Send breve fra dit eget system
Én HTTP-forespørgsel med tekst og en adresse, og så lander der et printet brev med porto på i en brevsprække. Ingen printer, ingen frimærker, ingen tur til postkassen.
Opret en nøgleHele integrationen
Det er det hele. Svaret indeholder et id, du bruger til at læse status, og det samme id står på din fakturalinje.
curl -X POST https://sendletter.eu/api/v1/letters \
-H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_..." \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"text": "Geachte heer, mevrouw,\n\nHierbij zeg ik mijn abonnement op.",
"subject": "Opzegging",
"sender": { "name": "Jan de Vries", "street": "Merelstraat", "number": "64",
"postalCode": "8916 AX", "city": "Leeuwarden", "country": "NL" },
"recipient": { "company": "Voorbeeld BV", "name": "Afdeling Klantenservice",
"street": "Hoofdstraat", "number": "1",
"postalCode": "1011 AA", "city": "Amsterdam", "country": "NL" },
"product": "standard",
"idempotencyKey": "opzegging-2026-07-28"
}'const res = await fetch("https://sendletter.eu/api/v1/letters", {
method: "POST",
headers: {
Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.SENDLETTER_KEY}`,
"Content-Type": "application/json",
},
body: JSON.stringify({ text, sender, recipient, product: "registered",
// Optional. Bills a company you belong to instead of
// this key's own wallet; leave it out for a personal
// letter. One you may not spend is refused, not billed
// to you.
organizationId: company.id,
idempotencyKey: invoice.id }),
})
const letter = await res.json()
// letter.id is what you store; poll it or wait for the webhook.
// letter.billedToOrganizationId says which wallet actually paid.$ch = curl_init("https://sendletter.eu/api/v1/letters");
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
CURLOPT_POST => true,
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: Bearer " . getenv("SENDLETTER_KEY"),
"Content-Type: application/json",
],
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
"text" => $body, "sender" => $sender, "recipient" => $recipient,
"idempotencyKey" => $invoiceId,
]),
]);
$letter = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);import os, requests
letter = requests.post(
"https://sendletter.eu/api/v1/letters",
headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['SENDLETTER_KEY']}"},
json={"text": body, "sender": sender, "recipient": recipient,
"idempotencyKey": invoice_id},
timeout=30,
).json()Nøgler
Hver forespørgsel bærer en API-nøgle som bearer-token. Du opretter nøgler på din konto og ser hver enkelt præcis én gang; vi gemmer kun et hash. Trækker du en nøgle tilbage, holder den op med at virke med det samme.
Authorization: Bearer sk_live_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxPrøv det af, før det går i posten
En nøgle, der begynder med sk_test_, prissætter og opsætter brevet nøjagtigt som en rigtig nøgle gør, men stopper lige før printeren. Sådan kan du køre hele integrationen igennem, uden at der går noget af sted.
Endepunkter
| POST | /api/v1/letters | Send a letter |
| GET | /api/v1/letters | List letters, newest first |
| GET | /api/v1/letters/{id} | One letter, with its timeline |
| POST | /api/quote | Price, and what that country can be sent(no key) |
| GET | /api/countries | Destinations and their address rules(no key) |
| GET | /api/v1/openapi.json | The machine readable spec(no key) |
Ikke alle modtagerlande sælger alle produkter. Spørg /api/quote og læs availableProducts: der findes for eksempel ikke anbefalet brev til Holland. Så kan du slå en mulighed fra i stedet for at lade den fejle ved afsendelsen.
41 destinations. Registered mail: DE, BE, FR, ES, CH.
Statuses
- queued
- Accepted and waiting on the print partner.
- processing
- An exclusive hand-off to the print partner is in progress.
- attention_required
- The provider result is uncertain; held for reconciliation and never retried automatically.
- submitted
- Handed over to the printer.
- printed
- Printed and enveloped.
- posted
- Handed to the carrier. A response deadline runs from here.
- delivered
- Confirmed delivered. Registered mail only.
- failed
- Not sent. `statusDetail` says why, and the payment is returned.
Statusbeskeder til dine egne systemer
Et brev skifter tilstand en håndfuld gange hen over nogle dage. Polling passer dårligt til den rytme: enten spørger du alt for tit, eller også hører du det alt for sent. Registrer et endepunkt på din konto, så siger vi til.
POST your-endpoint
X-SendLetter-Event: letter.posted
X-SendLetter-Signature: 9f86d081...
{ "type": "letter.posted",
"sentAt": "2026-07-28T18:30:00.000Z",
"letter": { "id": "AbC123", "status": "posted", "trackingCode": null, ... } }Hver besked er signeret. Beregn HMAC-SHA256 over den rå body med din hemmelighed, og sammenlign resultatet med headeren X-SendLetter-Signature. Gør det, før du parser body: parsning og ny serialisering ændrer bytene, og så kommer signaturen aldrig til at passe igen.
import crypto from "node:crypto"
// The raw body, before any JSON parsing.
const expected = crypto.createHmac("sha256", process.env.WEBHOOK_SECRET)
.update(rawBody, "utf8").digest("hex")
const sent = req.headers["x-sendletter-signature"]
if (expected.length !== sent.length ||
!crypto.timingSafeEqual(Buffer.from(expected), Buffer.from(sent))) {
return res.status(401).end()
}Fejl
Alle fejl har samme form: en kode at forgrene på og en besked at læse. Forgren på koden, for beskeden må gerne ændre sig.
{ "error": { "code": "no_route",
"message": "Registered mail has no route to NL",
"details": null },
"requestId": "req_018f38d7c9f34738adbe1f06a9b36f11" }Every response also carries X-Request-Id. Include that value when asking support about one call; use the letter id to reconcile the complete order.
| 401 | unauthorised | No key, a revoked key, or a malformed header. |
| 400 | invalid_request | The body failed validation. `details` names the fields. |
| 402 | insufficient_balance | The wallet is short. `details` carries required and available. |
| 403 | insufficient_scope / credential_spending_limit | The key lacks a scope or its per-letter ceiling is too low. Nothing is charged. |
| 429 | rate_limited / credential_spending_limit | A request, daily-spend or monthly-spend ceiling was reached. |
| 403 | organization_forbidden | The named organisation exists and this account is in it, but its role may not spend there. Nothing is charged, to it or to you. |
| 404 | organization_not_found | No organisation of that id that this account belongs to. Refused rather than billed to your own wallet. |
| 409 | no_route | That product is not sold to that country. Ask /api/quote first. |
| 413 | too_many_pages | Over the sheet limit for that destination. |
| 404 | not_found | No such letter on this account. |
OpenAPI
Hele specifikationen serveres live, så den kan aldrig beskrive en version, der ikke kører. Peg en generator på den, og du har en klient i dit eget sprog.