How does the Shipping Analytics API work?

Dedicated reporting endpoints cover every shipment status, cost breakdowns, channel performance, top couriers and destinations, and detailed date-range shipment analytics. Each returns structured JSON for the dates you request, so one API integration covers every carrier, channel and location.

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Call an analytics endpoint for detailed data across time periods
Review shipment counts and cost by status, carrier and destination
Combine with tracking checkpoints to score against your delivery SLAs
Send the results to Tableau, Power BI, Looker or to power Shipping Rules

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The six metrics that decide a carrier's performance on a lane

Weigh six core metrics on every lane: shipping cost, transit time, on-time delivery, failed delivery, lost package and exception rates. Read each one per carrier and per lane, because a network-wide average hides the single route where a carrier is losing you money—or where shipping insurance could be the difference between profit and loss.

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Find your best carrier mix with rate audits and simulations

Audit the rates you pay against Easyship's pre-negotiated discounts and extensve carrier network, then simulate what your volume would have cost, lane by lane, on a different carrier mix with Advanced Shipping Analytics. This is the exact framework our shipping experts deliver to help Enterprise brands cut shipping costs from 5% to 40%. Link Your Own Carrier Account to compare your rates and select the cheapest option every time—whether it's yours or ours.

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How analytics and shipping automation rules work together

The Shipping Analytics API measures what happened in the past. The Shipping Automation Rules API changes what happens next. Analytics highlights the lanes, carriers and services that are costing you margin, then a rule can encode the fix so it applies to every future shipment that matches this set of conditions. Preference or avoid certain carriers, add insurance to defined destinations, or pre-select delivery duty paid or pay-on-arrival options based on import policies.

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What is a Shipping Analytcs API?

A Shipping Analytics API returns shipment, cost, carrier and sales-channel data through dedicated reporting endpoints, so eCommerce platforms and third-party software can measure delivery performance and shipping spend without manual exports. Easyship's version covers 550+ carrier services and 200+ countries and territories from one API integration, providing full cost optimization transparency.

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Shipping Analytics API FAQs

How can shipping analytics help my business?

Shipping analytics shows what you are spending, how carriers are performing and where deliveries go wrong. Read shipping cost next to transit time, delivery status and exceptions, then use what you find to change carrier selection preferences, negotiate rates and carrier discounts, and make delivery promises to your customers that you can keep.

Which carrier performance metrics should I track?

Track six key carrier metrics that every eCommerce brand and marketplace seller should review: shipping cost, average transit time, on-time delivery rate, failed delivery rate, lost package rate and exception rate. Segment each by carrier, service, origin, destination and lane, because a carrier that performs well across your network can still perform badly on one route. Analytics endpoints supply the status, carrier and destination data, and tracking checkpoints add the history you score against your own SLA definitions.

How do I add shipping analytics to my eCommerce site?

Authenticate your connection to link your platform, data warehouse or middleware to retrieve the analytics, apply your own business logic and pass results into your store, merchant dashboard or internal app, whether you run on Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Magento or NetSuite. Easyship's analytics infrastructure delivers 99.9% uptime with SOC 2 and GDPR compliance. To reduce the difference between customer payments and shipping costs, install dynamic rates at checkout, pair analytics with the Shipping Rates API and Automation Rules API, where analytics shapes the pricing strategy and live checkout rates with shipping rules execute the approach for each order.

How do I connect shipping analytics to inventory data?

Join shipping and inventory records on identifiers your systems already share: order numbers, shipment IDs, SKUs and warehouse locations. Your IMS, OMS, WMS or data platform can then compare fulfillment sites on shipping cost, flag SKUs that create expensive parcels, and rank warehouses by region. The more fields you can combine the greater operational transparency you'll receive.

Can I build custom shipping reports with the API?

Yes. Pull analytics for the period you need, segment by carrier, service, lane, warehouse, sales channel or date range, and shape the output into the reports your teams use. Structured JSON means it feeds Tableau, Power BI, Looker, finance reconciliation workflows or scheduled internal reports.

Does Easyship offer AI-powered shipping analytics?

Yes. AI Shipping Intelligence, currently in beta, answers plain-English questions about your shipping data. It surfaces paid versus charged discrepancies, cost by weight, SKU and box, and carrier adjustments and on-time performance across every region and account. Combined with rate audits and carrier simulations, it recommends the best multi-carrier mix for your shipping profile.

Does a shipping analytics API include live carrier rates?

Analytics explains historical and operational performance across all of your active stores, shipments, countries and carriers. The Shipping Rates API prices the shipment you are about to make, returning live quotes to compare on total cost and delivery speed. Run them together to justify paying more for a carrier whose past performance on that lane earns it. At times, better tracking and reliability pays for itself—or get insurance to cover the downside risk of a cheaper service.

Can AI agents use the Shipping Analytics API?

AI agents can pull shipment counts by status, top couriers, top destinations and sales-channel breakdowns for a date range, then read them next to tracking and rate data to recommend a carrier-mix change. Easyship's MCP server is live, and every analytics endpoint runs through it. Optimize your shipping in seconds through simple, AI-powered analytics and practical reccomendations.

What does it cost to use the Shipping Analytics API?

Start on a free plan with no credit card and generate an API key in minutes, then pay as you go as volume grows. Analytics endpoints need an API key carrying the `public.analytics:read` scope, and calls are billed as ordinary API usage on the plan you already run.

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Every Easyship API is modular. Allowing you to connect only what you need from rates to returns. Start with live pricing, then layer in label generation, tracking, duties and address validation as you grow.

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Shipping Analytics API For Carrier Performance & Cost Optimization

One unified shipping data source for every carrier, country and channel

Why Brands Integrate Easyship's Shipping Analytics API

How does the Shipping Analytics API work?

The six metrics that decide a carrier's performance on a lane

Find your best carrier mix with rate audits and simulations

How analytics and shipping automation rules work together

What is a Shipping Analytcs API?