<aside> 💡 To use what3words with ShipEngine Connect, you first need to be a ShipEngine user - sign up or get further information here.

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About ShipEngine

ShipEngine is an API that developers can use to build shipping solutions for their own applications including creating shipping labels.

In addition to its core features, customers shipping out of the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom have access to ShipEngine Carriers.

How to specify a what3words address in ShipEngine Connect’s API

<aside> 💡 To collect what3words addresses from your customers, you’ll first need to add a what3words address field to your checkout page or CRM. To do so you can use one of our existing plugins or the what3words API. You can take a look at these options and find out more information here and below: *collecting what3words addresses from end-customers - setup guide*

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You can find ShipEngine Connect developer documentation here: https://www.shipengine.com/docs/#

If you are using the ShipEngine Shipping API integration, you will find what3words in the CreateLabel request in ShipEngine’s API documentation: https://connect.shipengine.com/shipping/reference/operation/CreateLabel/

  1. Under Shipping API, select ‘Labels’
  2. Select ‘CreateLabel’
  3. Expand the ‘ShipTo’ object
  4. Expand the ‘Geolocation’ object
  5. what3words addresses accepted as a text string e.g. filled.count.soap

Note: A what3words address is optional and is passed on in addition to the mandatory address fields.

For more information and support on using ShipEngine, speak to ShipEngine support at https://www.shipengine.com/support/

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