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Rating
Find out what shipping services are available and how much they cost
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Read Getting Started to find out how to sign up, get your API keys and more.
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For essential information common to all our web services, read the Fundamentals of Canada Post Web Services: REST | SOAP
Service Summary
Use the rating services to get shipping costs between two points at various speeds of service and with requested add-on features.
Service Interconnections
The following diagram shows the interconnections between all calls related to rating.
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Rating functionality is provided through four calls:
- Get Rates
REST | SOAP This call returns a list of shipping services, prices and transit times for a given item to be shipped. - Discover Services
REST | SOAP This call returns the list of available postal services for a given country, customer, contract, origin and/or destination postal code. - Get Service
REST | SOAP This call returns details of a given postal service in terms of the min/max weight and dimensions offered by the postal service. Also returned are details about the available add-on options. - Get Option
REST | SOAP This call returns information about a given add-on option such as how it is used and whether it requires or conflicts with other options.