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bids

ark.create_spot_quote_bid

Creates a carrier bid for a visible active spot quote, records bid history, and notifies quote watchers.

Availability: Expanded preview
Scopes: loads:write
ARK permissions: canEditLoad
Team visibility: Required and enforced
Idempotency-Key: Required for this write
Approval: No MCP approval on REST API-token calls
Rate limit: API credential and organization budgets

Parameters

spotQuoteIdpathstringrequired: format: uuid
Idempotency-Keyheaderstringrequired: Required for external write operations.; min length: 1; max length: 255

Request body

carrierIdstring | null

Carrier ID when the carrier already exists in ARK.

format: uuid

carrierNamestring

min length: 1; max length: 200

dotNumberstringrequired

min length: 1; max length: 30

mcNumberstring | null

max length: 30

pricenumberrequired

pricePerMilenumber | null

distanceDeadheadMilesnumber | null

min: 0

Example request

Shell

curl -X POST 'https://arktms.com/api/v1/spot-quotes/<spotQuoteId>/bids' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ARK_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: <unique-key>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "dotNumber": "<dotNumber>",
  "price": 1
}'

Success response

Spot quote bid action result

objectstringrequired

okbooleanrequired

api_versionstringrequired

request_idstringrequired

dataobjectrequired

data.spotQuoteIdstringrequired

format: uuid

data.bidIdstringrequired

format: uuid

data.bidobjectrequired

data.resultobject

data.notificationCountintegerrequired

data.sideEffectErrorstring | nullrequired

Errors

HTTP 400: Invalid request
HTTP 401: Authentication required
HTTP 403: Permission, scope, team, or entitlement denied
HTTP 404: Resource not found
HTTP 409: Idempotency conflict or in-progress retry