Learn how you can automate processes by learning the language of online shops. Sebastian, CTO at byrd, explains how it works.

1. Smart E-Commerce Meetup #11
The Technical Aspects of E-commerce Logistics

2. Who am I ?
Sebastian Mach
CTO & CoFounder @ byrd

3. What does byrd do?
Scalable logistics for every
online shop.

4. P R O B L E M
How do you communicate with your online shop?

5. Humans
use the online interface of
their online shop

6. Machines
are using APIs
(Application Programming Interface)

7. What is an API?

8. API Varieties
API Type
REST
(Representational State Transfer)
SOAP
(Simple Object Access Protocol)
Protocol
HTTP(S)
Format
JSON
(Representational State Transfer)
XML
(Extensible Markup Language)

9. Calling a REST API is like opening a website
https://byrd-demo.myshopify.com /admin/orders.json ?status=open
Domain Path Query
Parameters

10. In your Browser

11. REST is all about Resources
Server Client
Orders
Products
Customers
GET /admin/orders.json
/admin/products.json
/admin/customers.json

12. Resources have properties
Orders
- Order Number
- Recipient Name
- Recipient Address
- Line Items

13. An example
https://byrd-demo.myshopify.com/admin/orders.json?status=open
{
"orders": [
{
"id": 883974471750,
"email": "test@mail.com",
"created_at": "2019-03-11T13:41:28-04:00",
"total_price": "60.00",
"line_items": [
{
"id": 1931164516422,
"title": "NIKE | CRACKLE PRINT TB TEE",
"quantity": 1,
"sku": "NK-01-blue-xl",
"price": "40.00",
...
}
],
"billing_address": {...
},
"shipping_address": {...
},
...
}
]
}

14. In the browser

15. How is this relevant for logistics?

16. How is this relevant for logistics?

17. API flow for Logistics
Shop Logistics Provider

18. API flow for Logistics
Shop Logistics Provider
You got new Orders?
Yes, here you go!
Order
Order
Order

19. API flow for Logistics
Shop Logistics Provider
You got new Orders?
Yes, here you go!
Order
Order
Order
I’ve fulfilled some orders, here
are the tracking details
Thanks! I’ll inform the customers
Tracking
Tracking
Tracking

20. You want to learn more about APIs?
https://schoolofdata.org/2013/11/18/web-apis-for-non-programmers/
https://www.getpostman.com/downloads/
Search for “<Shop Name> + API”
e.g. Shopify API

21. Smart E-Commerce Meetup #11
Thanks for your attention!