# Turn the Covisint Supplier Portal into an API

> Read your Applications Quick List, portal bulletins and users' service packages from the Covisint Supplier Portal, one API call each. A workflow can check each portal's bulletins every weekday at 7:00 and email you the notices posted since the last run.

Page: https://fous.com/automate/covisint-supplier-portal
Updated: 2026-11-12

Works with your own Covisint Supplier Portal account. Fous is an independent product.

## What you can build on Covisint

### Get portal bulletins

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

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

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

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](/product/workflows) 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

Starts: Every weekday at 7:00

1. For each carmaker portal you name, get the portal bulletins.
2. Keep the bulletins that were not there on the last run.
3. Email you the list, one section per portal, with title, posted date and link.

### Weekly review of your users' application access

Starts: Every Monday at 8:00

1. List your users' service packages in Administration Tools.
2. Keep the users whose service packages changed since the last run.
3. Post user name, user ID, portal and service packages to your webhook.

### Changes to your Applications Quick List

Starts: Every weekday at 9:00

1. List your applications from the Applications Quick List.
2. Stop when nothing changed since the last run.
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](/product/methods), 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.

Example request:

```
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"
    }
  }'
```

Example response:

```
{
  "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.

| Option | What it covers | What it takes |
| --- | --- | --- |
| B2B Connect EDI (formerly Covisint Connect) | EDI exchange with your trading partners, as a separate OpenText service with its own support desk. | A B2B Connect account with OpenText, separate from your Supplier Portal sign-in. |
| Administration Tools | Request, assign or remove application access for your users, and manage the company profile and administrator roles. | A Covisint ID; requests for access are approved or rejected by your Supplier Portal Security Administrator. |
| Covisint by hand | The Applications Quick List, each carmaker portal and its bulletins, one screen at a time. | A Covisint ID approved for each partner portal you use. |

Read on November 12, 2026: [Covisint Automotive Supplier Portal support guide](https://support.portal.covisint.com/assets/supportportal/documents-guest/OpenText_Covisint_Support_Guide.pdf), [Automotive Exchange portals](https://portal.covisint.com/web/portal/autportals), [How to open a support request](https://support.portal.covisint.com/supportportal/Knowledge+Base.page?contentId=mvxrtqnv).

## 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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- [SupplyOn](https://fous.com/automate/supplyon.md)
- [IMDS](https://fous.com/automate/imds.md)
- [BMW Group Partner Portal](https://fous.com/automate/bmw-group-partner-portal.md)
- [eSupplierConnect](https://fous.com/automate/esupplierconnect.md)
- [GM SupplyPower](https://fous.com/automate/gm-supplypower.md)
- [Mercedes-Benz Supplier Portal](https://fous.com/automate/mercedes-benz-supplier-portal.md)
- [ONE.Konzern Business Plattform](https://fous.com/automate/one-konzern-business-plattform.md)
- [Lockheed Martin Procure to Pay](https://fous.com/automate/lockheed-martin-procure-to-pay.md)
- [Cummins Supplier Portal](https://fous.com/automate/cummins-supplier-portal.md)
- [TWX-21](https://fous.com/automate/twx-21.md)
- [Daimler Truck Supplier Portal](https://fous.com/automate/daimler-truck-supplier-portal.md)
- [Volvo Group Supplier Portal](https://fous.com/automate/volvo-group-supplier-portal.md)

Other industries: [eGCA](/automate/egca), [Paragon MLS](/automate/paragon-mls), [LeadsOnline](/automate/leadsonline), [Home Depot Supplier Hub](/automate/home-depot-supplier-hub), [Woolworths Partner Hub](/automate/woolworths-partner-hub), [Cisco Commerce Workspace](/automate/cisco-commerce-workspace).

## Frequently asked questions

### Does the Covisint Supplier Portal have an API?

Not for the portal itself, in OpenText's supplier material. Covisint gives you one sign-in to each carmaker's portal and applications, with Administration Tools for users and access. For machine exchange OpenText offers B2B Connect EDI, a separate service with its own account and support desk.

### How do I get access to a carmaker application on Covisint?

Request it in Administration Tools. Select Request a service package, click Request next to the partner portal, give a request reason and continue. Your Security Administrator approves or rejects it, and you are told by email.

### Who helps with a locked Covisint account or a lost password?

Your Security Administrator, or you through Forgot your user name or password on the sign-in page. OpenText Support does not reset passwords. A reset asks your security question and gives you an 8-character temporary password, half on screen and half by email.

### Can I get my orders and shipments out of the carmaker applications?

You can build a method for them when your Covisint ID opens the carmaker application that holds them, since a method reads and does only what your own account can. Those records sit in each carmaker's own application, which the carmaker owns and supports.

### Is Fous affiliated with OpenText?

No. Fous is an independent product. You use it with your own Covisint account, and a method reads and does only what that account can.

Fous is an independent product: it is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by the operator of Covisint Supplier Portal (OpenText). The name is used only to say which system this page is about. Something here wrong or out of date? Write to legal@fous.com.