SwissPost - Digital Commerce API

2013 – 2014

Why

SwissPost wants to provide digital addressing and logistic services in a nutshell to the e-commerce market segment.

What

To design and develop a public web API for integration into e-commerce websites of Switzerland.

This B2B2C API includes the Swiss Post Login as an authentication service and provides a secure exposition of the addressing and logistic services of the Swiss Post.

Requirements

• To consume incoming scanning events and send notfiication based on decision making logic.
• To expose a B2B notification service to both outside (Swiss shops) and Post internal services.
• To define a public API.
• To send notifications by e-mail, SMS, and Push.
• To ingest until 100'000 scanning events a day.

Who

e-commerce websites of Switzerland

Organization

Team of 3 software engineers, 1 project manager, 1 software architect (me).

Technologies

• Java, Spring, Hibernate
• REST API
• AngularJS
• OAuth, OIDC
• Oracle, Tomcat
• Jenkins, SonarQube

Links

Official product - Digital Commerce API
Official product - Login Post Connector
Website integrator
Digital Commerce API - Documentation