Read your Parchment Receive inbox through an API

What you can build on Parchment

• List received documents

  Build this

  Reads the Receive inbox, filtered by document type, sender type and date received, and lists each record with its delivery and download dates.

  Takes

  Received from, received to, document type (optional), sender type (optional)

  Returns

  Student name, document type, sender, sender type, date received, downloaded on, destination

• Check a student's document history

  Build this

  Searches the Receive inbox history for one student and returns each record with its delivery and download dates.

  Takes

  Student name

  Returns

  Document type, sender, date delivered, date downloaded

• Get the receiving dashboard figures

  Build this

  Reads the Receive dashboard reporting: transcript volume for a period, top sending institutions and outstanding requests.

  Takes

  Period start, period end

  Returns

  Transcripts received, top sending institutions with counts, outstanding requests

• Route a document to a destination

  Build this

  Moves one record in the Receive inbox to a destination folder you name, such as the folder of the reader who processes it.

  Takes

  Student name, document type, date received, destination

  Returns

  Student name, document type, destination, routed at

Automate Parchment 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.

• Transcripts received since yesterday, every weekday

  Build this

  Starts

  Every weekday at 7:00

  Step 1

  List the received documents with a date received since yesterday morning.

  Step 2

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

  Step 3

  Email you the list grouped by document type, with student name, sender and date received.

• New records posted to your admissions CRM

  Build this

  Starts

  Every hour

  Step 1

  List the received documents for today.

  Step 2

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

  Step 3

  Post student name, document type, sender and date received to your CRM's webhook.

• Weekly receiving report for the admissions director

  Build this

  Starts

  Every Monday at 8:00

  Step 1

  Get the receiving dashboard figures for the past 7 days.

  Step 2

  Summarize the volume, the top sending institutions and the outstanding requests.

  Step 3

  Email you 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, it is one POST to /v1/runs from your backend, or a tool an AI agent calls over MCP. This is what “List received documents” would look like.

curl https://api.fous.com/v1/runs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOUS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "method": "exchange.parchment.com/list_received_documents",
    "input": {
      "received_from": "2026-11-10",
      "received_to": "2026-11-11",
      "document_type": "Transcript"
    }
  }'

{
  "status": "completed",
  "data": {
    "documents": [
      {
        "student_name": "Jordan Example",
        "document_type": "Transcript",
        "sender": "Northwind High School",
        "sender_type": "High school",
        "date_received": "2026-11-11T08:42:00-05:00",
        "downloaded_on": null,
        "destination": null
      }
    ],
    "total": 2
  }
}

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.

Parchment’s own options

Parchment's Receive plans list no public developer API for receiving institutions. Receive Lite is free and you download each record by hand as a PDF. Receive Premium, priced by quote, adds rule-based routing, SFTP delivery with an index file, connectors for Slate and Banner, and a Data Automation add-on.

Read on November 12, 2026: Parchment: Receive Lite versus Premium, Parchment: Data Automation, Slate Knowledge Base: Parchment Integration.

Signing in to Parchment

Admins sign in through Parchment's Admin / Third Party Login with an email address and a password. With Fous you sign in once there with your own account: the login is sealed with AES-256, never returned by the API or written to logs, and a method reads and does only what your account can. When a session expires, Fous signs back in.

Worth knowing

Lite downloads one PDF at a time

On Receive Lite each record is downloaded on its own as a PDF. Combined PDFs, overnight Zip files of the day's records and destination folders are listed as Premium features.

Re-download for 30 days

Parchment lists cloud re-download of records as available for 30 days. Keep your own copy of anything you need after that.

Index fields are not all verified

Slate's guide calls the Common App ID in Parchment's index file unverified and hand-entered, and says the SSN field holds only the last four digits. It advises using both to spot duplicates, not to match records.

SFTP packages are hourly, 1,000 per Zip

Slate's guide says Parchment delivers Zip files hourly with at most 1,000 documents in each, and that this needs Receive Premium.

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