Freightcom API
Freightcom publishes a documented Customer API at developer.freightcom.com with an OpenAPI spec covering rates, booking, tracking, pickups, and invoices. Auth is a simple API key; a FreightCommerce API serves integration partners. Versions ship regularly, three releases in late 2025 alone.
Frequently asked questions
Freightcom scores A on the API Report Card. Freightcom publishes a documented Customer API at developer.freightcom.com with an OpenAPI spec covering rates, booking, tracking, pickups, and invoices. Auth is a simple API key; a FreightCommerce API serves integration partners. Versions ship regularly, three releases in late 2025 alone.
Freightcom has a workable official integration path. Most engineering teams can build against it directly. Open API: self-serve, documented, with SDKs
Freightcom is Canada's leading multi-carrier shipping management platform, offering SMBs a centralized solution for LTL freight, courier, eCommerce, and fulfillment shipping.
misc (Logistics & Shipping), Typically for small and medium-sized Canadian businesses that need to compare and book multi-carrier shipping at discounted rates, including eCommerce sellers, 3PLs, and freight brokers. Businesses use Freightcom daily to get real-time rate quotes from multiple carriers, book LTL freight and courier shipments, print shipping labels, schedule pickups/dispatches, track deliveries, and manage consolidated invoices.
Freightcom is a well-known shipping platform in Canada with ~$49.3M estimated revenue, 147 employees, 157 Trustpilot reviews (4.6/5 rating), and a recent partnership with CFIB (Canadian Federation of Independent Business, representing 97,000+ members).
Partial, Freightcom holds shipping history, carrier rate data, invoices, tracking information, and customer account data behind its login. However, nearly all of this data is accessible via their comprehensive public API.
~16 years old, founded 2010. Freightcom has a modern, actively maintained tech stack. They recently launched Freightcom 2.0 with an updated platform.
No specific API complaints found in public forums; the API appears well-maintained and documented. The API uses polling for long-running requests (202 Accepted) which may add complexity for integrators. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include eShipper, Freightera, Machool, ShipVista, Secureship, Freight Club. Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
Grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? We check six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and roll them into a letter grade. Grades get re-verified, and they only move on evidence.