Creating a shipment

Everything starts with the shipment

Creating a shipment is the starting point for everything which can be accomplished within Carrier Connect.
Using createShipment creates a shipment and returns a unique shipment number after successfully creating the shipment.
This shipment number can be used to reference the shipment when adding futher operations to the shipment later on.

<result>
       <hasErrors>false</hasErrors>
       <hasOnlyRetryableErrors>false</hasOnlyRetryableErrors>
       <hasWarnings>false</hasWarnings>
   <shipmentNumber>0007544</shipmentNumber>
        ...
</result>

However, createShipment also allows to create a complete shipment with packages, items, etc., set the shipment to 'complete' and request all related documents within one call!
This provides a quick and easy process if all necessary data is available before creating the shipment.

See also our SOAP Java documentation.