Docmail's secure API (Application Programming Interface) allows you to send A4 letters, Postcards and Greeting Cards from a click of a button within your own computer systems.

Docmail creates a hybrid of electronic and physical mail by transmitting an electronic document and mailing list to us, where we print and mail it as real post.

The Docmail API allows you to add a Hybrid Mail service right into your own systems and workflows.

BASICS OF THE DOCMAIL API

The API is a SOAP-based webservice allowing the creation, proofing and confirmation of orders for mailings, single letters, postcards and greeting cards. Documents (PDF, RTF or Word files) are submitted as files or selected by name from your account. 

Address lists may be selected by name, submitted as a file (CSV, XLS, XLSX, Tab delimited, fixed length fields etc.) or added as individual addresses using the AddAddress call.

A PDF proof approval is available, but is no longer a required step in the process.

Payment is made via Top-Up credit on the customer Account, or for large volume users, payment on invoice may be available.

The API documentation includes an example for creating a mailing with a Visual Studio console application using C# .NET 6.

DOCMAIL TEST ENVIRONMENT

Docmail provides test mailings for use when integrating the API. 

You use the same API, and web functionality as a real mailing.  

We do not produce any print or mail output from test mailings and no credit is required to submit test mailings.  

You can also simulate failure scenarios, such as insufficient credit, when attempting to submit test mailings through the API.

DOCMAIL WEB SERVICE DEFINITIONS

Webservice definitions for the API are available at these URL’s:

Docmail system access: https://secure.docmail.co.uk/

Docmail signup: https://secure.docmail.co.uk/signup

Docmail API wsdl: https://api.docmail.co.uk/DMWS.asmx?wsd

Docmail API definition: https://api.docmail.co.uk/DMWS.asmx