Manage shipment groups
Create, manage, and manifest multiple shipments at once using shipment groups. Streamline operations by batching outbound packages by carrier or workflow.
What is a shipment group?
A shipment group is a collection of one or more shipments that can be manifested in a single action.
Shipment groups enable you to perform manifest operations on a number of shipments at once. This page explains how to create, edit and use shipment groups.
Shipment groups enable you to align your manifest processes with your operational flows. For example, suppose that you allocate 500 shipments to a particular carrier and your distribution centre places those shipments into a cage to be loaded onto the carrier’s outbound trailer. By creating a shipment group corresponding to that carrier’s cage and then adding the relevant shipments to it, you could manifest all the shipments that the carrier will take on that trailer in a single API request.
Manage shipment groups
For more on shipment groups and how to manage them, follow the links below to our documented guides:
- Create Shipment Groups - Explains how to use the Create Shipment Group endpoint to create new shipment groups.
- Get Shipment Groups - Explains how to retrieve existing shipment groups.
- Edit Shipment Groups - Explains how to edit existing shipment groups, add and remove shipments from a group, and lock groups so that they cannot be edited.
- Close Shipment Groups - Explains how to close shipment groups.