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Shipping without the busywork: DHL labels for DE, AT and CH

Every order automatically produces a print-ready DHL shipping label, across countries.

  • DE · AT · CH

    three countries, one flow

  • Label

    print-ready, generated automatically

  • DHL API

    connected directly

  • Client:

    Online retailer shipping to DE, AT and CH

  • Industry:

    E-commerce / logistics

  • Timeline:

    2025

  • Stack:

    n8n, DHL Parcel API

An online retailer ships to three countries and had been creating DHL labels by hand. We connected label creation directly to the DHL API.

The challenge

For every shipment, someone had to transfer the recipient details and create the shipping label manually in the DHL portal, separately for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. It cost time on every single order.

Our solution

An n8n workflow handles shipping:

  1. Authenticate to the DHL Parcel API via OAuth.
  2. Build the shipment with all recipient details from the order data.
  3. Create the shipment and generate a print-ready label.
  4. Dedicated inputs for DE, AT and CH drive country-specific shipping.

The result

Shipping labels are generated automatically, consistently across all three countries, with no one entering data by hand.

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