ShipMonk

ShipMonk is a Florida-headquartered third-party logistics (3PL) and ecommerce fulfillment provider operating a network of fulfillment centres across the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom and Czechia. It runs an order management system for direct-to-consumer, retail/B2B and marketplace brands covering inbound receiving, inventory and lot control, pick-and-pack fulfillment, multi-carrier shipping and returns. Its public API is a single REST surface at api.shipmonk.com, described by a self-published OpenAPI 3.1 document covering orders, products and inventory, receivings, returns and warehouses, with four HTTP webhook events for shipment, order, return and receiving status changes and a contract-only sandbox environment with warehouse simulation endpoints.

ShipMonk publishes 6 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Orders API, Products API, Receivings API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Logistics, Fulfillment, 3PL, Ecommerce, and Warehousing.

The ShipMonk catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.

ShipMonk’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, pricing, signup flow, and 35 more developer resources.

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63.2/100 strong ▬ flat Agent 64/100 agent native Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1
7 APIs 1 MCP Servers
LogisticsFulfillment3PLEcommerceWarehousingInventoryShippingReturnsSupply ChainDirect-to-ConsumerOrder Management

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scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1
Composite quality — 63.2/100 · strong
Contract Quality 16.7 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 13.8 / 20
Commercial Clarity 12.1 / 20
Operational Transparency 9.9 / 13
Governance 1.4 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Agent readiness — 64/100 · agent native
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 9 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 7 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 3 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 7

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

ShipMonk Orders API

Create, update, read and release outbound customer orders for pick, pack and ship, and simulate warehouse shipment in sandbox. Orders are upserted on store_id + order_key, relea...

ShipMonk Products API

Create products and read inventory. Includes the frozen-cursor search/paginate pair that is the reliable way to walk the whole catalog for inventory synchronisation, plus the le...

ShipMonk Receivings API

Push inbound ASN-keyed receivings into ShipMonk warehouses with typed carton and pallet LPN (SSCC) identifiers, read receivings and receipts, and simulate check-in discrepancies...

ShipMonk Returns API

Create and track customer returns (RMAs) with expected items, return reasons and dispositions, and simulate the full arrival-to-grading return lifecycle in sandbox.

ShipMonk Warehouses API

Read the enabled ShipMonk fulfillment centres for the account. Warehouse identifiers are required across order, receiving and return operations and as filters on list endpoints.

ShipMonk Webhooks

The ShipMonk event surface: four HTTP callback events (order shipment notification, order status change, return status change, receiving status change) declared in the OpenAPI 3...

ShipMonk MCP Server

A live Model Context Protocol endpoint served from ShipMonk's own developer-docs host. tools/list responds anonymously with five spec-driven tools: four OpenAPI introspection to...

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MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

shipmonk-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Shipmonk Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

Event Specifications 1

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

ShipMonk Webhooks

AsyncAPI 3.0 model of the ShipMonk webhook event surface, derived from the `webhooks` block of ShipMonk's own OpenAPI 3.1 document (https://apidocs.shipmonk.com/openapi/public_a...

ASYNCAPI

Security Posture 4

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

Shipmonk Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Shipmonk Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Shipmonk Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Shipmonk Trust Center

SOC 2 Type II

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Shipmonk Agentic Access

19 operations · 9 acting

19 operations · 9 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 5

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal
DeveloperPortal
 GettingStarted
GettingStarted
 SignUp
SignUp
 Login
Login
 Sandbox
Sandbox

Documentation 4

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation
 APIReference
APIReference
 OpenAPI
OpenAPI
 AsyncAPI
AsyncAPI

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown
WellKnown
 MCPServer
MCPServer
 AgentSkill
AgentSkill
 AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess
 LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 7

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions
Conventions
 Idempotency
Idempotency
 ErrorCatalog
ErrorCatalog
 Lifecycle
Lifecycle
 Conformance
Conformance
 DataModel
DataModel
 Webhooks
Webhooks

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Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization
 Packages
Packages
 ToolCrosswalk
ToolCrosswalk

Access & Security 7

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Compliance
Compliance
 TrustCenter
TrustCenter
 Security
Security
 VulnerabilityDisclosure
VulnerabilityDisclosure
 SecurityTxt
SecurityTxt
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication

