Events

Events are notifications that transporters provide from the time of booking until the shipment is considered done. Skrym receives events from transporters in one of two different ways:

When we receive an event, we immediately store the original transporter event in our system so that in case of confusion/error or any other reason we can always go back and check what we originally received.

This is particularly important as many transporters delete event data for shipments older than 6 months.

Skrym provides a set of default event types that we use to categorize the events we receive. These are:

Skrym maps the transporter's event to one of these types. This is done to ensure that we can provide a consistent experience across all transporters.

Events determine Shipment Status

Each shipment has a status. Some events make the status change, while some other does not. A status can be one of four values:

OK

DELAY

PROBLEM

DONE

ARCHIVED

• When Skrym receives a transporter event that indicates an error, the shipment's status tends to be changed to
  PROBLEM
• Notifications events, such as when a text reminder has been sent to the recipient, will never lead to a change in status

Anatomy of an Event

The struct for a skrym event is defined by a few fields.

Some data about when the event was created and what the event is tracking (e.g what shipment it is about). It also contains some data regarding what the event means. That data we store in the field EventAspect.

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