Hunter Express has broadened its technology integration footprint by making its services accessible through multiple shipping platforms and a RESTful API, giving e-commerce retailers and third-party logistics providers a wider set of options for automating bookings, generating labels, and tracking consignments through the Hunter Express network.
Integration Ecosystem
The carrier now integrates with four major platforms that serve Australian online retailers and fulfilment operations: MachShip, Starshipit, Interparcel, and TrackingMore. Each platform offers a different entry point into the Hunter Express network depending on the shipper’s existing technology stack and operational requirements.
MachShip provides multi-carrier rate comparison and consignment management, making it a common choice for warehouses and 3PLs that dispatch across several carriers daily. Starshipit focuses on e-commerce order fulfilment, pulling orders from platforms like Shopify and WooCommerce and automating the shipping workflow. Interparcel offers a marketplace-style interface for comparing rates and booking individual or bulk shipments. TrackingMore aggregates tracking data across carriers, giving retailers and their customers a single pane of visibility over shipment status regardless of which carrier is handling the parcel.
By maintaining active integrations across all four, Hunter Express ensures that shippers can access its services without needing to abandon their existing platform investments or build custom connections from scratch.
API Capabilities
Beyond platform integrations, Hunter Express provides a RESTful JSON API for businesses that require direct programmatic access. The API supports core shipping operations including consignment booking, label generation, and shipment tracking. For businesses running custom warehouse management systems or proprietary order management workflows, direct API access removes the dependency on third-party middleware.
Webhook support adds a real-time dimension to the integration. Rather than polling for status updates, connected systems can receive automated notifications when shipment events occur, such as pickup confirmation, transit milestones, or delivery completion. This event-driven approach reduces latency in customer communications and enables tighter synchronisation between shipping status and downstream processes like invoicing, inventory adjustment, and customer notification emails.
Platinum E-Commerce Solution
The integration push aligns with Hunter Express’s broader strategic investment in e-commerce logistics through its Platinum plan, a purpose-built service tier designed specifically for oversized item delivery. The company identified a gap in the Australian market: while e-commerce had made purchasing large goods straightforward, the actual delivery of bulky and heavy items remained a friction point for both retailers and consumers.
The Platinum service was developed to close that gap, enabling Australians to purchase large goods online with reliable door-to-door delivery. Combined with same-day metro services for items up to 850 kilograms and national express road freight, the offering positions Hunter Express as a specialist in the segment of e-commerce logistics that standard parcel carriers typically cannot serve.
National Footprint
Established in 1990 in Melbourne, Hunter Express has grown into a national operation with more than 400 staff and over 1,000 contractors deployed across depots in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Canberra, and Perth. That physical infrastructure underpins the digital integrations, ensuring that consignments booked through any of the connected platforms or the direct API are backed by an operational network capable of executing the delivery.
What It Means for Shippers
For e-commerce businesses and 3PL operators evaluating their carrier integration strategy, the expanded connectivity from Hunter Express reduces the technical barrier to adding a specialist heavy and bulky goods carrier to their shipping mix. The combination of platform integrations, direct API access, and webhook-driven event notifications means that Hunter Express consignments can be managed with the same level of automation that shippers already apply to their standard parcel carriers. As online retail continues to push into product categories that demand more than a standard parcel service, carriers that invest in integration infrastructure will be increasingly well positioned to capture that volume.