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Location Finder - Unified
Available
  • The DHL Location Finder – Unified API provides a single interface to discover all DHL locations that handle parcels and letters, enabling customers during online checkout to choose nearby pick-up or drop-off (PUDO) points such as parcel lockers and view key details like available services and opening hours.
  • New: Routing distance for Sweden: Get real driving‑distance calculations (in addition to airline distance) for Swedish locations, improving accuracy in checkout and location‑selection workflows.

Best for:

  • Find locations easily: Search by address, geo‑coordinates, location ID, or keywordId for direct addressing.
  • All networks, worldwide: Supports all parcel and letter forwarding networks worldwide (Post & Parcel Germany, DHL Express, DHL eCommerce, DHL Freight)
  • All location types: Service points, post offices, postbank branches, lockers (including lean variants), PO boxes, and postboxes.
  • Full service info: See which services each location supports, e.g. parcel/express pick‑up, drop‑off, unlabeled drop‑off, plus extras like letter‑service, postident, and age‑verification.
  • Easy integration: Ideal for checkout delivery options, map‑based store locators, returns flows, and logistics planning.
Region: Global
Used for: Location
Division: DHL Group, Post & Parcel Germany, DHL Express, DHL eCommerce, DHL Freight
Shipment Tracking - Unified
Available

Best for:

  • Providing access to the shipment status at any time
  • Integrating all types of DHL shipments
  • Multiple shipments (e.g. eCommerce, Express, Freight, Letter, Parcel, etc.)
Region: Global
Used for: Tracking
Division: DHL Group, DHL Freight, DHL eCommerce, DHL Supply Chain, DHL Global Forwarding, Post & Parcel Germany
Shipment Tracking - Unified - Push
Available

Best for:

  • Providing access to the shipment status at any time
  • Integrating all types of DHL shipments
  • Multiple shipments (e.g. eCommerce, Freight, Letter, Parcel, etc.)

This is the push version of the Shipment Tracking Unified API which proactive sends updates.

Region: Global
Used for: Tracking
Division: DHL Group, DHL Freight
User Guide (DHL eCommerce Americas)

Best for:

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. 
Region: United States
Used for: Information
Division: DHL eCommerce
Additional Services (DHL Freight)

Best for:

To validate which DHL Freight additional services can be combined to each product and how they can be combined with each other.

Precondition:

  • For existing DHL Freight business customers with a valid contract.
  • For domestic and international palletized road freight transport orders (> 35 kg) across Europe.

For this DHL Freight API, we offer a service that will inform you about its important updates; you can subscribe to this service by using the NOTIFICATION button on right hand side of this page.

Region: Europe
Used for: Additional Services
Division: DHL Freight
Authentication API (DHL Freight)
Available

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.



Region: Global
Used for: Account
Division: DHL Freight
Changelog (DHL eCommerce Americas)

Best for:

Change Management

  • Description of updates and changes made to our product, including new features, enhancements, and bug fixes.
Region: United States
Division: DHL eCommerce
DATAFACTORY AUTOCOMPLETE 2.0 (Post & Parcel Germany)
Planned

Automatic completion of postal data

Best for:

  • More user friendly than ever with fast and convenient address entry 
  • Accurate address data from initial contact
  • Fewer returns thanks to correct postal data
  • Simplified generation of routing codes with DHL-compliant data
Region: Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Used for: Address
Division: Post