🔌 Public API: Latest Updates

Our Public API is updated continuously. Here’s a roundup of recent additions, improvements, and changes to review in your integrations.
📋 Create Custom Order Fulfillment Statuses
The new order_fulfillment_status_create
 mutation creates custom statuses for your account. 3PLs can also create statuses for customers using customer_account_id
.
Docs: Request and response examples
🏷️ Create LPNs With Your Own Barcodes
The license_plate_numbers_create
 mutation now accepts an optional barcodes
 list.
Provide one barcode per LPN, matching the requested quantity
. Omit the list to keep automatic barcode generation.
Docs: Create License Plate Numbers
🧩 More Product Controls
Ships Alone:
 Read and update must_ship_alone
 to control whether a product ships separately.
Query by product IDs:
 Use the new ids
 filter on products
 to retrieve a specific list of products.
Docs: Update products · Query products
📍 Identify Hospital Locations
The new Location.is_hospital
 field shows whether a location is currently flagged for an inventory investigation.
Read it in location lookups, location lists, item locations, and tote-pick location details.
Docs: Hospital Locations
⚙️ More Warehouse Workflow Support
Complete work orders:
 Use work_order_complete
 to complete custom and assembly work orders. Assembly orders require all units created and a receiving location set.
Delete shipping containers:
 Use the new shipping_container_delete
 mutation.
Inbound shipment statuses:
InboundShipmentStatus
 now includes QC_ON_HOLD
 and REJECTED
.
Docs: Work Order Complete · Public API Changelog · Inbound Shipment Status
⚠️ Inventory Updates Require a Location or LPN
When adding, removing, or replacing inventory, provide location_id
 or lpn_id
.
Requests without either value are now rejected. Review integrations that previously submitted inventory changes using only a SKU and warehouse.
Docs: Update Inventory Input · Replace Inventory Input
📊 Data Exports for Every Customer
Every account now has access to weekly full exports and deltas every six hours. The paid tier includes daily full exports and deltas every 30 minutes.
Docs: Data Exports Guide
📖 Updated Developer Resources
Updated Public API Skill
 package for AI-assisted analysis and integration development.
Expanded Getting Started
 guidance covering credit usage, estimated versus final query cost, rate limits, and pagination.
Docs: Public API Skill · Getting Started
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