Advanced Options

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Requirements

You will need to be familiar with the specific advanced options, you should be able to List Carrier Advanced Options.

Advanced Options

Many carriers support "Advanced Options", such as the ability to ship alcohol, bill to the receiving party, request money on delivery, or many others. You will need to see the supported options by using the List Carrier Advanced Options.

Property	Description
`bill_to_account`	string The account number to be billed
`bill_to_party`	enumerated_string `recipient` or `third_party`
`bill_to_postal_code`	string
`bill_to_country_code`	string Two letter country code as it corresponds to ISO 3166-1 alpha-2.
`contains_alcohol`	bool Indicates if the shipment contains alcohol
`delivered_duty_paid`	bool
`non_machinable`	bool
`saturday_delivery`	bool
`dry_ice`	bool
`dry_ice_weight`	see weight object below

Info

Weight Conversion

Currently all dry ice weights will be converted and saved as ounces.

Weight Object

Property	Description
`unit`	enumerated string, required
`value`	decimal, required

Example

POST /v1/labels

For this example, we're going to send Mickey and Minnie an anniversary gift of some wine. Since we're shipping alcohol, we're also going to have to use a special Delivery Confirmation as well. We'll be using UPS as the carrier, since they support adult delivery and alcohol.

We added the dictionary shipment.advanced_options and string shipment.confirmation:

"advanced_options": {
  "contains_alcohol": "true"
},
"confirmation": "adult_signature"

Example Request

curl -iX POST https://api.shipengine.com/v1/labels \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-H 'API-Key: __YOUR_API_KEY_HERE__' \
-d '
{
  "shipment": {
    "service_code": "ups_3_day_select",
    "ship_to": {
      "name": "Mickey and Minnie Mouse",
      "phone": "714-781-4565",
      "company_name": "The Walt Disney Company",
      "address_line1": "500 South Buena Vista Street",
      "city_locality": "Burbank",
      "state_province": "CA",
      "postal_code": "91521",
      "country_code": "US",
      "address_residential_indicator": "no"
    },
    "ship_from": {
      "name": "Dade Murphy",
      "phone": "512-485-4282",
      "company_name": "Zero Cool",
      "address_line1": "345 Chambers Street",
      "address_line2": "Suite 100",
      "city_locality": "New York City",
      "state_province": "NY",
      "postal_code": "10282",
      "country_code": "US",
      "address_residential_indicator": "no"
    },
    "confirmation": "adult_signature",
    "advanced_options": {
      "contains_alcohol": "true"
    },
    "insurance_provider": "none",
    "total_weight": {
      "value": 3.0,
      "unit": "pound"
    },
    "packages": [
      {
        "weight": {
          "value": 3.0,
          "unit": "pound"
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}'

Example Response

{
  "label_id": "se-421210",
  "status": "completed",
  "shipment_id": "se-2126974",
  "ship_date": "2019-07-25T05:00:00.000Z",
  "created_at": "2019-07-25T15:24:46.657Z",
  "shipment_cost": {
    "currency": "usd",
    "amount": 29.25
  },
  "insurance_cost": {
    "currency": "usd",
    "amount": 0.0
  },
  "tracking_number": "1Z28A1R9A713398376",
  "is_return_label": false,
  "is_international": false,
  "batch_id": "",
  "carrier_id": "se-123890",
  "service_code": "ups_3_day_select",
  "package_code": "package",
  "voided": false,
  "label_format": "pdf",
  "label_layout": "4x6",
  "trackable": false,
  "carrier_code": "ups",
  "tracking_status": "unknown",
  "label_download": {
    "pdf": "https://api.shipengine.com/v1/downloads/6/Q2OLdnGaqk-UzkN6pFH0lg/testlabel-202923521.pdf",
    "png": "https://api.shipengine.com/v1/downloads/6/Q2OLdnGaqk-UzkN6pFH0lg/testlabel-202923521.png",
    "zpl": "https://api.shipengine.com/v1/downloads/6/Q2OLdnGaqk-UzkN6pFH0lg/testlabel-202923521.zpl",
    "href": "https://api.shipengine.com/v1/downloads/6/Q2OLdnGaqk-UzkN6pFH0lg/testlabel-202923521.pdf"
  },
  "form_download": null,
  "insurance_claim": null
}

Step 2: Ship It!

You can now print your label and ship it! Your label can be found by navigating to label_download.href.