Using ShipStation Carriers in a Sub Account

ShipStation Carriers are carriers that are automatically available to ShipStation API accounts based in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, and Germany. These carriers have pre-negotiate contracts providing services that your partner sub-accounts can start shipping with in just a few minutes.

Activate ShipStation Carriers

Before the sub-account can start shipping with services from ShipStation Carriers, the sub-account must first activate ShipStation Carriers during their onboarding process. “Activating” simply requires adding the payment method that will be used to purchase the labels and agreeing to the carriers’ terms and conditions.

Adding Funds

During or after onboarding, the sub-account must also add funds to their account balance. Once the sub-account has activated ShipStation Carriers and added funds to their balance, they can start purchasing labels for these services.

Available Carriers

The carriers available to any sub-account will depend on the origin_country_code set for the account when it’s created. For example, accounts with origin_country_code set to GB will only have access to the UK ShipStation carriers.

Supporting Your Sub-Accounts

To support your sub-accounts using ShipStation Carriers, you need to be able to capture all the required data for the endpoints your sub-accounts will be using with the carriers they ship with and send that data via the ShipStation API.