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Shell Card Management APIs

Release date 02 / 09 / 2025

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Product Overview

This product provides tools to manage your fuel cards, helping you build the best fuel management system. 

This product includes three APIs that address different aspects of fuel card management, ensuring a seamless and efficient experience for businesses of all sizes.

Why Use Shell Card Management API?

Managing fuel expenses is a critical aspect of fleet management, and the Shell Card Management API offers a robust solution to streamline this process. By integrating these APIs into your system, you can gain comprehensive control over your fuel cards, enhance security, and optimize operational efficiency. Whether you are a small business or a large enterprise, these APIs provide the flexibility and functionality needed to meet your specific requirements.

Key Benefits

Automation: 

Integrate daily Shell Card data with your own apps and systems to help reduce time-consuming manual tasks.

Flexibility: 

APIs can be combined, enabling flexible functionality to provide new services or features and to improve internal processes.
 

Control:

Gain clearer oversight and control over cards and spending to help protect your business from risk.
 

What is included in Shell Card Management APIs

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Customer API offers various endpoints to retrieve account data from Shell's fleet management system and enable seamless integration with your system.

Key features include:

Account Overview: Access details on Account Numbers, Card Groups, and Card Types, useful for ordering fuel cards or creating dashboards.
Audit Report: Review operations performed on specific accounts and their statuses. For example, extract details of failed card orders, sent PIN reminders, and card status change requests.
Card Groups Overview and Update: Endpoints for querying, creating, updating card groups, and moving cards between card groups.
Card Types: Retrieve information about card types and purchase categories.

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Card API includes endpoints for retrieving and updating Shell card details.

Key features include:

  • Search for Shell Cards in the Shell Card Platform
  • Tools for secure PIN encryption
  • Electronic PIN reminders
  • Order fuel cards and decide about expiry dates, products that can be purchased, card and PIN delivery details
  • Block card instantly and permanently, or temporarily
  • Schedule card blocking to be triggered on a specific day or period of time. For example, when the driver is on vacation
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Restriction APIs allow you to search card restrictions and view current limits on the Shell card. 

You can apply restrictions and limits, and create, retrieve, update, or delete restriction profiles. You can easily assign limit profiles for different types of customers or drivers.

Stay in control by applying a variety of limits on spending:

  • Volume, value and transaction limits can be set at a daily, weekly
    monthly or annual threshold
  • Card lifetime limits are one-off limits that will not reset
  • Product limits establish what can and can’t be purchased using your cards
  • Day and time limits allow precise control over spending, e.g. only during business hours

We will guide you through integration

We offer a comprehensive set of tools and  support to help your IT team 

integrate our  REST APIs into your existing systems.

  • Test environments with sample data

  • Open API specs

  • SDKs in  Java, .Net, TypeScript, PHP, Python and Ruby

  • Pre-built Postman collections to start  experimenting in minutes

  • Guided Walkthroughs

     

Our dedicated team will  advise on the best suited  APIs for your business

Our APIs have been used by customers since 2018.  Shell uses the same APIs to power our systems.

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