ABF Shipping Tip

Enable Customers to Access Shipping Information from Your Website

ABF's API connects ABF’s website functions directly to your site or computer system, enabling you to provide your customers, shipping partners, or employees with a convenient, self-service means of obtaining shipping information right on your website or intranet — no phone calls, no navigating to another site, no waiting.

There are seven functions available with ABF's API:

Create a Bill of Lading
Request a Pickup
Bill of Lading/Pickup Combination
Retrieve a Document
Get a Rate Quotation
Track a Shipment
Get a Transit Time

By eliminating the need for multiple telephone calls or navigating to multiple sites, ABF's API frees your employees to focus on other ways to serve customers and improve productivity. Plus, your customers can seamlessly complete transactions without ever leaving your site. The API also works for accounts wanting to incorporate functionality into back office systems (warehouse/order management systems, corporate intranets, etc.).

The API is available only to registered users of abf.com. After registering, you will receive a confirmation message with step-by-step instructions for setting up the ABF API for your company.

Registration is free and set up is easily accomplished.

Wonder how it works? Suppose a customer wants to track the shipment of merchandise purchased on your website:

The customer submits a tracking form directly from your website.
The information goes immediately to the ABF database.
Instantly, the tracking information displays for the customer. An alternate method provides your system the result data via XML to process and present.
A link on the ABF results page redirects the customer back to your website.

It's that simple.

Learn more about ABF's API .

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