National carriers such as UPS have their own APIs designed to create shipping labels, track packages, facilitate returns, and more. While it’s completely possible for e-commerce businesses to integrate directly with the UPS API, doing so can take your developers weeks or even months to complete. Plus, as updates roll out, this means your team will have to spend additional time and resources maintaining this API integration.
Alternatively, e-commerce companies can consider integrating with EasyPost’s multi-carrier shipping API to access not only UPS’ API, but our full catalogue of carriers. Leave carrier relationship management up to us instead.
Using EasyPost’s simple Shipping API, you can start shipping with UPS and dozens of others. Solve complex shipping logistics problems with a single integration. By leveraging EasyPost’s technology, businesses can streamline, automate, and gain end-to-end control of their shipping process with our suite of flexible RESTful API solutions. Join our thousands of customers shipping millions of packages each month.
EasyPost offers a modern, flexible RESTful API that connects to 100+ carriers with one seamless integration — helping you to avoid month-long integrations, lengthy carrier documentation, and time consuming updates. Let’s build the shipping infrastructure of the internet together. Developers get started for free with EasyPost.
Take a look at our public documentation and start building with one of our helper libraries (Python, PHP, Ruby, Node.js, Java, and more). Avoid month-long integrations and start shipping in minutes with EasyPost.
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# Create To and From Addresses
from_address = EasyPost::Address.create(...)
to_address = EasyPost::Address.create(...)
# Create Shipment and Get Rates
shipment = EasyPost::Shipment.create(
from_address: from_address,
to_address: to_address,
parcel: {
predefined_package: 'Parcel',
weight: 32.8
})
# Buy Shipping Label
shipment.buy(rate: shipment.lowest_rate())
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Feature | UPS API | EasyPost API |
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Tracking API with Webhooks | check | |
RESTful JSON | check | |
SOAP / XML | check | |
UPS Ground | check | check |
UPS Express | check | check |
UPS SurePost | check | |
UPS Mail Innovations | check | |
Fast and Free Technical Support | check | |
Public Documentation and Tutorials | check | |
Instant API Access | check | |
.NET Library | check | |
Go Library | check | |
Java Library | check | |
Node.js Module | check | |
PHP Library | check | |
Python Module | check | |
Ruby Gem | check |
Sign up and start shipping in the same day. We have our UPS API live and ready for you to test with. We also have extensive client documentation in over seven different languages to help you get started. If you have any questions, or if you want to talk logistics, feel free to reach out to one of our shipping experts.