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Getting Started 

• DHL eCommerce Americas API (version 4) is your one stop solution to get shipping products, calculating duty and tax, generating shipping labels, manifesting packages, tracking packages and generating return labels.
• In the Downloads section, you will find a ready-to-use Postman collection to facilitate your interaction with the API. 

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Access Token

• Getting an access token

This API provides authentication services for some of DHL Group's APIs.

Note: This Authentication API works only for a set of DHL Group's APIs. Please read the documentation of the API you are trying to use to know whether this Authentication API is the one to provide authentication services for you.

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Change Management

• Description of updates and changes made to our product, including new features, enhancements, and bug fixes.

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• Business Customers sending PDF documents as mail shipment with Deutsche Post 
  • Using varied mail shipments of Deutsche Post with E-POST
  • Tracking the shipment from uploading through delivery
• Get access and implementing the E-POSTBUSINESS API
  • Register as a Business Software Developer (https://www.deutschepost.de/epostapi)
  • Get your contract and the API access data
  • Implement and activate the API
  • Send your mail shipment

DHL GLOBAL FORWARDING: Air, Ocean and Ground Freight Forwarding

DOCUMENT: Download electronic documents from DHL Global Forwarding Document Management Systems

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Duty and Tax

• Calculating the duties, taxes and governmental fees for any cross border shipment, taking into consideration country de minimis values and preferential tariff rates that may apply.

Purpose

Calculates the duties, taxes and governmental fees for any international shipment, taking into consideration country de minimis values and preferential tariff rates that may apply. The Duty and Tax Calculator API does not provide shipping rates, but instead uses the shipping rate charged to the consignee as an input.

Works with
Any carrier, not just DHL, and have a Worldwide scope (if you are a DHL Express customer, please use the DHL Express - MyDHL API)

Free 30-day trial
Get immediate access and 30 days of free calculations (API calls).

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Error reference

• Gives a list of possible error codes and detailed descriptions for the error responses from the API

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Shipping Label

• Creating an US Domestic or an International label.
• Retrieving an existing label
• Deleting an existing label (Domestic only)

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Legal terms

• The rules and conditions governing the use of our services, outlining user rights and responsibilities.

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Driver Summary Manifest (DSM)

• Creating a manifest
• Downloading a manifest

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• Rating, Shipping, Tracking & more for time-definite international shipments
• Users with a DHL Express customer account
• Available globally

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• Providing access to the Order information at any time
• Customer-centric contract logistics solutions
• Business customers of DHL Supply Chain

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Shipment Rating

• Getting shipping products, rates and estimated delivery date (EDD) for a given shipment.

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• Subscribing to DHL Global Forwarding Push APIs
  • Register for Push API subscription
  • Provide your URL callback details
  • Start to receive messages pushed from DHL to your API

• Push APIs available
  • Timestamp Push API v1
  • Sales Invoice Push API
  • Timestamp  Push API v2

• Business customers of DHL Global Forwarding
• Air and Ocean Freight shipments

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General Reference

• Detailed references about products, API fields and general glossary.

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Return Label

• Creating a US Domestic return label
• Retrieving an existing return label