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To use Better Trucks as your preferred carrier, you must use your own account and share your account details with Shippo. This is useful if you have negotiated your own shipping discounts with your preferred carrier. You can still use all the supported Shippo features.

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Use your own carrier account

Follow this guide to add your Better Trucks account to Shippo. After adding your account, Shippo can use your account details for generating shipping rates and creating labels. This step requires you to have your Better Trucks account id and password.
Don’t already have a Better Trucks account? Contact our support team to help you get signed up.
This step should only be completed once. When you have created your carrier account, you can use the carrier object_id to reference your carrier.

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HTTP Method

POST

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URL

https://api.goshippo.com/carrier_accounts/

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Request Payload

ParameterDescription
carrier*better_trucks
account_id*A unique identifier for the account which cannot be changed later. Used only for internal purposes
parameters*parameters is an array of additional parameters for the account, such as password or token. Check Better Trucks parameters for more details
activeSet to true to enable account. Set to false to disable account.
testSet to true if you want to set the account in test mode. Using test mode you can generate test labels without incurring a charge
Note: Parameters with an * are mandatory

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Better Trucks Account Parameters

ParameterDescription
api_key*Key to access the API. A string value Better Trucks assigns to each client.
account_id*Key to access the API. A string value Better Trucks assigns to each client.

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Response Code

201

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Example

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Request Sample

cURL
curl --location --request POST 'https://api.goshippo.com/carrier_accounts/' \
--header 'Authorization: ShippoToken <API_TOKEN>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
   "carrier": "better_trucks",
   "account_id": "Better_truck_account",
   "parameters": {
       "api_key": "unique_api_key_should_be_here",
       "account_id": "unique_account_id_should_be_here"
   },
   "test": true,
   "active": true
}'

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Response Sample

 {
   "carrier": "better_trucks",
   "object_id": "a00414e75df144b596673979108bbab5",
   "object_owner": "nataliya_eng@shippo.com",
   "account_id": "Better_truck_account",
   "parameters": {
       "api_key": "******",
       "account_id": "UNIQUE_ACCOUNT_ID_HERE"
   },
   "test": false,
   "active": true,
   "is_shippo_account": false,
   "metadata": "",
   "carrier_name": "BetterTrucks",
   "carrier_images": {
       "200": "https://dev-qa-static-shippodev-com.s3.amazonaws.com/providers/200/bettertrucks.png",
       "75": "https://dev-qa-static-shippodev-com.s3.amazonaws.com/providers/75/bettertrucks.png"
   }
}
Once you have retrieved the object_id for your carrier, proceed to Step 2: Create shipment.