Track your eFileTexas envelopes from your own systems

What you can build on eFileTexas

• Get envelope statuses

  Build this

  Reads the envelopes you submitted in the State Provided EFSP over a date range: each envelope, its case, filing code and current status.

  Takes

  Submitted from, submitted to, status (optional), case number (optional)

  Returns

  Envelope number, case number, location, filing code, filing description, reference number, status, submitted date, rejection reason

• Get the file-stamped copy of a filing

  Build this

  Opens one accepted envelope you submitted and reads each document in it with its file-stamped copy.

  Takes

  Envelope number

  Returns

  Envelope number, case number, document title, accepted date, file-stamped copy

• Find a case and its parties

  Build this

  Searches for a case at one court location by case number or party name and reads the case and its parties, as you would before filing into it.

  Takes

  Location, case number or party name

  Returns

  Case number, case title, location, parties

• File a document into an existing case

  Build this

  Starts a filing into an existing case, sets the filing code and filing description, attaches the document as a text-searchable PDF and submits the envelope.

  Takes

  Location, case number, filing code, filing description, reference number, document PDF, payment account

  Returns

  Envelope number, case number, status, fees

Automate eFileTexas 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.

• Accepted and rejected envelopes, every morning

  Build this

  Starts

  Every weekday at 7:30

  Step 1

  Get the envelope statuses for everything submitted in the last 14 days.

  Step 2

  Keep the envelopes whose status changed since the last run.

  Step 3

  Email you the list grouped by status, with case number, filing code and any rejection reason.

• Rejected envelopes, sent to your docketing system

  Build this

  Starts

  Every hour

  Step 1

  Get the envelopes in Rejected status submitted in the last 7 days.

  Step 2

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

  Step 3

  Post each one, with case number, reference number and rejection reason, to your docketing system's webhook.

• Weekly filing report by case

  Build this

  Starts

  Every Monday at 8:00

  Step 1

  Get the envelope statuses for everything submitted in the past 7 days.

  Step 2

  Group the envelopes by case number and count them by status.

  Step 3

  Email you the report, with the envelopes still in Submitted or Under Review listed first.

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 envelope statuses” would look like.

curl https://api.fous.com/v1/runs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOUS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "method": "efile.txcourts.gov/get_envelope_statuses",
    "input": {
      "submitted_from": "2026-11-09",
      "submitted_to": "2026-11-11"
    }
  }'

{
  "status": "completed",
  "data": {
    "envelopes": [
      {
        "envelope_number": "84120573",
        "case_number": "2026-CI-04718",
        "location": "Northwind County - District Clerk",
        "filing_code": "Motion (No Fee)",
        "filing_description": "Defendant Acme Corp.'s Motion for Continuance",
        "reference_number": "ACME-0412",
        "status": "Accepted",
        "submitted": "2026-11-10T15:42:00-06:00",
        "rejection_reason": null
      }
    ],
    "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.

EFileTexas’s own options

eFileTexas takes filings only through certified electronic filing service providers. A vendor that wants to offer filing services has to go through the Office of Court Administration's certification review, and case management system vendors can integrate through web services and SFTP. Firms themselves file in a provider's site, including the free State Provided EFSP.

Read on November 12, 2026: eFileTexas contacts: new EFSPs and case management vendors, eFileTexas service providers, eFileTexas FAQs.

Signing in to eFileTexas

eFileTexas signs you in with the username and password you registered, and the same registration works with other certified providers. A firm administrator sets up the firm's filers and its payment method. With Fous you sign in once through the site's own sign-in with your own account: the login is sealed with AES-256, code and AI agents never see it, and an expired session is signed back in.

Worth knowing

One cause number per envelope

Clerks reject an envelope that carries filings for several cases, and documents must be text-searchable PDFs. A method that files takes one case number and one document at a time.

Cancel only while Submitted

You can cancel a filing until the clerk opens it. Under Review means the clerk has opened the envelope, not that it was accepted, and from then on it cannot be cancelled.

Weekend filings count from the next workday

A document transmitted on a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday is deemed filed on the next workday, which can differ from the submitted date the envelope shows.

Returned filings can keep their first date

A clerk can return a submission for correction and its fees are refunded. Refiled with Copy Envelope, it gets a new envelope number, and on acceptance the clerk can give it the original filing date.

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