Turn the Covisint Supplier Portal into an API

What you can build on Covisint

• Get portal bulletins

  Build this

  Reads the bulletins, maintenance notices and service announcements of the carmaker portal you name on the Automotive Exchange.

  Takes

  Portal name, posted since (optional)

  Returns

  Portal, bulletin title, posted date, type, link

• List your applications

  Build this

  Reads your Applications Quick List: the carmaker portals and applications your Covisint ID can open.

  Takes

  Nothing

  Returns

  Portal, application name, application link

• List your users' service packages

  Build this

  Reads Administration Tools as your company's Security Administrator: each user in your organization and the service packages they hold.

  Takes

  Portal name (optional)

  Returns

  User name, user ID, email address, portal, service packages

• Request a service package

  Build this

  In Administration Tools, selects Request a service package, picks Request next to the partner portal, fills in the request reason and site code and continues.

  Takes

  Partner portal, request reason, site code (optional)

  Returns

  Portal, service package, request reason, submitted

Automate Covisint with a workflow

A workflow runs your methods as one process, with nobody at the screen. A schedule or a call from your own system starts it, the steps run in order, and the result arrives in your inbox or in the systems you already use.

• New bulletins from each carmaker portal

  Build this

  Starts

  Every weekday at 7:00

  Step 1

  For each carmaker portal you name, get the portal bulletins.

  Step 2

  Keep the bulletins that were not there on the last run.

  Step 3

  Email you the list, one section per portal, with title, posted date and link.

• Weekly review of your users' application access

  Build this

  Starts

  Every Monday at 8:00

  Step 1

  List your users' service packages in Administration Tools.

  Step 2

  Keep the users whose service packages changed since the last run.

  Step 3

  Post user name, user ID, portal and service packages to your webhook.

• Changes to your Applications Quick List

  Build this

  Starts

  Every weekday at 9:00

  Step 1

  List your applications from the Applications Quick List.

  Step 2

  Stop when nothing changed since the last run.

  Step 3

  Email you the applications added or removed, with portal and link.

You can run a workflow by hand on every plan, Free included. Schedules and webhook triggers come with the paid plans, from $29 a month.

Once built, one call from your code

Once you have built a method, it is one POST to /v1/runs from your backend, or a tool an AI agent calls over MCP. This is what “Get portal bulletins” would look like.

curl https://api.fous.com/v1/runs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOUS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "method": "portal.covisint.com/get_portal_bulletins",
    "input": {
      "portal": "Acme Supplier Portal",
      "posted_since": "2026-11-01"
    }
  }'

{
  "status": "completed",
  "data": {
    "portal": "Acme Supplier Portal",
    "bulletins": [
      {
        "title": "Packaging requirements for returnable containers, revision 4",
        "posted_date": "2026-11-10",
        "type": "Bulletin",
        "link": "https://portal.covisint.com/web/acme/bulletins/1187"
      },
      {
        "title": "Planned maintenance of the shipping schedule application",
        "posted_date": "2026-11-06",
        "type": "Maintenance notice",
        "link": "https://portal.covisint.com/web/acme/bulletins/1179"
      }
    ],
    "count": 2
  }
}

An example with invented data, not a ready-made endpoint. The method exists in your organization once you build it, and its name, inputs and fields follow your request.

Covisint’s own options

Covisint gives suppliers one Covisint ID for the carmaker portals on its Automotive Exchange and their applications, with self-service Administration Tools for users and access. Each carmaker owns its applications and their data. For machine exchange OpenText offers B2B Connect EDI, a separate service; its supplier material describes no API for the portal itself.

Read on November 12, 2026: Covisint Automotive Supplier Portal support guide, Automotive Exchange portals, How to open a support request.

Signing in to Covisint

Covisint asks for your user name, then your password, and also offers an alternate login through General Motors or NSP-IDP. Passwords are 15 to 99 characters, and a forgotten one is reset with your security question. With Fous you sign in once through Covisint's own sign-in with your own account: the login is sealed with AES-256, and an expired session is signed back in.

Worth knowing

Carmakers own their applications

Orders, shipments, quality and compliance records live inside each carmaker's application, and questions about them go to that carmaker. A method you build reads and does only what your own account can there.

Access goes through your Security Administrator

A service package request notifies your Supplier Portal Security Administrator, who approves or rejects it. You get an email either way, with the reason when it is rejected.

Sub-packages come after the portal

You must be approved for a partner portal before you can request a sub-package within it. A request may also ask you to choose a site code before it is sent.

OpenText does not reset passwords

Forgotten user names, password resets and locked accounts go to your Security Administrator or to self-service. A new password cannot repeat any of your last 7.

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