Track your Victorian bond transactions through an API

What you can build on the RTBA website

• List pending bond transactions

  Build this

  Reads your list under the Manage transactions tile: each lodgement, claim or transfer still in progress and where it stands.

  Takes

  Transaction type (optional)

  Returns

  Transaction number, type, property address, submitted date, status, renters accepted, change request waiting

• Get a transaction summary

  Build this

  Opens one transaction from the Manage transactions list and reads its transaction summary, including the outcome of a past transaction.

  Takes

  Transaction number

  Returns

  Transaction number, type, status, bond amount, property address, renters, payer, change request, outcome

• List online users and access levels

  Build this

  Reads Manage online users under the Administration tile: who can use your RTBA account and at which access level.

  Takes

  Nothing

  Returns

  User name, email, access level, status (active, frozen or deactivated)

• Lodge a bond

  Build this

  Starts a bond lodgement with the bond amount, rented property address, each renter's details and the bond payer, for the renters to review and accept.

  Takes

  Bond amount, property address, renters' names and emails, payer, Homes Victoria voucher (optional)

  Returns

  Transaction number, status, renters notified

Automate the RTBA website 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.

• Lodgements and claims waiting on renters, every morning

  Build this

  Starts

  Every weekday at 8:00

  Step 1

  List your pending bond transactions under Manage transactions.

  Step 2

  Keep those with a renter change request waiting or a renter who has not accepted yet.

  Step 3

  Email you the list with transaction number, type, property address and submitted date.

• Bond transaction updates, posted to your property system

  Build this

  Starts

  Every weekday at 17:00

  Step 1

  List your pending bond transactions under Manage transactions.

  Step 2

  Keep those whose status changed or that left the list since the last run.

  Step 3

  Get the transaction summary of each one, with its outcome.

  Step 4

  Post transaction number, type, property address, status and outcome to your property management system's webhook.

• Monthly review of online users and access levels

  Build this

  Starts

  On the first weekday of every month at 9:00

  Step 1

  List the online users and access levels under Administration.

  Step 2

  Keep users added, changed or frozen since the last run.

  Step 3

  Email you the full list with those changes marked.

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 pending bond transactions” would look like.

curl https://api.fous.com/v1/runs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOUS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "method": "rentalbonds.vic.gov.au/list_pending_bond_transactions",
    "input": {
      "transaction_type": "lodgement"
    }
  }'

{
  "status": "completed",
  "data": {
    "transactions": [
      {
        "transaction_number": "T-0048213",
        "type": "Lodgement",
        "property_address": "12 Acme Street, Northwind VIC 3000",
        "submitted": "2026-11-06",
        "status": "Pending",
        "renters_accepted": "1 of 2",
        "change_request_waiting": false
      }
    ],
    "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.

The RTBA website’s own options

The RTBA documents no API or file import for rental providers. Every bond transaction, from lodgements to claims, transfers and corrections, is started and managed by hand on the RTBA website, and paper forms, cheques and money orders are no longer accepted. You can add online users to your account with one of four access levels.

Read on November 12, 2026: Rental provider administration and managing bond transactions, Changes to the RTBA's online system, RTBA system help.

Signing in to the RTBA website

Rental providers sign in to the RTBA website with a username, which is their email address followed by .rtba, and a password. Identity is confirmed with Service Victoria when the account is registered. With Fous you sign in once through the RTBA website's own sign-in with your own account. The login is sealed with AES-256, and when a session expires Fous signs back in.

Worth knowing

Renters accept every lodgement and claim

Each renter gets an email to review and accept, and must do so within 14 days or the transaction lapses. You can resubmit it with the previous details pre-filled.

Every renter needs their own email address

Each renter needs a unique email address and verifies their identity through Service Victoria before they can see a lodgement. If a name does not match their ID, cancel and resubmit.

Change requests must be actioned in 14 days

When a renter asks for a change, you action it with Action change request on the transaction summary, within 14 days.

Access level decides what a method can do

A Level 1 user can only view bond and transaction details. Starting and managing transactions needs Level 2, and banking details and rent roll transfers need Level 4.

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