Get The Work Number verifications into your own systems

What you can build on The Work Number

• Get a verification report

  Build this

  Opens one order in My Orders and reads the report: Order Details, the employer block, Employment Status, Annual Income Summary and Payroll & Salary Details.

  Takes

  Order ID or tracking number

  Returns

  Order ID, tracking number, employer, verified on, current as of, employment status, job title, start and hire dates, total time with employer, income by year, pay rate, pay frequency

• List my orders

  Build this

  Reads the orders listed in My Orders, with each order's details and whether a report is there to open.

  Takes

  Ordered since (optional)

  Returns

  Order ID, tracking number, inquiry date, inquiry type, permissible purpose, report ready

• Order a verification

  Build this

  Places a new order in the verifier portal for one person, with the verification type and permissible purpose you choose, and reads back the result.

  Takes

  SSN, verification type, permissible purpose, tracking number

  Returns

  Order ID, tracking number, records found, employer, employment status

Automate The Work Number 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.

• Each day's verification reports, copied to your system

  Build this

  Starts

  Every weekday at 18:00

  Step 1

  List the orders in My Orders placed since yesterday.

  Step 2

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

  Step 3

  Get the verification report for each of them.

  Step 4

  Post Order ID, tracking number, employer, employment status and income by year to your loan or screening system's webhook.

• Researched verifications, emailed when the report is ready

  Build this

  Starts

  Every hour

  Step 1

  List the orders in My Orders and keep those whose report became ready since the last run.

  Step 2

  Stop when there are none.

  Step 3

  Get each report and email you the tracking number, employer and employment status.

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 a verification report” would look like.

curl https://api.fous.com/v1/runs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOUS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "method": "secure1.verifier.theworknumber.com/get_verification_report",
    "input": {
      "tracking_number": "LN-20418"
    }
  }'

{
  "status": "completed",
  "data": {
    "order_id": "4821093316572045",
    "tracking_number": "LN-20418",
    "employer": "Northwind Traders",
    "verified_on": "2026-11-12",
    "current_as_of": "2026-10-31",
    "employment_status": "Active",
    "job_title": "WAREHOUSE LEAD",
    "most_recent_start_date": "2021-03-15",
    "original_hire_date": "2019-06-03",
    "total_time_with_employer": "5 Yrs 7 Months",
    "annual_income": [
      {
        "year": 2026,
        "base_salary": 48210,
        "overtime": 1312.5,
        "total": 49522.5
      }
    ],
    "pay_rate": 26.75,
    "pay_frequency": "Hourly"
  }
}

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 Work Number’s own options

Equifax offers The Work Number to credentialed verifiers with a permissible purpose, through the web portal, more than 60 technology partners and its own developer API, whose reference is shown after sign-in. Pay As You Go is for 250 applicants a year or fewer, billed per order, without integrations or batch processing. Enterprise contracts add both.

Read on November 12, 2026: The Work Number for verifiers, The Work Number pricing, Equifax VOE/I on the developer portal.

Signing in to The Work Number

The verifier portal asks for your username and password. When multi-factor authentication is on, each credentialed user gets a one-time passcode at every login, sent to a trusted email address. With Fous you sign in once through the portal's own sign-in with your own account: the login is sealed with AES-256, the emailed code is handled, and an expired session is signed back in.

Worth knowing

Pay As You Go orders stay seven days

On Pay As You Go, orders sit in My Orders for seven days. After that you need Audit a Verification, which is not a receipt and has a fee, so copy each report out while it is there.

Not every record is instant

An instant request can return no records when the employer does not contribute data. Manual (researched) verification is only for contracted accounts: you get an email, then the report is in My Orders.

One account per user, after credentialing

Each user needs their own account, and you register and complete credentialing before your first order. Every verification request carries a permissible purpose under the FCRA.

Two dates on every report

A report shows Verified On, the day of your order, and a separate Current As Of date for the employer's data. Keep both with the result.

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