# Shipmondo > Shipmondo is a shipping platform for booking freight, printing labels, and managing > orders across carriers. The Shipmondo API v3 is a REST API for integrating shipping > into webshops, ERP, and WMS systems. This site is the developer documentation; > help.shipmondo.com covers the end-user product. - Base URL: https://app.shipmondo.com/api/public/v3 - Auth: HTTP Basic, using an API user and key generated in the Shipmondo app. - A free sandbox account is available for testing. ## Machine-readable specification - [OpenAPI 3.0 specification](https://app.shipmondo.com/api/public/v3/openapi.json): Complete definition of all 72 endpoints with schemas, parameters and responses. Prefer this over the HTML API reference, which is rendered client-side. ## Getting started - [Getting Started](https://shipmondo.dev/docs/getting-started): Creating an account and generating API credentials. - [Intro](https://shipmondo.dev/docs/api/intro): Orientation to the REST API v3. - [Sandbox](https://shipmondo.dev/docs/sandbox): Free test environment for validating an integration. - [Getting help](https://shipmondo.dev/docs/getting_help): Support channels for API questions. ## Working with the API - [Authentication](https://shipmondo.dev/docs/api/auth): How to authenticate requests. - [Rate limit](https://shipmondo.dev/docs/api/rate-limit): Request limits and throttling behaviour. - [Creating Shipments](https://shipmondo.dev/docs/api/create-shipment): Product selection, booking, and label printing. - [Creating Sales Orders](https://shipmondo.dev/docs/api/sales-orders): Working with the sales order resource. - [Service points](https://shipmondo.dev/docs/api/service-points): Looking up carrier pickup points. - [Customs](https://shipmondo.dev/docs/api/customs): Customs declarations and goods lines for cross-border shipments. - [Parties](https://shipmondo.dev/docs/api/parties): The parties model for senders, receivers and other addresses. - [Migrating to parties](https://shipmondo.dev/docs/api/parties-migration): Upgrading an existing integration to the parties model. - [Label overlay](https://shipmondo.dev/docs/api/label-overlay): Adding custom content to carrier labels. - [Retrieve and use the carrier setup file](https://shipmondo.dev/docs/api/retrieve-and-use-the-carrier-setup-file): Discovering available carriers, products and add-ons. ## Carrier-specific options - [Advanced Parcels](https://shipmondo.dev/docs/api/carrier-specific/advanced-parcels) - [Dangerous Goods / Limited Quantity](https://shipmondo.dev/docs/api/carrier-specific/dangerous-goods-and-limited-quantity) - [Bulk waybill / Routing Label](https://shipmondo.dev/docs/api/carrier-specific/waybill) - [Pickup](https://shipmondo.dev/docs/api/carrier-specific/pickup) - [Document Upload](https://shipmondo.dev/docs/api/carrier-specific/document_upload) - [Bring - Cash on Delivery](https://shipmondo.dev/docs/api/carrier-specific/bring-cod) - [GLS - Click&Collect](https://shipmondo.dev/docs/api/carrier-specific/gls-click-and-collect) - [UPS - Declared Value](https://shipmondo.dev/docs/api/carrier-specific/declared-value-ups) ## Webhooks - [Intro](https://shipmondo.dev/docs/webhooks/intro): What webhooks are used for. - [Requirements and structure](https://shipmondo.dev/docs/webhooks/requirements-and-structure): Endpoint requirements and payload format. - [Resources and actions](https://shipmondo.dev/docs/webhooks/resources-and-actions): Which resources emit which events. ## Delivery checkout (shipping module) - [Introduction](https://shipmondo.dev/docs/shipping_module/intro): Embedding pickup point selection in a custom checkout. - [Authentication](https://shipmondo.dev/docs/shipping_module/authentication): Authenticating the shipping module. - [Listing service points](https://shipmondo.dev/docs/shipping_module/listing_service_points): Querying nearby pickup points. ## Printing - [Print Client](https://shipmondo.dev/docs/print-client): Local client for sending labels to a printer. ## Optional - [Changelog](https://shipmondo.dev/changelog): API updates, new endpoints and deprecation notices. - [Interactive API Reference](https://shipmondo.dev/api-reference): Browser viewer for the spec above. Client-rendered, so not useful to fetch directly.