# Track your eFileTexas envelopes from your own systems

> Read your envelopes, each one's status and the file-stamped copies of accepted filings from eFileTexas with one API call each. A workflow can check every weekday morning which envelopes were accepted or rejected overnight and email you the list.

Page: https://fous.com/automate/efiletexas
Updated: 2026-11-12

Works with your own eFileTexas account. Fous is an independent product.

## What you can build on eFileTexas

### Get envelope statuses

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

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

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

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](/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.

### Accepted and rejected envelopes, every morning

Starts: Every weekday at 7:30

1. Get the envelope statuses for everything submitted in the last 14 days.
2. Keep the envelopes whose status changed since the last run.
3. Email you the list grouped by status, with case number, filing code and any rejection reason.

### Rejected envelopes, sent to your docketing system

Starts: Every hour

1. Get the envelopes in Rejected status submitted in the last 7 days.
2. Keep the ones that were not there on the last run.
3. Post each one, with case number, reference number and rejection reason, to your docketing system's webhook.

### Weekly filing report by case

Starts: Every Monday at 8:00

1. Get the envelope statuses for everything submitted in the past 7 days.
2. Group the envelopes by case number and count them by status.
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](/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 envelope statuses” 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": "efile.txcourts.gov/get_envelope_statuses",
    "input": {
      "submitted_from": "2026-11-09",
      "submitted_to": "2026-11-11"
    }
  }'
```

Example response:

```
{
  "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.

| Option | What it covers | What it takes |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Certified EFSP integration | Filing into Texas courts through the eFileTexas system from a provider's own software. | An OCA certification review, started by email with your organization, business justification and integration market. |
| Case management system integration | Connecting a case management system to eFileTexas through web services and SFTP. | For case management system vendors; technical questions go to eFileTexas support. |
| Other certified EFSPs | Filing and eService sites from certified providers, some free and some with charges for additional services. | A registration with the provider; one eFileTexas registration works with other providers. |
| The State Provided EFSP by hand | Filing, eService, online tracking of your filings and file-stamped copies of accepted filings. | No usage fees. A convenience fee covers credit card or eCheck processing: 2.89% by credit card. |

Read on November 12, 2026: [eFileTexas contacts: new EFSPs and case management vendors](https://efiletexas.gov/contacts.htm), [eFileTexas service providers](https://www.efiletexas.gov/service-providers.htm), [eFileTexas FAQs](https://www.efiletexas.gov/faqs.htm).

## 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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## Frequently asked questions

### Does eFileTexas have an API?

Not for firms. eFileTexas takes filings only through certified electronic filing service providers, which go through the Office of Court Administration's certification review, and case management system vendors integrate through web services and SFTP. A firm files in a provider's site, such as the free State Provided EFSP.

### Where do I get the file-stamped copy of an accepted filing?

From the State Provided EFSP, once the clerk accepts the filing. The clerk provides an electronic timestamped copy on acceptance, and the State Provided EFSP gives access to file-stamped copies of your filings.

### What does the Under Review status mean?

That a clerk has opened the envelope. It does not mean the filing was accepted. An envelope stays Submitted until a clerk opens it, and you can cancel it only while it is Submitted.

### Is Fous affiliated with the Texas Office of Court Administration?

No. Fous is an independent product, not affiliated with the Office of Court Administration or Tyler Technologies. You use it with your own eFileTexas 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 eFileTexas (Texas Office of Court Administration (run by Tyler Technologies)). 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.