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A shipping product is the term used to refer to a group of shipping methods offered by a shipping carrier. The methods within the overall shipping product will share the same characteristics, but are differentiated from each other based on additional shipping functionalities, parcel weight classes or other criteria. The Shipping products API allows you to retrieve shipping products and their associated shipping methods, filtered by specific criteria and shipping functionalities. For example, the carrier PostNL offers several shipping products, one of which is PostNL Standard. The PostNL Standard shipping product consists of various individual shipping methods, such as:
  • PostNL Standard 0-23 kg
  • PostNL Standard with signature 0-23kg
  • PostNL Evening delivery + Home address only 0-23 kg, etc.
In order to create a parcel and immediately announce it, an appropriate shipping method id is required. There are two methods of obtaining a shipping method id via the API:
  1. Retrieve a list of all available shipping methods based on a default or specific sender address via the Retrieve a list of shipping methods endpoint
  2. Retrieve a list of shipping methods which match a number of specific criteria and shipping functionalities via the Retrieve a list of shipping products endpoint