# Turn Target Partners Online into an API > Read your Synergy cases, the check lines in Accounts Payable: Domestic and your open credit memos with one API call each. Or have a workflow go through each week's checks and Synergy statuses and hand your deductions team the new chargebacks and changed cases. Page: https://fous.com/automate/target-partners-online Updated: 2026-11-12 Works with your own Target Partners Online account. Fous is an independent product. ## What you can build on Partners Online ### Get Synergy cases Reads the Cases list in Synergy, filtered by status, with each dispute's document number, type, amounts and resolution amount. - Takes: Status (optional), submitted since (optional) - Returns: Case number, document number, dispute type, status, submitted date, document amount, disputed amount, department, PO, location, resolution amount ### Get check lines from Accounts Payable Reads your checks in Accounts Payable: Domestic and the check lines on each: the invoices paid and the deductions taken. - Takes: Check date from, check date to - Returns: Check number, check date, line document number, line type, amount, check total ### Get open credit memos Reads the open credit memo section of Accounts Payable: Domestic, where the deductions not yet taken from a check are listed. - Takes: Nothing - Returns: Document number, PO, location, amount, document date ### Dispute a deduction in Synergy Creates a new case in Synergy with Dispute, enters the document number, type and explanation, checks the amount and submits it with your supporting documents attached. - Takes: Document number, dispute type, explanation, full or partial amount, supporting documents - Returns: Case number, document number, status, disputed amount ## Automate Partners Online 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. ### New deductions on this week's checks Starts: Every Monday at 8:00 1. Get the check lines from Accounts Payable: Domestic for the last 7 days. 2. Keep the deduction lines that were not there on the last run. 3. Email you the list with check number, document number and amount, grouped by check. ### Synergy cases that changed status Starts: Every weekday at 7:30 1. Get all Synergy cases submitted in the last 90 days. 2. Keep the cases whose status changed since the last run. 3. Post each one, with its status and resolution amount, to your webhook. ### Weekly look at upcoming deductions Starts: Every Friday at 9:00 1. Get the open credit memos from Accounts Payable: Domestic. 2. Keep the memos that were not there on the last run. 3. Have an AI step group them by PO and email you the summary with each memo's document number and amount. 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 Synergy cases” 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": "www.partnersonline.com/get_synergy_cases", "input": { "status": "Awaiting Info", "submitted_since": "2026-09-01" } }' ``` Example response: ``` { "status": "completed", "data": { "cases": [ { "case_number": "CS-0048213", "document_number": "CB7730145", "dispute_type": "Carton shortage", "status": "Awaiting Info", "submitted": "2026-10-06", "document_amount": 310, "disputed_amount": 310, "department": "049", "po": "4419827", "location": "T0553", "resolution_amount": null } ], "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. ## Partners Online’s own options Target asks its suppliers to be able to receive purchase orders by EDI, and its domestic-based vendors to be paid by Electronic Funds Transfer through its Accounts Payable team. Its supplier pages describe no API for the apps in Partners Online: disputes, Accounts Payable and performance reports are used there, signed in with your own account. | Option | What it covers | What it takes | | --- | --- | --- | | EDI | Purchase orders from Target, received in your own EDI system. | Required of Target suppliers: the ability to use EDI to receive purchase orders. | | Electronic Funds Transfer | Payment of your invoices into your bank account by Target's Accounts Payable team. | Required for domestic-based vendors. | | Partners Online by hand | Synergy for disputes, Accounts Payable: Domestic for checks and credit memos, Greenfield reports for purchase orders and supplier performance. | A Partners Online account with access to each app you need. | Read on November 12, 2026: [Target: become a supplier](https://corporate.target.com/about/products-services/suppliers), [Partners Authentication user guide](https://logonservices.oauth.iam.partnersonline.com/guide/). ## Signing in to Partners Online Partners Online signs suppliers in at Target's sign-in page with an email address and password. Its sign-in guide covers Two Factor Authentication, trusted devices and passwordless sign-in with passkeys and device biometrics. With Fous you sign in once through that page with your own account: the login is sealed with AES-256, never returned by the API or written to logs, and code and AI agents never see it. ## Worth knowing - **The chargeback copy is in Accounts Payable**: Synergy takes the dispute, but your copy of Target's chargeback document, the credit debit memo detail report, is in Accounts Payable: Domestic. Look up the document number (CB number) there first. - **Cases sit in New for weeks**: A submitted case can show as New for 20-some days within a 30-day window before it moves on. A daily check is enough. - **Closed and Resolved need the amount**: Resolved usually means money back and Closed a denial, but Target does not always keep to that. Read the resolution amount to know whether money came back. - **One deduction per case**: You cannot dispute more than the document amount, and a dispute that bundles several deductions may be denied with a request to split it into separate cases. ## More in Retail: vendor portals (North America) - [Rithum OrderStream](https://fous.com/automate/rithum-orderstream.md) - [Syndigo CXH](https://fous.com/automate/syndigo-cxh.md) - [1WorldSync Item Management](https://fous.com/automate/1worldsync-item-management.md) - [Scintilla](https://fous.com/automate/scintilla.md) - [AlbertsonsNet for Suppliers](https://fous.com/automate/albertsonsnet-for-suppliers.md) - [CVS AP Vendor Portal](https://fous.com/automate/cvs-ap-vendor-portal.md) - [Home Depot Supplier Hub](https://fous.com/automate/home-depot-supplier-hub.md) - [Kroger Partner Pass](https://fous.com/automate/kroger-partner-pass.md) - [Lowe's Vendor Gateway](https://fous.com/automate/lowe-s-vendor-gateway.md) - [Wayfair Partner Home](https://fous.com/automate/wayfair-partner-home.md) - [Traverse Portal](https://fous.com/automate/traverse-portal.md) - [myUNFI](https://fous.com/automate/myunfi.md) Other industries: [Coles Supplier Portal](/automate/coles-supplier-portal), [Verizon My Business](/automate/verizon-my-business), [PowerClerk](/automate/powerclerk), [SAP Business Network](/automate/sap-business-network), [Exact Online](/automate/exact-online), [Squarespace](/automate/squarespace). ## Frequently asked questions ### Does Target Partners Online have an API? Not for its supplier apps, as far as Target's supplier pages show. Target requires suppliers to receive purchase orders by EDI, and domestic-based vendors to be paid by Electronic Funds Transfer. Synergy disputes, Accounts Payable: Domestic and Greenfield reports are used in Partners Online itself. ### How do I check the status of a Synergy dispute? Open Cases in Synergy and filter by status: New, Awaiting Info, In Progress, Reopened, Resolved or Closed. A case in Awaiting Info needs more from you: open it and add notes or attachments at the bottom of the case page. ### Where do I find the chargeback document for a Target deduction? In Accounts Payable: Domestic, where the credit debit memo detail report is your copy of Target's chargeback document. The same app shows your checks, their check lines and the open credit memos for deductions not yet taken. ### Can I see deductions before Target takes them? Often, yes. Accounts Payable: Domestic has an open credit memo section listing deductions not yet taken from a check. A workflow you build can read it every week and email you the new ones. ### Is Fous affiliated with Target? No. Fous is an independent product. You use it with your own Partners Online 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 Target Partners Online (Target). 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.