Turn your eModal appointments into an API

What you can build on eModal

• Get gate appointments

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  Reads your eModal appointments for a date range, with each truck visit's terminal, time window and moves.

  Takes

  Date from, date to, terminal (optional), status (optional)

  Returns

  Truck visit, terminal, visit date, time window, truck plate, move type, container number, cargo reference, status

• Get a truck visit with its messages

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  Reads one truck visit in eModal: the visit, every move on it and the validation messages shown for each move.

  Takes

  Truck visit number

  Returns

  Truck plate, SCAC, trucking company, visit window, moves with appointment time, type, status, TOS status, container, messages

• Check open time slots

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  Looks up the appointment time slots a terminal offers in eModal for one move, before you book it.

  Takes

  Terminal, move type, container or booking number, date

  Returns

  Date, slot start, slot end

• Cancel an appointment move

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  Cancels one move on a truck visit in eModal, or the whole visit, and reads back the status.

  Takes

  Truck visit number, container number or whole visit

  Returns

  Truck visit, container number, status

Automate eModal 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.

• Tomorrow's appointments that need attention

  Build this

  Starts

  Every weekday at 17:00

  Step 1

  Get tomorrow's gate appointments at every terminal you use.

  Step 2

  Keep the moves in Troubled, Error, Fees Due or Pending status.

  Step 3

  Email you the list by terminal, with truck visit, container number, move type and status.

• Missed and terminal-canceled appointments, weekly

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  Starts

  Every Monday at 8:00

  Step 1

  Get last week's gate appointments.

  Step 2

  Keep the moves in Missed or Canceled by Terminal status.

  Step 3

  Summarize them by terminal and move type, and email you the report.

• Appointment status changes, posted to dispatch

  Build this

  Starts

  Every 30 minutes on weekdays

  Step 1

  Get today's gate appointments.

  Step 2

  Keep the moves whose status changed since the last run.

  Step 3

  Post truck visit, container number, move type and the new status to your dispatch system's 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 gate appointments” would look like.

curl https://api.fous.com/v1/runs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOUS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "method": "ecp2.emodal.com/get_gate_appointments",
    "input": {
      "date_from": "2026-11-13",
      "date_to": "2026-11-13",
      "status": "Fees Due"
    }
  }'

{
  "status": "completed",
  "data": {
    "visits": [
      {
        "truck_visit": "2511130042117",
        "terminal": "NCT",
        "visit_date": "2026-11-13",
        "time_window": "08:00-09:00",
        "truck_plate": "ACM482",
        "moves": [
          {
            "move_type": "Import Pick Up",
            "container_number": "NWLU4821736",
            "cargo_reference": "GRP-7731",
            "status": "Fees Due"
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "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.

EModal’s own options

CargoSprint, which runs eModal, documents a Pre-Gate API for appointments: search, truck visit details, time slots, booking details, create, update and cancel. It needs a company API key from CargoSprint support and a user key made on the eModal Profile page. A Data Services API gives terminal metrics. No price is published.

Read on November 12, 2026: Pre-Gate API overview, Pre-Gate API: appointments, Data Services API.

Signing in to eModal

eModal signs you in on its own sign-in page at sso.emodal.com with your user account, then returns you to eModal. What your account sees depends on the companies it is affiliated with. With Fous you sign in once through eModal'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

Two keys for the Pre-Gate API

Every Pre-Gate request carries a company key from CargoSprint support and a user key that an eModal user generates on the Profile page. The API acts as that user.

Appointment searches stop at 30 days

When a Pre-Gate appointment search spans more than 30 days, only the most recent 30 days come back. Results are paged, up to 1,000 per page, newest first.

Watch the statuses beyond Confirmed

An appointment can be Fees Due, Troubled, Error, Missed, Rescheduled, Rebooked or Canceled by Terminal. Each move also carries validation messages with a severity.

Each terminal sets its own rules

Terminal operators set appointment rules by move type, yard area or vessel, and adjust yard capacity and appointment availability in their slot schedule. Open slots differ from one terminal to the next.

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