# Get your Odyssey File & Serve filing statuses by API > Get each envelope's status from Filing History, its envelope details and the Reports page's filing and envelope rows, one API call each. A workflow can check Filing History each weekday morning and email you what the clerk Rejected or Returned. Page: https://fous.com/automate/odyssey-file-and-serve Updated: 2026-11-12 Works with your own Odyssey File & Serve account. Fous is an independent product. ## What you can build on Odyssey File & Serve ### Get filing history Reads the Filing History page: each envelope's case number, filing type, document description and status, from Draft through Accepted, Rejected or Returned. - Takes: Status (optional), case number (optional) - Returns: Envelope number, case number, location, filing type, filing code, document description, client reference number, status ### Get envelope details Opens one envelope from Filing History and reads its envelope details: the case, each filing in it, their statuses and any scheduled hearing date. - Takes: Envelope number - Returns: Envelope number, case number, location, filings with filing code, document description and status, hearing date ### Run the filings and envelopes report Runs a report on the Reports page for the locations, statuses and dates you choose, and returns the rows of its filings tab and envelopes tab. - Takes: Locations, statuses, start date, end date (at most 60 days apart) - Returns: Filing rows and envelope rows as the report shows them, with location, status and amounts ### File into an existing case Searches for a case by case number, starts a filing, picks the filing code, uploads the lead document, chooses a payment account and submits the envelope. - Takes: Location, case number, filing code, client reference number, lead document PDF, payment account - Returns: Envelope number, case number, status ## Automate Odyssey File & Serve 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. ### Rejected and returned filings, every morning Starts: Every weekday at 7:30 1. Get filing history for the filings with status Rejected or Returned. 2. Keep the ones that were not there on the last run. 3. Email you the list with envelope number, case number, document description and status. ### Accepted filings, posted to your case management system Starts: Every hour 1. Get filing history for the filings with status Accepted. 2. Keep the ones that were not there on the last run. 3. Post envelope number, case number, filing code and document description to your webhook. ### Weekly filing fee reconciliation Starts: Every Monday at 8:00 1. Run the filings and envelopes report for all locations and the last 7 days. 2. Group the envelope rows by location and total them. 3. Post the rows and the totals to your accounting system'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](/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 filing history” 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": "efiletx.tylertech.cloud/get_filing_history", "input": { "status": "Rejected" } }' ``` Example response: ``` { "status": "completed", "data": { "filings": [ { "envelope_number": "48213377", "case_number": "2026-CI-04412", "location": "Bexar County - District Clerk", "filing_type": "EFileAndServe", "filing_code": "Motion (No Fee)", "document_description": "Motion to compel discovery, Acme v. Northwind", "client_reference_number": "ACME-0193", "status": "Rejected" } ], "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. ## Odyssey File & Serve’s own options Tyler's user guides for Odyssey File & Serve describe the website, emails on acceptance or rejection, and a Reports page that downloads an Excel file for up to 60 days; they describe no API for filers. Texas also lists independent service providers certified to file into the same system, and your login works at their websites too. | Option | What it covers | What it takes | | --- | --- | --- | | Certified service providers (EFSPs) | Independent companies' websites that file into the same e-filing system. In Texas a login made once works at any of them. | An account with a provider. In Texas some are free, some offer a free trial and some charge for added services. | | Reports page | An Excel file with one tab for filings and one for envelopes, to reconcile the transactions you submitted. | Your locations, statuses and a date range of at most 60 days, chosen on screen each time. | | Email notices | An email when the clerk accepts a filing, with the case status, and when a filing is rejected, with the reason. | Nothing beyond your account. | | Odyssey File & Serve by hand | Filing History, envelope details, Filing Drafts, Case Search, Service Contacts and Payment Accounts, one screen at a time. | A registration with your email address. In Texas, submissions with court costs carry a convenience fee, 2.89% by credit card. | Read on November 12, 2026: [Individual Filer User Guide, Odyssey File & Serve 2021.1](https://efiledcsuperiorcourt.gov/wp-content/themes/eFileTemplateWP/pdfFiles/Individual%20Filer%20User%20Guide_EFSP.pdf), [eFileTexas service providers](https://www.efiletexas.gov/service-providers.htm), [eFileTexas FAQs](https://www.efiletexas.gov/faqs.htm). ## Signing in to Odyssey File & Serve Odyssey File & Serve signs you in with the email address and password you registered with; the password is case-sensitive, and several failed attempts lock the account until you use Forgot Password?. With Fous you sign in once through that 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 - **Built on the site you file with**: The Texas state-provided site is efiletx.tylertech.cloud. A method works on the site where your account is registered. - **A filing can be canceled only before review**: Only filings in Submitting or Submitted status can be canceled. A filing that is Under Review cannot return to Submitted. - **Reports cover at most 60 days**: The Reports page takes a date range of at most 60 days, so a longer period means several runs. The download is an Excel file with a filings tab and an envelopes tab. - **Firm administrators see the firm's filings**: A Firm Administrator's Filing History shows the firm's filings, and Firm Users is where people and roles are managed. 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Not one that Tyler's user guides describe for filers. You get the website, emails on acceptance and rejection, and an Excel report from the Reports page. Texas also lists independent service providers certified to file into the same system, and your eFileTexas login works at their websites. ### What does each filing status in Filing History mean? Submitted means the filing is in the clerk's review queue and can still be canceled. Under Review means review has begun, and the filing cannot return to Submitted. Accepted, Rejected and Returned are the clerk's decisions; Returned asks you to take further action. Submission Failed is a file format or billing error. ### Do I get a stamped copy of an accepted filing? In Texas, yes: the clerk provides an electronic timestamped copy of the documents upon acceptance. The acceptance email carries the case status. A rejection email gives the clerk's reason, and Filing History shows the status Rejected. ### How do I see filings that another person at my firm submitted? Sign in as a Firm Administrator, whose Filing History shows the firm's filings. An individual filer's Filing History lists the filings that account submitted. ### Is Fous affiliated with Tyler Technologies? No. Fous is an independent product. You use it with your own Odyssey File & Serve 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 Odyssey File & Serve (Tyler Technologies). 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.