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Sendle

Sendle is a 100%-carbon-neutral parcel shipping service built for small businesses, offering door-to-door delivery in Australia, the United States, and Canada plus international shipping from AU and US to ~180 countries. The Sendle API exposes quoting, order creation, label retrieval, tracking, USPS SCAN-Form shipping manifests, and per-parcel tracking webhooks via HTTP Basic Authentication.

Sendle publishes 5 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Orders API, Products & Quoting API, Tracking API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Shipping, Logistics, Last Mile, Parcels, and E-commerce.

The Sendle catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification, 1 JSON-LD context, and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Sendle’s developer surface includes authentication, developer portal, documentation, getting-started guide, sandbox, changelog, GitHub presence, and 16 more developer resources.

62.3/100 strong ▬ flat Agent 39/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessPaidSelf serve
5 APIs
ShippingLogisticsLast MileParcelsE-commerceCarbon NeutralSmall BusinessAustraliaUnited StatesCanada

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 62.3/100 · strong
Contract Quality 21.4 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 10.9 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 8.9 / 13
Governance 3.8 / 12
Discoverability 7.4 / 10
Agent readiness — 39/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 7 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 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
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APIs 5

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

Sendle Orders API

Create, view, cancel, and return parcel orders. Supports domestic AU / US / CA orders plus international from AU and US (DAP and DDP Price Guaranteed) and from CA to US. Returns...

Sendle Products & Quoting API

Get one quote per shipping product for a given route. GET /products handles domestic and DAP international; POST /products adds DDP Price Guaranteed (duties + taxes included). E...

Sendle Tracking API

Retrieve all tracking events for a parcel by Sendle reference, or subscribe a parcel to webhook tracking updates. Webhooks deliver per-event JSON payloads to the account-level c...

Sendle Shipping Manifests API

Create, list, download (PDF), and inspect USPS SCAN Form shipping manifests so a driver can pick up many US Domestic Sendle orders with a single barcode scan. Orders must be cre...

Sendle Utility API

Connectivity and credential testing

Postman Collections 5

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

Open Collections 5

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Sendle Orders API

OPEN COLLECTION

Sendle Ping API

OPEN COLLECTION

Sendle Tracking API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Sendle Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Sendle Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Sendle Tracking Webhooks

Sendle pushes parcel tracking events to a callback URL configured in the account Settings -> API page. Subscriptions are created per parcel via the Tracking API. Sendle expects ...

ASYNCAPI

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Sendle Context

5 classes · 23 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Sendle API Rules

3 rules · 1 errors 2 warnings

SPECTRAL

Sendle API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Sendle Order

17 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Sendle Tracking Event

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 3

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Security Posture 2

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

Sendle Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Sendle Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Sendle Agentic Access

17 operations · 7 acting

17 operations · 7 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: sendle
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sendle/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Sendle
tags:
- Shipping
- Logistics
- Last Mile
- Parcels
- E-commerce
- Carbon Neutral
- Small Business
- Australia
- United States
- Canada
kind: contract
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/sendle.png
access: 3rd-Party
description: 'Sendle is a 100%-carbon-neutral parcel shipping service built for small businesses,

  offering door-to-door delivery in Australia, the United States, and Canada plus

  international shipping from AU and US to ~180 countries. The Sendle API exposes

  quoting, order creation, label retrieval, tracking, USPS SCAN-Form shipping

  manifests, and per-parcel tracking webhooks via HTTP Basic Authentication.

  '
apis:
- aid: sendle:sendle-orders-api
  name: Sendle Orders API
  tags:
  - Orders
  - Shipping
  - Labels
  humanURL: https://developers.sendle.com/reference/createorder
  baseURL: https://api.sendle.com/api
  properties:
  - url: https://developers.sendle.com/reference/createorder
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://developers.sendle.com/reference/vieworder
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://developers.sendle.com/reference/cancelorder
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://developers.sendle.com/reference/returnorder
    type: Documentation
  - url: openapi/sendle-orders-api-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  - url: json-schema/sendle-order-schema.json
    type: JSONSchema
  - url: json-ld/sendle-context.jsonld
    type: JSONLD
  description: 'Create, view, cancel, and return parcel orders. Supports domestic AU / US / CA

    orders plus international from AU and US (DAP and DDP Price Guaranteed) and from

    CA to US. Returns label URLs, tracking URL, full price + tax breakdown, scheduling,

    and route metadata. Idempotency-Key header is supported for safe retries.

