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uShip is an online shipping marketplace, founded in 2004 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, that connects individuals and businesses with a network of professional transport service providers to move large, heavy, and oversized freight — cars and light trucks, motorcycles and powersports, boats, furniture and household goods, heavy equipment, livestock, and LTL freight. Shippers list a shipment for free and carriers compete with bids or bookable published rates, giving shippers pricing transparency and choice. uShip exposes the marketplace to partners, affiliates, brokers, carriers, and eCommerce platforms through the uShip API (v2), a RESTful, hypermedia-driven JSON API secured with OAuth 2.0 covering shipment search, listing creation by commodity category, bidding, published/LTL rate requests and rate acceptance, booking, tracking and transit statuses, lookups, and integrator user management. API access is partner-gated — the developer portal at developer.uship.com is invitation-only and access is granted by the uShip API team.
uShip publishes 8 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Shipping, Logistics, Freight, Marketplace, and Transportation.
The uShip catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.
uShip’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, signup flow, support, engineering blog, pricing, and 18 more developer resources.
8 APIs
On this page
Kin Score
APIs 8
Event Specs 1
Security Posture 2
Resources 25
apis.yml
26 Operational Transparency
Composite quality — 37.0/100 · thin
Contract Quality
10.7 / 25
Developer Ergonomics
5.2 / 20
Operational Transparency
3.4 / 13
Contract Governance
0.5 / 12
Agent readiness — 23/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract
18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract
0 / 10
Documented Reversibility
0 / 6
MCP Server
0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth
10 / 10
Idempotency
0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics
8 / 8
Request/Response Examples
0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling
0 / 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
Delegated User Identity
0 / 6
Protected Resource Metadata
0 / 5
Registration Without a Human
0 / 6
Agentic Commerce Surface
0 / 5
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
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AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Get Started 5
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 6
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 2
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 2
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Source (apis.yml)
aid: uship
name: uShip
description: uShip is an online shipping marketplace, founded in 2004 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, that connects individuals
and businesses with a network of professional transport service providers to move large, heavy, and oversized freight —
cars and light trucks, motorcycles and powersports, boats, furniture and household goods, heavy equipment, livestock, and
LTL freight. Shippers list a shipment for free and carriers compete with bids or bookable published rates, giving shippers
pricing transparency and choice. uShip exposes the marketplace to partners, affiliates, brokers, carriers, and eCommerce
platforms through the uShip API (v2), a RESTful, hypermedia-driven JSON API secured with OAuth 2.0 covering shipment search,
listing creation by commodity category, bidding, published/LTL rate requests and rate acceptance, booking, tracking and
transit statuses, lookups, and integrator user management. API access is partner-gated — the developer portal at developer.uship.com
is invitation-only and access is granted by the uShip API team.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/uship/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
image: https://www.uship.com/apple-touch-icon.png
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-02'
modified: '2026-08-02'
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-08-02'
status: enriched
artifacts_added: 12
pass: local-v1
tags:
- Shipping
- Logistics
- Freight
- Marketplace
- Transportation
- auto-transport
- ltl-freight
- Last Mile Delivery
- Shipment Tracking
- E-Commerce
- Supply Chain
- rate-quotes
tags_raw:
- shipping
- logistics
- freight
- marketplace
- transportation
- auto-transport
- ltl-freight
- last-mile-delivery
- shipment-tracking
- ecommerce
- supply-chain
- rate-quotes
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
apis:
- name: uShip API v2
description: 'The core uShip marketplace API — a RESTful, hypermedia-driven JSON API over the shipment lifecycle: searching
active listings, creating and retrieving listings by commodity category, bids and bid acceptance, booking, contacts and
conversations, feedback, payment codes, listing and transit statuses, tracking history, user profile, and lookup collections
(commodities, address types, regions, currencies, service types, trailer types, vehicle year/make/model). Secured with
OAuth 2.0; responses carry a links[] hypermedia array with rel/verb/href/title so clients discover permitted next actions
instead of hard-coding URIs.'
humanURL: https://developer.uship.com/docs
baseURL: https://api.uship.com/v2
tags:
- Shipping
- Logistics
- Marketplace
- Shipment Tracking
- Freight
tags_raw:
- shipping
- logistics
- marketplace
- shipment-tracking
- freight
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://developer.uship.com/docs
- type: APIReference
url: https://developer.uship.com/resources
- type: GettingStarted
url: https://developer.uship.com/about-our-apis/getting-started
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/uship-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
url: conventions/uship-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
url: errors/uship-problem-types.yml
- type: DataModel
url: data-model/uship-data-model.yml
- type: Sandbox
url: sandbox/uship-sandbox.yml
- name: uShip Published Rates API
description: Bookable, algorithmically priced rates published by service providers in response to shipping-customer rate
requests, as an alternative to the auction/bidding flow. Covers the shipping-customer side (create a rate request, create
an LTL rate request, retrieve rates, accept a rate) and the service-provider side (setup, rate request notification, create
rate, booking acceptance notification), including the HTTP callback notifications uShip POSTs to a provider's recipient
URL.
