Estibra is an independent company. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or a product of CargoTrack. “CargoTrack” is used only to identify that company’s software. The information below reflects publicly available pages as of 2026-08-19. Verify with the vendor.
Automating CargoTrack when there is no API
A robot signs into your own CargoTrack account, with your written authorization, and works the same screens your intake staff work. It reads the pre-alert emails you forward and types the tracking numbers and waybills. It never bulk-exports a database.
Before you read another line: I sell a competing product. It is called Estibra, it runs on top of CargoTrack rather than replacing it, and this page is selling it to you. Weigh the source accordingly.
Is there a CargoTrack API?
There is no public API documentation on cargotrack.net. Checked 2026-08-19: the site’s navigation has four links — home, contact, free demonstration, get started — and there is no developer page, no documentation section and no blog. Its own homepage describes web-based freight management software and support Monday to Friday, 9 to 6.
That is a fact about a website, not a claim about what the company has built internally. A private integration may well exist for customers who ask. Ask them, in writing. If they give you an API, take it and stop reading — an API beats everything below.
Checked 2026-08-19 at cargotrack.net. Pages change. If a developer page is there now, write to me and I will correct this with a new date.
What driving the screens actually means
With no documented API, one door is left, and your staff walk through it every morning: the browser. A robot signs in as a user you create inside your own account and operates the same forms a data-entry employee operates. Same fields, same buttons, same tab order. Three things follow.
It can only reach what that user can reach. Permissions here are not a policy promise, they are the actual boundary. Give the robot user data-entry rights only and there is no admin screen, no rate table and no delete button past the login, because the application will not render them. That is a stronger guarantee than an API key scope, and you control it, not me.
Nothing comes out in bulk. The robot reads through the same screens the staff use, with the client’s authorization. No database dump, no connection to anything behind the login page. If a record was not on a screen the robot user opened, Estibra does not have it.
The screen is the contract, and the vendor can change it. This is the honest weakness of the approach. A renamed field, a new required dropdown, an extra confirmation step — any of them can stop the robot mid-batch. So can a session timeout, which is not an error but a normal event that has to be designed for: the robot re-authenticates and continues, and a record only counts as entered once the screen confirms it. Otherwise you get duplicates, which is far worse than a robot that stopped.
So when something changes, the robot stops rather than guesses. A guardian agent watches around the clock and raises the alert the moment it stops, usually before the floor notices — the guardian agent, and the WhatsApp alert it sends you, come with Pro. The fix happens once, on my server, and every warehouse gets it as soon as it is ready — usually the same day, longer when the change is deep. That is most of what the monthly price buys: not the typing, the maintenance of the typing.
What is automated today
Not a roadmap. This has run every working day since July 2026 in a Miami warehouse that ships to Venezuela — real packages, the staff’s own CargoTrack account.
The pre-alert
One Gmail filter forwards pre-alert emails to your Estibra address. The reader pulls out tracking numbers, carrier, customer reference and weight, and the robot types them in. Only mail you forward arrives; nothing else in your inbox is read, because nothing else is sent.
The label
Someone photographs a label with a phone. The tracking number is read off the photo and matched to the package already in the system.
The weight and the dimensions
An iDimension dimensioner on your own network sends weight and dimensions straight in. Nobody writes numbers on paper and retypes them an hour later.
The printing
A 5 MB agent on the PC next to the printer sends labels and documents to the right tray. It does not open CargoTrack — that happens on my servers. It opens no port on your network; it calls out, nothing calls in. If the PC is off, jobs queue and print later.
What it will not touch
Every vendor publishes what its software does. This is the other list — the one you want if you would be blamed for letting a robot into the system the business runs on.
- Rates and prices. The robot user has no permission to change them, so it cannot, whatever anyone instructs it to do.
- Deleting anything. It enters records; it does not remove them.
- Admin screens. Users, permissions, configuration. Out of reach by design.
- Your bank, your card processing, your customers’ payments. Not connected in either direction.
- Email you did not forward. The filter is yours and you write it.
- Files on your warehouse PC. The agent prints and talks to the dimensioner.
- Cameras. Estibra installs none.
- Anything outside CargoTrack. Your accounting, your CRM, your messaging.
And one limit on me rather than on the robot: Estibra does not replace CargoTrack. A full replacement, Estibra OS, is what I am building next, and I will not sell it to you before it exists.
Send me one of your pre-alert emails — the ordinary ones that arrive every day — to hola@estibra.com. I send back the list of tracking numbers the robot pulled out of it. You install nothing and it costs nothing.
- You forward one pre-alert email, exactly as it arrived, to hola@estibra.com.
- I hand it to the robot as received, without cleaning it up first.
- You compare what comes back against what your team would have typed.
