Accreditation

EFD vendor accreditation is the process through which POS or E-SDC products become accredited for a specific jurisdiction.

There are two types of accreditations:

▪ Transferable – EFD vendors (developers, manufacturers or resellers) can apply to have their products accredited so they can sell them to taxpayers in that jurisdiction

▪ Non-transferable – individual taxpayers can apply and go through the process of accreditation for a POS or E-SDC solution they are already using.

Each new POS or E-SDC product (or a new product version) has to go through the accreditation process. Only after it becomes officially accredited by the tax authority, it can be sold to taxpayers from that jurisdiction as an EFD component.

The accreditation process consists of two parts:

▪ Technical review – performed only once for a single POS or E-SDC product (or single product version). When a product successfully passes the technical review, the vendors can apply for accreditation in as many jurisdictions as they wish.

▪ Administrative review – specific for each jurisdiction. After a product passes the common technical review, it has to go through the administrative review for each jurisdiction separately.

During the administrative review, the Commissioner evaluates documentation by cross-examining the functionality stated in the user manual and other documentation to ensure that the implemented functions operate as described.

During the technical review, the Commissioner identifies whether there are any of the following types of issues:

1. Non-compliance: a deviation from the expected output, must be solved by the applicant;

2. Bug: represents a failure, flow or fault in software that produces incorrect or unexpected results, must be solved by the applicant;

3. Doubt: represents uncertainty due to possible misinterpretation and is resolved by investigation and clarification from the applicant;

4. Observation: represents minor faults, mainly in documentation or sample appearance; these issues shall contain sub-class mandatory or voluntary which will reflect the applicant’s level of obligation to solve;

5. Improvement: represents a proposal to improve functionality, which the applicant may solve or not.

All issues that are non-compliance, bugs, doubts and observations with a mandatory sub-class must be solved before the accreditation is granted. After the issues are resolved and finalized to the satisfaction of the Commissioner and the applicant, the Commissioner writes the accreditation report describing the evaluation process and the outcome of the process and making recommendations for or against the accreditation

Only after a product passes both the technical review and administrative review, it can become officially accredited for the jurisdiction(s) selected in the administrative part of the process.

EFD vendors use the Developer Portal to test their POS or E-SDC products and apply for accreditation.

If you are interest in getting accredited as an official vendor, please click the button below to get access to the development environment

Apply for EFD Accreditation Here https://tap.sandbox.taxcore.online/Home/Login