Pull your Motion.com orders into your own systems

What you can build on Motion.com

• Get orders from the Dashboard

  Build this

  Reads the Orders tab of the Dashboard, filtered by Open, Shipped or Unfinished, Ordered Date and Submitted By.

  Takes

  Status, ordered from, ordered to (optional), submitted by (optional)

  Returns

  PO number, OCN, ordered date, submitted by, status, tracking number, invoice number

• Get shipment documents for an order

  Build this

  Finds an order on the Shipped tab with Quick Search and reads its tracking, Invoice, Packing Slip and P.O.D. links.

  Takes

  PO number or OCN

  Returns

  PO number, OCN, carrier, tracking number, invoice number, invoice link, packing slip link, proof of delivery link

• Get quotes

  Build this

  Reads the Quotes tab of the Dashboard: each quote with its items and the date it was created, so you can see which expire soon.

  Takes

  Created from (optional), submitted by (optional)

  Returns

  Quote number, created date, submitted by, items, total, converted to order or not

• Add items to the cart with Quick Order

  Build this

  Opens Quick Order from My Menu, enters each Mi item number or CSN with its quantity and adds the available items to the cart, without checking out.

  Takes

  Account/Building, list of Mi item numbers or CSNs with quantities

  Returns

  Item, quantity, available or not, added to cart

Automate Motion.com 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.

• Shipped orders with tracking and invoice numbers

  Build this

  Starts

  Every weekday at 7:00

  Step 1

  Get the orders on the Shipped tab with an ordered date in the last 14 days.

  Step 2

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

  Step 3

  Post PO number, OCN, tracking number and invoice number to your receiving system's webhook.

• Quotes close to their 30-day expiry

  Build this

  Starts

  Every Monday at 8:00

  Step 1

  Get the quotes on the Quotes tab created in the last 30 days.

  Step 2

  Keep the quotes not converted to an order and created more than 21 days ago.

  Step 3

  Email you the list with quote number, created date, items and total.

• New invoices, handed over to accounts payable

  Build this

  Starts

  Every weekday at 18:00

  Step 1

  Get the orders on the Shipped tab with their invoice numbers.

  Step 2

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

  Step 3

  For each one, get the invoice link from the order's shipment documents.

  Step 4

  Post invoice number, PO number, OCN and invoice link to your ERP'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 orders from the Dashboard” would look like.

curl https://api.fous.com/v1/runs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOUS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "method": "motion.com/get_orders",
    "input": {
      "status": "Shipped",
      "ordered_from": "2026-11-02",
      "ordered_to": "2026-11-11"
    }
  }'

{
  "status": "completed",
  "data": {
    "status": "Shipped",
    "orders": [
      {
        "po_number": "ACME-55817",
        "ocn": "4471902",
        "ordered_date": "2026-11-09",
        "submitted_by": "Maintenance, Acme",
        "status": "Shipped",
        "tracking_number": "1Z999AA10000000001",
        "invoice_number": "INV-0091734"
      }
    ],
    "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.

Motion.com’s own options

Motion's support pages mention no API. Its FAQ has a PunchOut section, covering how to use PunchOut and how to search existing orders and quotes in it. On the site, the Dashboard downloads what is on screen to a spreadsheet, and Quick Order takes an uploaded spreadsheet of up to 200 lines.

Read on November 12, 2026: Motion FAQs, Dashboard Overview, Quick Order.

Signing in to Motion.com

You sign in to Motion.com with your registered account. If your user profile has several accounts or buildings, you select the Account/Building after signing in. With Fous you sign in once through Motion.com's own sign-in with your own account, the login is sealed with AES-256, and a method reads and does only what that account can.

Worth knowing

Seven years of orders, 30 days for a quote

The Dashboard keeps up to seven years of order history, while quotes are available for 30 days before they expire. A quote you plan to convert needs a check before then.

Sales rep orders appear too

Orders placed on Motion.com or through a Motion sales representative are both found on the Dashboard, so one method covers both.

Proof of delivery is a signed PDF

The P.O.D. link shows a PDF of the signed packing slip, for shipments delivered by a Motion delivery vehicle. Track it and Track all lead to the UPS or FedEx website.

Pick the account or building first

With several accounts or buildings in your user profile, you choose the Account/Building after signing in, so a method can take it as an input.

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