Release Notes

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📘 Documentation

• Launched new API docs
• Added 2.0 and experimental versions to API docs

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🚀 New Features

Introduced thePUT 1.0/shipmentendpoint to indicate when tracking information has been uploaded. Use this endpoint to acknowledge that tracking details have been successfully synced to your system. Here is example use case:

• Poll orders with tracking using GET 1.0/order?HasTracking=true&IsTrackingUploaded=false to retrieve orders where tracking has been provided but not yet confirmed as uploaded.
• Once tracking is uploaded, call the PUT 1.0/shipment endpoint to mark it as uploaded.

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🚀 New Features

• Introduced a new section for API Guides.

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🛠 Improvements

• Implemented retry logic for Webhooks to enhance resilience. Failed webhooks are now retried over 24 hours with an exponential backoff strategy to increase delivery success rates.

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🚀 New Features

• Enabled self-service generation of Auth Tokens (Personal Access Tokens) directly from the ShipBob dashboard.

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🛠 Improvements

• Added GET 2.0/simulate/status/{simulation_id} endpoint in the Sandbox Environment to fetch the status of a registered simulation.

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🚀 New Features

• Introduced POST 2.0/simulate/shipment endpoint in the Sandbox Environment to request simulation for processing a shipment to ‘Shipped’ and ‘Delivered’ statuses.

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🚀 New Features

• Added GET 2.0/receiving endpoint to request multiple Warehouse Receiving Orders (WROs), supporting various query parameters like fulfillment center ID and WRO insert date.

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⚠️ Deprecations

• Deprecated 1.0/receiving endpoints. Users are encouraged to migrate to 2.0/receiving. Note: The models returned by 2.0/receiving will no longer contain box info; this will be moved to a separate endpoint before /receiving is removed permanently.

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🛠 Improvements

• Added purchase_order_number attribute to the Receiving API’s request and response structures.

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🛠 Improvements

• Introduced total_sellable_quantity attribute to Inventory API endpoints, calculated by subtracting the total exception quantity from the fulfillable quantity.

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🚀 New Features

• Enabled auto-creation of Products when sending Orders that use the product reference_id.
• Added a new authentication method - Personal Access Token (PAT) - for single-merchant applications.

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📘 Documentation

• Updated ‘Getting Started’ section for clearer guidance on API usage.
• Added an example integration diagram to the Tools section.

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🛠 Improvements

• Added ‘On Hand’ and ‘Committed’ quantity calculations to the Inventory Resource.
• Moved the Shipments endpoints under the Orders API resource, ensuring no interruptions of service.
• Added Shipment information to the ‘Get Order’ and ‘Get Orders’ endpoints.

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🚀 New Features

• Introduced the Returns API, including endpoints to create, edit, cancel, and retrieve returns.
• Added referenceId field as a filter to the ‘Get Orders’ endpoint.

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🚀 New Features

• Enabled developers to request multi-channel applications with read-only access to all of a user’s channels.

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🛠 Improvements

• Added packaging_attribute field to Inventory API endpoints.
• Fixed issue with missing inventory items in Bulk POST Products response.
• Added ‘Cancel Warehouse Receiving Order’ endpoint.
• Fixed incorrect Next-Page headers returned by endpoints with multiple pages.
• Added company name to recipient info in Orders endpoints.
• Added packaging type to Shipments endpoints.
• Fixed bug where Shipments endpoints did not return more than one lot date and lot number for inventory.

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🛠 Improvements

• Added ‘Company Name’ to the shipment object in the Fulfillment API.
• Introduced an additional ‘On Hold’ status reason - “Missing Packaging Preferences”. Merchants should resolve this by logging into their ShipBob account.

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🚀 New Features

• Released Warehouse Receiving API for creating orders to receive inventory into ShipBob’s fulfillment center.

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📘 Documentation

• Fixed inconsistencies and combined all APIs into a single document.
• Introduced new endpoints for ‘GET Timeline Logs For One Shipment’ and ‘GET Timeline Logs For One Shipment Without Order’.

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🛠 Improvements

• Shipments with ‘On Hold’ status for missing tariff information now display the inventory ID causing the hold.