Send transport request
send_requestAsk carriers for a price: one transport request goes to each carrier chosen from search_carriers, in the carrier's own language and in the name of the user's Fitralo account; the carriers answer the user directly by e-mail. It needs the user to link a free Fitralo account once (OAuth). It sends e-mail to companies: first show the user the request and the carriers, and call it only when the user agrees. Fitralo checks and translates the request, then it goes to each carrier in its office hours, usually within minutes, and the user gets an e-mail when it went. The account's monthly limits apply. Returns the request's number and page; carriers that take no requests are listed with the reason. A missing route, loading day, cargo or contact name returns an error that says what to add. Each call sends a new request: do not repeat one that succeeded. At most 300 calls an hour from one address, for all tools together.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| unit | No | ||
| cargo | Yes | What is transported, e.g. "22 pallets of chilled food". | |
| phone | No | Phone number for the carriers. By default the one of the account's last request. | |
| amount | No | How much, in unit. | |
| regular | No | A regular transport from load_date on, rather than one load. | |
| carriers | Yes | The profile_url of each carrier to ask, from search_carriers, or only its last part. | |
| language | No | The language the user writes the request in, as a two-letter code: its page and the e-mails to the user are in it, and each carrier reads it translated. | en |
| quote_by | No | Day by which the user wants the prices (YYYY-MM-DD). | |
| to_place | Yes | Town or postcode of delivery. | |
| load_date | No | Day of loading (YYYY-MM-DD). Leave it out when the day is still to be agreed. | |
| deliver_by | No | Day the load must be delivered by (YYYY-MM-DD). | |
| from_place | Yes | Town or postcode of loading. | |
| to_country | Yes | Country of delivery, as a two-letter code, e.g. "IT". | |
| description | No | Anything else the carriers should know, in the user's words; it is translated for each carrier. | |
| return_trip | No | A load back as well. | |
| contact_name | No | The person carriers ask for. By default the one of the account's last request; without one, ask the user. | |
| from_country | Yes | Country of loading, as a two-letter code, e.g. "NL". | |
| requirements | No | Equipment, services and certificates the load needs, in plain words, e.g. "tail lift, ADR". Those in Fitralo's list become the request's requirements, named in each carrier's language; put anything else in description. |
Output Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| next | Yes | What happens now, to tell the user. | |
| carriers | Yes | The carriers it goes to. | |
| not_sent | Yes | Carriers chosen that take no requests through Fitralo, with why. | |
| reply_to | Yes | The address the carriers answer to. | |
| request_id | Yes | ||
| request_url | Yes | The request on fitralo.com, where the user follows, changes or sends it again. | |
| requirements | Yes | The requirements as the carriers read them. |