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Get your Mercury Network orders through an API

Read your new orders, the orders in each status folder and the payments your clients applied in Mercury Network with one API call each. Or have a workflow check the New Orders folder through the day and email you each new order with its fee and due date.

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Works with your own Mercury Network account. Fous is an independent product.

What you can build on Mercury Network

  • Get new orders

    Build this

    Reads the New Orders folder in the Orders view and opens each order to read the client, property, product, fee and due date.

    Takes
    Nothing
    Returns
    Order number, client, property address, product, fee, due date, placed date

  • Find orders by status

    Build this

    Opens one status folder in the Orders view, or searches with the Find box, the In Field list and the Placed timeframe, and reads the matching orders.

    Takes
    Status folder or search term, field to search (optional), placed timeframe (optional)
    Returns
    Order number, client, property address, status, due date, inspection date

  • Check payment entries

    Build this

    Opens an order's history log and reads the entry that appears once a payment has been applied, with the details under View Payment.

    Takes
    Order number
    Returns
    Order number, client, paid or not, payment entry date, payment details

  • Set the inspection status

    Build this

    Opens an order, clicks Set Order Status and sets Inspection Scheduled or Inspection Completed with the date, time and notes you give.

    Takes
    Order number, Inspection Scheduled or Inspection Completed, date, time, notes
    Returns
    Order number, status, inspection date and time

Automate Mercury Network 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.

  • New orders from the New Orders folder, emailed as they arrive

    Build this
    Starts
    Every 15 minutes
    Step 1
    Get the orders in the New Orders folder.
    Step 2
    Keep the orders that were not there on the last run.
    Step 3
    Email you each one with client, property address, product, fee and due date.

  • Delivered orders still waiting for payment

    Build this
    Starts
    Every Monday at 8:00
    Step 1
    Find the orders you delivered that were placed in the last 60 days.
    Step 2
    For each order, check its history log for a payment entry.
    Step 3
    Keep the orders with no payment applied.
    Step 4
    Post them, with order number, client, property address and status, to your accounting system's webhook.

  • Inspection dates from your scheduling system

    Build this
    Starts
    When your system calls the workflow's webhook with an order number and a booked time
    Step 1
    Set Inspection Scheduled on that order with the date, time and notes your system sent.
    Step 2
    Email you the order number and the inspection date and time that were set.

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 new orders” would look like.

Example request
curl https://api.fous.com/v1/runs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOUS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "method": "vendors.mercuryvmp.com/get_new_orders",
    "input": {}
  }'
Example response
{
  "status": "completed",
  "data": {
    "orders": [
      {
        "order_number": "MN-204871",
        "client": "Northwind Lending",
        "property_address": "418 Maple Ridge Dr, Columbus, OH 43215",
        "product": "1004 Single Family",
        "fee": 525,
        "due_date": "2026-11-19",
        "placed": "2026-11-12T08:41:00-05:00"
      }
    ],
    "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.

Mercury Network’s own options

Mercury Network documents web services that place appraisal orders, read the fields an order form allows, send duplicate orders, update an order's status and return its latest status with any documents. Every call carries a Mercury Network username and password. Appraisers work their orders in the vendor site, with fax, email and text notifications, and can answer a new order by replying to its text.

OptionWhat it coversWhat it takes
Mercury Network web servicesPlace an order and send it to an appraiser, duplicate an order, update an appraisal's status, and get an order's current status and documents.A Mercury Network username and password on each call, sent over HTTP POST or GET to the web service.
Text and email notificationsAlerts for new orders and the status changes you pick. A text can be answered to accept, decline or conditionally decline an order.Notifications turned on in the Advanced tab of your profile.
The vendor site by handThe Orders view with its status folders and Find box, Set Order Status, Complete and each order's history log.A free vendor account with "I accept orders from Mercury Network and MercuryDirect clients" checked.

Read on November 12, 2026: Mercury Network Web Services documentation, Acknowledge new orders, Set up your profile.

Signing in to Mercury Network

Mercury Network signs vendors in with an e-mail address and password, and Remember me saves the e-mail address for the next visit. With Fous you sign in once through Mercury Network's own sign-in with your own 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

Answer new orders quickly
Mercury Network asks you to acknowledge orders as soon as you can to avoid reassignment. Notes are required to accept, decline or propose conditions, and Propose Conditions to Client counts as a decline.
Your client decides the delivery files
Complete shows Upload for a PDF, or Upload MISMO XML and Upload ENV file when your client requires them. The MISMO XML already contains the PDF. A delivered order shows Pending Quality Review.
A revised report needs a revision request
If you see a notice about an unsolicited report, no revision request has been sent. Your client has to issue one before you can deliver the revised report.
Double-blind orders use canned comments
On a double-blind order, Set Order Status takes a canned comment instead of a free message. Some statuses require a message, and Mercury Network sends reminders when an order has not been updated recently.

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Frequently asked questions

Yes, as web services that place orders, duplicate them, update an appraisal's status and return an order's current status and documents, each call carrying a Mercury Network username and password. On the vendor side, appraisers work in the vendor site, with fax, email and text notifications.

Yes, by text, if text notifications are on in your profile: reply to the notification as its instructions say to accept, decline or conditionally decline. In the site, you use Accept/Decline Assignment on the order, with notes, and accept the client's vendor agreement if there is one.

Look in the order's history log. When a payment has been applied, an entry appears there, and View Payment shows its details. With Fous, a workflow can check this each week for the orders you delivered and post the unpaid ones to your accounting system.

Check the Details tab of your profile. You cannot accept orders until "I accept orders from Mercury Network and MercuryDirect clients" is checked. Licenses must also match the national registry to validate.

No. Fous is an independent product. You use it with your own Mercury Network vendor account, and a method reads and does only what that account can.

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Fous is an independent product: it is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by the operator of Mercury Network (Cotality (formerly CoreLogic)). The name is used only to say which system this page is about. Something here wrong or out of date? Write to legal@fous.com.