uShip
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.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles uShip the way a machine reads it — 11 machine-readable artifacts across 8 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 — uShip scores 45.9/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 34/100 (agent ready). 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
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How we profile uShip
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for uShip. 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 8
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.
uShip API v2
The core uShip marketplace API — a RESTful, hypermedia-driven JSON API over the shipment lifecycle: searching active listings, creating and retrieving listings by commodity cate...
uShip Published Rates API
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 s...
uShip LTL Connect API
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 port...
uShip LTL Direct API
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 o...
uShip Cars and Light Trucks API
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 ...
uShip Furniture and Home Delivery API
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 deli...
uShip Integrator Users API
User-management endpoints for integration partners — provisioning and managing the uShip user accounts an integrator creates and acts on behalf of within the marketplace.
uShip Tracking API
Shipment tracking and transit-status history for booked listings — retrieve the recorded location history and most recent reported location, with punctuality measured against th...
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Event Specifications 1
Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.
AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.
Uship Notifications Webhooks
ASYNCAPISecurity Posture 2
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 uShip — 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 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
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