Boxtech Public Documentation
  • Introduction
  • User Guide
    • Search Boxtech
    • Managing your Fleet
    • Smart Containers
    • Container Alerts
    • Change Password
    • Upload History
  • API
    • API Documentation
    • API Use Case Examples
    • Limits and Quotas
  • Maintaining Your Fleet
    • Getting Started
    • Automating the Updates
    • Boxtech Dataset
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  • User Roles
  • API Specifications
  • Issues, Support or Feature Requests

Introduction

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Last updated 1 year ago

Boxtech provides container technical detail for the global container fleet, you can see what data is available in our dataset, we would recommend that you use the API for integrating to your application as well as the user interface for less frequent lookups.

The documentation is available at

Full details on Boxtech and the BIC can be found at

For feature requests, support or other requests please raise a github issue at and we will reply accordingly.

Register for Access

Access to Boxtech is free, you just need to register to use the service and verify your email account.

Registration can be found at

User Roles

You can use Boxtech as either:

  • Consumer

  • Uploader

Consumers

As a consumer you get full access to Boxtech to query the containers in the database, you only need the container number you are looking for and you can for occasional use OR use the or script queries to Boxtech from your own application.

You will need to register to gain access, and can start using the application immediately.

Uploaders

This information is verified by BIC and once approved you will have the ability to start managing your container fleet and alerts.

You will gain immediate access to Boxtech as a consumer but only have uploader rights until verification has taken place by the BIC team.

When registering for Boxtech provide one of your BIC codes and we will verify your account as part of your application to become an uploader.

If you are already registered as a consumer then, once logged into Boxtech you can request access by clicking the button below and providing a BIC Code.

API Specifications

Issues, Support or Feature Requests

We are always interested to hear your ideas for Boxtech, and to support your journey to integrating Boxtech into your systems. Please raise a Github issue for us to manage these requests and we will be happy to assist. and hear from you.

To and manage your fleet or to containers you will need to have uploader rights. To qualify for this you will need to register as an uploader in Boxtech and provide the BIC prefix that applies to you.

Follow the guide to uploading your fleet

All Our API's are published on SwaggerHub

Download the Postman Collection from

https://docs.bic-boxtech.org
https://www.bic-boxtech.org
https://github.com/bic-org/Boxtech
https://app.bic-boxtech.org/sign-up
search using the web interface
API to integrate
add your containers to boxtech
apply container alerts
Getting Started
https://app.swaggerhub.com/apis/BIC-ORG
https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/Tzm9huBX
https://github.com/bic-org/Boxtech