Get your EPFO returns and challans through an API

What you can build on the Unified Portal

• Get the due deposit balance for a wage month

  Build this

  Reads the Account Wise Due Deposit Balance Summary for one wage month: dues, paid and balance for each account, plus the 7Q/14B summary.

  Takes

  Wage month

  Returns

  Wage month, account, dues, paid, balance, 7Q interest, 14B damages

• List challans waiting to be paid

  Build this

  Reads the In Process Challans List under View/Pay Challan: each prepared challan with its TRRN, wage month and amount.

  Takes

  Wage month (optional)

  Returns

  TRRN, wage month, amount

• Get the active member list

  Build this

  Opens View/Upload for a wage month and reads the Active Member List the portal offers for download, one row per member.

  Takes

  Wage month

  Returns

  UAN, member name and each other column in the list

• Upload a return file for review

  Build this

  Uploads a .txt return file as a Regular, Supplementary or Revised Return and returns the return file ID, or the error file, without approving it.

  Takes

  Wage month, return file (.txt), return type, contribution rate (12% or 10%)

  Returns

  Return file ID, status, error file rows, return statement totals

Automate the Unified Portal 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.

• Balance still due for last wage month

  Build this

  Starts

  Every month on the 10th at 9:00 India Standard Time

  Step 1

  Get the due deposit balance for the previous wage month.

  Step 2

  Keep the accounts with a balance above zero, and the 7Q/14B amounts if any.

  Step 3

  Email you the accounts, dues, paid and balance, or a line saying nothing is due.

• Challans prepared but not paid

  Build this

  Starts

  Every weekday at 16:00 India Standard Time

  Step 1

  List the challans in the In Process Challans List.

  Step 2

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

  Step 3

  Post each TRRN, wage month and amount to your finance system's webhook.

• New and missing members, month by month

  Build this

  Starts

  Every month on the 5th at 8:00 India Standard Time

  Step 1

  Get the active member list for the previous wage month.

  Step 2

  Compare it with the last run and keep members who are new or no longer listed.

  Step 3

  Email you both lists with UAN and name.

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 due deposit balance for a wage month” would look like.

curl https://api.fous.com/v1/runs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOUS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "method": "unifiedportal-emp.epfindia.gov.in/get_due_deposit_balance",
    "input": {
      "wage_month": "2026-10"
    }
  }'

{
  "status": "completed",
  "data": {
    "wage_month": "2026-10",
    "accounts": [
      {
        "account": "Account 1",
        "dues": 412860,
        "paid": 412860,
        "balance": 0
      }
    ],
    "interest_7q": 0,
    "damages_14b": 0,
    "total_balance": 37420,
    "currency": "INR"
  }
}

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 Unified Portal’s own options

EPFO offers employers no API. The monthly Electronic Challan cum Return is a .txt file you upload in the Unified Portal, check through the return statement and approve, and only then prepare a challan with a TRRN and pay it through a bank. Member KYC is approved on screen with a registered digital signature or Aadhaar e-Sign.

Read on November 12, 2026: EPFO: User manual for the Re-engineered ECR, EPFO Unified Portal, employer sign-in.

Signing in to the Unified Portal

The Unified Portal signs employers in on its Establishment Sign In page with a login ID and password; a forgotten password is sent by SMS to the registered mobile number. With Fous you sign in once through that page with your own employer 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

No challan until the return is approved

You upload the return, download the return statement and approve it. Only then does the portal let you prepare a challan, which gets a TRRN and waits in In Process Challans to be paid or cancelled.

Supplementary and revised returns have rules

A Supplementary Return adds members not in the approved Regular Return. A Revised Return is allowed only when no other return is in process and no payment has started for that wage month.

Four months of relaxation, then all members

For the first four months of the re-engineered ECR, a regular return could cover part of your active members. After that, a regular return is accepted only when returns for all active members of the month four months earlier were filed.

Approvals need a registered signatory

Member KYC is approved with the DSC or Aadhaar e-Sign of a registered authorised signatory. A new e-Sign registration has to be approved by your EPFO field office before it can be used.

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