Get Started Guide

Remember, you can browse APIs, read information about our APIs and view their reference documentation as much as you want! You don’t have to be logged in or have access to credentials to do this.

This section is for the decision makers in your business.

These are the steps your business must fulfill to access API credentials.

PostNord customer

Your business must be a customer of PostNord to activate developer resources for your business.
If you have a Postnord business account go to the next step.

To become a PostNord customer, your business must sign an invoice agreement. This is free of charge and there are no requirements of volume.

Read more about becoming a PostNord customer
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Activate developer resources

Once you have a Postnord business account*, you can log in to our developer portal, and activate the developer resources for your business**.

When the developer resources are activated, a set of API credentials (client secret and client ID) will automatically be generated for your business to use. Use this set of API credentials to access all of our APIs.

You can invite colleagues to your team, for them to access your business’ developer resources.

Log in and activate developer resources

* The account must have admin privileges in Kundeportalen to activate this feature.
** If you have many customer numbers (customertree), remember to activate your parent/group customer number, to gain access to those under.

Invite colleagues

As an administrator, you can grant your colleagues access to the developer resources by inviting them to your team!

Members of your business’ developer team will get easy access to the API credentials, API usage statistics and an overview of customer numbers.

Invite members to your team

This guide will give you information on how to use our developer portal.

If you have access to your business’ developer resources, you are ready to get started!

View credentials

Your API credentials will be available in your profile page or in the "API credentials" dropdown in the right corner of the top bar. Use this to access all the APIs that are available.

CLIENT ID

This is the Client ID you should send with each API request.

Login to view client ID

CLIENT SECRET

This the Client Secret used to authenticate requests.

Login to view client secret
Authenticate

We use the Oauth 2.0 Client Credentials Grant for authentication. First call the authentication endpoint with your client ID and client secret as parameters, to retrieve an authorization token. Then call the desired API with the token as the value of a Bearer type Authorization header.

A new token can be requested every time an API request is made. Alternatively, if doing many repeated requests, consider the token expiration time that is returned as part of the response when calling the authentication endpoint and only request a new token when it is about to expire.

View Authentication API documentation
Find the right API

Browse our various APIs in the developer portal: Use the search and filtering functions to find the right API and then view business cases, technical documentation and example usage. Copy the code examples or download our Postman collection to quickly integrate an API with your application.

Browse APIs
Testing the API

We recommend you to test our APIs through PostMan. We offer you a Postman collection containing all the APIs you have access to in our developer portal.

Keep in mind that each enviroment have their own credentials, where the sandbox credentials are for testing purposes.

You must use your API credentials to use the Postman Collection. Simply add your client ID and client secret in the "Variables" section of the collection settings, to automatically call the authentication API with your credentials every request.

Get PostMan
Download Postman Collection
Go live

You are ready to go!

When you have used the Postman collection to configure and verify the requests you need, you can integrate them into your application and begin using the Postnord APIs with your business.

Keep track of the general live status of our APIs on our public status page and your own organization's API usage data on the statistics page, accessible from your Profile Page when logged in.

API health