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Getting Started

Create a workflow to Create Tracking with the AfterShip API. When you configure and deploy the workflow, it will run on Pipedream's servers 24x7 for free.

  1. Configure the Create Tracking action
    1. Connect your AfterShip account
    2. Configure Tracking Number
    3. Optional- Configure Slug
    4. Optional- Configure Title
    5. Optional- Configure SMSes
    6. Optional- Configure Emails
    7. Optional- Configure Customer Name
    8. Optional- Configure Order ID
    9. Optional- Configure Order ID Path
    10. Optional- Configure Custom Fields
    11. Optional- Configure Order Number
    12. Optional- Select a Language
    13. Optional- Configure Order Promised Delivery Date
    14. Optional- Select a Delivery Type
    15. Optional- Configure Pickup location
    16. Optional- Configure Pickup Note
    17. Optional- Configure Tracking Account Number
    18. Optional- Configure Tracking Key
    19. Optional- Configure Tracking Ship Date
    20. Optional- Configure Origin Country ISO3
    21. Optional- Configure Origin State
    22. Optional- Configure Origin City
    23. Optional- Configure Origin Postal Code
    24. Optional- Configure Origin Raw Location
    25. Optional- Configure Destination Country ISO3
    26. Optional- Configure Destination State
    27. Optional- Configure Destination City
    28. Optional- Configure Note
    29. Optional- Configure Order Date
    30. Optional- Configure Shipment Type
    31. Optional- Configure Shipment Tags
  2. Select a trigger to run your workflow on HTTP requests, schedules or app events
  3. Deploy the workflow
  4. Send a test event to validate your setup
  5. Turn on the trigger

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Details

This is a pre-built, source-available component from Pipedream's GitHub repo. The component is developed by Pipedream and the community, and verified and maintained by Pipedream.

To contribute an update to an existing component or create a new component, create a PR on GitHub. If you're new to Pipedream component development, you can start with quickstarts for trigger span and action development, and then review the component API reference.

Create Tracking on AfterShip
Description:Creates a tracking. [See the documentation](https://www.aftership.com/docs/api/4/trackings/post-trackings)
Version:0.1.0
Key:aftership-create-tracking

Code

import aftership from "../../aftership.app.mjs";
import { ConfigurationError } from "@pipedream/platform";
import common from "../common/common.mjs";

export default {
  ...common,
  key: "aftership-create-tracking",
  name: "Create Tracking",
  description: "Creates a tracking. [See the documentation](https://www.aftership.com/docs/api/4/trackings/post-trackings)",
  version: "0.1.0",
  type: "action",
  props: {
    aftership,
    trackingNumber: {
      propDefinition: [
        aftership,
        "trackingNumber",
      ],
    },
    ...common.props,
    shipmentTags: {
      propDefinition: [
        aftership,
        "shipmentTags",
      ],
    },
  },
  async run({ $ }) {
    if (this.trackingNumber.length < 4 || this.trackingNumber.length > 100) {
      throw new ConfigurationError("We only accept tracking numbers with length from 4 to 100");
    }
    const response = await this.aftership.createTracking({
      $,
      data: {
        tracking: this.getData(),
      },
    });

    $.export("$summary", `Successfully created tracking with ID ${response.data.tracking.id}`);
    return response;
  },
};

Configuration

This component may be configured based on the props defined in the component code. Pipedream automatically prompts for input values in the UI and CLI.
LabelPropTypeDescription
AfterShipaftershipappThis component uses the AfterShip app.
Tracking NumbertrackingNumberstring

The tracking number of the shipment.

Slugslugstring

The unique code of the courier. Get courier codes here.

Titletitlestring

By default this field shows the tracking_number, but you can customize it as you wish with any info (e.g. the order number).

SMSessmsesstring[]

The phone number(s) to receive sms notifications. Enter + andarea code before phone number. Accept either array or comma separated as input. Supports up to 3 phone numbers.

Emailsemailsstring[]

Email address(es) to receive email notifications. Accept either array or comma separated as input. Supports up to 3 email addresses.

Customer NamecustomerNamestring

Customer name of the tracking.

Order IDorderIdstring

A globally-unique identifier for the order.

Order ID PathorderIdPathstring

The URL for the order in your system or store.

