Turn your LCPtracker account into an API

What you can build on LCPtracker

• Get certified payrolls for a project

  Build this

  Opens Projects > Certified Payrolls, chooses the project and reads each certified week, including weeks marked Rejected or Permit Edit.

  Takes

  Account, project, week-end date from (optional)

  Returns

  Week-end date, payroll number, final yes or no, Rejected or Permit Edit

• Check payroll and administrator notices

  Build this

  Reads the Notices tab for one account, filtered by project if you give one: Payroll Notices (Notice or Warning) and Administrator Notices such as Rejection.

  Takes

  Account, project (optional)

  Returns

  Notices tab name, notice type, employee, week-end date, message, project

• List projects and their administrators

  Build this

  Reads the Projects screen for one account and, with Show Info, the Labor Compliance Administrator's contact details for each project.

  Takes

  Account

  Returns

  Project name, administrator name, email, phone

• Upload an eDocument to a project

  Build this

  Opens eDocuments > Upload Documents, fills in the project, Document Type and Document Date, attaches the file and saves it with your eSignature password.

  Takes

  Account, project, document type, document date, expiration date (optional), file

  Returns

  Project, document type, document date, expiration date, saved yes or no

Automate LCPtracker 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.

• Rejected payrolls and apprentices, every project

  Build this

  Starts

  Every weekday at 7:00

  Step 1

  For each account you name, check the Administrator Notices on the Notices tab.

  Step 2

  Keep the Rejection and Apprentice Rejection notices that were not there on the last run.

  Step 3

  Email you each one with the project, week-end date and message.

• Projects missing last week's certified payroll

  Build this

  Starts

  Every Tuesday at 8:00

  Step 1

  List the projects in each account you name, with their administrator contacts.

  Step 2

  For each project, get the certified payrolls and look for last week's week-end date.

  Step 3

  Keep the projects where that week is missing.

  Step 4

  Email you the list with each project's administrator name and email.

• Open payroll notices, posted to your payroll team

  Build this

  Starts

  Every weekday at 14:00

  Step 1

  For each project you name, check the Payroll Notices on the Notices tab.

  Step 2

  Stop when there are none.

  Step 3

  Post each Notice and Warning, with employee, week-end date and message, to your 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 certified payrolls for a project” would look like.

curl https://api.fous.com/v1/runs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOUS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "method": "lcptracker.net/get_certified_payrolls",
    "input": {
      "account": "Northwind County Public Works",
      "project": "Acme Street Bridge Rehabilitation",
      "week_end_from": "2026-10-10"
    }
  }'

{
  "status": "completed",
  "data": {
    "account": "Northwind County Public Works",
    "project": "Acme Street Bridge Rehabilitation",
    "certified_payrolls": [
      {
        "week_end_date": "2026-11-07",
        "payroll_number": 14,
        "final": false,
        "status": 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.

LCPtracker’s own options

LCPtracker's site describes no API for contractors. Contractors use LCPtracker Pro at no cost and get payroll in by keying it, copying a previous payroll, uploading LCPtracker's free Excel template or a file from a preferred payroll provider. PDF payroll reports need the Direct Payroll Interface, a fee-based service.

Read on November 12, 2026: Can I upload my PDF payroll reports directly into the system?, LCPtracker Contractor User Manual (published by the City of Madison), LCPtracker.

Signing in to LCPtracker

LCPtracker signs you in through its User Portal: your username, your password, then a required second step, either a 6-digit code sent to your email or an authenticator app. Your agency or prime contractor creates the account. With Fous you sign in once through that sign-in with your own account: the login is sealed with AES-256, the emailed code is handled, and an expired session is signed back in.

Worth knowing

Certification needs a notice-free payroll

All payroll records must be free of Notices before you can certify, and Required eDocuments that are missing or expired also block certification. A Warning does not block it.

The week-end date cannot be changed

If the project or week-end date on a payroll is wrong, you delete it and start again. Once a week is certified, only the administrator in charge can delete it.

Your administrator sets the edit window

After the permitted days to edit have passed, a certified payroll is locked. LCPtracker cannot give permission to edit: the administrator, found with Show Info on the Projects tab, issues a Permit Edit.

One user ID across agencies and primes

If you work for several agencies or prime contractors, you choose the account after sign-in and switch with Change Account. Give your current user ID to each new prime so no second one is set up.

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