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ShipWise API Authentication

How to authenticate ShipWise API requests: one Bearer API key plus a connectionId. MindCloud stores your API key securely — set it once, never resend it.

Every ShipWise API request through MindCloud needs two things: a MindCloud API Key and a connectionId for your ShipWise account. This page covers both, plus exactly how to send them, so you do not need to visit any other page to get authenticated.

Steps to authenticate

  1. Create a MindCloud account at app.mindcloud.co if you do not already have one.
  2. Generate a MindCloud API Key in API Keys. This is the Bearer token you send on every request. Keep it on your server.
  3. Create a ShipWise connection in Connections. ShipWise uses an API key. You generate the key in your ShipWise account, then paste it in when you create the connection — MindCloud stores it securely and never returns it in a response.
  4. Copy the connection’s connectionId — you will send it on every request alongside your MindCloud API Key.

How requests are authenticated

Authentication has two layers. Your MindCloud API Key authenticates the request to MindCloud, sent as a Bearer token in the Authorization header. The connectionId selects the connected ShipWise account that should run the action. MindCloud stores and refreshes the ShipWise credentials behind that connection, so you never send provider tokens with your requests.

Pass connectionId in the query string for GET and DELETE actions, and in the JSON body for POST, PUT, and PATCH actions.

For example, calling Validate Token V2 with an ShipWise connection looks like this:

curl --request GET \
  --url "https://connect.mindcloud.co/v1/universal/shipWise/latest/actions/validate-token-v2" \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $MINDCLOUD_API_KEY" \
  --get \
  --data-urlencode "connectionId=$CONNECTION_ID"

The Authorization: Bearer <your MindCloud API Key> header authenticates you to MindCloud; the connectionId tells MindCloud which ShipWise account to run the action against. Missing or invalid Authorization returns 401, and a missing or mismatched connectionId returns 400.

Connect ShipWise

You need access to a ShipWise account that can create API tokens.

  1. Open the API settings in ShipWise

    In ShipWise, navigate to Settings and select API.

    Settings → API
  2. Create a token

    Click Create Token, select the call types this connection needs, enter a token name, and create the token.

  3. Copy the token

    After the token is created, click Copy Token and paste it into the API key field for this connection.

Keep your key safe

Keep your MindCloud API Key on your server; do not ship it in browser code, mobile apps, public repositories, or logs. Anyone with the key can call the Universal API as your MindCloud account, across every connection you have created.