String | senders city |
origin_email | String | senders email address |
origin_phone | String | senders phone number |
destination_country | String | recipient country |
destination_state | String | recipient state |
destination_city | String | recipient city |
destination_street | String | recipient street |
destination_email | String | recipient email address |
destination_phone | String | recipient phone number |
weight | Float | weight of package |
selected_courier_id | Float | selected courier id. |
items | Array | array of objects including name, weight, item_type_code, package_size_code and quantity |
incoming_option_code | String | set to either pickup or dropoff |
payment_option_code | String | set this to "prepaid" |
channel_code | String | set this to "api" |
pickup_date | Date | date in ISO format |
deliver_priority_code | String | set this to "next_day" |
callback_url | String | a webhook url to get the tracking update. |
201: Created
Create shipment response returns details of the new shipment created. The status code is dependent on available balance in your Sendbox wallet if there is enough money at the time of creating shipment, the wallet is charged and status code is pending but without sufficient balance or empty wallet, status code comes back as drafted.
{
"code": "07204740",
"status_code": "drafted",
"height": 0,
"time_schedule": {
"code": "anytime",
"name": "Anytime"
},
"is_spillable": false,
"destination_address": "10 herbert macualy way zone 5 Lagos Nigeria",
"incoming_option": {
"code": "pickup",
"name": "Pickup"
},
"payment_options": null,
"delivery_priority_code": "next_day",
"width": 0,
"origin_name": "Mobolaji Fashahun",
"short_origin_address": "Ketu Lagos Nigeria",
"delivery_type_code": "last_mile",
"destination_city": "zone 5",
"recurrent_cards": [],
"origin_state": {
"code": "LOS",
"name": "Lagos"
},
"pk": "830558",
"transaction_id": null,
"merchant": {
"username": null,
"email": "[email protected]",
"id": 11,
"phone": "08126466955",
"name": "Rotola Akinsowon"
},
"delivery_priority": {
"code": "next_day",
"name": "Next Day"
},
"payment_option": {
"code": "prepaid",
"name": "Prepaid"
},
"courier": {
"subdomain": null,
"id": 0,
"name": null
},
"total_value": 0,
"origin_address": "34 ajibola crescent alapere Ketu Lagos Nigeria",
"min_quoted_fee": 1000,
"destination_country": {
"code": "NG",
"name": "Nigeria"
},
"max_quoted_fee": 1150,
"destination_email": null,
"destination_name": "Kenneth Igbokwe",
"notes": null,
"use_selected_rate": null,
"destination_street": "10 herbert macualy way",
"reference_code": null,
"selected_rate_id": null,
"pod": "Prepaid",
"destination_state": {
"code": "LOS",
"name": "Lagos"
},
"shipment_id": null,
"last_updated": "2018-02-21T10:13:39.438992",
"weight": 1.5,
"amount_to_receive": 28000.24,
"destination_state_code": "LOS",
"sensitivity": "",
"origin_state_code": "LOS",
"origin_country_code": "NG",
"id": 830558,
"has_waybill": null,
"short_destination_address": "zone 5 Lagos Nigeria",
"is_fragile": false,
"payment_option_code": "prepaid",
"origin_email": null,
"pickup_date": "2017-04-18T11:42:42.694000",
"destination_country_code": "NG",
"status": {
"code": "drafted",
"name": "Booked on Hold"
},
"origin_country": {
"code": "NG",
"name": "Nigeria"
},
"destination_phone": "08111106655",
"time_schedule_code": "anytime",
"incoming_option_code": "pickup",
"origin_city": "Ketu",
"courier_id": null,
"merchant_id": 11,
"package_type_code": "food",
"is_confidential": false,
"origin_street": "34 ajibola crescent alapere",
"items": [
{
"description": null,
"weight": 1.5,
"amount_to_receive": 0,
"package_size_code": "medium",
"item_type_code": "letter_or_document",
"id": 819886,
"name": "another thing",
"accept_value_on_delivery": false,
"value": 0,
"item_type": {
"code": "letter_or_document",
"name": "Letters or Documents"
},
"reference_code": null,
"quantity": 1
},
{
"description": null,
"weight": 0,
"amount_to_receive": 0,
"package_size_code": "medium",
"item_type_code": "letter_or_document",
"id": 819885,
"name": "something",
"accept_value_on_delivery": false,
"value": 0,
"item_type": {
"code": "letter_or_document",
"name": "Letters or Documents"
},
"reference_code": null,
"quantity": 1
}
],
"package_type": {
"code": "food",
"name": "Ready to Eat Meals"
},
"accept_value_on_delivery": false,
"origin_phone": "08126466955",
"length": 0,
"date_created": "2018-02-21T10:13:39.404007",
"delivery_type": {
"code": "last_mile",
"name": "Door to Door Delivery"
},
"quantity": 2
}
While some of the payloads are self explained, lets go over some of them that seem a bit confusing.
This should be gotten based on the value of courier_id selected when shipping quotes endpoint is called.
This tells us where the request came from this case it's form the api.
This is an array of object it includes name(s) of what you are shipping, weight, item_type_code, package_size_code, value which is the price of the item(s) you are shipping and quantity of your shipment an example of items payload will look like this
"items": [
{
"name": "Laptop",
"item_type_code": "other",
"package_size_code": "medium",
"quantity": 2,
"weight": 3,
"value":120000
}
]
This should be a webhook url which you will pass with your other request shipment payloads. Sendbox will post tracking updates to this url from pending, processing and completed.
You can create a shipment without fetching quotes by passing
"rate_code":"standard" in the create shipment payload.To stimulate a successful request on your staging account you have to fund your staging account by doing a post to add_money endpoint
{
"amount" : 100000
}
You can simply do this by doing a get to the staging payment profile
You can stimulate webhook events for tracking status on staging by sending tracking code to move_tracking endpoint
{
code: <tracking_code>
}
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