Pull from EasyPost

How to authenticate

EasyPost uses Basic Authentication with your API key as the username (no password required). To connect EasyPost to Parabola:

1. Get your API key from EasyPost:
   
   • Log in to your EasyPost account and navigate to Account Settings > API Keys.
   • Click the Add Additional API Key button. You'll see both Test and Production API keys.
   • Copy your API key: Production to use with live data, or Test for testing purposes.
2. Connect in Parabola:
   
   • In your flow, add a Pull from EasyPost step.
   • Click Authorize and paste your EasyPost API key when prompted.
   • Leave the password field blank; EasyPost only requires the API key as the username.

Parabola will securely store your credentials and use them to authenticate each request to EasyPost.

Available data

Using the EasyPost integration in Parabola, you can bring in:

• Addresses: Full address details including name, company, street address, city, state, ZIP code, country, phone, email, and residential/commercial classification. Filter by address ID or retrieve all addresses.
• Address verification results: Verified and corrected address data to ensure deliverability and reduce shipping errors.
• Trackers: Shipment tracking information including carrier name, tracking code, current status, estimated delivery date, and detailed tracking events with timestamps and locations.
• Shipment SmartRates: AI-powered transit time predictions across various percentiles for every rate associated with a shipment, helping you understand delivery reliability.
• Shipment SmartRate delivery dates: Estimated delivery dates based on a planned ship date, with carrier-specific rates, service levels, costs, and EasyPost's predicted delivery timing.
• Shipment SmartRate precision shipping: Suggested ship dates for each carrier and service level to meet a desired delivery date, including delivery confidence scores and estimated transit days.

Common use cases

• Optimize carrier selection by comparing SmartRate transit time predictions across percentiles to choose the most reliable service for time-sensitive shipments.
• Improve delivery accuracy by verifying customer addresses before shipment creation, reducing failed deliveries and carrier address correction fees.
• Monitor shipment performance by pulling tracker data to analyze on-time delivery rates, identify delayed shipments, and measure carrier performance across regions.
• Automate delivery date communication by retrieving precision shipping data to determine the best ship date for meeting customer delivery expectations.
• Audit shipping costs and service levels by combining EasyPost rate data with actual shipment outcomes to validate carrier pricing and identify cost-saving opportunities.
• Create proactive customer alerts by tracking shipment status changes and triggering notifications when packages are out for delivery or experiencing delays.

Tips for using Parabola with EasyPost

• Schedule your flow to run automatically based on your business needs: hourly for real-time tracking updates, or daily for delivery performance reporting.
• Use address verification early in your fulfillment workflow to catch invalid addresses before labels are printed, saving time and reducing shipping errors.
• Combine SmartRate data with your order management system to automatically select the most cost-effective service level that still meets delivery commitments.
• Filter by delivery confidence scores when using precision shipping data to identify rates that give you the highest probability of on-time delivery.
• Join tracker data with order records from platforms like Shopify or your warehouse management system to create unified shipment visibility dashboards.
• Set up alerts in Parabola to notify your team via Slack or email when shipments show exception statuses or delivery delays.
• Leverage percentile data from SmartRates to understand carrier reliability—higher percentiles (95th, 99th) show worst-case transit times, while lower percentiles (50th) show typical performance.
• Export reports to Google Sheets or your BI tool to share carrier performance metrics with stakeholders and track improvements over time.