What a Smart Link is
A Smart Link is a short, stable web address for one shipment:
`` https://trackjet.world/t/7f4e45a8 ``
The code is the first 8 characters of the shipment's internal id. It is short enough to print, stable for the life of the shipment, and impossible to guess from a tracking number. It opens the full live tracking page — the timeline, verification, delivery estimate, carbon and any anomalies — without exposing the raw carrier tracking number in the URL.
Why it is the foundation
Four other products all point at the same Smart Link, so a customer always lands in one consistent place:
- the [QR code](/docs/qr) encodes it,
- the [branded email](/docs/branded-email) links to it,
- the [embeddable status page](/docs/status-embed) opens it,
- the [trust badge](/docs/trust-badge) can deep-link to it.
Because they all derive the link the same way, they never drift apart.
How to get one
Smart Links are created automatically for shipments TrackJet has events for. If you have a TrackJet account, save a shipment and its Smart Link is the /t/{code} shown on its page. There is nothing to configure.
Privacy & abuse
- The page is marked
noindex, so search engines never list it. - It carries no personal data — a shipment record holds tracking events, not names or addresses.
- The endpoint is rate-limited per IP, so the short-code space cannot be cheaply scraped.
Branding
If the shipment belongs to a user who has set a brand (logo, colour) on their [widget](/docs/status-embed), the Smart Link page shows that brand. Otherwise it is clean TrackJet. The same brand appears on the status page and the branded email — see [white-label](/docs/white-label) to put it on your own domain.