Get Shippit quotes, track and manage orders; create, label, book and cancel shipments on approval. Hosted by usefulapi — connect from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any MCP client.
Team and Enterprise: an Owner adds the connector for the organization first.
Run this command, then run /mcp in Claude Code to log in:
Add to Cursor or add this to ~/.cursor/mcp.json:
{
"mcpServers": {
"shippit": {
"url": "https://shippit.usefulapi.io/mcp"
}
}
}Add to VS Code or add this to .vscode/mcp.json:
{
"servers": {
"shippit": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://shippit.usefulapi.io/mcp"
}
}
}No Add custom MCP server option? It depends on your account or workspace settings: see OpenAI's guide.
Run these commands. The second one opens the login page:
Other MCP clients (Windsurf, Cline, Zed and more): add the URL as a remote MCP server (Streamable HTTP). The client then opens the login page in your browser. Do not add an Authorization header: see Before you connect.
The login page asks for your Shippit API key and Environment.
Log in to your Shippit account (app.shippit.com), make sure carriers are enabled and billing details added, and copy the API key (see Shippit developer guide). Choose Production unless your key is from a Shippit staging test account. Your key is used only to call the Shippit API on your behalf; it is never shown to anyone.
Add only the URL. Do not add an Authorization header or an API key to the client config. The server signs you in with OAuth: the login page asks for your Shippit API key and Environment. If the config has such a header, remove it: some clients then send that header instead of the login token, and every call fails with 401.
Turn on the Shippit connector, then ask in plain words. The AI picks the tools.
| Tool | Type | What it does |
|---|---|---|
shippit_get_merchant | read | Get merchant account The Shippit merchant account behind this API key: store and company name, contact, preparation time, website and the home (pickup) address with country. GET /merchant. |
shippit_get_operating_hours | read | Get store operating hours The store operating hours per weekday (open flag, start and end of the working day) that Shippit uses for pickup and delivery estimates. GET /merchants/settings/locations/operating_hours. |
shippit_list_webhooks | read | List webhooks The tracking webhooks configured on the account (at most 6): url, the order states that trigger each, whether address or receiver details are hidden, enabled flag. Custom header values are masked by Shippit. GET /merchants/webhooks. |
shippit_get_quotes | read | Get shipping quotes Ask the carriers enabled on the account for a price and delivery estimate to a destination, for given parcels. Nothing is booked and nothing is charged. Set return_all_quotes to see every carrier instead of only the cheapest or fastest. A 200 can hold per-carrier errors (success false) and a quote of 0 means that carrier cannot take the parcel. Dangerous goods cannot be quoted. POST /quotes. |
shippit_estimate_delivery_dates | read | Estimate delivery dates Estimated delivery window (earliest, latest, confidence and a ready-to-show text) per service level (standard, express) between two postcodes, optionally limited to some carriers. Returns an empty list if no carrier is enabled. POST /estimated_delivery_dates. |
shippit_get_order | read | Get order One Shippit order by tracking number: state, courier and price allocated, delivery address, receiver, parcels, products, references and (once booked) manifest id and number. There is no list-orders endpoint in the Shippit API. GET /orders/{tracking_number}. |
shippit_get_tracking | read | Get order tracking The status history of an order (status, date, time, who changed it) and the public tracking page URL to give the recipient. GET /orders/{tracking_number}/tracking. |
shippit_get_manifest_document | read | Get manifest document The booking manifest document for a manifest id (from shippit_book_orders or shippit_get_order): carrier, order count, tracking numbers and a pre-signed PDF URL valid for 7 days. A 422 means the manifest is still generating: retry shortly. GET /book/{manifest_id}/document. |
shippit_create_order | write | Create order WRITE: create a domestic shipping order in Shippit. Shippit then allocates a carrier (your account rules, or the carrier named in courier_allocation) and, unless suppress_communications is true, emails the recipient tracking notifications. Requires confirm: true. Standard, express and click-and-collect orders are only booked with the carrier later, by shippit_label_order and shippit_book_orders (priority and on-demand orders, which book inside the create request, are not supported here). validate defaults to true: the order is not saved when the suburb and postcode do not match (a suggested address is returned instead). Creating twice creates two orders. International orders (customs data) are not supported here. POST /orders. |
shippit_label_order | write | Label order WRITE: confirm an order for shipping and fetch its label. This is the Shippit 'label' step: it finalises the carrier and price (the order moves to Ready to Ship) and returns the carrier, tracking and consignment details plus pre-signed PDF URLs (valid 7 days) for the shipping label, packing slip and any customs documents. A 422 means the order is still processing or has no valid carrier or quote: retry shortly or read the error. Labelling is the step before shippit_book_orders. GET /orders/{tracking_number}/label. |