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Operate 5

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support
 StatusPage
StatusPage
 ChangeLog
ChangeLog
 ChangeLog
ChangeLog
 RateLimits
RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing
Pricing
 TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

APICatalog
APICatalog

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: shipmonk
name: ShipMonk
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/shipmonk/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
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description: ShipMonk is a Florida-headquartered third-party logistics (3PL) and ecommerce fulfillment provider operating
  a network of fulfillment centres across the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom and Czechia. It runs an order
  management system for direct-to-consumer, retail/B2B and marketplace brands covering inbound receiving, inventory and lot
  control, pick-and-pack fulfillment, multi-carrier shipping and returns. Its public API is a single REST surface at api.shipmonk.com,
  described by a self-published OpenAPI 3.1 document covering orders, products and inventory, receivings, returns and warehouses,
  with four HTTP webhook events for shipment, order, return and receiving status changes and a contract-only sandbox environment
  with warehouse simulation endpoints.
image: https://files.readme.io/742121760e9d1bfa2dd7dd9dc8fb20dba2f79207e8c192facb4681cdb2bb5c23-logo.svg
tags:
- Logistics
- Fulfillment
- 3PL
- Ecommerce
- Warehousing
- Inventory
- Shipping
- Returns
- Supply Chain
- Direct-to-Consumer
- Order Management
created: '2026-08-02'
modified: '2026-08-02'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
apis:
- aid: shipmonk:shipmonk-orders-api
  name: ShipMonk Orders API
  description: Create, update, read and release outbound customer orders for pick, pack and ship, and simulate warehouse shipment
    in sandbox. Orders are upserted on store_id + order_key, released with submit-order, and tracked through 18 processing
    statuses.
  humanURL: https://apidocs.shipmonk.com/reference
  baseURL: https://api.shipmonk.com
  tags:
  - Logistics
  - Fulfillment
  - 3PL
  - Orders
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/shipmonk-orders-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/shipmonk-orders-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://apidocs.shipmonk.com/docs/intro
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://apidocs.shipmonk.com/reference
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://apidocs.shipmonk.com/docs/api-key
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/shipmonk-rate-limits.yml
  - type: Sandbox
    url: sandbox/shipmonk-sandbox.yml
- aid: shipmonk:shipmonk-products-api
  name: ShipMonk Products API
  description: Create products and read inventory. Includes the frozen-cursor search/paginate pair that is the reliable way
    to walk the whole catalog for inventory synchronisation, plus the legacy products list.
  humanURL: https://apidocs.shipmonk.com/reference
  baseURL: https://api.shipmonk.com
  tags:
  - Logistics
  - Fulfillment
  - 3PL
  - Products
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/shipmonk-products-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/shipmonk-products-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://apidocs.shipmonk.com/docs/intro
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://apidocs.shipmonk.com/reference
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://apidocs.shipmonk.com/docs/api-key
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/shipmonk-rate-limits.yml
  - type: Sandbox
    url: sandbox/shipmonk-sandbox.yml
- aid: shipmonk:shipmonk-receivings-api
  name: ShipMonk Receivings API
  description: Push inbound ASN-keyed receivings into ShipMonk warehouses with typed carton and pallet LPN (SSCC) identifiers,
    read receivings and receipts, and simulate check-in discrepancies in sandbox.
  humanURL: https://apidocs.shipmonk.com/reference
  baseURL: https://api.shipmonk.com
  tags:
  - Logistics
  - Fulfillment
  - 3PL
  - Receivings
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/shipmonk-receivings-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/shipmonk-receivings-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://apidocs.shipmonk.com/docs/intro
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://apidocs.shipmonk.com/reference
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://apidocs.shipmonk.com/docs/api-key
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/shipmonk-rate-limits.yml
  - type: Sandbox
    url: sandbox/shipmonk-sandbox.yml
- aid: shipmonk:shipmonk-returns-api
  name: ShipMonk Returns API
  description: Create and track customer returns (RMAs) with expected items, return reasons and dispositions, and simulate
    the full arrival-to-grading return lifecycle in sandbox.
  humanURL: https://apidocs.shipmonk.com/reference
  baseURL: https://api.shipmonk.com
  tags:
  - Logistics
  - Fulfillment
  - 3PL
  - Returns
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/shipmonk-returns-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/shipmonk-returns-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://apidocs.shipmonk.com/docs/intro
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://apidocs.shipmonk.com/reference
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://apidocs.shipmonk.com/docs/api-key
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/shipmonk-rate-limits.yml
  - type: Sandbox
