Shipengine MCP server

Connect Shipengine to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, GitHub Copilot and any other MCP client, for your whole team. Metorial adds security, governance, and tracing, and gives everyone one Magic MCP URL to connect.

What you can do with the Shipengine MCP server

Ask your agent in plain language. Each of these maps to a real tool on the server.

  • Use the create shipping label tool in Shipengine
  • Use the list warehouses tool in Shipengine
  • Use the delete warehouse tool in Shipengine
  • Use the estimate shipping rates tool in Shipengine
  • Use the list carriers tool in Shipengine
  • Use the void label tool in Shipengine

Supported Tools

create_label

Create Shipping Label

Purchase a shipping label; production requests can charge your account. Provide either full shipment details (addresses, packages, carrier/service) to create a label directly, or a **rateId** from a previous rate lookup, or a **shipmentId** from an existing shipment. The label can be downloaded as PDF, PNG, or ZPL.

list_warehouses

List Warehouses

List all warehouse locations configured in your ShipEngine account. Warehouses can be used as ship-from addresses on shipments and labels.

delete_warehouse

Delete Warehouse

Delete a warehouse location from your ShipEngine account.

estimate_rates

Estimate Shipping Rates

Get quick rate estimates with minimal address info (country, postal code). Useful when full shipment details are not yet known. Provide origin and destination location along with package weight to receive estimated rates from connected carriers.

list_carriers

List Carriers

List all carrier accounts connected to your ShipEngine account. Returns carrier IDs, codes, names, balance, and capabilities. Optionally include available services and package types for a specific carrier.

void_label

Void Label

Void a previously created shipping label. This cancels the label and requests a refund for the shipping charges. Not all carriers support voiding — the response indicates whether the void was approved.

cancel_shipment

Cancel Shipment

Cancel an existing shipment by its ID. The record is retained with cancelled status. Void any associated purchased label first.

validate_address

Validate Address

Validate one or more shipping addresses to ensure they are accurate and deliverable. Supports addresses in over 160 countries. Returns a validation status, the matched/corrected address, and any warning or error messages. Use this before creating labels to avoid address correction surcharges.

create_warehouse

Create Warehouse

Create a new warehouse location that can be used as a ship-from address on shipments and labels. Optionally specify a different return address.

recognize_address

Parse Address from Text

Extract structured address data from unstructured text such as emails, SMS messages, support tickets, or other documents. Returns a parsed address with a confidence score. Currently supports the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK, and Ireland.

list_shipments

List Shipments

Search and list shipments with filtering options including status, tags, date ranges, and batch ID. Results are paginated.

create_shipment

Create Shipment

Create a new shipment with origin/destination addresses, package details, and optional carrier/service selection. The shipment can later be used to get rates or create labels.

find_service_points

Find Service Points

Find carrier pick-up/drop-off (PUDO) locations near a given address or coordinates. Service points are physical locations where packages can be dropped off or picked up, such as carrier stores, lockers, or partner locations.

update_shipment

Update Shipment

Update an existing shipment's details such as addresses, packages, carrier, or service. Only provided fields will be updated.

get_rates

Get Shipping Rates

Compare shipping rates across carriers for a shipment. Provide origin/destination addresses and package details to receive rate quotes from connected carriers. Rates can be filtered by carrier or service. Use the returned rateId to create a label at that rate.

update_warehouse

Update Warehouse

Update an existing warehouse's name, origin address, or return address.

schedule_pickup

Schedule Pickup

Schedule a carrier pickup for one or more shipment labels. Provide label IDs, contact details, and a pickup time window. Production pickups can incur carrier fees. The carrier will arrange to pick up the packages at the specified location.

create_manifest

Create Manifest

Create carrier manifests or scan forms for existing labels. Explicit label IDs can produce multiple documents. Otherwise carrierId, warehouseId and shipDate are required. Carrier submission can be irreversible.

list_labels

List Labels

Search and list shipping labels with filtering options including status, carrier, tracking number, and date ranges. Results are paginated.

track_package

Track Package

Get the current tracking status and full event history for a package. Track by **carrier code + tracking number**, or by **ShipEngine label ID**. Returns status, estimated/actual delivery dates, and a chronological event history.

cancel_pickup

Cancel Pickup

Cancel a previously scheduled carrier pickup. The pickup history remains available; carrier cancellation limits apply.

download_shipping_document

Download Shipping Document

Download an existing label or manifest without purchasing another label or submitting another manifest. Files can be unavailable after provider retention expires.

get_shipping_resource

Get Shipping Resource

Retrieve one existing label, shipment, warehouse, pickup, manifest or manifest request by its exact provider ID. Includes the state needed to recover purchases and confirm cancellation.

list_shipping_resources

List Shipping Resources

List one page of existing pickups or manifests for recovery and operational history. Cancelled pickups remain in history.

