Turn Rental Bonds Online into an API

What you can build on Rental Bonds Online

• Get pending lodgements

  Build this

  Reads the Pending Lodgements on your Rental Bonds Online homepage: each new bond waiting for the tenant to pay, or paid and waiting to be finalised.

  Takes

  Payment status (optional)

  Returns

  Pending Lodgement number, property address, tenants, bond amount, payment status, payment received date

• Check refund claims awaiting a response

  Build this

  Reads the refund claims tenants lodged against your bonds, with the Notice of Claim and the end of its 14-day notice period.

  Takes

  Nothing

  Returns

  Rental Bond Number, property address, tenant, amount claimed, claim date, notice period ends

• Get the bonds held for a property

  Build this

  Looks up the online and paper type bonds linked to your Agency Code for one property, with the bond's amount, tenants and status.

  Takes

  Property address or Rental Bond Number

  Returns

  Rental Bond Number, property address, tenants, bond amount, lodged date, bond type, status

• Submit a bond claim

  Build this

  Submits a claim on an online bond with the deduction amount you give, zero for a full release to the tenant.

  Takes

  Rental Bond Number, deduction amount, reason for deduction

  Returns

  Rental Bond Number, claim status, deduction amount, amount to tenant, claim date

Automate Rental Bonds Online 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.

• Paid lodgements still waiting to be finalised

  Build this

  Starts

  Every weekday at 8:00

  Step 1

  Get the pending lodgements in Rental Bonds Online.

  Step 2

  Keep the ones where the tenant's payment has been received.

  Step 3

  Email you the list with property address, tenants, bond amount and payment date.

• New tenant refund claims, before the notice period ends

  Build this

  Starts

  Every weekday at 9:00

  Step 1

  Check the refund claims lodged by tenants that wait for your response.

  Step 2

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

  Step 3

  Post each one, with the date its notice period ends, to your property management system's webhook.

• Weekly bond check against your trust records

  Build this

  Starts

  Every Monday at 7:00

  Step 1

  For each property you list, get the bonds held in Rental Bonds Online.

  Step 2

  Keep the bonds whose status or amount changed since the last run.

  Step 3

  Post them to your trust 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, it is one POST to /v1/runs from your backend, or a tool an AI agent calls over MCP. This is what “Get pending lodgements” would look like.

curl https://api.fous.com/v1/runs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOUS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "method": "rbo.fairtrading.nsw.gov.au/get_pending_lodgements",
    "input": {
      "payment_status": "paid"
    }
  }'

{
  "status": "completed",
  "data": {
    "pending_lodgements": [
      {
        "pending_lodgement_number": "PL-0048213",
        "property_address": "4/18 Acme Street, Northwind NSW 2000",
        "tenants": [
          "J. Globex"
        ],
        "bond_amount": 2880,
        "currency": "AUD",
        "payment_status": "Paid",
        "payment_received": "2026-11-10",
        "task": "Finalise the bond"
      }
    ],
    "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.

Rental Bonds Online’s own options

NSW Fair Trading documents no API or file exchange for agents. Bonds are lodged, finalised, claimed and refunded in Rental Bonds Online, which also sends email and SMS notifications and lists key tasks that need action. Bonds can also be lodged on a paper form, and paper type bonds claimed with a paper form.

Read on November 12, 2026: Rental Bonds Online for property agents, Check a Rental Bonds Online account.

Signing in to Rental Bonds Online

Rental Bonds Online signs agents in with Your Identification Number and Your Password. NSW Fair Trading emails the agency's principal user to activate their log on, and the principal user creates a login for each staff member. With Fous you sign in once through Rental Bonds Online's own sign-in with your own login: it is sealed with AES-256, and an expired session is signed back in.

Worth knowing

Finalise only after the agreement is signed

A paid lodgement stays pending until you complete the finalise the bond task, after the tenant signs the tenancy agreement. Only then is the Rental Bond Number allocated, and tenants may ask for a refund of an unfinalised lodgement.

14 days to answer a Notice of Claim

When a tenant claims the bond, you get a Notice of Claim with a 14-day notice period. If you do nothing, the refund is paid to the tenant when the period ends.

Seven days to send evidence

A claim without the tenant's consent is allowed only after the tenancy ends, and within 7 days of making it you must send the tenant the condition report and any quotes, invoices or receipts.

Paper type bonds and agent changes

Bonds lodged on paper appear as paper type bonds when linked to your Agency Code. The code for a change of managing agent expires after 72 hours.

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