# Turn your MWI Animal Health store into an API

> Read your backorders with their expected availability dates, your pending orders and recent shipments, and your Lists from MWI with one API call each. Or have a workflow check each weekday morning which backorders are available again and email you.

Page: https://fous.com/automate/mwi-animal-health
Updated: 2026-11-12

Works with your own MWI Animal Health account. Fous is an independent product.

## What you can build on MWI

### Get backorders

Reads your backorders in the MWI online store, each with its expected availability date and whether it is available to order again.

- Takes: Available only (optional)
- Returns: Product, item number, quantity, expected availability date, available now

### Get pending orders and recent shipments

Reads the pending orders, recent shipments and monthly spending shown on your dashboard in the MWI online store.

- Takes: Nothing
- Returns: Pending orders, recent shipments with date and items, monthly spending

### Read an ordering List

Opens one of your saved Lists, the reusable ordering templates in the MWI online store, and reads its products with their shelf.

- Takes: List name
- Returns: Product, item number, shelf

### Add available backorders to the cart

Adds backordered products that are available again to your current cart in the MWI online store, without placing the order.

- Takes: Item numbers, quantities
- Returns: Items added, quantity, price, cart total

## Automate MWI with a workflow

A [workflow](/product/workflows) 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.

### Backorders available again, each weekday morning

Starts: Every weekday at 7:00

1. Get your backorders from the MWI online store.
2. Keep the ones available now that were not available on the last run.
3. Email you the product, item number, quantity and expected availability date.

### Recent shipments, handed to receiving

Starts: Every weekday at 8:00

1. Get the pending orders and recent shipments from your MWI dashboard.
2. Keep the shipments that were not there on the last run.
3. Post each one, with its date and items, to your inventory system's webhook.

### Month-to-date spending and pending orders, each Monday

Starts: Every Monday at 7:00

1. Get the monthly spending, pending orders and recent shipments from your MWI dashboard.
2. Have an AI step summarize the pending orders by how long they have been pending.
3. Email you the monthly spending figure and the summary.

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](/product/methods), it is one POST to /v1/runs from your backend, or a tool an AI agent calls over MCP. This is what “Get backorders” 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": "store.mwiah.com/get_backorders",
    "input": {
      "available_only": false
    }
  }'
```

Example response:

```
{
  "status": "completed",
  "data": {
    "backorders": [
      {
        "product": "Carprofen chewable tablets, 75 mg, 180 count",
        "item_number": "041237",
        "quantity": 2,
        "expected_availability_date": "2026-11-19",
        "available_now": false
      }
    ],
    "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.

## MWI’s own options

MWI's own pages describe no public API for practices. MWI lists automated integrations between its online store and named practice management and procurement systems, which you get through that software. Otherwise you order, follow backorders and download your Lists in the online store or the MWI mobile app.

| Option | What it covers | What it takes |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Practice management integrations | Automated integrations with the online store for practice management systems: Cornerstone, ezyVet, eVetPractice, Cubex, Vetter, Vetspire and four others. | One of those systems. MWI's pages state no price or setup steps. |
| Procurement system integrations | Integrations with institutional procurement systems, including SAP/Ariba, Sciquest/Jaeggar, Transcepta and Coupa. | One of those systems in use at your institution. |
| MWI mobile app | Saved lists, past orders, order tracking, returns, reship requests, tote scanning and push alerts when a backordered item is available. | Your existing MWI login. |
| The online store by hand | Dashboard with monthly spending, pending orders, recent shipments and available backorders; Lists download as Excel or PDF. | An MWI account with online access activated. |

Read on November 12, 2026: [Workflow solutions: third-party integrations](https://www.mwiah.com/solutions-and-services/workflow-solutions), [Personalized e-commerce store](https://www.mwiah.com/how-we-work/online-store), [MWI mobile app](https://www.mwiah.com/resources/mobile-app).

## Signing in to MWI

The MWI online store signs you in with a username and password, and the same login opens the MWI mobile app. Online access is requested separately for an existing MWI account. With Fous you sign in once through MWI'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

- **Online access is a separate request**: Opening an MWI account and getting online access are two steps. If your practice already has an account, you use Request online access before anyone can sign in to the store.
- **Backorders carry a date, not a promise**: Each backorder shows an expected availability date. When the product is available again, the store lets you add it to your current cart, so a check for available backorders belongs in your morning routine.
- **Consolidated deliveries can move your cutoff**: With tote order consolidation, deliveries come on your dedicated delivery day or days, and your order cutoff time may change for those days. Your sales representative gives you the current cutoff.
- **Lists are your inventory sheets**: Lists can be organized by shelf, printed as inventory sheets with barcodes, and downloaded as Excel or PDF. A List is a fixed set of products, which makes it a stable thing to read on a schedule.

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## Frequently asked questions

### Does MWI Animal Health have an API?

Not one that MWI describes for practices on its own pages. MWI lists automated integrations between its online store and practice management systems such as Cornerstone, ezyVet and Vetspire, and procurement systems such as SAP/Ariba and Coupa. Without one of those, you use the online store or the mobile app.

### How do I know when a backordered product is available again?

The online store labels each backorder with an expected availability date and shows available backorders on your dashboard. The MWI mobile app can also send a push notification when a backordered item is available. You then add it to your current cart.

### Can I export my MWI Lists?

Yes. Lists in the online store download as Excel or PDF documents, and you can print inventory sheets and individual barcodes from them. With Fous, you can build a method that reads a List as JSON, so a workflow can compare it with the last run.

### We already have an MWI account. How do we get into the online store?

Use Request online access, linked from the store's sign-in page. Once online access is activated, you sign in with a username and password and see customer pricing and promotions.

### Is Fous affiliated with MWI Animal Health or Cencora?

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

Fous is an independent product: it is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by the operator of MWI Animal Health (MWI Animal Health (Cencora)). 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.