What is dock scheduling?

Shipwell Dock Scheduling is a fast, easy, low-touch, and API accessible solution for optimizing shipment pickup and delivery at facilities.

Shippers and carriers may schedule pickups and deliveries for one or more facilities
Manage shared calendars for facilities and docks
Schedule and reschedule appointments
Optimize facility capacity and dock staffing needs
Reduce the chance of shipments incurring detention fees
Save time and reduce errors in data entry
Reduce the operational overhead of scheduling and rescheduling dock and facility appointments
Get data-driven insights on facility and carrier performance

Note

Shipwell Dock Scheduling is in early access for select customers. If you are an existing Shipwell customer and want early access to Shipwell Dock Scheduling contact your customer service representative. If you want to learn more as a new Shipwell customer contact sales here.

Technical prerequisites

In order to manage facilities, dock appointments, and other dock scheduling functionality through the API, you must fulfill the following technical prerequisites:

Have access to the Sandbox environment in Shipwell, including the ability to Authenticate into the sandbox environment with your account user-token .
Either a command-line interface with bash or a tool such as Postman .

Getting started

To get started with Shipwell Dock Scheduling API, follow this guide on How to Schedule A Dock Appointment?.