humanURL: https://developer.uship.com/docs/read/apis/published_rates
baseURL: https://api.uship.com/v2
tags:
- Freight
- rate-quotes
- ltl-freight
- Logistics
tags_raw:
- freight
- rate-quotes
- ltl-freight
- logistics
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://developer.uship.com/docs/read/apis/published_rates
- type: Webhooks
url: asyncapi/uship-notifications-webhooks.yml
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/uship-authentication.yml
- type: Sandbox
url: sandbox/uship-sandbox.yml
- name: uShip LTL Connect API
description: LTL Connect is uShip's marketplace-connected less-than-truckload product, quoting and booking LTL freight against
uShip's carrier network. Documented on the uShip developer portal with a dedicated implementation guide and API reference
for shipper integrations.
humanURL: https://developer.uship.com/ltl-connect-api/ref
baseURL: https://api.uship.com/v2
tags:
- ltl-freight
- Freight
- Logistics
tags_raw:
- ltl-freight
- freight
- logistics
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://developer.uship.com/shipper-api-guides/ltl-connect-guide
- type: APIReference
url: https://developer.uship.com/ltl-connect-api/ref
- name: uShip LTL Direct API
description: LTL Direct exposes uShip's directly contracted LTL carrier rates for shipper integrations, as the counterpart
to LTL Connect. Documented on the uShip developer portal with its own guide and API reference.
humanURL: https://developer.uship.com/ltl-direct-api
baseURL: https://api.uship.com/v2
tags:
- ltl-freight
- Freight
- Logistics
tags_raw:
- ltl-freight
- freight
- logistics
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://developer.uship.com/shipper-api-guides/ltl-direct-guide
- type: APIReference
url: https://developer.uship.com/ltl-direct-api/ref
- name: uShip Cars and Light Trucks API
description: The vehicle-transport slice of the uShip API — listing creation, published rates, and booking for cars and
light trucks, including year/make/model and body-type lookups used by dealers, auctions, and online vehicle marketplaces.
humanURL: https://developer.uship.com/cars-and-light-trucks-api-reference/ref
baseURL: https://api.uship.com/v2
tags:
- auto-transport
- Shipping
- Marketplace
tags_raw:
- auto-transport
- shipping
- marketplace
properties:
- type: APIReference
url: https://developer.uship.com/cars-and-light-trucks-api-reference/ref
- type: Documentation
url: https://developer.uship.com/shipper-api-guides/published-rates-for-vehicles
- name: uShip Furniture and Home Delivery API
description: The furniture and household-goods slice of the uShip API, used by furniture retailers and eCommerce sellers
to quote, book, and track first-to-final-mile big-and-bulky home delivery through uShip's carrier network.
humanURL: https://developer.uship.com/uship-furniture-api-reference/ref
baseURL: https://api.uship.com/v2
tags:
- Last Mile Delivery
- E-Commerce
- Shipping
tags_raw:
- last-mile-delivery
- ecommerce
- shipping
properties:
- type: APIReference
url: https://developer.uship.com/uship-furniture-api-reference/ref
- type: Documentation
url: https://developer.uship.com/shipper-api-guides/furniture-and-home-api-guide
- name: uShip Integrator Users API
description: User-management endpoints for integration partners — provisioning and managing the uShip user accounts an integrator
creates and acts on behalf of within the marketplace.
humanURL: https://developer.uship.com/integrator-users-api
baseURL: https://api.uship.com/v2
tags:
- Marketplace
- Logistics
tags_raw:
- marketplace
- logistics
properties:
- type: APIReference
url: https://developer.uship.com/integrator-users-api/ref
- name: uShip Tracking API
description: Shipment tracking and transit-status history for booked listings — retrieve the recorded location history and
most recent reported location, with punctuality measured against the bid's latest pickup and delivery times.
humanURL: https://developer.uship.com/shipper-api-guides/tracking-api-guide
baseURL: https://api.uship.com/v2
tags:
- Shipment Tracking
- Logistics
- Supply Chain
tags_raw:
- shipment-tracking
- logistics
- supply-chain
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://developer.uship.com/shipper-api-guides/tracking-api-guide
- type: APIReference
url: https://developer.uship.com/docs/read/apis/Tracking_Reference
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/uship-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
url: https://www.uship.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
url: https://developer.uship.com/
- type: Documentation
url: https://developer.uship.com/docs
- type: APIReference
url: https://developer.uship.com/resources
- type: GettingStarted
url: https://developer.uship.com/about-our-apis/getting-started
- type: SignUp
url: https://www.uship.com/register/
- type: Login
url: https://www.uship.com/signin.aspx
- type: Support
url: https://help.uship.com/
- type: Blog
url: https://www.uship.com/blog/
- type: GitHubOrganization
url: https://github.com/uShip
- type: TermsOfService
url: https://help.uship.com/hc/articles/360008771433-user-agreement/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
url: https://help.uship.com/hc/articles/360009056894-privacy-policy/
- type: Pricing
url: https://www.uship.com/cost-to-ship/
- type: StatusPage
url: https://uship.statuspage.io/
- type: LLMsTxt
url: llms/uship-llms.txt
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/uship-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
url: conventions/uship-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
url: errors/uship-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/uship-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/uship-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
url: data-model/uship-data-model.yml
- type: Packages
url: packages/uship-packages.yml
- type: Webhooks
url: asyncapi/uship-notifications-webhooks.yml
- type: Sandbox
url: sandbox/uship-sandbox.yml
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