MacroPoint API
Descartes MacroPoint runs a REST-style tracking API with public doc portals and a Postman collection, exchanging XML payloads over HTTP Basic auth. Provisioning is not self-serve: an activations consultant issues credentials. The surface covers tracking sessions and carrier location updates.
Frequently asked questions
MacroPoint scores F on the API Report Card. Descartes MacroPoint runs a REST-style tracking API with public doc portals and a Postman collection, exchanging XML payloads over HTTP Basic auth. Provisioning is not self-serve: an activations consultant issues credentials. The surface covers tracking sessions and carrier location updates.
Without a usable official API, teams fall back on manual exports, file drops, or one-off vendor integrations. The other option is an unofficial API layer like Supergood that automates the authenticated web app directly. Site terms may apply to any integration approach, and how they apply is a determination each team makes for itself.
MacroPoint, formally Descartes MacroPoint, is a real-time transportation visibility platform that aggregates GPS, ELD, telematics, mobile-phone, and TMS location data from hundreds of carrier-side systems and normalizes it into a single tracking feed for shippers, freight brokers, and 3PLs.
Primary vertical: Fleet / Trucking / Logistics, specifically the real-time transportation visibility (RTTVP) and freight brokerage segment. A freight broker books a load in their TMS (e.g., McLeod LoadMaster), which auto-pushes the shipment and assigned carrier MC number to MacroPoint via API.
Very high.
MacroPoint is the system of record for in-transit shipment location and event status for a large share of North American brokered freight.
MacroPoint was founded in 2011, acquired by Descartes Systems Group in 2017 for ~$107M, and has since been folded into Descartes' broader logistics platform.
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.
Yes, via a managed API layer. Supergood builds REST APIs and MCP servers for authenticated enterprise web apps, so AI agents and internal tools can read and write data programmatically.