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Shipment & Label Audit Logs

In fast-moving shipping environments, clarity and accountability are key. Postsale’s Audit records give your team visibility into changes made to your shipme...

Updated December 13, 20251 min readShipping

In fast-moving shipping environments, clarity and accountability are key. Postsale’s Audit records give your team visibility into changes made to your shipments and labels. Whether it’s a switch in carrier or service, a weight adjustment, updated dimensions, or when a label is created or voided, Postsale's audit logs give a clear record of the changes so that you can easily resolve discrepancies and maintain a reliable shipping workflow. 

This article will walk you through accessing the Postsale's shipment and label audit logs and how to read them. Learn more about order audit records here.

Access The Audit Logs

  1. Go to Settings.

    Click the Settings gear icon in the Postsale toolbar
     

  2. Select Account Settings.

    Select Account Settings from the Settings menu

  3. Select Audit from the list of available options.

    Audit is being selected from the list of available options in the account settings menu.

    The available audit records are listed for you.

    A list of available audit records is shown.

About the Audit Logs

Here are a few helpful details about the list of available audit logs:

  • Shipment**, label**, and order related logs are available in the list of available logs.
    • Shipment logs are listed in the Type column beginning with shipment_, such as shipment_updated, etc.
    • Label logs are listed in the Type column beginning with label_, such as label_created, etc.
    • Order logs are listed in the Type column beginning with order_, such as order_status_changed, etc.
  • Logs are listed in reverse chronological order by Date and Time.
  • The previous 30 days of logs are available. Log records older than 30 days are removed from the Audit page and purged from our system.

Read the Shipment Logs

Locate the shipment or label log you wish to view and click on it to select it.

An audit log has been selected in the list of available logs.
 

Locating Shipment Logs

Do you know the date that updates were made to the shipment or label in question? Scroll down to the audit logs that list that date in the Date column. This may help to quickly focus in on a specific record.

When you select a log, the Audit Log Details are listed for you.

A log has been selected and the audit log details are displayed.

At the top of the Audit Log Details you'll see the following information listed:

  • The log ID.
  • The User that made the change to the shipment.
  • The Event Type. The type helps to identify what occurred. For example, shipment**_deleted** clearly identifies the log is related to a shipment that was deleted, shipment_update indicates that a change was made to the shipment, and so on.
  • The Event Date. This is the date/time stamp indicating when the event occurred and the log was created.

The log details are shown.

Below this information you'll find the information about the specific change or update made to the shipment or label.

The great thing is that only the lines of the audit record related to the update or change are shown for you, making it easy to identify the exact details of the update.

Take a look at the image below. In addition to the timestamps indicating when the changes occurred, we can easily see that the carrier and service (in red) were changed from fedex and fedex_ground to carrier and service (in green) usps and usps_ground_advantage.

The record is shown and the lines showing that the carrier and service were changed are highlighted.

Here's another example showing that a label was voided. Notice that the status (red) indicates the label was ‘processed’ and then was later ‘voided’.

Audit log showing a label status changed from processed to voided

View More Log Information

Need to view more information within the log. Click on any of the lines indicating the number of unchanged lines to expand all of the details of that section.

For example, clicking on 16 unchanged lines would expand all of those lines so that they are visible.

Expanded audit log showing hidden unchanged lines revealed