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Overview

UPS delivers one CSV per billing period. Each row is a single charge — a shipment with a base freight charge, a fuel surcharge, and a tax becomes three rows that share the same Tracking Number and Invoice Number. The CSV has 250 columns covering shipment identification, package details, charges, sender/receiver/third-party addresses, customs data (for international shipments), and freight-forwarding metadata.

Shape notes

  • Multi-row shipments. Expect 2–5 rows per Tracking Number, one per charge type.
  • Net vs. gross. Net Amount is what the customer paid for the charge. Incentive Amount is the discount; Net Amount + Incentive Amount = gross charge before discount.
  • Charge types are coded. The Charge Classification Code column contains a 3-letter code (FRT, FSC, ACC, TAX, etc.) — Trackstar maps these to human-readable charge descriptions in the normalized charge_description field.
  • International columns. The majority of columns (Customs Number, Duty Amount, VAT Amount, etc.) are only populated for international shipments. Most domestic US rows leave them empty.
  • Place Holder columns (46–59). Empty columns reserved by UPS for future use.

Sample rows

Curated subset showing the most shape-informative columns. The downloadable CSV below has all 250 columns.

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Download full sample CSV (25 rows, 250 columns)
All sample data is synthetic. Tracking numbers, account numbers, addresses, and reference fields are fabricated and do not correspond to any real shipments or customers.

Fields

UPS columns are grouped below by functional family. All 250 columns are delivered in every invoice in the order shown.

Invoice identification

Shipment and package

Charges

Addresses

UPS ships four address blocks per row (Sender, Receiver, Third Party, Sold To) plus two optional “Miscellaneous Address” blocks. Each block has the same 8 columns.

Shipment lifecycle dates

Customs and international freight

Most of these columns are empty for domestic US shipments.

Freight and reference numbers

Miscellaneous and placeholder