Yodel Out of Home Guide

Yodel Out of Home offers domestic shipping services, including Pickup/Dropoff (PUDO) services, for shipments originating in Great Britain.

This guide provides developers an overview of shipping services that Yodel Out of Home offers and the service codes that you will use to create Yodel Out of Home shipments.

Connect Your Account

ShipEngine API allows you to connect your Yodel Out of Home account programmatically without logging in to the ShipEngine API dashboard. This is useful if you have wrapped a custom UI around the ShipEngine API toolset and want to add or disconnect existing carrier accounts without exposing your end users to the API dashboard.

These APIs can be used in parallel with the ShipEngine Partner APIs to programmatically create new ShipEngine users, and then connect existing Yodel Out of Home accounts all via the API without logging into a dashboard. Together these APIs empower you to completely white-label the ShipEngine experience for your end users.

Continue below for instructions on how to programatically connect Yodel Out of Home using the ShipEngine API.

For instructions on connecting Yodel Out of Home via the ShipEngine dashboard, go to our Yodel Out of Home help article.

Yodel Out of Home Account Information Model

Example

POST /v1/connections/carriers/yodel_collect_plus_c2c

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POST /v1/connections/carriers/yodel_collect_plus_c2c HTTP/1.1
Host: api.shipengine.com
API-Key: __YOUR_API_KEY_HERE__
Content-Type: application/json
{
  "client_id": "ID1234"
  "client_password": "123456789",
  "api_key": "abcxyz123456",
  "client_name": "Example Corp.",
}

Example Response

Your account will now appear in your carriers list with an assigned carrier_id that you will specify when creating Yodel Out of Home shipments.

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{
  "carrier-id": "se-1234567"
}

Yodel Out of Home Service Details

Yodel Out of Home provides both domestic Pickup/Dropoff (PUDO) services as well as domestic non-PUDO services.

PUDO Services

Non-PUDO Services

Package Types

Return Services

Return services are not supported for this carrier.

Shipping to Northern Ireland

Yodel Out of Home assumes all shipments are C2C (consumer to consumer) shipments, as defined by the Windsor Framework. No additional data is required by Yodel Out of Home for shipments destined for Northern Ireland. Yodel will add a default contents description to all parcels destined for Northern Ireland.

Additional Carrier Details

You are now ready to create shipments using Yodel Out of Home via ShipEngine!