1. Inventory
  2. Manifests

Inventory

Manifests

Before you create manifests, you'll want to set up locations in your dashboard so that you'll be able to add manifests to a certain location.

Create Manifest

POST
`/v1/manifests`

To create a manifest, you only need to include the location_id and specify the inventory items that you want to add.

Example

js
        const data = {
  location_id: "loc_afnHMjVUn3gnrvxU5zMvkX",
  inventory: [
    {
      id: "item_pu8iNbturZy5zvB4zaUZ8t", //Create by ID
      manifested_qty: 50,
    },
    {
      sku: "DRC123", //Create by SKU. If SKU doesn't exist we'll create one
      manifested_qty: 50,
    },
    {
      gtin: "123456789", //Create by GTIN.
      manifested_qty: 50,
    },
    {
      name: "Dispatch Roasters Coffee (3lb Bag)", //Will create a new item
      manifested_qty: 50,
    },
  ],
};

const response = await fetch("https://api.packagex.io/v1/manifests", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "PX-API-KEY": process.env.PX_API_KEY,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify(data),
}).then((res) => res.json());

const manifest = response.data;

      

Update Manifest

POST
`/v1/manifests/:manifest`

Before you can update a manifest, you'll need to update its status to accepted. The reason this exists is because manifests can be created (with your permission) by third parties. Therefore, it's best that you accept them, and understand that there could be inventory items that will get created.

If you do not wish to proceed with the manifest, you can update the status to void instead.

Accept Manifest

js
        const data = {
  status: "accepted",
};

const response = await fetch(`https://api.packagex.io/v1/manifests/${manifest.id}`, {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "PX-API-KEY": process.env.PX_API_KEY,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify(data),
}).then((res) => res.json());

const manifest = response.data;

      

Verify Inventory

When verifying inventory for a manifest, we want to determine what is in good condition, bad condition, and what is missing. We do so by incrementing the verified_qty and damaged_qty properties on each inventory item within the manifest.

js
        const data = {
  inventory: [
    {
      id: "item_pu8iNbturZy5zvB4zaUZ8t",
      verified_qty: 1,
      damaged_qty: 1,
    },
    {
      id: "item_r3CnfTDe66HPNPZid2WVrr",
      verified_qty: 10,
      damaged_qty: -1, //Remove one in case of a mistake, maybe like an undo button on the front end scanner app
    },
    {
      id: "item_ubo3miFdD9v45ZZkhtY7Us",
      verified_qty: [0], //Reset the value to zero, perhaps to start over
      damaged_qty: [0],
    },
  ],
};

const response = await fetch(`https://api.packagex.io/v1/manifests/${manifests.id}`, {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "PX-API-KEY": process.env.PX_API_KEY,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify(body),
}).then((res) => res.json());

const manifest = response.data;

      

Adding to Inventory

When all items have been verified -- and even if some items are missing -- you are able to update the status of the manifest to 'completed'. Once this happens, all of the inventory items that are referenced in the manifest will automatically have their verified_qty and damaged_qty properties updated.

js
        const data = {
  status: "completed",
};

const response = await fetch(`https://api.packagex.io/v1/manifests/${manifest.id}`, {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "PX-API-KEY": process.env.PX_API_KEY,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify(data),
}).then((res) => res.json());

const manifest = response.data;

      

Retrieve Manifest

GET
`/v1/manifests/:manifest`

Get a single manifest using its id.

js
        const response = await fetch("https://api.packagex.io/v1/manifests/mfst_czhgjrk5JaVvyATPDbyURp", {
  method: "GET",
  headers: {
    "PX-API-KEY": process.env.PX_API_KEY,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
}).then((res) => res.json());

const manifest = response.data;

      

List Manifests

Example

GET
`/v1/manifests`

When you want to retrieve multiple manifests, your data property on the result will always be an array even if you don't have any manifests.

js
        const response = await fetch("https://api.packagex.io/v1/manifests", {
  method: "GET",
  headers: {
    "PX-API-KEY": process.env.PX_API_KEY,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
}).then((res) => res.json());

const manifests = response.data; //the array of items
const pagination = response.pagination; //the pagination object

      

Pagination

If the has_more property on the pagination object is set to true, you know there are more manifests in the database that have not been returned to you. The pagination object also has a page property indicating your current offset and a limit property.

By default the page is set to 1 and the limit is 25.

If we want to query for items 26 - 50, we would request page 2 with a query parameter.

js
        const response = await fetch("https://api.packagex.io/v1/manifests?page=2&limit=25", {
  method: "GET",
  headers: {
    "PX-API-KEY": process.env.PX_API_KEY,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
}).then((res) => res.json());

const manifests = response.data; //the array of items 25 - 50
const pagination = response.pagination; //the pagination object

      

Filter

You can filter manifests by location_id, statuses

  • location_id - Add the ID of one of your locations to get all of the deliveries currently mapped to that location. For example: location_id=loc_czhgjrk5JaVvyATPDbyURp
  • statuses - A comma separated list of manifest statuses. Keep in mind comma's in URLs are encoded as %2C, so we recommend using your platforms native URL encoding library. For example: statuses=processing,completed
js
        const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.packagex.io/v1/manifests?location=loc_hj7gjrk5JaVvyATPDbyURp&statuses=processing%2Ccompleted",
  {
    method: "GET",
    headers: {
      "PX-API-KEY": process.env.PX_API_KEY,
      "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
  }
).then((res) => res.json());

const manifests = response.data;
const pagination = response.pagination;

      

Sorting

Sorting describes in what order you want your responses to come in. You can select an available property by which to sort, as well as the direction.

  • order_by - The property by which to sort. Available properties are: created_at
  • direction - The direction to sort. Available directions are: asc and desc

By default, manifests will be sorted by in descending order, meaning the most recently created will be first.

js
        const response = await fetch("https://api.packagex.io/v1/manifests?order_by=created_at&direction=desc", {
  method: "GET",
  headers: {
    "PX-API-KEY": process.env.PX_API_KEY,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
}).then((res) => res.json());

const manifests = response.data;
const pagination = response.pagination;

      

There are times when filtering is not enough and you want to find a specific manifest by some other attribute. In this case, you can do a fuzzy, typo-tolerant search. Below are the properties that are supported by our full text search.

Searchable Properties

  • order_number

To search, simply provide a string to search by using the search query param. The results will be order by the most relevant first. If you want to highlight matching search results for a frontend, we provide a special property for search-returned fulfillment objects called _search which will have the matched text surrounded with <mark> handles.

Relevance Score

If you want to show a relevance score on the search, you're able to pass the include_score query parameter and set its value to something truthy like "true" or 1. The reason the score requires a second property is that it could add up to 10ms of extra time to the request.

js
        const response = await fetch("https://api.packagex.io/v1/manifests?search=123&include_score=1", {
  method: "GET",
  headers: {
    "PX-API-KEY": process.env.PX_API_KEY,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
}).then((res) => res.json());

const manifest = response.data[0];