Turn the Florida Courts E-Filing Portal into an API

What you can build on the Portal

• Get my submissions and their status

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  Reads the My Submissions page for a date range: each submission's status, court case number and the Clerk's completion date or remarks.

  Takes

  Submission date from, submission date to, status (optional), court (optional)

  Returns

  Submission number, case style, court case number, status, court, submission date, completion date, remarks

• List new civil cases in Filings Access

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  Reads Filings Access for one county: non-confidential Circuit and County Civil case initiation submissions, with their status and the UCN once the Clerk accepts them.

  Takes

  Court (county), division (optional), submission date from, submission date to

  Returns

  Submission number, case style, status, court, division, submission date, completion date, UCN

• List my cases

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  Reads the My Cases page: each case's numbers, the court, the case title, whether you receive E-service in it and its status.

  Takes

  Active, inactive or all, court (optional)

  Returns

  Case number, court case number, court, case title, receiving E-service, status

• File a document on an existing case

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  Files to a case from the Submit icon on My Cases: adds your PDF/A documents, chooses the E-service recipients and submits the filing.

  Takes

  Court case number, party filed for, document type, document title, PDF/A file, E-service recipients

  Returns

  Submission number, court case number, submission date, status

Automate the 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.

• Filings returned to the Correction Queue

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  Starts

  Every weekday at 8:00 Eastern Time

  Step 1

  Get your submissions from the last 30 days with status Correction Queue.

  Step 2

  Keep the ones that were not in the Correction Queue on the last run.

  Step 3

  Email you each one with its case style, court case number and the Clerk's remarks.

• Daily filing status, posted to your docketing system

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  Starts

  Every weekday at 18:00 Eastern Time

  Step 1

  Get your submissions from the last seven days.

  Step 2

  Keep the ones whose status changed since the last run, for example to Filed.

  Step 3

  Post each one to your docketing or case management system's webhook.

• New civil cases filed in your counties

  Build this

  Starts

  Every weekday at 7:00 Eastern Time

  Step 1

  For each county you name, list the case initiation submissions in Filings Access from the last two days.

  Step 2

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

  Step 3

  Email you one list per county with case style, status, division and submission date.

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 my submissions and their status” would look like.

curl https://api.fous.com/v1/runs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOUS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "method": "myflcourtaccess.com/get_my_submissions",
    "input": {
      "submission_date_from": "2026-11-05",
      "submission_date_to": "2026-11-12"
    }
  }'

{
  "status": "completed",
  "data": {
    "submissions": [
      {
        "submission_number": "200418377",
        "case_style": "Northwind Supply LLC v. Globex Holdings Inc",
        "court_case_number": "2026-CA-004812",
        "status": "Filed",
        "court": "Orange County",
        "submission_date": "2026-11-10T14:32:00-05:00",
        "completion_date": "2026-11-11",
        "remarks": 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.

The Portal’s own options

The Portal offers batch filing, a machine-to-machine web service, only to certified third-party vendors. A vendor applies with a $500 nonrefundable fee, builds and tests an interface to the ECF 4.01 specification and signs a license agreement the Authority approves. Everyone else files and checks status on the Portal itself, which is free to use.

Read on November 12, 2026: Certified Vendors, Batch Filing Third Party Vendor Application, Portal E-Filer User Manual, September 2025.

Signing in to the Portal

The Portal signs you in with a User Name and Password, and no second step is documented. One account works in every county, and an attorney may hold more than one, for example one assigned to a paralegal. With Fous you sign in once through the Portal's own sign-in with your own account: the login is sealed with AES-256, and an expired session is signed back in.

Worth knowing

30 business days in the Correction Queue

A filing the Clerk returns must be corrected and resubmitted within 30 business days. After that the county can move it to the Abandoned Filing Queue, where it can no longer be changed.

Lists default to the last seven days

My Submissions and the Email Log open on the last seven days. The Email Log searches at most 90 days at a time, and its document links last 18 days.

Filings Access keeps documents 5 days

Case initiation documents in Filings Access stay for 5 calendar days and carry an Unofficial Court Document watermark. Once accepted, the official copy is on My Cases or the Clerk's website.

The submission time is the file stamp

The Submission Date is the official file stamp, in Eastern Time. Replacing a document in the Correction Queue keeps it; deleting or adding a document gives the filing a new one.

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