Connect Shipengine to your AI client

Every client uses the same Magic MCP URL, and so does any other MCP client. Add it once and sign in with SSO.

  1. Enable Shipengine in Metorial. In your Metorial portal, enable the Shipengine MCP server and sign in with the account that owns the data. Access stays governed by your team policies.
  2. Add a custom connector. Open Customize, then Connectors. Select Add, then Custom, then Web.
  3. Paste your Metorial MCP URL. Name it Metorial, paste your Magic MCP URL (<your-magic-mcp-url>) and continue.
  4. Sign in. Select Add and sign in to load Shipengine tools.

Run Shipengine through the Metorial gateway

One governed layer for every app your agents reach, not a separate connector per tool.

  • Give Shipengine and every other app to your whole team through one MCP gateway, behind your SSO.
  • Scope which teams and agents can use Shipengine tools with role-based access control, and trace every call.
  • Prefer to run it yourself? Metorial is open source and self-hostable.

More integrations teams use with Shipengine

Notion

Create, read, update, and archive pages and databases in a Notion workspace. Manage blocks (paragraphs, lists, headings, embeds, etc.) within pages. Query databases with filters and sorts across rich property types including text, numbers, dates, selects, relations, and formulas. Search across pages and databases by title. Add and read comments on pages and blocks. Upload files to pages. Manage workspace users and retrieve user profiles.

GitHub

Manage repositories, issues, and pull requests. Create and configure branches, star repositories, review code, and merge changes. Automate CI/CD workflows with GitHub Actions, manage workflow runs, secrets, and artifacts. Track issues with labels, milestones, and assignees. Search across code, repositories, issues, and users. Manage organizations, teams, and memberships. Create and manage projects, gists, packages, deployments, and environments. Access security alerts including code scanning, secret scanning, and Dependabot alerts. Read and write file contents in repositories. Manage webhooks, notifications, and codespaces.

Microsoft Outlook

Send, read, reply to, forward, and manage email messages in user mailboxes. Organize messages into folders, apply categories, flags, and importance levels. Manage file and item attachments. Create, update, delete, and respond to calendar events and meetings. Find available meeting times, manage attendees, handle recurrence, and work with shared or delegated calendars. Create, read, update, and delete contacts, organize them into contact folders, and manage contact photos. Manage tasks and task lists via Microsoft To Do, including due dates, reminders, recurrence, and checklist items. Support for Focused Inbox, @-mentions, mail tips, send-on-behalf, and send-as capabilities.

Linear

Create, read, update, and delete issues across teams with support for priorities, labels, assignees, due dates, and workflow states. Manage projects that group related issues, and organize work into time-boxed cycles (sprints). Create and manage documents, comments, and file attachments. Search issues using vector similarity or rich filters. Configure teams, workflow states, and labels. Track customers and link them to issues.

Airtable

Create, read, update, and delete records in Airtable bases and tables. Manage base schemas including creating tables and fields. Filter records using formulas, sort by fields, and scope queries to specific views. Upsert records to find, create, or update in a single call. Upload attachments to records, read and write record comments, list accessible bases, and receive real-time base change events through webhooks.

Jira

Create, read, update, and delete issues across projects. Search issues using JQL queries. Manage projects, boards, sprints, and epics for agile workflows. Log work time, add comments and attachments, and transition issues through workflow statuses. Create and manage project versions/releases, issue links, filters, and dashboards. Query users, groups, and permissions.

Technical notes for Shipengine

Validate addresses, compare carrier rates, purchase and void shipping labels, track packages, manage shipments and warehouses, discover carrier services, find service points, schedule pickups, create manifests, and download existing shipping documents.

Frequently asked questions

Common questions about connecting Shipengine to AI agents with Metorial.

  1. How many tools does the Shipengine MCP server have?
    The Shipengine MCP server exposes 24 tools, including Create Shipping Label, List Warehouses, Delete Warehouse. Each one is governed and traced through Metorial.
  2. Shipengine exposes tools your agents call on demand; it does not publish event triggers yet. Everything still runs through one governed MCP URL.
  3. Any MCP client, including VS Code, Windsurf, Zed, OpenCode and Grok. Each one reaches the Shipengine MCP server through the same Metorial URL.
  4. Use role-based access control to decide which teams, users, and agents can use Shipengine and which of its tools they can call.
  5. Yes. Metorial is open source, so you can run the Shipengine MCP server yourself or use the hosted gateway.

Connect Shipengine to production AI agents

See how Metorial gives your team governed access to Shipengine, with tracing and security controls built in.