Register an External Parcel and Track It
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Register an External Parcel and Track It
with Sendcloud · Shipment Tracking Management
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Register an externally-labelled parcel for tracking and retrieve its tracking record.
- Register the externally-labelled parcel for tracking, supplying its tracking number, carrier, addresses, and shipping option.
- Retrieve the parcel tracking record by the registered tracking number to surface its current status and recent tracking events.
What you'll need to have ready
- announcedAt: Timestamp the parcel was announced to the carrier (ISO 8601 date-time).
- fromAddress: Sender address object (name, address_line_1, postal_code, city, country_code).
- toAddress: Recipient address object (name, address_line_1, postal_code, city, country_code).
- sourceId: External identifier linking this parcel to your own system.
- trackingNumber: The carrier tracking number to register and then track.
- carrierCode: Sendcloud carrier code for the tracking number (e.g. postnl).
- shippingOptionCode: Shipping option code so the parcel appears in analytics (e.g. postnl:standard).
For your developer
Arazzo workflow sendcloud:register-external-parcel-track, 2 operations: sc-public-v3-shipping_intelligence_engine-post-register_parcel_for_tracking → sc-public-v3-shipping_intelligence_engine-get-get_parcel_by_tracking_number. Specs on APIs.io.