Is it possible to check if an order has been manifested (Royal Mail)

API Queries (How To)
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Hi there,

Question pretty much as title. I’m pulling order info from the orders endpoint.

I’d like to be able to determine if a shipped order has been manifested or not. I can see allocations.shipment.collection_manifest_id, but the value is Null, regardless of whether the shipment has been manifested or not

Thanks

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Hey Dave

Apologies for the delayed response. We are digging deeper to see if this is possible via API but in meantime I can confirm that Veeqo auto generates a Royal Mail Manifest at 11pm each night if a Manifest has not been manually created that day. This is to ensure that all Shipments do get manifested same day.

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Thanks Ben!

The reason I was looking for this info was because I was hoping to create a manifest “preview”

Occasionally, my average weight for the day is just over 100g, meaning that every item of postage is 50p + more expensive than if the average weight was under 100g
The average can be brought under by removing a heavier item or even just posting an extra lighter item.

The problem is that you only know for sure the average weight AFTER you’ve created the manifest.

I’m hoping to be able to use the API to pull all “shipped” but “unmanifested” orders to google sheets so before I click “manifest” in Veeqo, I can check the average weight and make adjustments if needed before doing the final manifest in Veeqo

50p per itam might not seem a lot but I generally sell a lot of low value items so it makes a significant different to profit margins sometimes

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hey Dave, thanks for the extra context, Im going to pass this through to Product team also as sounds like this could be a really useful feature for Veeqo.

Just whilst we wait for devs to dive deeper here im wondering if a “plan b” could be that you can pull all shipments since “x” time and date (you would manually check what time the last manifest was generated in Veeqo) and this would give you the data you need. Slightly more manual but just trying to think of a workaround if its not possible to check if an order is manfisted via API

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Cheers Ben, that’s not a bad idea for a workaround in the meantime. I’ll give that a try