# Get your NCSUITS tax rates and notices through an API > Read your UI tax rate, your filed quarters and Debt Summary, and the notices in My Correspondences from NCSUITS with one API call each. A workflow can check every employer account each weekday morning and email you the notices that are new. Page: https://fous.com/automate/ncsuits Updated: 2026-11-12 Works with your own NCSUITS account. Fous is an independent product. ## What you can build on NCSUITS ### Get UI tax rates Reads Tax Rate under Your Options for one employer account: the current year's rate and the rates of prior years. - Takes: Employer ID (10 digits) - Returns: Employer ID, employer name, year, tax rate ### List notices in My Correspondences Searches Documents and Emails > My Correspondences for one employer and lists the notices there, such as the Annual Rate Notice. - Takes: Employer ID, issued since (optional) - Returns: Notice name, issue date, employer ID ### Check filed quarters and balance due Reads Wage/Debt Summary for one employer: Report History with each quarter's reports, and the Debt Summary with any amount still owed. - Takes: Employer ID - Returns: Quarter, report type, date filed, total wages, amount due, delinquent quarters ### Submit a no-wage report Opens Wage Submission > Submit Wages and files the No Wage Report option for a quarter in which the employer paid no wages. - Takes: Employer ID, quarter, year - Returns: Employer ID, quarter, confirmation shown, date submitted ## Automate NCSUITS 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. ### New notices in My Correspondences, every employer Starts: Every weekday at 7:00 1. For each employer ID you list, read the notices in My Correspondences. 2. Keep the notices that were not there on the last run. 3. Email you the list, one section per employer, with notice name and issue date. ### Delinquent quarters and amounts due, every employer Starts: Every Monday at 8:00 1. For each employer ID, check the filed quarters and the Debt Summary. 2. Keep the employers with a delinquent quarter or an amount due. 3. Post employer ID, quarter and amount due to your payroll system's webhook. ### Changed UI tax rates, sent to payroll Starts: Every weekday at 9:00 1. For each employer ID, get the UI tax rates from Tax Rate. 2. Keep the employers whose rate list changed since the last run. 3. Post employer ID, year and tax rate to your payroll webhook and email you a 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 UI tax rates” 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": "fed.div.des.nc.gov/get_ui_tax_rates", "input": { "employer_id": "0001234567" } }' ``` Example response: ``` { "status": "completed", "data": { "employer_id": "0001234567", "employer_name": "Acme Fabrication LLC", "rates": [ { "year": 2026, "tax_rate_percent": 0.86 }, { "year": 2025, "tax_rate_percent": 0.94 }, { "year": 2024, "tax_rate_percent": 1.02 } ] } } ``` 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. ## NCSUITS’s own options The NCSUITS FAQs and documents describe no API. Employers and agents file quarterly wage reports by typing them in or by uploading CSV, EFW2 or ICESA files, for one employer or many, and pay by ACH debit, ACH credit with a payment allocation file, or check. Agents can download every client's rates from the Download Center. | Option | What it covers | What it takes | | --- | --- | --- | | Wage report file upload | Original and amended quarterly wage reports for one or more employers, in CSV, EFW2 or ICESA format, which you can check first with Validate Wage Files. | An NCSUITS account. 25 MB per file, several files allowed. PDFs are not accepted. | | ACH credit with a payment allocation file | Pays contributions from your bank, with the amounts allocated to each employer and quarter. | An addenda record generated in NCSUITS and an uploaded payment allocation file. | | Download Center (agents) | Rate details for all of an agent's clients, by year. | An NCSUITS agent account and an agent number. | | NCSUITS by hand | Tax Rate, Wage/Debt Summary, Submit Wages, Payments and My Correspondences, one employer at a time. | An NCSUITS account. | Read on November 12, 2026: [NCSUITS FAQs](https://www.des.nc.gov/employers/ncsuits-tax-system/ncsuits-faqs), [NCSUITS Documents](https://www.des.nc.gov/ncsuits-documents), [Third-Party