AfterShip API
AfterShip publishes nine self-serve REST APIs (tracking, returns, shipping, and more) under developers.aftership.com. Auth is an as-api-key header with OAuth for app integrations, and versioning is explicit via header (GA 2024-07). Webhooks retry up to 14 times with exponential backoff.
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AfterShip scores A on Supergood's API Report Card. AfterShip publishes nine self-serve REST APIs (tracking, returns, shipping, and more) under developers.aftership.com. Auth is an as-api-key header with OAuth for app integrations, and versioning is explicit via header (GA 2024-07). Webhooks retry up to 14 times with exponential backoff.
AfterShip has a workable official integration path. Most engineering teams can build against it directly. Open API: self-serve, documented, with SDKs
AfterShip is the dominant post-purchase platform for ecommerce.
Primary vertical: Fleet / Trucking / Logistics, specifically the post-purchase / last-mile-visibility slice of ecommerce logistics. A Shopify Plus brand installs AfterShip Tracking, connects via OAuth or API key, and starts streaming new orders (with carrier + tracking_number tuples) into the Tracking API.
Very high. AfterShip is the de facto default tracking provider in the Shopify ecosystem and one of the two or three first names mentioned in any post-purchase RFP.
AfterShip is the system of record for post-purchase shipment state across a merchant's entire order base.
Founded in 2012 in Hong Kong by Teddy Chan, Andrew Chan, and Dante Tsang after winning Startup Weekend Hong Kong 2011 and Global Startup Battle.
Supergood's grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? Supergood checks six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and rolls them into a letter grade. Supergood re-verifies grades, and they only move on evidence.
AfterShip has partial MCP support. AfterShip publishes an official MCP server with a hosted endpoint and setup instructions on GitHub, but it is read-only and limited to shipment tracking lookups plus a returns demo. Broader API operations such as creating or modifying trackings are not exposed.
Partially. MCP support for AfterShip exists but is incomplete, so what MCP clients like Claude, Cursor, and Codex can reach depends on what the available server covers.