---
title: "createContainerLabel"
method: POST
path: "/vendor/directFulfillment/shipping/2021-12-28/containerLabel"
tags: ["Vendor Direct Fulfillment Shipping v2021-12-28"]
---

# createContainerLabel

`POST /vendor/directFulfillment/shipping/2021-12-28/containerLabel`

Creates a container (pallet) label for the associated shipment package.

**Usage Plan:**

| Rate (requests per second) | Burst |
| ---- | ---- |
| 10 | 10 |

The `x-amzn-RateLimit-Limit` response header returns the usage plan rate limits that were applied to the requested operation, when available. The preceding table contains the default rate and burst values for this operation. Selling partners whose business demands require higher throughput may have higher rate and burst values than those shown here. For more information, refer to [Usage Plans and Rate Limits in the Selling Partner API](https://developer-docs.amazon.com/sp-api/docs/usage-plans-and-rate-limits-in-the-sp-api).

## Request body

- CreateContainerLabelRequest — The request body schema for the `createContainerLabel` operation.
  - `sellingParty` PartyIdentification, required — Name/Address and tax details of the party.
    - `address` Address — Address of the party.
      - `name` string, required — The name of the person, business or institution at that address.
      - `addressLine1` string, required — First line of the address.
      - `addressLine2` string — Additional street address information, if required.
      - `addressLine3` string — Additional street address information, if required.
      - `city` string — The city where the person, business or institution is located.
      - `county` string — The county where person, business or institution is located.
      - `district` string — The district where person, business or institution is located.
      - `stateOrRegion` string — The state or region where person, business or institution is located.
      - `postalCode` string — The postal code of that address. It contains a series of letters or digits or both, sometimes including spaces or punctuation.
      - `countryCode` string, required — The two digit country code in ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 format.
      - `phone` string — The phone number of the person, business or institution located at that address.
    - `partyId` string, required — Assigned identification for the party.
    - `taxRegistrationDetails` TaxRegistrationDetails[] — Tax registration details of the entity.
      - `taxRegistrationType` 'VAT' | 'GST', required — Tax registration type for the entity.
      - `taxRegistrationNumber` string, required — Tax registration number for the entity. For example, VAT ID.
  - `shipFromParty` PartyIdentification, required — Name/Address and tax details of the party.
    - `address` Address — Address of the party.
      - `name` string, required — The name of the person, business or institution at that address.
      - `addressLine1` string, required — First line of the address.
      - `addressLine2` string — Additional street address information, if required.
      - `addressLine3` string — Additional street address information, if required.
      - `city` string — The city where the person, business or institution is located.
      - `county` string — The county where person, business or institution is located.
      - `district` string — The district where person, business or institution is located.
      - `stateOrRegion` string — The state or region where person, business or institution is located.
      - `postalCode` string — The postal code of that address. It contains a series of letters or digits or both, sometimes including spaces or punctuation.
      - `countryCode` string, required — The two digit country code in ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 format.
      - `phone` string — The phone number of the person, business or institution located at that address.
    - `partyId` string, required — Assigned identification for the party.
    - `taxRegistrationDetails` TaxRegistrationDetails[] — Tax registration details of the entity.
      - `taxRegistrationType` 'VAT' | 'GST', required — Tax registration type for the entity.
      - `taxRegistrationNumber` string, required — Tax registration number for the entity. For example, VAT ID.
  - `carrierId` 'SWA', required — The unique carrier code for the carrier for whom container labels are requested.
  - `vendorContainerId` string, required — The unique, vendor-provided identifier for the container.
  - `packages` Package[], required — An array of package objects in a container.
    - `packageTrackingNumber` string, required — The tracking number on the label of shipment package, that you can fetch from the `shippingLabels` response. You can also scan the bar code on the shipping label to get the tracking number.

## Response `200`

Success.

- CreateContainerLabelResponse — The response schema for the `createContainerLabel` operation.
  - `containerLabel` ContainerLabel, required — The details of the container label.
    - `containerTrackingNumber` string — The container (pallet) tracking identifier from the shipping carrier.
    - `content` string, required — The container label content encoded into a Base64 string.
    - `format` 'PNG' | 'ZPL', required — The format of the container label.

## Other responses

- `400` — Request has missing or invalid parameters and cannot be parsed.
- `403` — Indicates that access to the resource is forbidden. Possible reasons include Access Denied, Unauthorized, Expired Token, or Invalid Signature.
- `404` — The resource specified does not exist.
- `413` — The request size exceeded the maximum accepted size.
- `415` — The request payload is in an unsupported format.
- `429` — The frequency of requests was greater than allowed.
- `500` — An unexpected condition occurred that prevented the server from fulfilling the request.
- `503` — Temporary overloading or maintenance of the server.

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