The Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN) on October 12, 2023, issued the Facility for the e-commerce operators through whom unregistered suppliers of goods can supply goods.
The following has been stated namely: -
• GSTN has provided APIs for ECOs to integrate with GSTN to obtain the details and facilitate the unregistered suppliers. The APIs are for validating the said suppliers' demographic details and for use in tracking and reporting supplies by such persons.
• The details of the APIs are as follows: -
1. The name of the APIs developed are: -
a. Unregistered Applicants API
b. Unregistered Applicants Validation API:
2. The following is noteworthy for the e-commerce operators in order to access and integrate the APIs successfully:
a. The e-commerce operator should contact any GSP to access the above APIs as the APIs are not publically available.
b. To access these APIs Authentication Token should be obtained from the authentication API.
c. For accessing the public APIs the authentication token should be obtained by using the GSPs credentials.
d. The APIs specs for the two eComm APIs are available on the developer portal under Public API eComm operators.
e. The response of both APIs will be Base64 encoded, no encryption is used.
