AfterShip

AfterShip Rates API

The Rates API from AfterShip — 2 operation(s) for rates.

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Business capability
Rating Engine Operations Management BC-2520.50

Operations 3

Each operation below carries the questions people ask an LLM about it and the instructions they give an agent to run it. Generated by API Evangelist overlay

GET /rates List past rate calculations · Get rates #
Ask an LLM
“Can I see the shipping rate quotes I've requested before?”
“How do I filter past rate calculations by status or date?”
Tell an agent
List my rate calculations.
Show rate requests with status {status}.
POST /rates Calculate shipping rates · Calculate rates #
Ask an LLM
“How much will it cost to ship this package with each of my carriers?”
“Can I compare shipping rates across multiple shipper accounts?”
Tell an agent
Calculate rates for shipment {shipment} across shipper accounts {shipper_accounts}.
Get shipping rates for {shipment} on {ship_date}.
GET /rates/{id} Get a rate calculation by ID · Get a rate #
Ask an LLM
“Can I retrieve the result of a rate calculation later?”
“What rates came back for a particular rate request?”
Tell an agent
Get rate calculation {id}.
Show the results of rate request {id}.

Documentation

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Documentation
https://www.aftership.com/docs/shipping/quickstart/api-quick-start

Specifications

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OpenAPI
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/aftership/refs/heads/main/openapi/aftership-rates-api-openapi.yml

Schemas & Data

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JSONSchema
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/aftership/refs/heads/main/json-schema/aftership-shipment-v3-schema.json
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JSONSchema
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/aftership/refs/heads/main/json-schema/aftership-rate-record-v3-schema.json

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OpenAPI Specification

aftership-rates-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Overview Rates API
  version: '1.0'
  summary: API Overview
  contact:
    name: AfterShip Support
    url: https://www.aftership.com/contact-us
    email: support@aftership.com
  termsOfService: https://www.aftership.com/legal/terms-of-service
  description: '> OAS Schema can be downloaded here'
servers:
- description: Sandbox
  url: https://sandbox-api.aftership.com/postmen/v3
- url: https://api.aftership.com/postmen/v3
  description: Production
security:
- as-api-key: []
tags:


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