SMKlog Parcel Shipping Rates

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• get_parcel_quote

  Live shipping rates for one parcel sent from a US origin — inside the US, or to Canada, the UK, Germany or Australia — across USPS, UPS and FedEx, and DHL Express on the German and Australian lanes. Describe the item in plain words and the packed box size and weight are estimated. Give exact dimensions and weight to skip the estimate. Returns up to five purchasable services, each as one checkout total with the SMKlog fee inside it (the fee is itemized only on the checkout receipt) and, where the carrier publishes one, its own counter price for the same parcel beside it. Not every request is priced. A shipment past parcel limits or described as a pallet or freight load returns mode not_a_parcel with no rates: SMKlog does not arrange pallet or freight shipments. More than one box returns mode multiple_boxes with no rates: one label per box, so quote each box with quantity 1. Shipping labels are bought on smklog.com, not through this tool. Choosing between the tools: use this one to ans

• create_checkout_link

  Turns a decided shipment into a payment session for buying its shipping label: the checkout amount and a handoff URL that opens SMKlog checkout prefilled with the parcel. Use it after get_parcel_quote, passing the quote_id that call returned, so the price is reused and no second carrier call is spent. Without a quote_id it prices the shipment live from the fields. The result carries a session_id: keep it, and get_checkout_status tells you when the human has paid and when the label exists. Side effects: it writes a session record (30-day life, readable through get_checkout_status) and is not idempotent. Calling it twice makes two sessions and, without a quote_id, spends two carrier calls. It never charges: no card is touched and nothing is reserved until the human confirms the contents certification and the carrier-adjustment consent on the page and pays there. A stale link simply reprices. No session is returned when the shipment cannot be sold online: not a parcel (SMKlog does not a

• track_parcel

  Track a shipment whose shipping label was bought on smklog.com, by carrier tracking number. Returns the current delivery status, the latest scan events and the estimated delivery date when the carrier reports one. Works for SMKlog labels only — it is not a universal tracker for arbitrary USPS, UPS, FedEx or DHL numbers, so a number from any other seller comes back not-found rather than as a status. Unrelated to the two pricing tools: it neither quotes nor spends quote allowance. Parameter rules: tracking_number is the only key; no order id or email is needed or accepted. When the label was bought through a create_checkout_link session, get_checkout_status hands back this number at label_ready. It is matched after removing spaces and hyphens and ignoring case, so a pasted or spoken number works as-is. Expect USPS as 20 to 22 digits (13 characters ending in US for international), UPS as 1Z plus 16 characters, FedEx as 12 to 22 digits; anything shorter than 6 characters after cleanup is r

• get_price_index

  The SMKlog parcel shipping price index: a monthly repriced basket of six common boxes (1 to 20 lb) shipped from Newark, NJ to five US cities, quoted through the same live USPS, UPS and FedEx pipeline that prices real shipments. Returns the cheapest purchasable service per box and lane with every rate behind it, plus basket averages. Reference data for questions like "what does shipping a shoebox cost in the US right now" — reading it spends no quote allowance. For a price on a specific shipment, call get_parcel_quote instead. Parameter rules: month names one published issue as YYYY-MM; issues exist from 2026-07 onward, one per month, and omitting month returns the newest. A month with no issue answers issue_not_found together with available_months, so one miss lists every valid value; anything not shaped YYYY-MM answers invalid_month. Every issue prices the same boxes and lanes, so two months compare cell for cell.

• get_checkout_status

  Reports where a payment session made by create_checkout_link stands: whether the human has opened checkout, paid, and whether the shipping label exists yet, with the tracking number once it does. Reads SMKlog's own order records only: no carrier call, no quote allowance, nothing changes. Poll it after handing the human the link, minutes apart rather than seconds, because nothing moves until the human acts. Statuses, in order: awaiting_checkout (link made, no checkout started), checkout_started (a checkout exists, not paid), paid (paid, label not created yet: the checkout page buys it right after payment, otherwise an operator picks it up), label_ready (label bought, tracking_number present), delivered, refunded. Once label_ready, feed tracking_number to track_parcel for scan events. Parameter rules: - session_id is the session_id returned by create_checkout_link, shaped as_ plus a UUID. Nothing else identifies a session: no order id, no email, no quote_id. - A session lives 30 days f