Administrators and Agents](https://www.des.nc.gov/employers/third-party-administrators-and-agents). ## Signing in to NCSUITS NCSUITS signs you in with a password, then a one-time passcode emailed to the address in your User Profile at every sign-in. Five wrong passwords lock the account. With Fous you sign in once through the NCSUITS Employer Sign In page with your own account: the login is sealed with AES-256, the emailed passcode is handled, and an expired session is signed back in. ## Worth knowing - **Claim notices are answered in SIDES**: Employers must respond to a claim notice within 10 days of its issue date, online through SIDES. DES does not take paper responses. A user set up by an agent is for tax or claims services, not both. - **Benefit charges are not in NCSUITS**: Benefit charge statements are only available in MyNCUIBenefits. NCSUITS holds the tax side: rates, wage reports, payments and notices such as the Annual Rate Notice. - **Payments take 48 hours**: Allow 48 hours for a payment to process. A payment within $.01 of the current amount due applies to the current quarter; otherwise it pays the oldest balance first. - **Rate notices arrive in mid-November**: The 2027 rate notices are ready in NCSUITS on November 16 for experience-rated employers and November 16 to 17 for reimbursable employers, under Documents and Emails > My Correspondences. ## More in Government: US state employer and business filings - [bizfile Online](https://fous.com/automate/bizfile-online.md) - [SOSPortal](https://fous.com/automate/sosportal.md) - [Sunbiz](https://fous.com/automate/sunbiz.md) - [DIR Public Works eCPR](https://fous.com/automate/dir-public-works-ecpr.md) - [CalSavers](https://fous.com/automate/calsavers.md) - [Vestwell State Savings employer portal](https://fous.com/automate/vestwell-state-savings-employer-portal.md) - [SIDES E-Response](https://fous.com/automate/sides-e-response.md) - [EAMS (Washington ESD)](https://fous.com/automate/eams-washington-esd.md) - [GDOL Employer Portal](https://fous.com/automate/gdol-employer-portal.md) - [MiUI Employer Portal](https://fous.com/automate/miui-employer-portal.md) - [myEDD e-Services for Business](https://fous.com/automate/myedd-e-services-for-business.md) - [NYS DOL Unemployment Services for employers](https://fous.com/automate/nys-dol-unemployment-services-for-employers.md) - [The SOURCE](https://fous.com/automate/the-source.md) - [UCMS](https://fous.com/automate/ucms.md) - [Unemployment Services for Employers](https://fous.com/automate/unemployment-services-for-employers.md) Other industries: [VWR (Avantor)](/automate/vwr-avantor), [Bullhorn](/automate/bullhorn), [McKesson Connect](/automate/mckesson-connect), [NIPR](/automate/nipr), [Collaborati](/automate/collaborati), [myDSV](/automate/mydsv). ## Frequently asked questions ### Does NCSUITS have an API? No. The NCSUITS FAQs and documents describe no API. You file wage reports by typing them in or by uploading CSV, EFW2 or ICESA files, pay by ACH debit, ACH credit with a payment allocation file or check, and agents can download all clients' rate details from the Download Center. ### Where do I find my 2027 UI tax rate notice? In NCSUITS under Documents and Emails > My Correspondences, where you search for the Annual Rate Notice. The 2027 notices are ready on November 16 for experience-rated employers. Your current rate also shows under Employer Information, and past years under Tax Rate. ### Can an agent file for many employers at once? Yes. Agents can submit wage reports for one or more employers in one data upload and pay in bulk without being linked to each employer. To see an employer's account and notices, the agent needs a Power of Attorney for that employer. ### Who must file NCSUITS wage reports electronically? Employers reporting wages for 10 or more employees must file electronically, according to DES's Employer Desk Guide. In NCSUITS you type the report in or upload a CSV, EFW2 or ICESA file of up to 25 MB. ### Is Fous affiliated with the North Carolina Division of Employment Security? No. Fous is an independent product. You use it with your own NCSUITS 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 NCSUITS (North Carolina Division of Employment Security). 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.