Turn the Deposit Protection Service into an API

What you can build on the DPS

• Get the actions due on your dashboard

  Build this

  Reads Your Notifications on the account dashboard: each category that needs action, with the tenancy address and the deadline date where one applies.

  Takes

  Nothing

  Returns

  Category, property address, deadline date, days left

• Get tenancies by status

  Build this

  Reads View tenancies for the tenancies in one status, such as Awaiting deposit payment or Repayment request in progress.

  Takes

  Status

  Returns

  Deposit ID, property address, tenants, deposit amount, status

• Get the Repayments report

  Build this

  Runs the Repayments report from the Reports tab and returns its rows: repayments, pending ones included, with deposit IDs, due dates and status.

  Takes

  From date, to date

  Returns

  Deposit ID, property address, amount, due date, status

• Register a new Custodial tenancy

  Build this

  Creates a new tenancy in the Custodial account with the rent, deposit amount and tenants' contact details, ready for the deposit to be paid.

  Takes

  Property address, start date, rent amount, deposit amount, tenants' names and contact details

  Returns

  Deposit ID, property address, deposit amount, status

Automate the DPS 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.

• Evidence and response deadlines, every morning

  Build this

  Starts

  Every weekday at 8:00

  Step 1

  Get the actions due in Your Notifications on the dashboard.

  Step 2

  Keep the items with a deadline date, and those not there on the last run.

  Step 3

  Email you the list, soonest deadline first, with category and property address.

• Tenancies still awaiting deposit payment

  Build this

  Starts

  Every Monday at 7:00

  Step 1

  Get the tenancies in the status Awaiting deposit payment.

  Step 2

  Stop when there are none.

  Step 3

  Email you each one with its deposit ID, property address, tenants and deposit amount.

• Repayments posted to your accounting system

  Build this

  Starts

  Every weekday at 18:00

  Step 1

  Get the Repayments report for the last 30 days.

  Step 2

  Keep the rows that are new or changed since the last run.

  Step 3

  Post deposit ID, property address, amount, due date and status to your accounting webhook.

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 actions due on your dashboard” would look like.

curl https://api.fous.com/v1/runs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOUS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "method": "portal.depositprotection.com/get_dashboard_actions",
    "input": {}
  }'

{
  "status": "completed",
  "data": {
    "notifications": [
      {
        "category": "Evidence required",
        "property_address": "14 Northwind Road, Bristol, BS3 1AA",
        "deadline_date": "2026-11-17",
        "days_left": 5
      }
    ],
    "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.

The DPS’s own options

The DPS has an API that creates tenancies in your account from lettings CRM software it is integrated with, such as Goodlord, PayProp and Apex27; you request an API key from the DPS by email and still pay deposits in your account. Several tenancies can also be sent in one spreadsheet, and the Reports tab downloads CSV reports. Everything else happens in the online account.

Read on November 12, 2026: Protecting deposits, New reporting suite, During the tenancy.

Signing in to the DPS

The DPS signs landlords and letting agents in with an email address and password at portal.depositprotection.com, and the Insured scheme has its own login and account. An account can have account owner and administrator users. With Fous you sign in once through the DPS'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

Custodial and Insured are separate accounts

An Insured account is separate from a Custodial one, has its own login and needs validation documents first. A method works in the account it was built on, so build one per scheme if you use both.

30 days for protection and Prescribed Information

A deposit has to be protected and Prescribed Information given to the tenant within 30 days of receiving it, or a penalty of one to three times the deposit can apply. For Custodial deposits the DPS creates it, to download from the tenancy.

Evidence has a 14-day window

In a dispute you have 14 calendar days from the DPS's email to submit evidence, up to 40MB per upload and 1,000 characters of extra information. Files can be deleted only before you submit.

Tenancy details are not edited online

To correct a tenancy you send a signed copy of the original tenancy agreement. Only the rent amount, start date, length of tenancy and tenant names can be changed.

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