Make a shipping box the default
AI agents: read /llms.txt; add .md to any page URL. This page as Markdown: /reference/shipping-boxes/v1-shipment-box-update-patch.md. Index of every page and the rules for every call: /llms.txt. Guides and concepts in one file: /llms-full.txt. OpenAPI: /openapi.json.
PATCH/
Use PUT to change a shipping box. PATCH ignores every field except is_default: {"is_default": true} makes the box the team default, and nothing else changes.
Path parameters
Your team slug, shown as Team ID next to your API key in Profile.
- Example
your-team
- Example
The shipping box's
id: a hash id from an earlier answer. Only hash ids work here; anything else answers 404page_not_found.- Example
KkXRzp66r5WrEH
- Example
Request body
application/json, required.
is_defaultbooleantruemakes it the default.
Response
200Successful response.
Child fields (8)
The height, in thousandths of the unit (the size ×1000):
12000is 12.Whether it is the team's default box.
The box's Insured option.
- One of:
"CM","IN"
- One of:
Errors
401The API key is missing or wrong (
unauthenticated).- When
- The API key is missing or wrong.
- Fix
- Send your personal API key as
Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY.
403You are not allowed to do this.
api_access_not_in_plan: your team's plan doesn't include API access (Pro and above, with an active subscription or trial), so every request answers this until the team upgrades. When your role lacks the permission the operation needs, the body is only{"message": "Insufficient Permission"}. Other refusals use the error envelope, withunauthorizedoruser_is_not_authorized.- When
- Your permission group lacks Manage Settings. This 403 has a short body,
{"message": "Insufficient Permission"}, withoutsuccessorerror. - Fix
- Ask the team owner to give your permission group Manage Settings.
404Not found.
page_not_found: the team slug is unknown, you are not a member of the team, or an id in the path is not one of this team's.code: null, with a message that starts "No query results for": there is no record with that id.- When
- No shipping box with that id on this team (
error.codeis null anderror.messagestarts "No query results"), the id is not one of this team's hash ids, or you are not a member of the team (bothpage_not_found). - Fix
- Use an
idfrom the list operation and check the team slug.
