ArcBest Quotes API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: ArcBest Expedite Customer Quotes API
  version: v1
  summary: Quote, book and track ArcBest Expedite (Panther Premium Logistics) time-critical freight.
  description: The ArcBest Expedite Customer API lets a shipper request an expedite rate quote, submit a booking request against a returned quote, poll the booking status until an ArcBest operator confirms it, and search booked shipments by reference number.
  contact:
    name: ArcBest API Support
    email: api@arcb.com
    url: https://arcb.com/technology/shippers/API
  termsOfService: https://arcb.com/terms-of-use
  x-generated-from: provider-published Swagger-Codegen HTML reference + provider PDF instructions
  x-method: derived
  x-source:
  - https://arcb.com/technology/shippers/API/expedite-setup-documentation-download
  - https://arcb.com/sites/default/files/API/Arcbest-Expedite-Customer-Quoting-Booking-API-2024-8.zip
  - docs/arcbest-expedite-customer-api-definition.html
  - docs/arcbest-expedite-customer-quote-book-instructions-2024-08.pdf
  x-derived-on: '2026-09-04'
servers:
- url: https://api.arcb.com/expedite/customer
  description: Production. Stated verbatim in the ArcBest customer instructions PDF ("post your client id and secret to https://api.arcb.com/expedite/customer/authorize"). GET on /authorize returns HTTP 405 Method Not Allowed, probed 2026-09-04, confirming the endpoint is live and POST-only.
- url: https://test.api.arcb.com/expedite/customer
  description: Test / sandbox. "We prefer that you begin integration against the test URI https://test.api.arcb.com/expedite/customer/" - ArcBest customer instructions PDF, August 2024.
security:
- bearerAuth: []
tags:
- name: Quotes
  description: Submit expedite rate quotes, request bookings against them, and poll booking status.
paths:
  /quotes:
    post:
      operationId: quotesSubmitQuote
      summary: Submit an expedite rate quote request
      description: Submit a quote request. The response carries Products.ExpediteOptions, which must be shown to the end user; the chosen option's UnifiedQuoteNo and ResponseNo are what a booking request is placed against.
      tags:
      - Quotes
      requestBody:
        required: true
        description: Quote request. ArcBest publishes the request model as JSON at json-schema/arcbest-expedite-quote-request-model.json.
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OK
  /quotes/booking-request/expedite:
    post:
      operationId: quotesBookExpediteQuote
      summary: Submit a new expedite booking request
      description: Submitting a booking request will not immediately book the quote. Please check the booking request status to determine if the booking request was successful and retrieve your order number.
      tags:
      - Quotes
      requestBody:
        required: true
        description: Booking request carrying the UnifiedQuoteNo ("P000...") and ResponseNo of the chosen expedite option.
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OK
  /quotes/booking-request/time-critical-forwarding:
    post:
      operationId: quotesBookTimeCriticalForwardingQuote
      summary: Submit a new time-critical forwarding booking request
      description: Submitting a booking request will not immediately book the quote. Please check the booking request status to determine if the booking request was successful and retrieve your order number.
      tags:
      - Quotes
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OK
  /quotes/booking-request/status:
    get:
      operationId: quotesGetBookingStatus
      summary: Get the status of a booking request
      description: 'The booking status may be one of the following - Quoted: a quote exists, but there is no booking request. Booking in Progress: the booking request has been received and is being processed. Shipment Booked: the booking request was successful. Unable to Fulfill. Unknown. When booked, the order number is returned in the format yyyymm12345, such as 20230470078.'
      tags:
      - Quotes
      parameters:
      - name: quoteNo
        in: query
        required: true
        description: The quote number.
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OK
        '400':
          description: BadRequest
        '401':
          description: Unauthorized
        '404':
          description: NotFound
components:
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: 'Access token returned by POST /authorize, sent as `Authorization: Bearer <accesstoken>`. Credentials (ClientId/ClientSecret) are issued by ArcBest support, not self-serve.'