Texas Permit Monitoring: Now Covering 8 Jurisdictions Across the State

When we launched TrackingPermits, we started where we knew the pain was worst: Houston. Architects, expeditors, and project managers were spending hours every week manually checking the City of Houston ILMS portal. We built automated monitoring to eliminate that.

Today, we are announcing that TrackingPermits now monitors building permits across 8 Texas jurisdictions — covering the majority of commercial and residential permitting activity in the state.

The 8 Jurisdictions We Now Cover

Why This Matters for Your Firm

If your firm works across multiple Texas cities, you know the pain of juggling different portals. Dallas uses Accela. Houston uses ILMS. Austin uses AMANDA. Each has its own login, search interface, and quirks.

With TrackingPermits, you add your permit numbers from any supported jurisdiction into one account. Every morning before 6am CT, we check every portal and send you a single digest email covering all your active permits — regardless of which city they are in.

How Accela Integration Works

Six of our eight jurisdictions run on Accela, the most widely used permitting platform in the country. Rather than scraping HTML portals, we connect directly to the Accela V4 API. This gives us structured access to workflow task statuses, review conditions, and permit details — more reliable than screen scraping and faster to expand to new cities.

For any new city that runs Accela, adding support is a configuration change — not a new engineering project. This is how we plan to scale nationally.

What Changed in Your Digest Email

Your daily digest email now shows the jurisdiction name next to each permit, so you can quickly scan which city each update is from. The email format is the same — status changes are highlighted, new comments include reviewer details, and unchanged permits are confirmed as stable.

What Is Next

We are actively evaluating more Texas cities including McKinney, Sugar Land, Plano, and Frisco. Beyond Texas, any city running Accela is a candidate for fast integration. If your firm works in a jurisdiction we do not cover yet, let us know — it may already be on our roadmap.