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Pull from Flexport

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How to authenticate

1. Get credentials from Flexport: Ask your Flexport account administrators to enable API access. You’ll receive client credentials (Client ID and Client Secret) or an access token. Your administrator will:
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   Log into the Flexport Developer Portal at https://developers.flexport.com

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   Navigate to API Credentials

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   Click “Create Credentials”

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   Select the appropriate resources (endpoints) you need access to and enable them

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   Click “Create” to generate your credentials

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   Copy your Client ID and Client Secret
2. Add the Pull from Flexport step to your flow
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   In your Parabola flow, add a Pull from Flexport step.

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   Click Authorize, and then add expiring access token. Enter your Client ID and Client Secret when prompted. Parabola will automatically handle token exchange and renewal with this option; alternatively you can use a manual Bearer token.

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   Once authenticated, select the Flexport resource you want to pull (Shipments, Bookings, Invoices, etc).

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   Configure any filters such as date ranges, statuses, or specific identifiers.

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Available data

• Shipments: The core movement record, including key dates (ETD/ETA/actuals), milestones, buyers/consignees, related bookings, documents, customs entries, calculated weight/volume, dangerous goods, costs, and statuses.
• Bookings: Space reservations with carriers, including service details and requested dates. Includes associated Booking Line Items that describe booked goods and quantities.
• Shipment Containers (ocean): Container‑level details for ocean moves, including container numbers and attributes.
• Commercial Invoices: Commercial invoice headers and values associated to shipments or orders.
• Invoices: Flexport billing invoices you receive for logistics services and charges.
• Customs Entries: Declarations and entry details tied to shipments for brokerage and compliance.
• Documents: Files and metadata (e.g., BOL, packing list, invoice PDFs) attached to shipments and other records.
• Products: Catalog items, descriptions, and classification data used on documents and entries.
• Network – Companies, Company Entities, Contacts, Locations: Your trading partner graph (buyers, shippers, consignees), organizational entities, people, and addresses/locations.

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Common use cases

• Shipment tracking: 
  • Inbound freight visibility & tracking
  • ERP shipment reconciliation
  • Cross‑carrier consolidation
• Cost tracking: 
  • Cost reporting by carrier and/or lane
  • Centralized invoice database
  • Reconciling shipment costs with POs and quotes
• ISF monitoring and reporting: 
  • Master dashboard for tracking filing statuses
  • Alerts for missing or delayed filings
• Shipping milestone alerts: 
  • Slack or email alerts based on key milestone changes (e.g., ETA shifts, CPC departures)

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Tips for using Parabola with Flexport

• Use transformation steps such as Expand JSON to re-format data to match your other systems or reporting dashboards.
• Schedule your flow to run daily (or more frequently) so your operations team has current ETAs, milestones, and charges.
• Use incremental pulls: Store the last successful run time and filter on updated dates to avoid reprocessing historical data.
• Alert on exceptions: Add conditional steps to flag missing documents, large ETA deltas, or invoice variances and send Slack/email alerts.
• Document handling: Pull document metadata first, filter to the file types you need, then retrieve and archive files to your DMS with consistent naming.
• Map business keys: Keep a crosswalk of Flexport IDs (shipment, booking, container) to your ERP/warehouse references for reliable joins.