GLS Group
GLS Group (General Logistics Systems B.V.) is a European ground-based parcel and freight carrier headquartered in Amsterdam-Duivendrecht, Netherlands, and owned by International Distributions Services plc. It operates a road network of more than 120 hubs and roughly 1,600 depots across some 50 countries in Europe, the United States and Canada, moving B2B and B2C parcels up to about 32 kg plus a freight/LTL and express line, with an out-of-home ParcelShop and locker network. In the supply chain it is a last-mile and middle-mile parcel integrator: the party a shipper, e-commerce platform or shipping-API aggregator hands a consignment to for pickup, linehaul, customs clearance and delivery. Its API posture is federated and contract-bound rather than unified. The GLS Group developer portal (dev-portal.gls-group.net, run by GLS IT Services GmbH on Apigee) allows self-serve account and app registration with API keys or OAuth 2.0, but its API catalog is only visible after sign-in and "restricted" APIs additionally require approval by a local GLS representative. National units run their own portals — GLS Netherlands publishes an Azure API Management portal at api-portal.gls.nl whose OpenAPI 3.0.1 definitions for the Label API and the Track & Trace API are anonymously readable, but calling them still requires MyGLS credentials issued to a contracted shipper. The group-wide GLS ShipIT REST/SOAP web services are fully documented in public Doxygen reference pages, yet the base URL itself is handed out only with credentials by a customer's primary GLS contact. No industry data standard — GS1/EPCIS, UPU, DCSA, IATA ONE Record, UN/EDIFACT or ANSI X12 — is referenced anywhere in the artifacts GLS publishes; every identifier and event vocabulary is GLS-proprietary.
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APIs 3
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
GLS Netherlands Label API
RESTful shipping API for printing labels and manifesting shipping data for GLS Netherlands. Covers login validation, label creation (parcel ShipType "P" and freight ShipType "F"...
GLS Netherlands Track and Trace API
Read API for parcel status and proof of delivery in the GLS Netherlands network. Three documented operations — POST /api/parcel/v1/details, POST /api/parcel/v1/search and POST /...
GLS ShipIT REST API
Group-wide shipping integration web service (version 3.4.19) exposed by the GLS ShipIT backend, documented publicly as Doxygen reference pages. Resource groups cover shipment pr...
Resources
Every other property we hold for GLS Group — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 4
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 1
The organization behind the API
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