--- title: "Connect Cartes to ShipEngine - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New marker\" fires in Cartes, your agent runs \"Add batch\" in ShipEngine." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/cartes-to-shipengine" --- # Connect Cartes to ShipEngine When **New marker** fires in [Cartes](https://apiant.ai/connections/cartes), your agent runs **Add batch** in [ShipEngine](https://apiant.ai/connections/shipengine). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Cartes **1** trigger Cartes **11** actions ShipEngine **14** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Cartes and ShipEngine to do together? Give your AI client this address. `https://mcp.apiant.ai` One connection does both: ask your client to act in an app once, or have it build an automation that keeps running. Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser. ### Set it up in your client ### Claude Code Run this in the directory you want to work in. `claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai` Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens. [Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp/claude-code) ### Claude, web and desktop Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Cursor Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Zed Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app Open Settings, then MCP servers, then Add server, and choose Streamable HTTP. From the terminal, Codex takes the address with its own add command and then signs you in. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Any other MCP client Paste the address where the client asks for a remote MCP server URL, and name the server apiant-ai where it lets you. APIANT's skills reach the client over the same connection. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What Cartes can start in ShipEngine - When **New marker** in Cartes then **Add batch** in ShipEngine - When **New marker** in Cartes then **Add label** in ShipEngine Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships. Everything your agent can do with Cartes and ShipEngine ## Triggers and actions 1 trigger · 25 actions - Trigger **New marker** Triggers when a new marker is added to a Cartes map. - Action **Add map** Creates a new map on Cartes.io and returns it, including the one-time map token needed to edit or delete it. - Action **Add marker** Adds a marker at a latitude and longitude on a Cartes.io map, in an existing or new category. - Action **Delete map** Deletes a map from Cartes.io. - Action **Delete marker** Deletes a marker from a Cartes.io map. - Action **Find maps by keyword** Returns public Cartes.io maps that match a keyword. - Action **Get map** Returns a single Cartes.io map, including its title, description, privacy setting and categories. - Action **List categories** Returns all marker categories available on Cartes.io. - Action **List maps** Returns the public maps on Cartes.io, optionally filtered by ID, category or query. - Action **List markers** Returns all markers on a Cartes.io map, optionally including expired ones. - Action **Update map** Updates the title, description, privacy or marker-creation setting of an existing Cartes.io map. - Action **Update marker** Updates a marker on a Cartes.io map: change its description, or (as the map owner) flag it as spam. - Action **Add batch** Creates a new label batch in ShipEngine, optionally seeded with shipments or rates, so their labels can later be processed together. - Action **Add label** Purchases a shipping label from your chosen carrier and service for a shipment, returning the label's tracking number, cost and download links. - Action **Add shipment** Creates a shipment from a ship-to address, a ship-from address or warehouse, and its packages, returning the new shipment id for rating, labels and batches. - Action **Add warehouse** Creates a new warehouse location in ShipEngine with a ship-from address and an optional return address. - Action **Calculate rates** Returns shipping rate quotes from your connected carriers for a shipment, either from full shipment details or an existing shipment. - Action **Get batch** Returns a label batch by its id, including its status, shipment and error counts, and links to download the batch's labels and forms. - Action **Get label** Returns a shipping label by its id, including its status, tracking number, cost and links to download the label. - Action **Get manifest** Returns the details of an end-of-day manifest, including its ship date, the labels it covers and a link to download the manifest form. - Action **Get shipment** Returns a shipment by its id, including its status, carrier and service, addresses, packages and tags. - Action **List carriers** Returns all carrier accounts connected to your ShipEngine account, with each carrier's id, services, package types and options. - Action **List shipments** Returns the shipments in your ShipEngine account, optionally filtered by status, tag, batch or created/modified date range. - Action **List warehouses** Returns every warehouse in your ShipEngine account, with each warehouse's id, name, origin address and return address. - Action **Update shipment** Updates an existing shipment's addresses, packages, carrier service and other details before it is shipped, and returns the updated shipment. - Action **Validate an Address** Checks a postal address against carrier and postal databases and returns its validation status, the corrected (matched) address, and any messages explaining problems found. ## Each app on its own - [ **Cartes** Open-source platform for creating live, community-driven, anonymous maps with custom markers via API.](https://apiant.ai/connections/cartes) - [ **ShipEngine** ShipEngine APIs empower ecommerce brands and platforms to shop rates, validate global addresses, print...](https://apiant.ai/connections/shipengine) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Cartes - [ **Cartes to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/cartes-to-hubspot) - [ **Cartes to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/cartes-to-salesforce) - [ **Cartes to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/cartes-to-slack) - [ **Cartes to Google Sheets** Google Sheets](https://apiant.ai/connect/cartes-to-google-sheets) - [ **Cartes to Gmail** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/cartes-to-gmail) - [ **Cartes to Google Calendar** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/cartes-to-google-calendar) ## More into ShipEngine - [ **HubSpot to ShipEngine** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-shipengine) - [ **Salesforce to ShipEngine** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-shipengine) - [ **Slack to ShipEngine** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-shipengine) - [ **Google Sheets to ShipEngine** Google Sheets](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-shipengine) - [ **Gmail to ShipEngine** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-shipengine) - [ **Google Calendar to ShipEngine** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-shipengine) Questions ## Cartes and ShipEngine, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Cartes? Any of Cartes's 1 trigger in the catalog, including New marker. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in ShipEngine when something happens in Cartes? Any of ShipEngine's 14 actions, including Update shipment, Add batch, Add label and Add shipment. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from ShipEngine to Cartes? ShipEngine has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Cartes. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads ShipEngine's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Cartes or ShipEngine? No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. ### ### Can my AI client use Cartes and ShipEngine without building an automation? Yes. With your AI client connected to APIANT, ask it to do something in either app once and it runs that action on the spot. Ask for an automation and your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. One connection covers both. ### ### What happens when something fails? Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Is there a free plan? Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.