Custom FieldscustomFieldsobject

Custom fields that accept an object with string field. In order to protect the privacy of your customers, do not include any personal data in custom fields.

Order NumberorderNumberstring

A unique, human-readable identifier for the order.

LanguagelanguagestringSelect a value from the drop down menu:{ "value": "ab", "label": "Abkhazian" }{ "value": "aa", "label": "Afar" }{ "value": "af", "label": "Afrikaans" }{ "value": "ak", "label": "Akan" }{ "value": "sq", "label": "Albanian" }{ "value": "am", "label": "Amharic" }{ "value": "ar", "label": "Arabic" }{ "value": "an", "label": "Aragonese" }{ "value": "hy", "label": "Armenian" }{ "value": "as", "label": "Assamese" }{ "value": "av", "label": "Avaric" }{ "value": "ae", "label": "Avestan" }{ "value": "ay", "label": "Aymara" }{ "value": "az", "label": "Azerbaijani" }{ "value": "bm", "label": "Bambara" }{ "value": "ba", "label": "Bashkir" }{ "value": "eu", "label": "Basque" }{ "value": "be", "label": "Belarusian" }{ "value": "bn", "label": "Bengali (Bangla)" }{ "value": "bh", "label": "Bihari" }{ "value": "bi", "label": "Bislama" }{ "value": "bs", "label": "Bosnian" }{ "value": "br", "label": "Breton" }{ "value": "bg", "label": "Bulgarian" }{ "value": "my", "label": "Burmese" }{ "value": "ca", "label": "Catalan" }{ "value": "ch", "label": "Chamorro" }{ "value": "ce", "label": "Chechen" }{ "value": "ny", "label": "Chichewa, Chewa, Nyanja" }{ "value": "zh", "label": "Chinese" }{ "value": "zh-Hans", "label": "Chinese (Simplified)" }{ "value": "zh-Hant", "label": "Chinese (Traditional)" }{ "value": "cv", "label": "Chuvash" }{ "value": "kw", "label": "Cornish" }{ "value": "co", "label": "Corsican" }{ "value": "cr", "label": "Cree" }{ "value": "hr", "label": "Croatian" }{ "value": "cs", "label": "Czech" }{ "value": "da", "label": "Danish" }{ "value": "dv", "label": "Divehi, Dhivehi, Maldivian" }{ "value": "nl", "label": "Dutch" }{ "value": "dz", "label": "Dzongkha" }{ "value": "en", "label": "English" }{ "value": "eo", "label": "Esperanto" }{ "value": "et", "label": "Estonian" }{ "value": "ee", "label": "Ewe" }{ "value": "fo", "label": "Faroese" }{ "value": "fj", "label": "Fijian" }{ "value": "fi", "label": "Finnish" }{ "value": "fr", "label": "French" }{ "value": "ff", "label": "Fula, Fulah, Pulaar, Pular" }{ "value": "gl", "label": "Galician" }{ "value": "gd", "label": "Gaelic (Scottish)" }{ "value": "gv", "label": "Gaelic (Manx), Manx" }{ "value": "ka", "label": "Georgian" }{ "value": "de", "label": "German" }{ "value": "el", "label": "Greek" }{ "value": "kl", "label": "Kalaallisut, Greenlandic" }{ "value": "gn", "label": "Guarani" }{ "value": "gu", "label": "Gujarati" }{ "value": "ht", "label": "Haitian Creole" }{ "value": "ha", "label": "Hausa" }{ "value": "he", "label": "Hebrew" }{ "value": "hz", "label": "Herero" }{ "value": "hi", "label": "Hindi" }{ "value": "ho", "label": "Hiri motu" }{ "value": "hu", "label": "Hungarian" }{ "value": "is", "label": "Icelandic" }{ "value": "io", "label": "Ido" }{ "value": "ig", "label": "Igbo" }{ "value": "id", "label": "Indonesian" }{ "value": "ia", "label": "Interlingua" }{ "value": "ie", "label": "Interlingue" }{ "value": "iu", "label": "Inuktitut" }{ "value": "ik", "label": "Inupiak" }{ "value": "ga", "label": "Irish" }{ "value": "it", "label": "Italian" }{ "value": "ja", "label": "Japanese" }{ "value": "jv", "label": "Javanese" }{ "value": "kn", "label": "Kannada" }{ "value": "kr", "label": "Kanuri" }{ "value": "ks", "label": "Kashmiri" }{ "value": "kk", "label": "Kazakh" }{ "value": "km", "label": "Khmer" }{ "value": "ki", "label": "Kikuyu" }{ "value": "rw", "label": "Kinyarwanda (Rwanda)" }{ "value": "rn", "label": "Kirundi" }{ "value": "ky", "label": "Kyrgyz" }{ "value": "kv", "label": "Komi" }{ "value": "kg", "label": "Kongo" }{ "value": "ko", "label": "Korean" }{ "value": "ku", "label": "Kurdish" }{ "value": "kj", "label": "Kwanyama" }{ "value": "lo", "label": "Lao" }{ "value": "la", "label": "Latin" }{ "value": "lv", "label": "Latvian (Lettish)" }{ "value": "li", "label": "Limburgish ( Limburger)" }{ "value": "ln", "label": "Lingala" }{ "value": "lt", "label": "Lithuanian" }{ "value": "lu", "label": "Luga-Katanga" }{ "value": "lg", "label": "Luganda, Ganda" }{ "value": "lb", "label": "Luxembourgish" }{ "value": "mk", "label": "Macedonian" }{ "value": "mg", "label": "Malagasy" }{ "value": "ms", "label": "Malay" }{ "value": "ml", "label": "Malayalam" }{ "value": "mt", "label": "Maltese" }{ "value": "mi", "label": "Maori" }{ "value": "mr", "label": "Marathi" }{ "value": "mh", "label": "Marshallese" }{ "value": "mn", "label": "Mongolian" }{ "value": "na", "label": "Nauru" }{ "value": "nv", "label": "Navajo" }{ "value": "ng", "label": "Ndonga" }{ "value": "nd", "label": "Northern Ndebele" }{ "value": "ne", "label": "Nepali" }{ "value": "no", "label": "Norwegian" }{ "value": "nb", "label": "Norwegian bokmål" }{ "value": "nn", "label": "Norwegian nynorsk" }{ "value": "ii", "label": "Nuosu, Sichuan Yi" }{ "value": "oc", "label": "Occitan" }{ "value": "oj", "label": "Ojibwe" }{ "value": "cu", "label": "Old Church Slavonic, Old Bulgarian" }{ "value": "or", "label": "Oriya" }{ "value": "om", "label": "Oromo (Afaan Oromo)" }{ "value": "os", "label": "Ossetian" }{ "value": "pi", "label": "Pāli" }{ "value": "ps", "label": "Pashto, Pushto" }{ "value": "fa", "label": "Persian (Farsi)" }{ "value": "pl", "label": "Polish" }{ "value": "pt", "label": "Portuguese" }{ "value": "pa", "label": "Punjabi (Eastern)" }{ "value": "qu", "label": "Quechua" }{ "value": "rm", "label": "Romansh" }{ "value": "ro", "label": "Romanian" }{ "value": "ru", "label": "Russian" }{ "value": "se", "label": "Sami" }{ "value": "sm", "label": "Samoan" }{ "value": "sg", "label": "Sango" }{ "value": "sa", "label": "Sanskrit" }{ "value": "sr", "label": "Serbian" }{ "value": "st", "label": "Sesotho" }{ "value": "tn", "label": "Setswana" }{ "value": "sn", "label": "Shona" }{ "value": "sd", "label": "Sindhi" }{ "value": "si", "label": "Sinhalese" }{ "value": "ss", "label": "Siswati, Swati" }{ "value": "sk", "label": "Slovak" }{ "value": "sl", "label": "Slovenian" }{ "value": "so", "label": "Somali" }{ "value": "nr", "label": "Southern Ndebele" }{ "value": "es", "label": "Spanish" }{ "value": "su", "label": "Sundanese" }{ "value": "sw", "label": "Swahili (Kiswahili)" }{ "value": "sv", "label": "Swedish" }{ "value": "tl", "label": "Tagalog" }{ "value": "ty", "label": "Tahitian" }{ "value": "tg", "label": "Tajik" }{ "value": "ta", "label": "Tamil" }{ "value": "tt", "label": "Tatar" }{ "value": "te", "label": "Telugu" }{ "value": "th", "label": "Thai" }{ "value": "bo", "label": "Tibetan" }{ "value": "ti", "label": "Tigrinya" }{ "value": "to", "label": "Tonga" }{ "value": "ts", "label": "Tsonga" }{ "value": "tr", "label": "Turkish" }{ "value": "tk", "label": "Turkmen" }{ "value": "tw", "label": "Twi" }{ "value": "ug", "label": "Uyghur" }{ "value": "uk", "label": "Ukrainian" }{ "value": "ur", "label": "Urdu" }{ "value": "uz", "label": "Uzbek" }{ "value": "ve", "label": "Venda" }{ "value": "vi", "label": "Vietnamese" }{ "value": "vo", "label": "Volapük" }{ "value": "wa", "label": "Wallon" }{ "value": "cy", "label": "Welsh" }{ "value": "wo", "label": "Wolof" }{ "value": "fy", "label": "Western Frisian" }{ "value": "xh", "label": "Xhosa" }{ "value": "yi", "label": "Yiddish" }{ "value": "yo", "label": "Yoruba" }{ "value": "za", "label": "Zhuang, Chuang" }{ "value": "zu", "label": "Zulu" }
Order Promised Delivery DateorderPromisedDeliveryDatestring

