Introducing the first agentic shipping platform for developers: Shippo MCP

Developers everywhere are being asked to bring AI into their fulfillment and shipping workflows, often without clear requirements, enough logistics context, or the time to build full integrations.

Shippo MCP (Model Context Protocol) solves this. It’s available to start building with today.

Shippo MCP is the agentic shipping platform that enables AI agents like Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, or your platform’s own assistant to perform real shipping actions using natural language prompts. No logistics expertise, complex endpoint wiring, or full API integration needed. If your agent can send intent in natural language, MCP can translate it into the correct shipping action.

What Shippo MCP enables

Shippo MCP acts as the shipping function layer inside agentic commerce workflows. It gives your AI agent access to validated, production-ready shipping capabilities so you can build operational features without rewriting the shipping logic behind them.

Your agent interprets user intent.
MCP maps that intent to the right shipping action.
Shippo executes it through proven infrastructure and a decade of shipping data.

This makes it possible to build agentic shipping experiences with a fraction of the usual development effort.

Why Shippo MCP helps developers move faster

1. Prototype agentic shipping workflows without API integration

You can immediately test shipping actions through your AI agent.

• Create shipping labels
  
  
• Compare carrier rates
  
  
• Validate addresses
  
  
• Generate return labels
  
  
• Retrieve tracking updates
  
  
• Surface shipping insights

No payload formatting, no endpoint juggling.

2. Use natural language instead of strict API contracts

Your agent can pass an instruction like “Create a return label for this order.” MCP determines the correct action and runs it through Shippo.

3. Build without deep logistics expertise

Shipping workflows usually require deep familiarity with API endpoints, payloads, and sequencing. Shippo MCP abstracts that complexity.

You define the business rules (e.g., carriers, services, return logic) and MCP handles the API execution behind the scenes based on natural-language instructions from tools like Claude or Cursor.

You focus on what needs to happen, MCP handles how it happens.

4. Iterate and ship faster

MCP lets developers:

• prototype conversational shipping experiences
  
  
• automate returns flows
  
  
• embed agentic shipping inside platform chat surfaces or assistants
  
  
• surface shipping insights on demand through natural language

You move from concept to real workflows in minutes.

What you can build with Shippo MCP

Operational actions

• Generate domestic or international labels
  
  
• Validate addresses
  
  
• Compare rates
  
  
• Create return labels
  
  
• Retrieve customs documents

Shipping insights

• Delivery pattern summaries
  
  
• Carrier performance insights
  
  
• Cost distribution across lanes
  
  
• Missed delivery identification
  
  
• Weekly or monthly shipping summaries

Customer-support automations

• WISMO responses
  
  
• Proactive tracking updates
  
  
• Exception detection
  
  
• Ticket summaries

If it lives in the shipping lifecycle, your AI agent can access it through MCP.

How it works

1. A user sends a prompt to your AI agent.
   
   
2. The agent interprets the intent.
   
   
3. The agent sends that intent to your MCP connection.
   
   
4. MCP maps the intent to the correct Shippo action.
   
   
5. Shippo runs the action and returns the result.

The heavy lifting stays inside MCP and Shippo, so your code stays focused.

Get started in 3 steps

1. Connect Shippo MCP to your LLM or AI assistant. 

Generate your Shippo API token and use any MCP-compatible client to connect your agent with Shippo.

2. Tell it about your shipping task

Use natural language to request rates, labels, tracking, address validation, analytics, and more.

3. Get results and take action

Your AI returns exactly what you need, ready to use in your workflow.

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Try Shippo MCP today

Shippo MCP brings agentic shipping to developers, platforms, and e-commerce brands with a fraction of the integration work and is ready to use today.

👉 Start building with Shippo MCP

Want to learn more?

• Join the January webinar: "How agentic commerce is reshaping the future of e-commerce."
• Request a custom demo: Talk with a Shippo expert about your specific use case.
• Read our white paper: "Why agentic shipping is the new competitive advantage for e-commerce leaders."