shippit_book_orders | write | Book orders with carriers WRITE: book labelled orders with their carriers for pickup (the Shippit 'book' step). Shippit returns one manifest per carrier; the carrier then collects and bills the parcels. Orders must have been labelled first (shippit_label_order). The call fails as a whole when a tracking number is unknown; otherwise each manifest reports success or an error per order. Booked orders can no longer be edited. Requires confirm: true. A reply where every manifest failed is an error. POST /book. |
shippit_cancel_order | write | Cancel order WRITE: cancel a Shippit order by tracking number (the order ends in state cancelled and cannot be revived; for some carriers Shippit also sends a cancellation request to the carrier). Shippit refuses with a 422 and the reason when the order can no longer be cancelled, for example once the carrier has it. Requires confirm: true. DELETE /orders/{tracking_number}. |
shippit_usage_status | Usage status (free-tier meter) Report the caller's current usage: the plan, calls used this month, the limit of the plan (the free monthly cap or the Pro fair use limit), remaining, and whether the limit is reached. Read-only; does not count against the meter. | |
shippit_request_feature | Request a missing feature Tell usefulapi that the user needs something the Shippit tools cannot do yet (a missing tool, field or filter). Call it only when the user asks for something none of the tools can do, and tell the user that you send the request. Do not call it for errors or for normal requests. Do not include personal data, credentials or customer records. Stored with the product name and the client type (for example Claude or Cursor), without the user's account. At most 5 requests per day. Does not count against the meter. | |
shippit_upgrade | Upgrade to Pro (unlimited*) Get Pro: unlimited tool calls (fair use limit: 10,000 a month) on Shippit (the free tier caps monthly usage). Plans: "monthly" — $9/month; "yearly" — $90/year (2 months free). Cancel any time: Pro then runs to the end of the paid period, so it also suits a one-time job. *A fair use limit applies. For heavy use (near Pro's limit): "plus" or "plus_yearly" — Pro+, $19/month or $190/year, unlimited tool calls (fair use limit: 100,000 a month); an existing Pro subscription changes to Pro+ in place (needs confirm: true; the price difference for the rest of the period is charged at once). Otherwise returns a short link to open in your browser (it opens Stripe Checkout); after payment the account upgrades automatically. Does not count against the meter. | |
shippit_cancel_subscription | Cancel the Pro subscription Cancel the caller's Shippit Pro subscription at the end of the paid period (no refund for the current period; Pro continues until then, then the free tier applies). Requires confirm: true. Run shippit_upgrade later to undo the cancel before the period ends. Does not count against the meter. |
| Plan | Price | Limit |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 50 tool calls / month |
| Proper user | $9/mo · $90/yr | Unlimited* |
*Pro fair use limit: 10,000 tool calls a month on this server. For more, write to [email protected].
Pro covers this Shippit server only. Subscribe with shippit_upgrade (it returns a Stripe Checkout link). Cancel any time with shippit_cancel_subscription: Pro continues to the end of the paid period, with no refund for the current period, and running shippit_upgrade before then undoes the cancel. Or write to [email protected].
No. usefulapi is an independent service. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Shippit. The server calls the Shippit API with your own Shippit access, so it sees only the data that your account can see.
Yes. In Claude, add this server's URL as a custom connector. In ChatGPT, add it as a custom MCP server in Plugins. Then log in once. Cursor, VS Code, Claude Code and Codex work too. See the setup steps.
The login page asks for your Shippit API key and Environment. See Before you connect for where to find them.
No. Add only the URL. Do not add an Authorization header or an API key to the client config. The server signs you in with OAuth: the login page asks for your Shippit API key and Environment. If the config has such a header, remove it: some clients then send that header instead of the login token, and every call fails with 401.
The login stores them encrypted in the authorization grant of your connection. The server uses them to call the Shippit API for you and to derive a private account id for usage metering. usefulapi does not show them on any page or in any reply. To stop all access, remove the connector and change or delete these credentials in Shippit.
Yes, if you approve it. 4 of the 12 Shippit tools can create or change data. The other 8 are marked read-only. Most MCP clients ask you to approve a tool call before it runs.
The Free plan gives 50 tool calls / month. Pro costs $9/mo or $90/yr, with unlimited tool calls (fair use limit: 10,000 tool calls a month), for this Shippit server only. Cancel any time: Pro then runs to the end of the paid period. Run shippit_usage_status to see how many calls you used.
Ask the AI to run shippit_upgrade: it returns a Stripe Checkout link. To cancel, run shippit_cancel_subscription. Pro continues to the end of the paid period.
Tell the AI what you wanted to do. It can send the request with shippit_request_feature. We store the text with the server name, the type of AI client and the tool you tried, not with your account, and read every request when we plan new tools. You can send up to 5 requests per day.
Any client that supports remote MCP servers (Streamable HTTP) with OAuth login: Claude (web and desktop), Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf and others.
This is a Model Context Protocol endpoint — meant to be connected from an AI client, not opened in a browser. An invalid_token response at the URL is the auth gate working as designed; clients authenticate automatically.