Get your EFTPS payment history through an API

What you can build on EFTPS

• Get payment history

  Build this

  Reads your enrollment's payment history for a date range within the sixteen months EFTPS shows online.

  Takes

  From date, to date, tax form (optional)

  Returns

  EFT Acknowledgment Number, tax form, payment type, tax period, amount, settlement date

• List scheduled payments

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  Reads the payments in your payment history whose settlement date is still ahead, so you can see what will be debited and when.

  Takes

  Settling within (days, optional)

  Returns

  EFT Acknowledgment Number, tax form, payment type, tax period, amount, settlement date

• Schedule a federal tax deposit

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  Makes a payment under Payments: selects the tax form, payment type and period, enters the amount and settlement date, and confirms it.

  Takes

  Tax form, payment type, tax period, amount, settlement date

  Returns

  EFT Acknowledgment Number, tax form, tax period, amount, settlement date

• Cancel a scheduled payment

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  Uses Cancel a Payment under Payments to cancel one scheduled payment, found by its tax form and EFT Acknowledgment Number.

  Takes

  Tax form, last eight digits of the EFT Acknowledgment Number

  Returns

  Cancellation EFT Acknowledgment Number, tax form, amount, settlement date

Automate EFTPS 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.

• The week's federal tax deposits, sent to accounting

  Build this

  Starts

  Every Monday at 8:00

  Step 1

  Get the payment history for the last seven days.

  Step 2

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

  Step 3

  Post each one, with its EFT Acknowledgment Number, tax form, tax period, amount and settlement date, to your accounting webhook.

• Scheduled payments to review before the cancel cut-off

  Build this

  Starts

  Every weekday at 7:00

  Step 1

  List the scheduled payments that settle in the next seven days.

  Step 2

  Stop when there are none.

  Step 3

  Email you the list, so a wrong payment can still be canceled two business days before its settlement date.

• Monthly tax payment summary by tax form

  Build this

  Starts

  On the 1st of every month at 9:00

  Step 1

  Get the payment history for the previous month.

  Step 2

  Group the payments by tax form and tax period, with a total for each.

  Step 3

  Email you the summary with every EFT Acknowledgment Number listed.

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 payment history” would look like.

curl https://api.fous.com/v1/runs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOUS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "method": "eftps.gov/get_payment_history",
    "input": {
      "from_date": "2026-10-01",
      "to_date": "2026-10-31",
      "tax_form": "941"
    }
  }'

{
  "status": "completed",
  "data": {
    "payments": [
      {
        "eft_acknowledgment_number": "270650018204417",
        "tax_form": "941",
        "payment_type": "Federal Tax Deposit",
        "tax_period": "2026 Q4",
        "amount": 18452.36,
        "settlement_date": "2026-10-15"
      }
    ],
    "count": 1,
    "total": 36390.4,
    "currency": "USD"
  }
}

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.

EFTPS’s own options

EFTPS is free and has no public API. Businesses schedule, cancel and look up payments on EFTPS.gov, or schedule them by phone through its voice response system. Tax professionals who pay for many taxpayers can use Treasury's Batch Provider Software, which sends up to 1,000 enrollments and 5,000 payments in one transmission. A financial institution can also send an ACH credit for you.

Read on November 12, 2026: EFTPS Batch Provider Software, Publication 4990, EFTPS Payment Instruction Booklet, EFTPS Financial Institution Handbook.

Signing in to EFTPS

EFTPS first sends you to Login.gov or ID.me for a secure sign-in, required since October 19, 2023. You then come back to EFTPS and enter your EIN or SSN, your PIN and your Internet password. With Fous you sign in once through EFTPS's own sign-in with your own account, and the login is sealed with AES-256, never returned by the API or written to logs.

Worth knowing

Schedule by 8 p.m. ET the day before

A payment must be scheduled by 8 p.m. ET at least one calendar day before the due date to reach the IRS on time. The money leaves your bank account on the settlement date you choose.

Cancel two business days ahead

A scheduled payment can be canceled until 11:59 p.m. ET two business days before its date: a Monday payment cannot be canceled after Thursday night. You need the tax form and the last eight digits of the EFT Acknowledgment Number.

One PIN per enrollment and bank account

A new bank account means an additional enrollment with its own PIN. Payments already scheduled stay on the old account until you cancel them and schedule them again under the new PIN.

Individuals are moving to IRS accounts

Individuals cannot create new enrollments since October 17, 2025, and EFTPS says all individuals will have to move off EFTPS.gov in 2026. The change applies to individuals, not businesses.

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