Carrier guide

Canpar Express

Canadian ground and overnight parcels, priced for e-commerce.

Canpar Express is a Canadian parcel carrier built around domestic delivery for online retail and small business, with economical ground, faster Select and next-business-day Overnight service.

Good for

• Domestic e-commerce parcels
• Heavier boxes on ground service
• Next-day letters and paks

Services

Typical transit times. Every quote shows the carrier's own estimate for your exact route and ship date.

Ground

Select

Overnight

Using Canpar Express through the API

1. Rate. POST /v1/rates returns Canpar Express services alongside every other carrier whenever it serves the route. For Canpar Express only, add "carriers": ["canpar"] and no other carrier is quoted. Reference
2. Buy. Pass the chosen rate's carrier, service_code, service_name and quote_id to POST /v1/shipments, with an Idempotency-Key. Labels guide
3. Track. GET /v1/shipments/{id}/tracking returns its tracking events. Reference
4. Hand it over. GET /v1/pickups/carriers lists the carriers that can collect from your address; otherwise GET /v1/rates/dropoffs finds the nearest drop-off. Pickups guide

Canpar Express rates only

Every rate that comes back has carrier: "canpar". POST /v1/rates/quick takes the same option.

curl -s https://api.parcelhub.ca/v1/rates \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{
  "from": { "name": "Warehouse", "street": "120 Adelaide St W", "city": "Toronto",
            "state": "ON", "postal_code": "M5H 1T1", "country": "CA" },
  "to":   { "name": "Sam Lee", "street": "1 Main St", "city": "Ottawa",
            "state": "ON", "postal_code": "K1P 1J1", "country": "CA" },
  "packages": [ { "weight": 2, "weight_unit": "kg", "length": 30, "width": 20,
                  "height": 15, "dimension_unit": "cm" } ],
  "carriers": ["canpar"]
}'

Other carriers

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