D&H Distributing
Your distributor's catalog, pricing, and orders, answerable in plain English.
D&H Distributing is where the hardware comes from, and the honest answer to "can we source this, and for how much?" normally means logging into the portal and walking item pages one SKU at a time. Connect your D&H API credentials here and a session answers from your account directly: real-time partner pricing at volume breaks, warehouse-level stock, and where an order actually is — carrier, tracking numbers, serials. Twelve capabilities, every one of them a read. The agent registers no ordering or write endpoints, so nothing here can place, change, or cancel an order.
The story
What changes once it’s connected.
Quoting hardware out of a portal is slow in a specific way: every line of a BOM is its own lookup — find the item, check your price, check stock, repeat. Connected here, the same work collapses into a sentence. One item or a whole bill of materials priced at once, with availability by warehouse in the same call, at the quantity you actually intend to buy so volume breaks apply.
Item identity works the way distribution actually does: there is no free-text search on D&H, so lookups go by identifier — D&H item number, manufacturer part number, or UPC — and return the full item record: description, manufacturer, category, and the numbers the rest of the surface keys on.
Orders close the loop. One order opened in full shows status, dates, lines, costs, and shipments down to carrier, ship date, tracking numbers, and serials — or search by your own purchase-order number when that's all the ticket has. Carrier reference data rounds it out, so "what are our LTL options" is a lookup, not a phone call.
Things you can ask
Ask it like you’d ask a teammate.
Skills included
Every skill, in the open.
12 skills across 4 areas
Read-only, and structurally so: the agent registers item, pricing, availability, order, and carrier lookups only — there is no tool anywhere in the surface that can place an order, modify a cart, or change account settings. The credential is a client-credential pair from the D&H API portal plus your 10-digit account number; every price returned is your account's partner price, and every call runs under that account.
Agent & session1What this connection is and whether it's answering — the first thing to check when a result looks wrong.⊘ Read-only, and it reports the connection rather than repairing it — rotated or revoked API credentials show up here as a connection that has stopped validating.›
whoamiWhat this session is wired to — the bound D&H account, environment, and credential health.
Catalog & items2Item identity by the numbers distribution runs on — D&H item number, MPN, or UPC.⊘ Identifier lookups only: D&H exposes no free-text search, so "find me a laptop" is not a thing — "look up this MPN" is.›
get_itemFull item detail for one D&H item number — description, manufacturer, MPN, UPC, category.find_itemsResolve items by D&H item number, manufacturer part number, or UPC.
Pricing & availability6Real-time partner pricing and warehouse-level stock, one item at a time or a whole BOM at once.⊘ Quotes reality, never changes it: prices are your account's current partner prices at the quantity asked, and no call here reserves, carts, or commits stock.›
get_priceReal-time partner price for one item, with volume breaks at a given quantity.get_availabilityReal-time stock for one item, broken out by warehouse.get_price_and_availabilityPrice and stock for one item in a single call — the standard stock check.bulk_pricePartner prices for many items at once.bulk_availabilityAvailability for many items at once.bulk_price_and_availabilityPrice and stock for a whole bill of materials in one pass — the BOM-sourcing workhorse.
Orders & carriers3Where an order is and what it contained, searchable by D&H order number, your PO, or invoice.⊘ Order history is read-only: nothing here places, edits, expedites, or cancels an order — it reports what the account has done, down to tracking numbers and serials.›
get_orderOne sales order in full — status, dates, lines, costs, and shipments with carrier, tracking, and serials.find_ordersOrders matching a D&H order number, your purchase-order number, or an invoice number.list_carriersCarriers available to this account, with ship modes from parcel to full truckload.
Connecting
Wire it in, in an afternoon.
How to connect
- 01Sign in to the D&H API portal (apiportal.dandh.com) and create API credentials.
- 02Have your 10-digit D&H customer account number ready.
- 03Paste them here — the connection is validated live against D&H before anything saves.
Patch your stack in.
Start the Switchboard free trial against your own environment — read-only, traced answers, live in an afternoon. The apps are on the shelf when you want them.