Turn ODP Business Solutions into an API

What you can build on ODP Business

• Get orders from Order Tracking

  Build this

  Searches the Order Tracking page by status, date range, PO number or cost center and reads the orders it lists.

  Takes

  Date range, status (optional), PO number (optional), cost center (optional)

  Returns

  Order number, order date, status, PO number, cost center, ship-to ID, contact, total

• Read an order's detail

  Build this

  Opens one order from Order Tracking and reads its Order Detail page, including the shipments of an order that was split.

  Takes

  Order number

  Returns

  Order number, status, items, quantities, shipment (for example 1 of 2), PO number, cost center, ship-to

• Check the budget on a cost center

  Build this

  Reads the budget set on a cost center, PO number or ship-to under Manage Account: the limit, its dates and the amount still available.

  Takes

  Cost center, PO number or ship-to ID

  Returns

  Budget limit, start date, end date, email alert %, budget available

• Release held orders

  Build this

  Ticks the Select box on Order Tracking for the orders you name in Held by Customer or Held for Review status and clicks Release Selected.

  Takes

  Order numbers

  Returns

  Order number, status before, status after

Automate ODP Business 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.

• Held orders, every weekday morning

  Build this

  Starts

  Every weekday at 8:00

  Step 1

  Get the orders in Order Tracking from the last 30 days in Held for Review, Held by Customer or Held for Restrictions status.

  Step 2

  Stop when there are none.

  Step 3

  Email you the list with order number, order date, contact, cost center, status and total.

• Last week's orders, handed to accounting

  Build this

  Starts

  Every Monday at 7:00

  Step 1

  Get the orders in Order Tracking placed in the last 7 days.

  Step 2

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

  Step 3

  Post order number, order date, status, PO number, cost center, ship-to ID and total to your ERP webhook.

• Cost center budgets running low

  Build this

  Starts

  Every Monday at 9:00

  Step 1

  For each cost center you name, check its budget under Manage Account.

  Step 2

  Keep the cost centers with less than 10% of the budget limit available.

  Step 3

  Email you the list with budget limit, end date and budget available.

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 Order Tracking” would look like.

curl https://api.fous.com/v1/runs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOUS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "method": "business.officedepot.com/get_orders",
    "input": {
      "from": "2026-11-02",
      "to": "2026-11-11",
      "status": "Held for Review"
    }
  }'

{
  "status": "completed",
  "data": {
    "orders": [
      {
        "order_number": "418837201-001",
        "order_date": "2026-11-10",
        "status": "Held for Review",
        "po_number": "ACME-4471",
        "cost_center": "FAC-210",
        "ship_to_id": "00012",
        "contact": "Front desk, Acme Building B",
        "total": 642.18,
        "currency": "USD"
      }
    ],
    "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.

ODP Business’s own options

ODP Business Solutions documents no public API in its user guide or on its business site. Online Reporting, for the users who have it, covers spending patterns, savings opportunities, invoice payment and proof of delivery. A punchout from your eProcurement system is set up through a representative. Orders, approvals and budgets are worked on the site itself.

Read on November 12, 2026: ODP Business Solutions user guide, Office Depot Business home page.

Signing in to ODP Business

ODP Business signs you in with a login name and a password, which your Account Manager or Super User provides. Login names are unique across all ODP users, and no second step is described. With Fous you sign in once through the site'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

Four wrong passwords lock the login

After the fourth failed attempt the login name is set to inactive and locked, and ODP's Technical Support Desk has to restore it. Update the saved password whenever you change it on the site.

Only some held orders can be released

Release Selected works for orders in Held by Customer or Held for Review status. Orders Held for Restrictions may require workflow approval on the site instead.

One order can become several

An order may be split into two or more orders, shown as shipment 1 of 2 and 2 of 2. Custom Printing items get their own order number.

Your profile decides what you see

Online Reporting and the Dashboard appear only when enabled on your profile. PO, cost center, release and desktop fields can be renamed or hidden at your company's request.

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