Chronopost

Chronopost is the French express parcel and courier carrier of the La Poste group (DPDgroup), delivering business and consumer parcels across France, its overseas departments and internationally, with Pickup relay points and Shop2Shop. For business customers it publishes public SOAP web services at ws.chronopost.fr, each with a live WSDL: Shipping (label/skybill creation and pickup booking, 38 operations), Tracking (tracking, proof of delivery and cancellation, 9), QuickCost (pricing and delivery-time quotes, 6), PointRelais (relay point and agency search, 19) and Creneau (delivery-slot appointment booking, 4). Calls require a Chronopost customer account number and password.

Chronopost is listed with 5 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Shipping, Logistics, Parcel Delivery, and Express Courier.

Chronopost’s developer surface includes support, signup flow, pricing, engineering blog, and 11 more developer resources.

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20.4/100 emerging ▼ -6.2 Agent 13/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

5 APIs

Company Shipping Logistics Parcel DeliveryExpress CourierSOAP Tracking France

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 20.4/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 5.1 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 1.8 / 17

Access Clarity 3.8 / 17

Operational Transparency 1.2 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 5.8 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.9 / 15

Agent readiness — 13/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0

12 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 24.0 — up to +19.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 10.7 — up to +17.9 composite points
Access Clarity scores 22.4 — up to +15.5 composite points

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

SOAP

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

APIs 5

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Chronopost Shipping Web Service

SOAP web service. Creates shipments and skybills (labels), single and multi-parcel, with reservation and ESD (pickup) variants, routing and pickup booking/cancellation. 38 opera...

Chronopost Tracking Web Service

SOAP web service. Tracks skybills by number or sender reference, searches proof of delivery, and cancels skybills. 9 operations in the published WSDL.

Chronopost QuickCost Web Service

SOAP web service. Quotes shipping prices, lists products available for a route and calculates delivery times. 6 operations in the published WSDL.

Chronopost Point Relais Web Service

SOAP web service. Searches Chronopost relay (Pickup) points and agencies by postcode, coordinates, ID and service, and delivery rounds. 19 operations in the published WSDL.

Chronopost Creneau Web Service

SOAP web service. Searches and confirms delivery time slots (appointment delivery) and geocodes addresses. 4 operations in the published WSDL.

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Chronopost Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SignUp

SignUp

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

SDKs

SDKs

Packages

Packages

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Pricing

Pricing

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

LinkedIn

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Hosts

Hosts

Vendors

Vendors

Source (apis.yml)

