AfterShip

Set up an AI agent for AfterShip that answers where is my order from live carrier tracking, with the latest checkpoint and a plain word on stalled parcels.

Invite your AI teammate into AfterShip and it answers "where is my order" from live carrier tracking. It reads the latest checkpoint, reports it with the time and place, and says plainly when a parcel has stalled and needs a person.

If AfterShip is missing from your Integrations gallery, message us in the in-app chat or email [e-mail] and we will turn it on.

Quick start

1

Ask your agent to connect AfterShip

Open the chat in your dashboard and ask it to connect AfterShip. It points you at your Integrations page and lists what it will be able to do once connected.

Open Integrations > AfterShip in the left sidebar. Connect is in the top right. If AfterShip is not in the list, it has not been turned on for your workspace yet. Ask us first.

2

Enter your AfterShip API key

Connect opens a window from Pipedream, the service that holds the connection. It asks for an AfterShip API key. Create one in AfterShip under Settings > API keys and paste it into the Pipedream window. The key goes to Pipedream and never into the chat.

A person does this step in the browser.

3

Confirm the connection

The window confirms the account is connected and returns you to the integration page.

Check it worked. The integration page header reads Connected, and the left sidebar lists AfterShip. From a terminal, eesel status lists AfterShip as connected.

4

Try it on a real shipment

Ask your agent in the chat where a shipment is, with the order or tracking number. It matches the shipment against the tracking records in AfterShip and reports the latest checkpoint: what the carrier scanned, where, and when.

5

Put it to work

AfterShip has no event that wakes your agent on its own, so it does its tracking work inside the conversations it already handles. Tell it in its instructions how to answer delivery questions, and it uses this action when a customer asks in your helpdesk, in Slack or on your site. For a routine check on a known set of shipments, a schedule runs the same work on a clock.

From Claude Code, Cursor or a terminal. eesel login, then eesel integrations connect aftership prints the connect link for a person to open, and eesel status shows the connection. eesel integrations aftership actions lists every action available on your workspace. A held action returns an approval link that a person opens. Full command reference: The eesel CLI. From Claude Code or another MCP client: Claude Code and MCP clients.

Sources, triggers and actions

Sources

AfterShip adds no knowledge source. Your agent reads tracking live, at the moment it is asked, and answers from everything else you have connected.

Triggers

AfterShip has no triggers. Nothing in AfterShip wakes your agent. It acts on AfterShip when a customer asks in a connected channel, or on a schedule.

Actions

Actions are what it can do.

	Action	What it does
Look up	Get tracking	Reads one tracking record: carrier, latest checkpoint, history and any estimated delivery the carrier gave
Manage	Create tracking	Adds a shipment to AfterShip so it is tracked
	Update tracking	Edits a tracking record

You stay in control the whole way. Adjust your AI agent's access to knowledge and its action permissions to your liking. See Actions and Approvals.

Two things your agent has been taught about AfterShip:

• A scan is the carrier's version of events, not the parcel's location. Checkpoints lag, and a "delivered" scan sometimes lands before the parcel does. Your agent reports the latest checkpoint with its time and place, and never invents a delivery date the carrier did not give.

• A parcel that has not moved in days is a signal for a person. It usually means a customs hold, a failed delivery or a lost shipment, so your agent says so plainly instead of restating the tracking.

The write actions are for your operations team setting up tracking records. Answering a customer only ever needs the read.

Troubleshooting

AfterShip is not in my Integrations gallery?

Message us in the in-app chat or email [e-mail] and we will turn AfterShip on for your workspace.

Your agent cannot find the shipment?

Get tracking takes AfterShip's own tracking id, not the order number and not the carrier's tracking number. Your agent first matches what the customer gave against the tracking records in AfterShip. If nothing matches, it says the shipment could not be located rather than reporting on the wrong parcel.

FAQ

Can my agent tell a customer when the parcel will arrive?

Only when the carrier has given an estimate. Otherwise it reports the last known checkpoint and what normally happens next.

Related pages

• E-commerce Sales Rep for the job your teammate takes on in a store

• Shopify for order look-ups from the store itself

• Actions and Approvals for choosing what your agent may do

• Set up from Claude Code or the terminal