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Poste Italiane is Italy's postal service, offering solutions for both small businesses and large enterprises. ShipEngine supports Poste Italiane's standard and express domestic delivery services.

Poste Italiane Integration Requirements

Connection Requirements:

  • An active account with Poste Italiane.

  • Your Poste Italiane Client ID, Secret ID, and Customer ID.

Connect Poste Italiane to ShipEngine

To connect your Poste Italiane account in the ShipEngine dashboard:

  1. Select Carriers under the Set-up section.

    Carriers section selected under ShipEngine Setup

  2. Click Connect My Own Carriers under the My Carrier Accounts section.

    Carriers Setup screen with Connect My Own Carriers button highlighted

  3. Select your Ship From country for this carrier.

    CONN_Carrier_SEL_Country.png

  4. Select the Poste Italiane tile from the Available Carriers pop-up window.

    Poste Italiane logo on square tile button that reads, "Connect".

  5. Enter your Poste Italiane Client ID, Secret ID, and Customer ID into the corresponding fields.

  6. Click the Connect button.

Available Features for Poste Italiane Integration

The ShipEngine integration with Poste Italiane supports the following standard features and services:

Key: Green checkmark. Supported feature. Yes. = Supported; Red X mark. Unsupported feature. No. = Not Supported; Grey dash icon. Not applicable. = Does Not Apply

Common ShipEngine Features

Feature

Supported?

Domestic Shipping

Green checkmark. Supported feature. Yes.

International Shipping

Green checkmark. Supported feature. Yes.

Electronic Customs Submission

Red X mark. Unsupported feature. No.

Return Labels

Green checkmark. Supported feature. Yes.

Estimated Rates

Red X mark. Unsupported feature. No.

Carrier Insurance

Red X mark. Unsupported feature. No.

Tracking

ICON_greencheck.png

End of Day (Electronic)

Grey dash icon. Not applicable.

End of Day (PDF)

Grey dash icon. Not applicable.

Label Branding

Red X mark. Unsupported feature. No.

Label Messages

Red X mark. Unsupported feature. No.

Multi-package Shipping

Green checkmark. Supported feature. Yes.

Multiple Accounts

Red X mark. Unsupported feature. No.

Poste Italiane Domestic Services

  • Standard Home Delivery

  • Standard Home Delivery Reverse

  • Express Home Delivery

  • Express Home Delivery Reverse

  • Standard Post Office

  • Standard Post Office Reverse

  • Express Post Office

  • Express Post Office Reverse

  • Standard Lockers

  • Standard Lockers Reverse

  • Express Lockers

  • Express Lockers Reverse

  • Standard Delivery Points

  • Standard Delivery Points Reverse

  • Express Delivery Points

  • Express Delivery Points Reverse

Poste Italiane International Services

  • Poste Delivery Business International Standard

Poste Italiane Package Types

  • Parcel

Additional Features for Poste Italiane

The ShipEngine integration with Poste Italiane allows for the following additional features:

Feature

Description

Paperless Label Support

You can request a paperless label download link instead of a label PDF when creating a label. Add the display_scheme property to your call with the value paperless or label_and_paperless. You can then email the paperless label to be used when dropping off the package with the carrier.

These Poste Italiane services offer paperless labels:

  • Poste Delivery Business Express Home Delivery

  • Poste Delivery Business Standard Home Delivery

  • Poste Delivery Business Express Delivery Points

  • Poste Delivery Business Standard Delivery Points

The carrier can be used to create domestic shipping labels.

The carrier can be used to create international shipping labels.

ShipEngine will submit international customs declarations electronically to the carrier.

The carrier can be used to create domestic return labels.

When an API call is made to the Rates endpoint, ShipEngine will return estimated shipping rates for the carrier based on the connected account information and shipment details.

Shipment insurance, provided by the shipment's selected carrier, can be added to the shipment in ShipEngine. This insurance would be in addition to any default coverage already provided by that carrier.

Shipping labels created for this carrier will include a tracking number that can be used to view the shipment status on the carrier's tracking website. Tracking may not be available for all shipping services.

Shipment manifests and End of Day documents are submitted electronically to the carrier by ShipEngine.

Shipment manifests and End of Day documents are generated as PDF files that can be printed along with shipping labels. Because these documents are not electronically submitted, physical copies must be provided to the carrier.

ShipEngine can print your brand logo on shipping labels from carriers that support this feature. Add your logo in the ShipEngine Dashboard.

ShipEngine can include additional information on a shipping label that is specified in the label request, if supported by the carrier.

This carrier can be used to create multi-package shipments, where multiple labels are created for a single shipment and the individual packages are linked together in a single shipment record with a master tracking number.

You can connect this carrier to ShipEngine multiple times using different accounts and choose which account will be used to create each shipment.

The carrier can be used to create domestic shipping labels.

The carrier can be used to create international shipping labels.

ShipEngine will submit international customs declarations electronically to the carrier.

The carrier can be used to create domestic return labels.

When an API call is made to the Rates endpoint, ShipEngine will return estimated shipping rates for the carrier based on the connected account information and shipment details.

Shipment insurance, provided by the shipment's selected carrier, can be added to the shipment in ShipEngine. This insurance would be in addition to any default coverage already provided by that carrier.

Shipping labels created for this carrier will include a tracking number that can be used to view the shipment status on the carrier's tracking website. Tracking may not be available for all shipping services.

Shipment manifests and End of Day documents are submitted electronically to the carrier by ShipEngine.

Shipment manifests and End of Day documents are generated as PDF files that can be printed along with shipping labels. Because these documents are not electronically submitted, physical copies must be provided to the carrier.

ShipEngine can print your brand logo on shipping labels from carriers that support this feature. Add your logo in the ShipEngine Dashboard.

ShipEngine can include additional information on a shipping label that is specified in the label request, if supported by the carrier.

This carrier can be used to create multi-package shipments, where multiple labels are created for a single shipment and the individual packages are linked together in a single shipment record with a master tracking number.

You can connect this carrier to ShipEngine multiple times using different accounts and choose which account will be used to create each shipment.

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