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Get your DA-Desk disbursement accounts through an API

Read your DA-Desk DA list, each DA's timeline and its timebar exposure with one API call each. A workflow can check the DA list for Overdue FDA and Late PDA alerts every weekday morning and email you those DAs, grouped by agent.

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Works with your own DA-Desk account. Fous is an independent product.

What you can build on DA-Desk

  • Get the DA list

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    Reads the DA list in Switch, with each port call's DAD Ref, vessel, port, agent, ETA, totals, variance and alerts.

    Takes
    Port (optional), agent (optional), alert (optional)
    Returns
    DAD Ref, vessel, voyage, country, port, agent, ETA, legal entity, total in DA and base currency, variance, alert

  • Read a DA's timeline

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    Opens one DA and reads its timeline from Agent appointed to FDA completion: reminders, open queries, next approver and payment execution.

    Takes
    DAD Ref
    Returns
    DAD Ref, current stage, reminders sent, open queries, next approver, payment execution, predicted PDA and FDA submission

  • Get timebar exposure

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    Reads the Timebar report on the DA-Desk Dashboard: the DAs whose timebar expires within 7 days and those already overdue.

    Takes
    Nothing
    Returns
    DAD Ref, vessel, port, agent, timebar date, days left, FDA status, expiring or overdue

  • Approve or reject a DA

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    Opens a DA you have reviewed, approves or rejects it when its status and your user group allow, and adds your comment.

    Takes
    DAD Ref, approve or reject, comment
    Returns
    DAD Ref, decision, comment, next approver

Automate DA-Desk 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.

  • Overdue FDAs and late PDAs, by agent

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    Starts
    Every weekday at 7:00
    Step 1
    Get the DA list with its alerts.
    Step 2
    Keep the DAs with an Overdue FDA or Late PDA alert.
    Step 3
    Email you the list grouped by agent, with DAD Ref, vessel, port, ETA and total.

  • New timebar exposure, posted to your team

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    Starts
    Every weekday at 8:00
    Step 1
    Get the Timebar report from the DA-Desk Dashboard.
    Step 2
    Keep the DAs that were not on the last run.
    Step 3
    Post each one, with its agent, timebar date and FDA status, to your Slack or ERP webhook.

  • PDA variances, with open queries and next approver

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    Starts
    Every day at 17:00
    Step 1
    Get the DA list and keep the DAs whose variance changed since the last run.
    Step 2
    For each one, read its timeline for open queries and the next approver.
    Step 3
    Email you a short summary per DA.

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 the DA list” 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": "switch.da-desk.com/get_da_list",
    "input": {
      "alert": "Overdue FDA"
    }
  }'
Example response
{
  "status": "completed",
  "data": {
    "das": [
      {
        "dad_ref": "DAD-2041187",
        "vessel": "Northwind Star",
        "voyage": "112E",
        "country": "Netherlands",
        "port": "Rotterdam",
        "agent": "Globex Port Services",
        "eta": "2026-10-02",
        "legal_entity": "Acme Shipping Ltd",
        "total": 48210.5,
        "currency": "EUR",
        "total_base_currency": 55960,
        "base_currency": "USD",
        "variance": 3120,
        "alert": "Overdue FDA"
      }
    ],
    "count": 1
  }
}

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.

DA-Desk’s own options

DA-Desk's integration system, DIS, connects an operator's voyage management, accounting or other approved system to DA-Desk through an API: port call data goes in, PDA and approved FDA data, DA events and DA invoice data come back. In Switch, the DA list and every Dashboard report can be downloaded. Agents work in DA-Desk Exchange.

OptionWhat it coversWhat it takes
DA-Desk Integration System (DIS)Port call data from your VMS or accounting system into DA-Desk; PDA and approved FDA data, DA event notifications and DA invoice data back out.An approved VMS or accounting system. Dataloy, IMOS, Q88, ShipNet and Softmar connect in as little as two hours; custom in-house systems need extra development.
Dashboard report downloadsDA Timeline, Cost Item Reporting, FDA Overdue, DA Balance Recoveries, Timebar, Agent Performance and other reports.Access to the DA-Desk Dashboard in Switch. Each report downloads from the three dots beside it.
DA-Desk by handThe DA list, each DA's timeline, queries and approvals in Switch for operators, and DA submission in Exchange for agents.A Marcura account, signed in at switch.da-desk.com or exchange.da-desk.com.

Read on November 12, 2026: Increase efficiency with VMS integration, DA-Desk Dashboard, New: DA-Desk Interface changes.

Signing in to DA-Desk

Since 8 November 2025, DA-Desk signs you in on Marcura's single login page: your email or username first, then your password, or your organisation's single sign-on if your company uses it. One username and password reach DA-Desk and Marcura's other products. With Fous you sign in once through that page with your own account; the login is sealed with AES-256, and with a password an expired session is signed back in.

Worth knowing

Timebar alerts follow your admin's settings
The orange alert shows 10 days before the timebar and the red one 5 days before. An Operator Admin can change both from the bell icon on the DA list.
Every PDA query needs a resolution comment
Since the Q4 2025 release, a DA cannot be marked Phase Complete and sent for approval until each PDA query has a resolution comment.
Approval rights depend on status and group
Under the Unified Approval Workflow, who can approve or reject a DA depends on its status and your user group, while users from any department can still view DAs and edit comments, cost splits and advances.
Two DA list views
The new DA list can be switched back with the Switch to classic view toggle, so decide which view a method reads.

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Frequently asked questions

Yes, for operators: the DA-Desk Integration System (DIS) exchanges data with your VMS, accounting or other approved system. It takes in port call data and returns PDA and approved FDA data, DA events and DA invoice data. In Switch you can also download the DA list and each Dashboard report.

Open the Timebar report on the DA-Desk Dashboard. It shows Timebars expiring (<7 days) and Timebar overdue, and the DA list shows orange and red alerts on the DAs concerned. With Fous, you can build a workflow that reads that report each morning and posts the new ones to your webhook.

No. switch.da-desk.com for operators and exchange.da-desk.com for agents still work and now lead to Marcura's single login page. Your email and password stayed the same.

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

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Fous is an independent product: it is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by the operator of DA-Desk (Marcura). 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.