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Useful information about our APIs

What you need to know if you are a Dachser customer or service provider

You are a Dachser customer:
  • You need to know your Dachser customer number to be able to use our APIs in production and to test the transportorder API. If you do not know your customer number, please contact your local Dachser branch.
You are a service provider:
  • To use our APIs in production or to test the transportorder API, you need to know the Dachser customer number of the customer you work for. If you don't know it, please contact your customer to get it.

Testing our APIs

Before using our APIs in production, you will need to test them. To do this, you will need to create a token in step 1 under Getting started. This token is valid for 10 days (240 hours). It will allow you to test any of the APIs in our test environment except for transportorder, this API requires our intervention to allow you to test it. To test this API, select it in step 2 in Getting started and select test.

Go to productive use

Once you have completed your tests, you are ready to go live. To do this, go to Getting started and follow step 2. You must now create a login before you can proceed to apply for a production key (X‑API‑Key). Please have your Dachser customer number ready, which is required for this step.

Once the request has been sent, it must always be confirmed by Dachser. Only then can you start using our APIs productively.

X‑API‑Key

You can use your X‑API‑Key to request productive APIs as well as a test subscription for the transportorder API. The X‑API‑Key is created the first time you request APIs and is customer specific. Please keep it confidential. You can use your X‑API‑Key to request additional APIs in the future. You can view your X‑API‑Key under My Subscriptions.

API Customer

To manage APIs for several customers, you can create different API customers. When requesting new APIs, select the API client for which you want to request a new subscription. You can also sort by API customers in the My Subscriptions section.