    '
- aid: sendle:sendle-products-api
  name: Sendle Products & Quoting API
  tags:
  - Quoting
  - Products
  - Pricing
  humanURL: https://developers.sendle.com/reference/getproducts
  baseURL: https://api.sendle.com/api
  properties:
  - url: https://developers.sendle.com/reference/getproducts
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://developers.sendle.com/reference/postproducts
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://developers.sendle.com/reference/getquote
    type: Documentation
  - url: openapi/sendle-products-api-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  description: 'Get one quote per shipping product for a given route. GET /products handles

    domestic and DAP international; POST /products adds DDP Price Guaranteed

    (duties + taxes included). Each quote includes plan, ETA, route classification,

    allowed packaging, and product code (e.g. STANDARD-PICKUP). The legacy

    GET /quote is deprecated.

    '
- aid: sendle:sendle-tracking-api
  name: Sendle Tracking API
  tags:
  - Tracking
  - Webhooks
  - Events
  humanURL: https://developers.sendle.com/reference/trackparcel
  baseURL: https://api.sendle.com/api
  properties:
  - url: https://developers.sendle.com/reference/trackparcel
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://developers.sendle.com/reference/subscribetotrackingevents
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://developers.sendle.com/reference/unsubscribetotrackingevents
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://developers.sendle.com/reference/tracking-webhooks
    type: Documentation
  - url: openapi/sendle-tracking-api-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  - url: asyncapi/sendle-tracking-asyncapi.yml
    type: AsyncAPI
  - url: json-schema/sendle-tracking-event-schema.json
    type: JSONSchema
  description: 'Retrieve all tracking events for a parcel by Sendle reference, or subscribe a

    parcel to webhook tracking updates. Webhooks deliver per-event JSON payloads

    to the account-level callback URL configured in the Sendle dashboard. Polling

    is rate-limited to 10 req/sec/IP; Sendle recommends webhooks over polling.

    '
- aid: sendle:sendle-manifests-api
  name: Sendle Shipping Manifests API
  tags:
  - Manifests
  - USPS
  - SCAN Form
  - US Domestic
  humanURL: https://developers.sendle.com/reference/createshippingmanifest
  baseURL: https://api.sendle.com/api
  properties:
  - url: https://developers.sendle.com/reference/createshippingmanifest
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://developers.sendle.com/reference/getshippingmanifests
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://developers.sendle.com/reference/downloadshippingmanifest
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://developers.sendle.com/reference/getshippingmanifeststatus
    type: Documentation
  - url: openapi/sendle-manifests-api-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  description: 'Create, list, download (PDF), and inspect USPS SCAN Form shipping manifests so

    a driver can pick up many US Domestic Sendle orders with a single barcode scan.

    Orders must be created the same day as the manifest; manifests are immutable

    once created.

    '
- aid: sendle:sendle-utility-api
  name: Sendle Utility API
  description: Connectivity and credential testing
  humanURL: https://developers.sendle.com/reference/createorder
  baseURL: https://api.sendle.com/api
  tags:
  - Utility
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sendle-utility-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.sendle.com/reference/ping
common:
- type: PostmanWorkspace
  url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/sendle/overview
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/sendle-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/sendle-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/sendle-authentication.yml
- url: https://www.sendle.com
  name: Sendle
  type: Website
- url: https://developers.sendle.com
  name: Sendle Developer Hub
  type: Portal
- url: https://developers.sendle.com/llms.txt
  name: Sendle Docs Index (llms.txt)
  type: Documentation
- url: https://developers.sendle.com/reference/authentication
  name: Authenticating API Requests
  type: Authentication
- url: https://developers.sendle.com/reference/getting-your-api-key
  name: Getting Your API Key
  type: GettingStarted
- url: https://developers.sendle.com/reference/sendles-sandbox-server
  name: Sendle's Sandbox Server
  type: Sandbox
- url: https://developers.sendle.com/docs/integration-best-practices
  name: Integration Best Practices
  type: Guide
- url: https://developers.sendle.com/docs/regional-api-differences
  name: Regional API Differences
  type: Guide
- url: https://developers.sendle.com/docs/becoming-a-partner
  name: Becoming a Partner
  type: Partnerships
- url: https://developers.sendle.com/changelog
  name: Sendle API Changelog
  type: ChangeLog
- url: https://status.sendle.com
  name: Sendle Status
  type: StatusPage
- url: https://github.com/sendle
  name: Sendle on GitHub
  type: GitHub
- url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sendle
  name: Sendle on LinkedIn
  type: LinkedIn
- url: https://try.sendle.com/en-us/pricing
  name: Sendle Pricing
  type: Pricing
- url: plans/sendle-plans-pricing.yml
  name: Sendle Plans
  type: Plans
- url: rate-limits/sendle-rate-limits.yml
  name: Sendle Rate Limits
  type: RateLimits
- url: finops/sendle-finops.yml
  name: Sendle FinOps Mapping
  type: FinOps
- url: vocabulary/sendle-vocabulary.yml
  name: Sendle Vocabulary
  type: Vocabulary
- url: mailto:api@sendle.com
  name: Sendle API Support
  type: Support
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: info@apievangelist.com