aid: chronopost
name: Chronopost
description: 'Chronopost is the French express parcel and courier carrier of the La Poste group (DPDgroup), delivering business
  and consumer parcels across France, its overseas departments and internationally, with Pickup relay points and Shop2Shop.
  For business customers it publishes public SOAP web services at ws.chronopost.fr, each with a live WSDL: Shipping (label/skybill
  creation and pickup booking, 38 operations), Tracking (tracking, proof of delivery and cancellation, 9), QuickCost (pricing
  and delivery-time quotes, 6), PointRelais (relay point and agency search, 19) and Creneau (delivery-slot appointment booking,
  4). Calls require a Chronopost customer account number and password.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/chronopost/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:market-gap:shipping-logistics
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-10-13 (local-v5; was harvest)
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-10-13'
modified: '2026-10-13'
tags:
- Company
- Shipping
- Logistics
- Parcel Delivery
- Express Courier
- SOAP
- Tracking
- France
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/chronopost-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/chronopost-vendors.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/chronopost-packages.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/chronopost-packages.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/chronopost-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.chronopost.fr
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.chronopost.fr/fr/conditions-generales-utilisation
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.chronopost.fr/fr/politique-informatique-et-libertes
- type: Support
  url: https://www.chronopost.fr/fr/aide
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.chronopost.fr/fr/se-creer-un-compte
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.chronopost.fr/fr/tarif-envoi-colis
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: https://www.chronopost.fr/fr/divulgation-de-vulnerabilites
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.chronopost-presse.fr/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://fr.linkedin.com/company/chronopost
- type: X
  url: https://twitter.com/Chronopost
apis:
- aid: chronopost:shipping
  name: Chronopost Shipping Web Service
  description: SOAP web service. Creates shipments and skybills (labels), single and multi-parcel, with reservation and ESD
    (pickup) variants, routing and pickup booking/cancellation. 38 operations in the published WSDL.
  humanURL: https://ws.chronopost.fr/shipping-cxf/ShippingServiceWS?wsdl
  baseURL: https://ws.chronopost.fr/shipping-cxf/ShippingServiceWS
  tags:
  - SOAP
  - Shipping
  properties:
  - type: WSDL
    url: wsdl/chronopost-shipping.wsdl
  - type: WSDL
    name: WSDL (provider-hosted)
    url: https://ws.chronopost.fr/shipping-cxf/ShippingServiceWS?wsdl
- aid: chronopost:tracking
  name: Chronopost Tracking Web Service
  description: SOAP web service. Tracks skybills by number or sender reference, searches proof of delivery, and cancels skybills.
    9 operations in the published WSDL.
  humanURL: https://ws.chronopost.fr/tracking-cxf/TrackingServiceWS?wsdl
  baseURL: https://ws.chronopost.fr/tracking-cxf/TrackingServiceWS
  tags:
  - SOAP
  - Shipping
  properties:
  - type: WSDL
    url: wsdl/chronopost-tracking.wsdl
  - type: WSDL
    name: WSDL (provider-hosted)
    url: https://ws.chronopost.fr/tracking-cxf/TrackingServiceWS?wsdl
- aid: chronopost:quickcost
  name: Chronopost QuickCost Web Service
  description: SOAP web service. Quotes shipping prices, lists products available for a route and calculates delivery times.
    6 operations in the published WSDL.
  humanURL: https://ws.chronopost.fr/quickcost-cxf/QuickcostServiceWS?wsdl
  baseURL: https://ws.chronopost.fr/quickcost-cxf/QuickcostServiceWS
  tags:
  - SOAP
  - Shipping
  properties:
  - type: WSDL
    url: wsdl/chronopost-quickcost.wsdl
  - type: WSDL
    name: WSDL (provider-hosted)
    url: https://ws.chronopost.fr/quickcost-cxf/QuickcostServiceWS?wsdl
- aid: chronopost:pointrelais
  name: Chronopost Point Relais Web Service
  description: SOAP web service. Searches Chronopost relay (Pickup) points and agencies by postcode, coordinates, ID and service,
    and delivery rounds. 19 operations in the published WSDL.
  humanURL: https://ws.chronopost.fr/recherchebt-ws-cxf/PointRelaisServiceWS?wsdl
  baseURL: https://ws.chronopost.fr/recherchebt-ws-cxf/PointRelaisServiceWS
  tags:
  - SOAP
  - Shipping
  properties:
  - type: WSDL
    url: wsdl/chronopost-pointrelais.wsdl
  - type: WSDL
    name: WSDL (provider-hosted)
    url: https://ws.chronopost.fr/recherchebt-ws-cxf/PointRelaisServiceWS?wsdl
- aid: chronopost:creneau
  name: Chronopost Creneau Web Service
  description: SOAP web service. Searches and confirms delivery time slots (appointment delivery) and geocodes addresses.
    4 operations in the published WSDL.
  humanURL: https://ws.chronopost.fr/rdv-cxf/services/CreneauServiceWS?wsdl
  baseURL: https://ws.chronopost.fr/rdv-cxf/services/CreneauServiceWS
  tags:
  - SOAP
  - Shipping
  properties:
  - type: WSDL
    url: wsdl/chronopost-creneau.wsdl
  - type: WSDL
    name: WSDL (provider-hosted)
    url: https://ws.chronopost.fr/rdv-cxf/services/CreneauServiceWS?wsdl
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-10-13'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 6
  pass: local-v5

Chronopost API — frequently asked questions

Does Chronopost have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 5 APIs from Chronopost, including Chronopost Shipping Web Service, Chronopost Tracking Web Service and Chronopost QuickCost Web Service, and 2 more.

Is the Chronopost API ready for AI agents?

Chronopost has a Kin Score of 20.4 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 12.9 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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