How to do this without putting the account at risk
A robot user, not yours
The robot never signs in as a person. You create a separate user inside your own CargoTrack called Estibra Robot, with data-entry permissions only. Every action appears under that name, so your audit trail stays honest.
The password, encrypted and rotated daily
You type the robot user’s password once, into your own panel. It is stored encrypted, one key per customer, and rotated automatically every day. It never travels over chat or email. The system has been through two security audits.
Your account, with your written authorization
The robot operates an account you license and control, because you authorized it in writing. That authorization is a document, not a checkbox, and it names what the robot user may do.
Three ways to shut it off, all of them yours
- Pause robot. One button in your panel. It stops mid-task, immediately.
- Disable the robot user inside CargoTrack. Done in your own system without telling me first. The robot is locked out in seconds.
- Delete the Gmail filter and uninstall the agent. Then no mail arrives and nothing prints.
None of the three needs my cooperation, and that is deliberate. What Estibra can see, and what it cannot →
Six steps, about 40 minutes of your time
Spread over two days. No box, no server, no migration.
| Step | What you do |
|---|---|
| 01 | One form: your business, the address you use to log into CargoTrack, where pre-alerts arrive. No password is typed into it. |
| 02 | Create the robot user in your own CargoTrack, data-entry permissions only. I send a 60-second video showing where the button is. |
| 03 | Type that robot password once, into your own panel. It logs in and shows a green check or a red X. |
| 04 | Add one Gmail filter forwarding pre-alerts to your Estibra address. |
| 05 | Install the 5 MB agent by the printer. Enter a 6-digit code, pick the printers, print a test page. |
| 06 | Read the trial report, then press Approve. |
Step 06 is the one that matters. Before anything touches your live system, the robot produces a report showing exactly what it would have typed from your last 10 pre-alerts, and we read it together. If the mapping is wrong, I fix it and we run it again.
What it costs
Starter is $199 a month. Pro is $399 a month. One flat price per warehouse, no per-package fee, month to month. Starter is the pre-alert reader, the robot typing into CargoTrack, one print station and your panel. Pro adds the label reader, hands-free intake with the dimensioner, extra print stations, the live dashboard and the guardian agent. Estibra OS is $549 a month and is not available yet — until it exists it is here as a price, not an offer.
Read this line twice: Estibra is on top of your current bill, not instead of it. You keep paying whatever you pay CargoTrack today and Estibra is added to it. Not $199 in place of your invoice — $199 in addition to it.
As for what CargoTrack itself costs: the vendor publishes no price. There is no pricing page on cargotrack.net, checked 2026-08-19. If you are already a customer, the only CargoTrack price that exists anywhere is the one on your own invoice.
Setup is waived for the first 5 pilot couriers. A pilot has its own period, written into the order, and either side can end it with 15 days’ written notice.
Estibra pricing in full → · What 10 courier systems charge, with sources →
Questions
Does CargoTrack have an API?
No public API documentation exists on cargotrack.net, checked 2026-08-19 — no developer page and no documentation section. Whether a private integration exists for customers who ask is a question for the vendor, and worth asking in writing.
Is this scraping my data out of CargoTrack?
No. The robot reads through the same screens the staff use, with the client’s authorization, and it never bulk-exports a database. It puts data in far more than it takes anything out.
What happens when the vendor changes a screen?
The robot stops instead of guessing, the guardian agent alerts me, and I fix it once on my server — every warehouse gets the fix as soon as it is ready, usually the same day, longer when the change is deep. The written commitment is in the terms: back running within 5 business days, and if I expect to miss that I tell you and give you a new date.
Does my staff have to learn anything new?
No. The screens do not change, because they are the same screens. The visible difference on the floor is that fewer things get typed.
Which CargoTrack is this page about?
The web-based freight and courier system at cargotrack.net, whose customers log in at subdomains of that address. Other companies use the same name — among them a Romanian vehicle-GPS product at cargotrack.ro, plus cargotrack.info and cargotrack.co. If you came looking for a GPS tracker, this is not it.
Can I cancel?
The plans are month to month. Disable the robot user inside your own CargoTrack and the robot is locked out in seconds, whether or not you have told me yet.
Twenty minutes on a video call: I show you the robot typing into a real CargoTrack, with real packages. If it does not fit your warehouse, I will say so.
- Or forward one pre-alert email, exactly as it arrived, to hola@estibra.com.
- I hand it to the robot as received, without cleaning it up first.
- I send back the tracking numbers it pulled out, for you to compare against what your team would have typed.
Last checked: 19 August 2026. I re-check the vendor pages cited here every quarter. If you find something different, write to me and I will correct it with a new date. Santiago León — Estibra, Miami, Florida.
Estibra is an independent company. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or a product of CargoTrack. “CargoTrack” is used only to identify that company’s software. The information above reflects publicly available pages as of 2026-08-19. Verify with the vendor.