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Shipping tiers renamed to Expedited and Rush

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RPI Print
RPI Print
Product Team

Two shipping tiers have been renamed in the RPI Print API. Express is now Expedited, and Priority is now Rush. Standard is unchanged. The new names came in with new shipping prices and production times; see Shipping for the current rates.

What you need to do​

express and priority remain valid values for shippingClassification on order creation, with no retirement date. Requests you send today keep working exactly as they do now, so most integrators need to do nothing. The exception is economy on an enterprise account, described below.

Orders you have already placed are unaffected. Their stored classification does not change.

What your responses contain​

An order submitted as express or priority is stored and returned with that spelling. Create an order with "shippingClassification": "express" and the methodClassification field on the order response and on the order webhook comes back as express, not expedited.

Economy behaves differently, and which behavior you get depends on your account. On an account priced under an enterprise agreement, an order submitted as economy currently fails: the create request succeeds and the order ends in FAILED. A fix is in progress. If you have an enterprise agreement, contact printapicustomersupport@rpiprint.com before you send economy. On every other account Economy is no longer offered, so an order submitted as economy ships and is returned as standard.

What changed in the documentation​

The API reference, the shipping estimate endpoint, and the pricelist now name the tiers Standard, Expedited and Rush. If you display tier names taken from those responses, your users will see the new names.

Which tiers you can buy depends on where the order ships. The continental US and Puerto Rico sell all three tiers. Hawaii and Alaska sell Expedited and Rush. Canada sells Standard and Rush. The US Territories group sells Standard and Expedited. Call the shipping estimate for an address to get the tiers that address can be sold.

Move to the new names whenever it suits you. There is no deadline.