GSTN issued advisory on Facility provided to E-Commerce Operators through whom Unregistered Suppliers of Goods can Supply Goods

The Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN) has issued an advisory on Facilities provided to E-Commerce Operators through whom Unregistered Suppliers of Goods can Supply Goods.

GSTN has also provided APIs for ECOs (through whom unregistered persons can supply goods) to integrate with GSTN to obtain the details and facilitate the unregistered suppliers.

The APIs are used to track and report supplies made by those people as well as to validate the demographic information of the aforementioned suppliers.

The details of the APIs are as follows:-

a) The name of the APIs developed are :

1. Unregistered Applicants API: To get the details of Unregistered Applicant by passing the enrolment ID in the GET request.

2. Unregistered Applicants Validation API: To validate the Mobile Number and Email ID of an Enrolment ID.

b) The following is noteworthy for the e-Commerce operators in order to access and integrate the APIs successfully:

1. The e-Commerce operator should contact any GSP to access the above APIs as the APIs are not publically available.

2. To access these APIs Authentication Token should be obtained from the authentication API, the API specs are available at developer portal under Public API à Authentication.

3. The authentication token should be obtained by using the GSP’s credentials in order to access the public APIs.

4. The API specifications for the two e-Comm APIs can be found on the developer portal under Public API eComm operators.

5. The response of both APIs will be Base64 encoded, no encryption is used.