Document tracking

shipping/tracking.md

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+---
+title: Tracking
+---
+
+# Tracking
+Most carriers provide a way to check on the delivery status of a shipment.
+The ShipEngine Connect platform provides flexibility to adapt to the various
+approaches carriers use to expose this information.
+
+## Single item API
+If a carrier provides tracking information via an HTTP API, you should implement
+the Track function in your app. It will accept various identifiers (like
+`tracking_number`) for a single shipment, and your implementation should return
+the tracking information for that shipment. This Track function will be invoked
+when a user requests tracking information via a ShipEngine API.
+
+## Bulk import
+If a carrier provides tracking information via a bulk export mechanism, you can
+implement the ImportTrackingEvents function. It will be invoked on a regular
+schedule by the ShipEngine platform, and a separate call will be made on behalf
+of each seller who has a connection to your carrier. The input does not contain
+any shipment identifiers - only the credentials associated with the connection
+to the carrier. In most cases, the credentials will include information needed
+to connect to an FTP server to download files, but the actual implementation
+can vary depending on what the carrier provides and you may need to add fields
+to your registration form or settings form to collect additional data from
+sellers. Your function will be a javascript AsyncGenerator. It should download
+the bulk tracking file provided by the carrier, parse it, transform each event
+from the file into an ImportedTrackingEvent, and yield them via the generator.
+Since functions run in an environment with constrained resources (minimal
+memory and filesystem storage), and tracking files can be large, it is
+recommended that you process the file as you stream it from the source.
+There are javascript stream parsing libraries available for many common formats
+like CSV, JSON, and XML.
+
+## Both
+If you implement both the `Track` function and `ImportTrackingEvents` function,
+the ShipEngine platform will use the `Track` function to query for updates about
+each shipment but if a tracking event is imported by `ImportTrackingEvents`,
+ the `Track` function will be disabled for that shipment. The platform will
+expect all future updates to that shipment to come from ImportTrackingEvents.

sidebars.yaml

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                 label: Trade Me
   - group: Shipping
     expanded: false
+    page: shipping/index.mdx
     pages:
-      - page: shipping/index.mdx
+      - page: shipping/tracking.md
       - page: shipping/logging.md
       - page: shipping/error-handling.md
       - page: shipping/testing-guide.mdx

siteConfig.yaml

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   - search: true
 
 footer:
-  copyrightText: © 2022 ShipEngine. All rights reserved.
+  copyrightText: © ShipEngine. All rights reserved.
   columns:
     - group: Support
       items: