GSTN Announces Release of Integrated Services from e-invoice-1 and e-invoice-2 Portals



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The Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN) is set to launch integrated services from its e-invoice-1 and e-invoice-2 portals. These enhanced services will be available on sandbox portals from 18th July 2024 and on production portals from 1st August 2024. The integration allows for seamless inter-operations, meaning taxpayers can use the same login credentials and API tokens across both portals for e-invoicing and e-waybill services. Importantly, the e-invoice-2 portal will serve as a backup during technical issues with the main portal, enabling taxpayers to continue printing, downloading, and cancelling e-invoices without interruption.

Integrated Services from NIC-IRP e-invoice-1 and e-invoice-2 Portals

GSTN wish to inform that NIC is releasing the integrated services from e-invoice-1 and e-invoice-2 portals on 18th July 2024 on sandbox portals and 1st Aug 2024 on the production portals. These portals run in parallel and now allow for seamlessly inter-operations. The highlights of the portal are as follows

GSTN Integrates e-invoice Portals for Seamless Services

(https://einvoice1.gst.gov.in and https://einvoice2.gst.gov.in)

i. Both the portals (NIC-IRP 1 & 2) provide the web and API modes for e-invoice related services.

ii. The taxpayers can use the same login credentials to operate e-invoice1 and e-invoice-2 portals.

iii. In case of API, the same token can be used for the services of e-invoices and e-waybills on both the portals.

iv. The taxpayers can use the e-invoice-2 portal during technical glitches in e-invoice main portal or any other exigencies.

v. The Criss-Cross operations of printing, downloading and cancelling can be carried out on these portals. That is, printing, downloading and cancelling of e-invoices of the portal 1 can be done at portal 2 and vice versa.

vi. In case e-invoice-1 is non-operational because of technical reasons, then the e-invoice-2 portal can be used for all the services of the e-invoices.

vii. Please visit the sandbox portal (einv-apisandbox.nic.in) for URLs of APIs and other details.

viii. Please test all the APIs in sandbox environment before rolling on the production environment.

ix. In addition to NIC-IRP, four other e-invoice portals are operated for the convenience of the taxpayer. The users can avail similar e-invoicing services on IRP-3/IRP-4/IRP-5 and IRP-6 portals also.

FAQ :

Integrated services will be released on sandbox portals on 18th July 2024 and on production portals on 1st August 2024.

Yes, taxpayers can use the same login credentials to operate both e-invoice-1 and e-invoice-2 portals.

If the e-invoice-1 portal is non-operational due to technical reasons, the e-invoice-2 portal can be used for all e-invoice services, including printing, downloading, and cancelling.

Yes, if using API, the same token can be used for the services of e-invoices and e-waybills on both portals.

Yes, in addition to NIC-IRP 1 and 2, taxpayers can avail similar e-invoicing services on IRP-3, IRP-4, IRP-5, and IRP-6 portals.




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