API

API Introduction

Skip the tedious manual delivery logging.

What is an API?

An API (Application Programming Interface) is a set of rules and protocols that allows different software applications to communicate and exchange data with each other. It acts as a messenger, enabling automated interactions between services without manual intervention.

Why use an API?

Traditional services offer an interface for you to log in delivery orders — at some point during your day, you or one of your employees would open up your outbound deliveries and copy them, one by one, on this interface. This works, but has several drawbacks:

  1. Slow, inconsistent feedback for the client.
    Since the employee logging the deliveries can't do so as soon as one is received, the client doesn't instantly get a tracking link for his order.
  2. Error risks Manual logging comes with the natural error of incorrectly rewriting or copying an address or other details.
  3. Requires labour Manually logging your deliveries to your delivering service requires you to make a task of it — eventually eating up hours a week.

Logis offers a solution to automate this process and thus avoid these disadvantages — an API.

How does it work?

Your existing client-facing software probably already categorizes and knows which orders are deliveries. Once an order is flagged for delivery, all that's left, programtically, is to structure and pass the relevant information to the delivery service.

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