Track a Package

With ShipEngine, you can subscribe to real-time tracking events for any package – regardless of whether you created the label via ShipEngine.

For labels that were created via ShipEngine, we recommend that you track by Label ID. For other packages, follow the instructions below to track via the tracking number instead.

Supported Carriers

Carrier	Carrier Code
U.S. Postal Service	`usps`
Stamps.com	`stamps_com`
FedEx	`fedex`
UPS	`ups`
DHL Express	`dhl_express`
Canada Post	`canada_post`
Australia Post	`australia_post`
First Mile	`firstmile`
Asendia	`asendia`
OnTrac	`ontrac`
APC	`apc`
Newgistics	`newgistics`
Globegistics	`globegistics`
RR Donnelley	`rr_donnelley`
IMEX	`imex`
Access Worldwide	`access_worldwide`
Purolator Canada	`purolator_ca`
Sendle	`sendle`

Info

Event Timestamps

carrier_occurred_at is the timestamp of the event received from the carrier, it is assumed to be the local time of where the event occurred.

occurred_at is the UTC based time of the event's occurrence.

Warning The carried_occurred_at event property is not yet fully supported across all carriers.

Example

The following example demonstrates how to get tracking information. You need to specify the carrier_code (see the table above) and the tracking_number of the package.

Example Request

curl -iX GET https://api.shipengine.com/v1/tracking?carrier_code=stamps_com&tracking_number=9405511899223197428490 \
-H 'API-Key: __YOUR_API_KEY_HERE__'

GET /v1/tracking?carrier_code=stamps_com&tracking_number=9405511899223197428490 HTTP/1.1
Host: api.shipengine.com
API-Key: __YOUR_API_KEY_HERE__
Cache-Control: no-cache

Example Response

{
  "tracking_number": "9405511899223197428490",
  "status_code": "DE",
  "status_description": "Delivered",
  "carrier_status_code": "01",
  "carrier_status_description": "Your item was delivered in or at the mailbox at 9:10 am on March 2, 2017 in AUSTIN, TX 78756.",
  "ship_date": "2019-07-26T22:10:50.286Z",
  "estimated_delivery_date": null,
  "actual_delivery_date": "2019-07-26T22:10:50.286Z",
  "exception_description": null,
  "events": [
    {
      "occurred_at": "2019-09-13T12:32:00Z",
      "carrier_occurred_at": "2019-09-13T05:32:00",
      "description": "Arrived at USPS Facility",
      "city_locality": "OCEANSIDE",
      "state_province": "CA",
      "postal_code": "92056",
      "country_code": "",
      "company_name": "",
      "signer": "",
      "event_code": "U1"
    }
  ]
}

Tracking Status Codes

Here's how the status_code and status_description fields correspond to each other, and how they correspond to the tracking_status field of a label:

status_code	status_description	tracking_status
`AC`	Accepted	N/A
`IT`	In Transit	`in_transit`
`DE`	Delivered	`delivered`
`EX`	Exception	`error`
`UN`	Unknown	`unknown`
`AT`	Delivery Attempt	N/A