Shipwire
Shipwire is a global fulfillment and third-party logistics (3PL) platform providing a REST API for managing orders, inventory, warehousing, shipments, returns, and carrier selection across a worldwide network of fulfillment centers. The platform serves eCommerce brands with nine distinct RESTful APIs covering order management, stock tracking, receiving, returns, rate shopping, product catalogs, purchase orders, webhooks, and address validation, enabling fully automated fulfillment workflows.
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles Shipwire the way a machine reads it — 14 machine-readable artifacts across 9 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Shipwire scores 32.1/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 7/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Shipwire
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Shipwire. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 9
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.
Shipwire Order API
Create new orders and update, cancel, or get information about existing outbound B2C orders. Includes shipment details such as shipping box dimensions, contents, and tracking in...
Shipwire Stock API
Track inventory levels and stock across Shipwire fulfillment centers in real time.
Shipwire Receiving API
Manage inbound inventory arrivals and create Advanced Shipping Notices (ASNs) to suppliers to streamline warehouse receiving operations.
Shipwire Returns API
Generate return labels, postage, and return tracking information by notifying the Shipwire Platform when an order is being returned by a customer.
Shipwire Rate API
Compare real-time shipping quotes across carriers and service levels, or by warehouse, to select the optimal carrier for each shipment.
Shipwire Product API
Manage product catalogs, marketing inserts, and product kits within the Shipwire fulfillment platform.
Shipwire Purchase Order API
Create, edit, and cancel purchase orders in the Shipwire system for B2B fulfillment workflows. POs can be approved to generate fulfillment orders.
Shipwire Webhooks API
Subscribe to real-time push notifications for various fulfillment events to trigger workflows in external systems when order, shipment, or inventory events occur.
Shipwire Address Validation API
Validate shipping addresses before submitting orders to reduce failed deliveries and improve fulfillment accuracy.
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GraphQL 1
Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.
GraphQL schemas published by this provider.
Shipwire GraphQL Schema
This document describes a conceptual GraphQL schema for the Shipwire 3PL fulfillment platform. Shipwire exposes nine distinct REST APIs covering order management, stock tracking...
GRAPHQLPricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Shipwire Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Shipwire Finops
FINOPSSecurity Posture 1
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Shipwire — 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 3
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Build 2
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 1
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 3
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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