Cargoboard API
Automate your shipping process with Cargoboard 🚚
Welcome to the Cargoboard API developer hub. Use the API to get instant, binding freight prices, book shipments, print labels, track orders and retrieve invoices — directly from your ERP, WMS or TMS.
Quickstart
| Step | What to do | Read |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Get an API key | Authentication |
| 2 | Build and test against the sandbox | Test and Production System |
| 3 | Request a price | Place a Quotation |
| 4 | Book the shipment | Place an Order or Book an Order Based on a Quotation |
| 5 | Print labels and track the shipment | Print shipment label, Track & Trace |
Prefer to start from a working request? See Quotation with minimum details and Booking with minimum details.
Building your request
- Shipper and consignee information — required address fields for quotations and bookings
- Package types and measurements — how to describe your goods, including dangerous goods, loading meters and parcels
- Shipment products —
STANDARD,EXPRESS,FIXandDIRECT, plus complete vans and trucks - Error messages — what each HTTP status code means and how to fix it
- Filtering and searching — paging, sorting and filtering for list endpoints
Using AI assistants
You can also connect Claude or another MCP-compatible AI assistant to Cargoboard with your API key — see Connecting AI assistants (MCP).
About Cargoboard
Cargoboard is a digital freight forwarder built on established transport networks such as CargoLine, one of the largest groupage and LTL networks in Europe. Since 2019, shippers have been getting instant, binding freight prices online and placing shipment orders directly. Cargoboard handles customer service, invoicing and insurance in-house, while the transport itself is carried out by vetted network partners across Europe.
The API turns this into a direct system-to-system integration: instant, binding prices instead of waiting for a quote by e-mail, and bookings straight from your own systems instead of re-entering data in a portal — for groupage, LTL and FTL, dangerous goods (ADR), and B2B or B2C deliveries.
Support
Questions about the API or your integration? Contact Patrick from the Cargoboard API team at [email protected] — he replies quickly.
Updated 2 days ago