createShopShippingProfile -- no option to set "profile_type"

[Kenny Mai]

How do I set the "profile_type" eg. "manual" or "calculated" when creating a Shop Shipping Profile using the API? When I GET the profile I can see the variable "profile_type", but I am not seeing that you can set the variable in the  createShopShippingProfile   call.

https://developers.etsy.com/documentation/reference/#operation/createShopShippingProfile

Note that I do not have access to the API yet, so I cannot test whether setting the "profile_type" works, even though it isn't listed in the API as a body field you can use.

[Gareth Doherty]

In short, you cannot created a calculated shipping profile from the API. You need to create it through the Web App, and then it can be assigned to a listing via the API.

You won't find this anywhere on the documentation site but you can find this info inside the OAS file

https://www.etsy.com/openapi/generated/oas/3.0.0.json