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Maintaining Your ECF Account

Updated 11/11/2020

You can access your account information through the Maintain Your ECF Account menu to update your office/address/telephone number, email preferences and filing agent information. You may also deactivate a filing agent.

Step-by-Step Instructions:  Updating Your Office, Address or Telephone Number

  • Select Utilities > Maintain Your ECF Account.
  • When the account screen displays, edit as appropriate.
  • Click Submit.
  • Click Submit to search for Open cases and Closed cases.
  • Select to Update All cases.
  • Click Submit to complete the update.

Step-by-Step Instructions:  Updating Your Email Preferences

  • Select Utilities > Maintain Your ECF Account.
  • Click Email information.
  • Edit as appropriate.
    • Primary email address - Enter an email address to receive Notices of Electronic Filing (NEFs).  Reenter the primary email address to verify.
    • Secondary email address - You may have NEFs sent to other email addresses in addition to your primary address.  When entering email addresses, separate each address with a semicolon or press "Enter" after each address so one address appears on each line.  
    • Send the notices specified below - Select one or both options.
    • Send notices in cases in which I am involved - Check to receive NEFs in cases in which you are a participant.  IMPORTANT! You are allowed one free look for each PDF associated with the notice, which expires 15 days from receipt of the notice.
    • Send notices in these additional cases - Users can elect to receive NEFs in cases in which they have an interest but are not case participants.  Check the box, enter a case number and click Find This Case.  There is no limit to the number of additional cases that can be listed.  IMPORTANT!  You will not receive a free look for these PDFs.  
    • Send notices for adversary proceedings in which I am directly involved and for their related bankruptcy cases - Select this option if you would like to receive NEFs of bankruptcy matters when your appearance is only entered in the adversary proceeding.
    • Send notices for adversary proceedings in which I am directly involved but not for their related bankruptcy cases - Select this option if you would not like to receive NEFs for related bankruptcy cases.
    • Send a notice for each filing - Select to receive email notices as activity occurs throughout the day.
    • Send a Daily Summary Report - Select to receive a single summary report at the end of the day.
    • Format notices
      • HTML format will include hyperlinks to the PDFs.
      • Text will feature the URL of the PDF document, which can be copied and pasted into the location bar of your browser.
  • When done, click Return to Account screen.
  • Click Submit.
  • Click Submit to complete the update.

Step-by-Step Instructions:  Updating Filing Agent Information and Permissions

  • Select Utilities > Maintain Your ECF Account
  • Click More user information.
  • The filing agents associated with your account displays in the gray box.  Click the hyperlink of the agent you wish to update.
  • The Filing Agent Information screen displays.  
  • Edit as appropriate.
  • To edit the filing agent's permission to pay fees on your behalf:
    • Click Update permissions.  
    • Select Y or N to allow Internet Payment.
    • Click Return to account screen.
  • Click Submit.
  • A message displays confirming the update to the filing agent account.  Click OK.
  • Click Return to Account screen.
  • Click Submit to complete the update.

Step-by-Step Instructions:  Deactivating a Filing Agent

  • Select Utilities > Maintain Your ECF Account.
  • Click More user information.
  • The filing agents associated with your account displays in the gray box.  
  • An active filing agent is shown with a check in the box next to the filing agent's name.  To deactivate the association, uncheck the box and click Return to Account screen.
  • Click Submit to complete the update.