{"id":"903a736a-6b57-4b50-bd19-b87821fe02f2","task":"Upload trade documents (commercial invoice, certificate of origin, export license, etc.) for a UPS international shipment using the Paperless Documents API","domain":"developer.ups.com","steps":["Generate the required document (commercial invoice, certificate of origin, authorization form, export license, etc.) as a supported file type and encode it per the API's upload requirements.","Call the Paperless Documents /upload endpoint with the document details — file name, file format, and document type code — to register the document with UPS and receive a document ID.","Alternatively, use the /image endpoint to upload a supporting document image tied to the shipment.","Associate the uploaded document ID(s) with your shipment identification number from your manifesting/shipment-creation call so UPS operations and customs can retrieve them together.","If a document was uploaded in error, call the /delete endpoint to remove it before the shipment is processed.","Confirm total attachments stay within UPS's per-shipment file limits before submission."],"gotchas":["Each shipment allows a maximum of 13 uploaded files, and each file is capped at 10 MB — batch or compress documents that exceed this.","The Paperless Documents API only registers/links documents; it does not replace the underlying international shipment creation call, and documents must be tied to a valid shipment identification number to be usable by customs.","Document type codes (commercial invoice, certificate of origin, export license, etc.) must match UPS's defined type list exactly, or the upload will be rejected or misclassified during customs processing."],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-10T07:42:12.208Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"verified","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/903a736a-6b57-4b50-bd19-b87821fe02f2"}