# Turn Simplifile into an API

> Read package statuses, rejection reasons and the entry numbers and fees of recorded documents from Simplifile with one API call each. A workflow can check for Rejected packages each morning and post each day's recordings to your title software.

Page: https://fous.com/automate/simplifile
Updated: 2026-11-12

Works with your own Simplifile account. Fous is an independent product.

## What you can build on Simplifile

### Get packages by status

Reads the Packages page, filtered by Package Status and County, with each package's document count, status and status date.

- Takes: Package status, county (optional)
- Returns: Package name, county, document count, status, status date, retrieved

### Get rejection reasons for a package

Opens a package's Package Details page and reads each document's type and status and, for a rejected package, the rejection reasons.

- Takes: Package name
- Returns: Package name, county, package status, document name, document type, document status, rejection reason

### Get recorded documents for a date range

Runs the Recording Report on the Reports page for a date range and reads each recorded document's entry number, recording date and fees.

- Takes: From date, to date
- Returns: Package name, document name, document type, pages, entry number, recording date, fees

### Submit a Ready package

Finds a package in Ready status on the Packages page and submits it to its county, then reads the new status.

- Takes: Package name
- Returns: Package name, county, status, status date

## Automate Simplifile 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 packages, with each document's rejection reason

Starts: Every weekday at 8:00

1. Get the packages in Rejected status from the Packages page.
2. Keep the packages that were not rejected on the last run.
3. For each one, get the rejection reasons from its Package Details page.
4. Email you the list, one section per county.

### Today's recordings, posted to your title software

Starts: Every weekday at 17:30

1. Get today's recorded documents from the Recording Report.
2. Stop when there are none.
3. Post package name, document name, document type, entry number, recording date and fees to your webhook.

### Last week's recording fees, totalled by package

Starts: Every Monday at 7:00

1. Get last week's recorded documents from the Recording Report.
2. Total the fees and count the documents for each package.
3. Email you the totals with the list of documents underneath.

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 packages by status” 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": "simplifile.ice.com/get_packages_by_status",
    "input": {
      "package_status": "Rejected",
      "county": null
    }
  }'
```

Example response:

```
{
  "status": "completed",
  "data": {
    "packages": [
      {
        "package_name": "NW-26-10482 Northwind Lending refinance",
        "county": "Travis County, TX",
        "document_count": 2,
        "status": "Rejected",
        "status_date": "2026-11-11T10:42:00-06:00",
        "retrieved": 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.

## Simplifile’s own options

Simplifile offers API and integration solutions to national submitters and large processing centers, so they can submit large volumes of documents from their own systems. Eligibility for reduced per-document pricing is checked by phone. Partners' title and closing software also connects to it. Everyone else works in the site, where the Banking Export Report is meant for importing into other systems.

| Option | What it covers | What it takes |
| --- | --- | --- |
| API and integration solutions | Submitting large volumes of documents for eRecording from within your own system. The Packages page has an API Package ID column. | Presented for national submitters and large processing centers. Eligibility is checked by calling Simplifile. |
| Partner title and closing software | Featured Simplifile partners include Encompass, Qualia, ResWare, RamQuest and SoftPro. | That partner's software and a Simplifile account. |
| Reports and exports | The Banking Export Report is meant for importing into other systems, and the Packages page can export its current view. | A Simplifile account. Reports are run for a date range on the Reports page. |
| Simplifile by hand | The Packages and Package Details pages, document downloads and the Recording, Rejection Analysis and Package Status reports. | A Simplifile submitter account. |

Read on November 12, 2026: [Simplifile for national submitters](https://mortgagetech.ice.com/products/simplifile/erecording/send-documents/national-submitter), [Simplifile partners](https://mortgagetech.ice.com/partners/simplifile-partners), [Example reports for submitters](https://help.icemortgagetechnology.com/documentation/simplifile/submitter/Content/0-Reports/Reports-Examples-Submitter.htm).

## Signing in to Simplifile

Simplifile asks for your username and password. When your organization requires two-factor authentication, it adds a code sent by email, text message or phone call, or an authenticator app, and single sign-on is in a limited pilot. With Fous you sign in once through Simplifile's sign-in with your own account. The login is sealed with AES-256, a code sent by email is handled, and an expired session is signed back in.

## Worth knowing

- **Recorded packages leave the default view**: The Packages page's default view hides recorded, billed rejected and voided packages after 2 days. For older recordings, read the Recording Report or the Package Status Report for a date range.
- **A rejection returns the whole package**: When a county rejects one document, the whole package comes back, approved documents included. Billed Rejected means the county also charged a rejection fee.
- **Finalizing is not yet Recorded**: A small number of jurisdictions use Finalizing: stamped documents are back, but the county may still change the recording. Fees are due on the Finalizing date, and Simplifile advises waiting for Recorded before retrieving documents.
- **Submit needs every document Ready**: On the Package Details page, Submit is enabled only when every document is Ready and the Released for Recording box is marked. A package starts in Draft and turns Ready once all documents are prepared.

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## Frequently asked questions

### Does Simplifile have an API?

Yes, for high-volume submitters, by arrangement. Simplifile presents API and integration solutions to national submitters and large processing centers and checks eligibility by phone. Partner title and closing software also connects to it. Other submitters use the site and its reports.

### How do I see why a Simplifile package was rejected?

Open the package's Package Details page and select its Rejected status: the This Package Was Rejected window lists the reasons, and the Document Editor has a Rejection Reason link. The Rejection Analysis (by Package) Report lists rejected documents with reason, rejection fee and county for a period.

### Why did my recorded packages disappear from the Packages page?

The default view hides recorded, billed rejected and voided packages after 2 days. You can change that in the filter Hide recorded, billed rejected and voided packages after X days, or find the documents in the Recording Report for a date range.

### How fast do counties record documents sent through Simplifile?

Simplifile says most counties review, record and return documents within minutes during business hours. The Package Details page shows the county's estimated recording time and average turnaround time.

### Is Fous affiliated with ICE Mortgage Technology?

No. Fous is an independent product. You use it with your own Simplifile 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 Simplifile (ICE Mortgage Technology). 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.