Record what the carrier said about an inbound shipment

POST /pos/{poId}/shipments/{shipmentId}/tracking

Record what the carrier said about an inbound shipment — by a person, or by a shipping app that polls or hears the carrier for the organization: its tracking events (each a moment, a status, and optionally a description and location) and its eta.

The shipment stands where its latest event says, unless a receipt already took it in; a delivered event sets its delivery day when no receipt did. 404 UnknownInboundShipment for a shipment the order does not have. Appends purchasing.inbound-tracking-recorded. Idempotent by content: events already held (the same moment and status) and an unchanged ETA append nothing.

Access

Requires purchasing:write or receiving:write.

Any one of these scopes is enough.

How scopes come from roles: Scopes and roles. Getting a token: Authentication and app tokens.

Retries

Idempotent by content: events already held (the same moment and status) and an unchanged ETA append nothing.

Why every write carries a key: Idempotency and retries.

Facts appended

purchasing.inbound-tracking-recorded

What a fact is: Facts and the journal.

AI agent tool

Agents call this as purchasing_record_inbound_tracking (Purchasing: Record inbound tracking), in the receiving toolset.

Connecting an agent: AI agents.

Example

curl

curl -X POST 'https://purchasing.getmanifold.io/pos/po_01a15876-6c9e-7b3a-8c4d-9e0f1a2b3c4d/shipments/ibs_01a1586a-7c2e-7d41-9b3a-2e4f6a8c0d1e/tracking' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $MANIFOLD_TOKEN" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "events": [
    {
      "at": "2026-09-30T21:10:00.000Z",
      "status": "out-for-delivery",
      "location": "Brisbane depot"
    }
  ],
  "eta": "2026-10-01"
}'

JavaScript (fetch)

const response = await fetch("https://purchasing.getmanifold.io/pos/po_01a15876-6c9e-7b3a-8c4d-9e0f1a2b3c4d/shipments/ibs_01a1586a-7c2e-7d41-9b3a-2e4f6a8c0d1e/tracking", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.MANIFOLD_TOKEN}`, "Content-Type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "events": [
      {
        "at": "2026-09-30T21:10:00.000Z",
        "status": "out-for-delivery",
        "location": "Brisbane depot"
      }
    ],
    "eta": "2026-10-01"
  }),
});
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`${response.status}: ${await response.text()}`);
const answer = await response.json();

Request body · application/json

{
  "events": [
    {
      "at": "2026-09-30T21:10:00.000Z",
      "status": "out-for-delivery",
      "location": "Brisbane depot"
    }
  ],
  "eta": "2026-10-01"
}

Response · 200 · application/json

{
  "id": "po_01a15876-6c9e-7b3a-8c4d-9e0f1a2b3c4d",
  "number": "PO-00001",
  "serial": 1,
  "reference": "PO-WIDGET-BLUE",
  "supplier": "Northwind Components",
  "supplierId": "cmp_01a15884-6399-7e5f-8a6b-1c2d3e4f5a6b",
  "currency": "AUD",
  "status": "authorised",
  "lines": [
    {
      "sku": "WIDGET-BLUE",
      "ordered": 40,
      "received": 0,
      "cancelled": 0,
      "unitCostCents": 1250
    }
  ],
  "landedCosts": [],
  "payables": [],
  "payments": [],
  "revision": 0,
  "createdAt": "2026-09-22T01:15:00.000Z",
  "updatedAt": "2026-09-30T21:12:00.000Z",
  "expectedOn": "2026-10-01",
  "shipments": [
    {
      "shipmentId": "ibs_01a1586a-7c2e-7d41-9b3a-2e4f6a8c0d1e",
      "carrier": "StarTrack",
      "service": "Road Express",
      "trackingNumbers": [
        "ST4471093"
      ],
      "dispatchedOn": "2026-09-28",
      "eta": "2026-10-01",
      "firstEta": "2026-10-01",
      "source": "supplier",
      "lines": [
        {
          "sku": "WIDGET-BLUE",
          "quantity": 40
        }
      ],
      "status": "out-for-delivery",
      "events": [
        {
          "at": "2026-09-30T21:10:00.000Z",
          "status": "out-for-delivery",
          "location": "Brisbane depot"
        }
      ],
      "receiptIds": []
    }
  ]
}

The panel writes this call in other languages. It does not send it: Manifold's APIs do not take calls from a web page on another site, so run the call from your own code or terminal. The whole API as OpenAPI: purchasing-manager.openapi.json. Base URL https://purchasing.getmanifold.io.

Errors

Every refusal is a status and a JSON body whose _tag names it. A refused call changes nothing.

`401`

Refusal	What it means	What to do
`Unauthorized` reason	The token is missing, expired or not one Manifold issued.	Get a fresh token and send the call again.
`TokenAlreadyUsed` tokenId	A single-use app token was already spent.	Mint a new token for this call.

`402`

Refusal	What it means	What to do
`SubscriptionRequired` status	The organization's subscription has lapsed, so writes are refused.	An owner settles billing. Reads still work meanwhile.

`403`

Refusal	What it means	What to do
`TenantRequired` userId	The token names no organization.	Choose the organization, then get a new token.
`ScopeRequired` required	The token's roles do not grant the scope this call needs.	Ask an owner or admin for a role that grants it.

`404`

Refusal	What it means	What to do
`PoNotFound` poId	No such record in this organization.	Check the id in the path or the body.
`UnknownInboundShipment` poId, shipmentId	No such record in this organization.	Check the id in the path or the body.

`409`

Refusal	What it means	What to do
`MirroredFromSource` source	This area is fed by your source system until the organization goes live.	Make the change in the source system, or go live first.

`502`

Refusal	What it means	What to do
`InventoryUnavailable` reason	The inventory service did not answer, so nothing changed.	Send the same request again shortly.

`503`

Refusal	What it means	What to do
`RequestLogUnavailable` tokenId, reason	The service could not record the request, so it did nothing.	Send the same request again shortly.

How refusals work everywhere: Errors.