Managing Quotes
SortedPRO's Quotes API enables you to get delivery quotes for a consignment manually. This section explains the various ways in which you can get delivery quotes for a consignment, and how to generate and allocate consignments from a selected quote.
What Is a Quote In PRO?
In PRO, delivery quotes are generally used outside of a "regular" consignment allocation workflow, as a means of managing consignments that require manual intervention. For example, your customer service teams might want to get quotes for an expedited delivery on a consignment that was missed by a carrier and so did not meet its delivery promise.
PRO's Quotes API enables you to get delivery quotes for both as-yet uncreated and existing consignments. All Quotes endpoints return one or more Quote objects, of which each represents an offer for carriage of a consignment with a specific carrier service. Each quote can be uniquely identified by a {quoteReference}, which is used when selecting a quote via the Allocate With Quote endpoint.
Allocate With Quote
The Allocate With Quote endpoint is a key part of all PRO quotes workflows, enabling you to allocate a consignment to the carrier service returned in a particular quote. It is covered in the Allocation section of this site, as it is part of the Allocation API:
- For reference information on Allocate With Quote, see the API reference
- For a user guide on the Allocate With Quote endpoint, see the Allocating to a Specific Quote page, in the Allocating Consignments section.
Section Contents
- Getting Quotes - Explains how to get delivery quotes without creating a new consignment.
- Getting Quotes for an Existing Consignment - Explains how to get delivery quotes for an existing consignment.
Note
All of the URLs and examples given in this documentation relate to PRO's live production environment. To call APIs in the sandbox environment, substitute the api.electioapp.com portion of the API's base URL with apisandbox.electioapp.com. Don't forget to use your sandbox API key (as opposed to your production API key) when making the call.
For more information on PRO's sandbox, see Using the Sandbox Environment.