Advanced Label Features

Intelligent Shipping Rules

If you are unable to select different carriers or carrier services based on specific criteria within your own system, Seven Senders offers Intelligent Shipping Rules to automate this decision-making process.

These rules allow you to configure logic in the backend that automatically selects the correct carrier service based on parameters you transmit — such as weight, ZIP code, or other shipment attributes.

ZIP-code based routing: You want to use Carrier A & Carrier-Service B for certain zip code regions, and Carrier B & Carrier Service C for other regions.

Peak-season service upgrades: During peak times, you want to automatically upgrade to the carrier’s premium service to maintain SLA performance. After the peak period, the rule switches back to the standard service — without requiring changes in your system or data transfer.

Weight-dependent service selection: Depending on shipment weight, you need to use different carrier services, but cannot implement this logic in your own infrastructure.

With Intelligent Shipping Rules, these and many other routing scenarios can be handled automatically. The carrier service selection is performed dynamically based on the parameters you send with each shipment.

How to Use Intelligent Shipping Rules

To use Intelligent Shipping Rules, the following steps are required during onboarding and configuration. These steps ensure that Seven Senders can automatically select the appropriate carrier service based on your requirements and shipment parameters.

Step-by-step process

1. Discuss your required rules
Talk to your Seven Senders integration contact to outline which Intelligent Shipping Rules should be implemented.

2. Backend configuration
Your Integration Contact will configure the corresponding rules in the backend — across multiple carriers and services as needed.

3. Receive your carrier_service_IDs
You will receive one or more carrier_service_IDs representing the different rulesets that were configured.

4. Use the dedicated autoselect-carrier in your POST Labels request
To use the Intelligent Shipping Rules, submit the following values in the request fields carrier.name and carrier.countryin the POST Labels Request:

{
  "carrier": {
    "name": "7sendersauto",
    "country": "DE"
  }
}

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Why are multiple carrier_service_ids needed for Intelligent Shipping Rules ?

It is possible to work with one single carrier-service-ID if your request parameters allow Seven Senders to internally route between different carrier services.

If your request does not contain enough information to distinguish between routing options (e.g., premium vs. standard service), you will need to use multiple carrier-service-IDs.