create a gls shopdelivery shipment routed to a parcelshop
domain: dev-portal.gls-group.net · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Get GLS ShipIT REST API credentials (login name/password) from your GLS Field IT / primary GLS contact — centrally hosted endpoint URLs are provided together with the credentials.
Authenticate every request with HTTP Basic auth: an Authorization header of 'Basic ' + Base64(login:password).
Call the ParcelShop search endpoint (rest/parcelshop) to look up nearby shops and obtain a ParcelShopID.
Build the shipment/label request including the standard consignee address plus the ParcelShopID and the ShopDeliveryService flag so GLS routes the parcel to the shop instead of the consignee's home address.
Submit via the shipment-processing endpoint to generate the label.
Known gotchas
The original consignee address is still required in the request even when ShopDeliveryService is set — GLS uses ParcelShopID to override the actual delivery point, not to replace the address block.
GLS exposes both a legacy on-prem 'ShipIT' REST/SOAP web service (per-installation URLs) and a newer dev-portal.gls-group.net API platform — confirm which one your account/contract is provisioned on before coding, since endpoint shapes differ.
Credentials and base URLs are issued per customer by GLS Field IT, not via self-service signup — there's no public sandbox key you can generate yourself.
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