In an update in the GST portal on 12th October 2023, GSTN has informed about the development of a facility for E-Commerce Operators through whom unregistered persons can supply goods.
Under this facility in the GST portal, the GSTN has provided APIs (Application Programming Interface) which acts as an intermediary between two applications) for E-Commerce Operators (through whom unregistered persons can supply goods) to integrate with GSTN to obtain the details and facilitate the unregistered suppliers. The APIs would be used for validating the demographic details of the said suppliers and also for tracking and reporting supplies made by such persons.
The details of the APIs developed for the above purpose are as follows:
1) Name of the APIs:
a) Unregistered Applicants API: To be used for getting the details of Unregistered Applicants by passing the enrolment ID.
b) Unregistered Applicants Validation API: To be used for validating the Mobile Number and Email ID of an Enrolment ID.
2) Instructions for the E-Commerce Operators for accessing and integrating the APIs successfully:
a) The E-Commerce operator should contact any GSP (GST Suvidha Provider) to access the above APIs as the APIs are not publicly available.
b) To access these APIs, Authentication Token should be obtained from the authentication API. The API specifications (gives an understanding about how an API behaves & links with other APIs) are available at developer portal (https://developer.gst.gov.in/apiportal/) under Public API Authentication.
c) For accessing the public APIs the authentication token should be obtained by using the GSPs credentials.
d) The APIs specifications for the two E-Commerce APIs are available on developer portal (https://developer.gst.gov.in/apiportal/) under Public API E-Com operators.
e) The response of both APIs will be Base64 encoded (no encryption is used). Base64 is a binary to a text encoding scheme that represents binary data in an American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) string format. It is designed to carry data stored in binary format across the channels and it takes any form of data and transforms it into a long string of plain text.
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CBDT Notification No 88/2023 Dated10 October 2023: Amendment in Rule 114B, 114BA & 114BB