The promised delivery date of the order. It uses the format YYYY-MM-DD.

Delivery TypedeliveryTypestringSelect a value from the drop down menu:pickup_at_storepickup_at_courierdoor_to_door
Pickup locationpickupLocationstring

Shipment pickup location for receiver.

Pickup NotepickupNotestring

Shipment pickup note for receiver.

Tracking Account NumbertrackingAccountNumberstring

The shipper's carrier account number. Refer to this article on additional tracking fields for more details.

Tracking KeytrackingKeystring

A type of tracking credential required by some carriers. Refer to this article on additional tracking fields for more details.

Tracking Ship DatetrackingShipDatestring

The date the shipment was sent, using the format YYYYMMDD. Refer to this article on additional tracking fields for more details.

Origin Country ISO3originCountryIso3string

The ISO Alpha-3 code (3 letters) for the origin country/region. E.g. USA for the United States. This can help AfterShip with various functions like tracking, carrier auto-detection and auto-correction, calculating an EDD, etc.

Origin StateoriginStatestring

The state of the sender's address. This can help AfterShip with various functions like tracking, carrier auto-detection and auto-correction, calculating an EDD, etc.

Origin CityoriginCitystring

The city of the sender's address. This can help AfterShip with various functions like tracking, carrier auto-detection and auto-correction, calculating an EDD, etc.

Origin Postal CodeoriginPostalCodestring

The postal of the sender's address. This can help AfterShip with various functions like tracking, carrier auto-detection and auto-correction, calculating an EDD, etc.

Origin Raw LocationoriginRawLocationstring

The sender address that the shipment is shipping from. This can help AfterShip with various functions like tracking, carrier auto-detection and auto-correction, calculating an EDD, etc.

Destination Country ISO3destinationCountryIso3string

The ISO Alpha-3 code (3 letters) for the destination country/region. E.g. USA for the United States. This can help AfterShip with various functions like tracking, carrier auto-detection and auto-correction, calculating an EDD, etc.

Destination StatedestinationStatestring

The state of the recipient's address. This can help AfterShip with various functions like tracking, carrier auto-detection and auto-correction, calculating an EDD, etc.

Destination CitydestinationCitystring

The city of the recipient's address. This can help AfterShip with various functions like tracking, carrier auto-detection and auto-correction, calculating an EDD, etc.

Notenotestring

Text field for the note.

Order DateorderDatestring

Order date in YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ssZ format. e.g. 2021-07-26T11:23:51-05:00

Shipment TypeshipmentTypestring

The carrier service type for the shipment. If you provide info for this field, AfterShip will not update it with info from the carrier.

Shipment TagsshipmentTagsstring[]

Used to add tags to your shipments to help categorize and filter them easily. Max 50 items.

Authentication

AfterShip uses API keys for authentication. When you connect your AfterShip account, Pipedream securely stores the keys so you can easily authenticate to AfterShip APIs in both code and no-code steps.

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