# C.H. Robinson

> C.H. Robinson is one of the world's largest third-party logistics (3PL) providers. Its Navisphere
> platform exposes a single OAuth 2.0-secured REST contract covering rating, orders and booking,
> events, visibility, shipments, financials, documents and parcel labels, for both shippers and
> carriers. This file was GENERATED by API Evangelist from C.H. Robinson's own published contract
> and pages - C.H. Robinson does not serve an llms.txt of its own (developer.chrobinson.com/llms.txt
> returns the developer-portal SPA shell, HTTP 200 text/html, not a text file).

## APIs

- [C.H. Robinson REST APIs (OpenAPI 3.0.0)](https://api.navisphere.com/api/B2B/Portal/v1/documentation/swagger.yaml): The single first-party contract - 32 paths, 35 operations, 321 schemas, info.version 2.0.0.
- [API reference](https://developer.chrobinson.com/api-reference): Redoc rendering of the contract above.
- Production base URL: https://api.navisphere.com
- Sandbox base URL: https://sandbox-api.navisphere.com

## Authentication

- [Authentication guide](https://developer.chrobinson.com/api-reference#tag/Authentication): OAuth 2.0 client_credentials against POST /v1/oauth/token with client_id, client_secret and audience https://inavisphere.chrobinson.com. JWT bearer token, valid 24 hours. Credentials are issued during onboarding; there is no self-service signup.

## Products

- Rating - POST /v1/quotes, POST /v1/quotes/freight-class-estimate (contractual, carrier-select and transactional truckload quotes; NMFTA density-based freight classification)
- Orders and Booking - POST/PUT/DELETE /v1/orders, POST /v1/orders/quotes, POST/PUT/DELETE /v1/gfbookings
- Events - GET /v2/events plus a partner-hosted callback for near real-time order and shipment events
- Visibility - POST/GET/DELETE /v2/visibility/shipments, /v2/visibility/orders, /v2/visibility/invoices, GET /v2/visibility/milestones
- Shipments (carrier side) - POST /v2/shipments/available/searches, POST /v1/shipments/{loadNumber}/offers, POST /v1/shipments/books, POST /v1/shipments/milestones
- Financials - GET /v1/financials/payments, /v1/financials/invoiceSummaries, /v1/financials/invoiceSummaries/{invoiceNumber}
- Documents - generated and signed BOLs, invoice PDFs, load document retrieval, carrier document upload
- Labels - POST /v1/labels (small parcel labels; requires a parcel carrier account configured in Navisphere)

## Getting started

- [Carrier onboarding](https://developer.chrobinson.com/carrier): Carrier connectivity questionnaire. API connectivity is offered to carriers free of charge.
- [Customer integration guide](https://api.navisphere.com/api/B2B/Portal/v1/documents/descriptions/Customer_Integration.docx)
- [Public Postman collection](https://api.navisphere.com/api/B2B/Portal/v1/documents/customerApiOnboardingCollectionPublic.json): Twelve runnable onboarding flows - token, quote, order, BOL, invoice, delete.
- [Rating workflow options guide (PDF)](https://api.navisphere.com/api/B2B/Portal/v1/documents/descriptions/RatingWorkflowOptionsGuide.pdf)
- [Transactional truckload quoting and equipment guide (PDF)](https://api.navisphere.com/api/B2B/Portal/v1/documents/descriptions/TransactionalTruckloadQuotingAndEquipmentGuide.pdf)

## Operations

- [API status](https://developer.chrobinson.com/status) - machine readable at https://api.navisphere.com/api/B2B/Portal/v1/statuses (JSON array of {name, healthy}, unauthenticated).
- [Support](https://developer.chrobinson.com/support) - production incidents go to ebizhelpdesk@chrobinson.com.
- Rate limits are undocumented in prose but returned as headers: RateLimit-Limit / RateLimit-Remaining / RateLimit-Reset and X-RateLimit-Limit-Minute. Observed 3000/minute on the token route and 750/minute on the portal route.

## EDI and file transfer

- [EDI and file-transfer guidelines](https://api.navisphere.com/api/B2B/Portal/v1/documents): ANSI ASC X12 204 load tender, 990 tender response, 214 shipment status, 210 invoice, 220 load plan, plus flat-file and XML equivalents. AS2 endpoints and a hosted FTP/SFTP option are configured through https://developer.chrobinson.com/file-transfer.

## Company

- [Website](https://www.chrobinson.com)
- [Developer portal](https://developer.chrobinson.com/)
- [Carrier connectivity](https://www.chrobinson.com/en-us/carriers/api-connectivity/)
- [Shipper connectivity and integrations](https://www.chrobinson.com/en-us/shippers/lean-ai-supply-chains/connectivity-integrations/)
- [Navisphere](https://www.chrobinson.com/en-us/technology/shipper-technology/navisphere/)
- [Blog](https://www.chrobinson.com/en-us/resources/blog/)
- [Newsroom](https://www.chrobinson.com/en-us/about-us/newsroom/)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/ch-robinson)

## Not published

- No MCP server, no A2A agent card, no GraphQL, no gRPC, no WSDL.
- No /.well-known documents on any host (security.txt, api-catalog, openid-configuration, apis.json all 404 or soft-404).
- No AsyncAPI; the event surface is four HTTP callbacks documented inside the OpenAPI contract.
- No idempotency key, no pagination contract, no dated changelog, no deprecation policy, no SLA, no trust center.
- No first-party SDK for these APIs. The Chr.Avro NuGet family is genuine C.H. Robinson open source but is Avro/Kafka tooling, not an API client.