The Share A Refund Graph API lets you retrieve aggregated metrics and time-series data used for visualization and advanced reporting. You can develop applications that integrate with Share A Refund to build custom dashboards, render performance charts, and analyze shipping trends over specific time intervals.

The following figure shows the relationship between your Share A Refund app, the Share A Refund API, and Graph services.

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Figure 1. Share A Refund API relationship diagram.

Share A Refund App

Share A Refund’s graph services give users the visual intelligence needed to understand complex shipping data at a glance and power the interactive charts and trend lines found throughout the analytics dashboard.

Share A Refund API

The REST API that allows users to fetch structured datasets, data points, and aggregated metrics formatted to chart libraries from within your app.

Data Visualization

An interface that provides pre-calculated data sets optimized to render bar charts, line graphs, and pie charts, and to reduce the need for heavy client-side processing.

Trend Analysis

A system that aggregates historical shipping performance into time-series data, enabling the identification of spending patterns, volume fluctuations, and carrier performance shifts over time.

What can users do with the Share A Refund Graph API?

Users can use the Share A Refund Graph API to perform common workflows, such as:

  • Retrieve time-series data for shipping spend over the last 12 months
  • Fetch aggregated metrics for cost-per-pound or cost-per-package analysis
  • Get dataset coordinates for building custom carrier performance comparisons
  • Visualize surcharge trends across different service levels
  • Access zone distribution data for shipping density heatmaps
  • Export raw graph data for internal business intelligence tools


Graph properties available to view, query, and utilize through the Share A Refund Graph API:

  • Aggregations
  • Data Points
  • Datasets
  • Metrics
  • Time Series

Additional info

Learn more about developing with Share A Refund Graph API, including handling authentication, authorization, reference the Develop on Share A Refund API for your workspace. More

Learn more about how to launch and run a Share A Refund Graph API app, read the Developer Getting Started Guide. More