    url: sandbox/shipmonk-sandbox.yml
- aid: shipmonk:shipmonk-warehouses-api
  name: ShipMonk Warehouses API
  description: Read the enabled ShipMonk fulfillment centres for the account. Warehouse identifiers are required across order,
    receiving and return operations and as filters on list endpoints.
  humanURL: https://apidocs.shipmonk.com/reference
  baseURL: https://api.shipmonk.com
  tags:
  - Logistics
  - Fulfillment
  - 3PL
  - Warehouses
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/shipmonk-warehouses-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/shipmonk-warehouses-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://apidocs.shipmonk.com/docs/intro
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://apidocs.shipmonk.com/reference
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://apidocs.shipmonk.com/docs/api-key
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/shipmonk-rate-limits.yml
  - type: Sandbox
    url: sandbox/shipmonk-sandbox.yml
- aid: shipmonk:shipmonk-webhooks
  name: ShipMonk Webhooks
  description: 'The ShipMonk event surface: four HTTP callback events (order shipment notification, order status change, return
    status change, receiving status change) declared in the OpenAPI 3.1 webhooks block. Deliveries authenticate with HTTP
    Basic and carry an X-Sm-Signature HMAC-SHA512 integrity header, with exponential-backoff retries.'
  humanURL: https://apidocs.shipmonk.com/reference/webhooks
  baseURL: https://api.shipmonk.com
  tags:
  - Logistics
  - Fulfillment
  - Webhooks
  - Events
  properties:
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/shipmonk-webhooks-asyncapi.yml
  - type: Webhooks
    url: https://apidocs.shipmonk.com/reference/webhooks
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://apidocs.shipmonk.com/reference/webhooks
- aid: shipmonk:shipmonk-mcp
  name: ShipMonk MCP Server
  description: 'A live Model Context Protocol endpoint served from ShipMonk''s own developer-docs host. tools/list responds
    anonymously with five spec-driven tools: four OpenAPI introspection tools plus execute-request, a HAR-shaped proxy that
    can invoke any of the 19 ShipMonk REST operations.'
  humanURL: https://apidocs.shipmonk.com/
  baseURL: https://apidocs.shipmonk.com/mcp
  tags:
  - MCP
  - Agents
  - Logistics
  - Fulfillment
  properties:
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/shipmonk-mcp.yml
  - type: ToolCrosswalk
    url: mcp/shipmonk-tool-crosswalk.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.shipmonk.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://apidocs.shipmonk.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://apidocs.shipmonk.com/docs/intro
- type: APIReference
  url: https://apidocs.shipmonk.com/reference
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://apidocs.shipmonk.com/reference/common
- type: OpenAPI
  url: https://apidocs.shipmonk.com/openapi/public_api.json
- type: Support
  url: https://support.shipmonk.com/s/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.shipmonk.com/resources/content-hub
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/shipmonk-rnd
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.shipmonk.com/pricing/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.shipmonk.com/get-a-quote
- type: Login
  url: https://app.shipmonk.com/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.shipmonk.com/terms-of-service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.shipmonk.com/privacy-policy
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.shipmonk.com
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://apidocs.shipmonk.com/changelog
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/shipmonk-changelog.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: https://www.shipmonk.com/resources/content-hub/soc-2-type-ii-compliance
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/shipmonk-trust-center.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://app.shipmonk.com/.well-known/security.txt
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/shipmonk-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/shipmonk-security.txt
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/shipmonk-domain-security.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/shipmonk-well-known.yml
- type: APICatalog
  url: well-known/shipmonk-api-catalog.json
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/shipmonk-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/shipmonk-conventions.yml
- type: Idempotency
  url: conventions/shipmonk-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/shipmonk-problem-types.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/shipmonk-rate-limits.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/shipmonk-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/shipmonk-conformance.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/shipmonk-sandbox.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/shipmonk-data-model.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/shipmonk-packages.yml
- type: AsyncAPI
  url: asyncapi/shipmonk-webhooks-asyncapi.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: https://apidocs.shipmonk.com/reference/webhooks
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/shipmonk-mcp.yml
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/shipmonk-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/shipmonk-agentic-access.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/shipmonk-llms.txt
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