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The probe never requests a rate: it runs the provider's connectivity tester, which is credential-scoped
and takes no lane or parcel. It carries back no vendor response body and no credential material. A
candidate body is used for the probe and nothing else: it is never persisted, never logged, and never
echoed in the response.
Signed in, you can send this request to your own sandbox merchant from the console
and read the answer.
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Example request
Every block below sends the same request. Replace {{BASE_URL}} with the address of the API you are calling and {{API_KEY}} with your own key.
The request body is a MerchantShippingBinding. See the Request body section below for its fields.
Parameters
Name
In
Type
Description
idrequired
path
string (uuid)
The merchant id.
Values:Values combine: send one or more member names separated by a comma and a space, or the integer sum of their values. Responses carry the names.
providerNamerequired
path
string
The provider to probe.
Values:Values combine: send one or more member names separated by a comma and a space, or the integer sum of their values. Responses carry the names.
suppressNullsrequired
query
boolean
If true, omit properties with null values.
Values:Values combine: send one or more member names separated by a comma and a space, or the integer sum of their values. Responses carry the names.
Request body
application/json, required
Field
Type
Description
providerNamerequired
string
Which shipping provider this entry binds the merchant to, by the provider's registered name. Compared
case-insensitively. A null or blank provider is treated as no binding at all, so an incompletely
boarded row cannot silently become a live selection.
Required: When IsEnabled is true.nullablemax length 64
Values:Values combine: send one or more member names separated by a comma and a space, or the integer sum of their values. Responses carry the names.
isEnabledrequired
boolean
Master enable flag for this provider on this merchant. When `false` or null, the selector must
not return this binding even though the row exists.nullable
Values:Values combine: send one or more member names separated by a comma and a space, or the integer sum of their values. Responses carry the names.
Whose provider account the quotes are billed to. Null reads as
`Gateway`.nullable
Values:Values combine: send one or more member names separated by a comma and a space, or the integer sum of their values. Responses carry the names.
Gateway
The gateway's own provider account. The binding stores no credential of its own: the values are filled in at read time from the host-scoped provider settings, and the merchant surfaces never carry them. This is what a null credential source reads as, which is the safe default: a half-completed row cannot accidentally claim to hold the merchant's own contract.
Merchant
The merchant's own provider account. The binding carries the credentials, with every secret value held as ciphertext and stripped on any read that leaves the server.
The provider-declared configuration values for this merchant, keyed by the setting names the provider
declares. For a provider whose gateway credentials are platform-wide settings, the keys are those same
setting names, so one name identifies a credential whoever holds it.
<b>Secret values are stored encrypted</b> and are stripped, not decrypted, on every read that leaves the
server: the admin UI and the API both see null and re-send a secret only when the operator changes it.
Only the server-side call to the provider ever uses the plaintext.
Empty for a `Gateway` binding, whose values are filled in at read
time from the host-scoped provider settings instead. A gateway-sourced row that carried values would be
a copy of the gateway's token living on a merchant document.
Conditional: When FieldValues is not null.nullable
Values:Values combine: send one or more member names separated by a comma and a space, or the integer sum of their values. Responses carry the names.
Fields of each ShippingBindingFieldValue:
Field
Type
Description
keyrequired
string
The provider setting name this value belongs to, matching a setting field definition the provider's
contributor declares. Compared case-insensitively.nullable
Values:Values combine: send one or more member names separated by a comma and a space, or the integer sum of their values. Responses carry the names.
valuerequired
string
The configured value. Ciphertext at rest whenever `isSecret` is `true`, and
`null` on every read that leaves the server.nullable
Values:Values combine: send one or more member names separated by a comma and a space, or the integer sum of their values. Responses carry the names.
isSecretrequired
boolean
Whether `value` is credential material, and so held encrypted and stripped on read.nullable
Values:Values combine: send one or more member names separated by a comma and a space, or the integer sum of their values. Responses carry the names.
isConfiguredrequired
boolean
Whether a secret value is stored, set on reads so an operator can tell a configured secret from an
empty one without the value ever being sent.nullable
Values:Values combine: send one or more member names separated by a comma and a space, or the integer sum of their values. Responses carry the names.
This body has no documented fields.
This request body has no documented fields.
Responses
Errors
A failed request returns the platform error envelope. The
error reference lists every value
error.code can carry and shows the four response shapes.