SMKlog Parcel Quotes

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Live USPS, UPS and FedEx rates for a US parcel described in plain words, plus a payment session a human completes.

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The same engine that prices orders on this site answers plain HTTP. Describe an item in ordinary words and the packed box size and weight are estimated for you; give exact dimensions to skip the estimate. USPS, UPS and FedEx, US domestic, no account, no key. Assistants can call it natively over MCP.

POST https://quote-api.smklog.com/quote Content-Type: application/json {"product": "acoustic guitar in a hard case", "quantity": 1, "from_postal_code": "07102", "to_postal_code": "30303"}

The answer carries up to five purchasable services. Each rate states three figures separately:amountis the checkout total a customer pays,carrier_amountis the negotiated carrier cost beneath it, andservice_feeis the SMKlog fee between the two. Where a carrier publishes a retail counter price,retail_amountcarries it. We would rather hand you all three numbers than have you discover the middle one later.

Exact dimensions skip the estimate: sendlength_cm,width_cm,height_cm,weight_kgandpackage_source: "manual". The full contract lives in theOpenAPI 3.1 description.

Streamable HTTP endpoint athttps://quote-api.smklog.com/mcpwith two tools:get_parcel_quoteprices a shipment,create_checkout_linkhands the person a prefilled checkout to pay for the label. Inches and pounds on the way in, because that is how people describe boxes. Listed in thepublic MCP registryascom.smklog/parcel-quotes.

{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 1, "method": "tools/call", "params": {"name": "get_parcel_quote", "arguments": {"product": "65 inch flat screen TV in original box", "from_zip": "07102", "to_zip": "90011"}}}

Discovery:server card,API catalog (RFC 9727),agent skills index. In browsers with WebMCP support the same tools register on this site’s pages via navigator.modelContext, so an in-browser agent can price and track without leaving the page. A shipment past parcel limits comes back asmode: "freight_manager"with no rates; the honest next step is thefreight review form, where a person prices it.

Nothing to install and no key to request. Point any MCP-capable assistant at the endpoint below and ask it what a box costs to ship.

claude mcp add --transport http smklog \ https://quote-api.smklog.com/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste the endpoint URL:

Add the server tomcp.json(~/.cursor/mcp.jsonfor Cursor,.vscode/mcp.jsonfor VS Code):

{"mcpServers": { "smklog": { "type": "http", "url": "https://quote-api.smklog.com/mcp" } }}

Add a custom MCP connector with the same URL. No authentication: leave the token field blank.

Then just ask, in plain words:“What does it cost to ship a 65 inch TV from 07102 to 90011?”The assistant callsget_parcel_quoteand reads back USPS, UPS and FedEx side by side. Ask it to buy the label and it callscreate_checkout_link, which returns a checkout page foryouto confirm and pay — an agent never pays on its own. Building your own client instead? The plain HTTP endpoint above needs no MCP at all.

Hourly, per client, and shared between /quote and /mcp, so switching protocol does not add capacity. Every quote hits live carrier rating and costs us money: one call per shipment, cache on your side, never poll.

Both ZIPs must be US. International and freight requests come back unpriced by design, routed to a human review instead of a wrong number.

The API answers what a parcel costs. Buying the label, address validation and restricted-item screening happen at thecalculator.

No for normal use: quoting and payment sessions are open, rate limited per client. Credentials exist for one case — an agent whose legitimate traffic outgrows the public limits gets its own hourly bucket via OAuth client_credentials. Registration is manual for now: see smklog.com/auth.md.

Nothing. It costs us, though: every quote hits live carrier rating, so call once per shipment, cache the answer, and never poll.

Is the price the customer's final price?

The amount field is the complete checkout total with the SMKlog fee inside, and carrier_amount states the carrier cost beneath it. Quote both to your user. Prices move with carrier tariffs, so a quote is a snapshot, not a contract.

Not autonomously. The create_checkout_link tool (MPP intent "session") prices the shipment and returns a handoff URL that opens the checkout prefilled; the human confirms the shipping consents there and pays on Stripe hosted checkout. The agent prepares, the person pays.

The response comes back with mode freight_manager and no rates. That is deliberate: freight is priced by a person, and the right next step is the form at smklog.com/quote.

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