If you have EMCS configured as part of your AEB software, you will need to grant authority for the AEB software to communicate with EMCS and HMRC on your behalf.
Before authority can be granted you must have registered with HMRC to use EMCS using your Government Gateway account.
The authority should last for 18 months and it will need to be renewed before it expires. To re-authorize, use the same process as below, ensuring that the Government Gateway account used is registered for EMCS.
Once AEB have confirmed that authority for EMCS can be granted, the following steps will need to be completed within EMCS Filing.
Please Note: Only users with the I_CLIENTADMIN role will be able to complete the below steps in EMCS Filing.
How to Grant Authority
- From the Office menu, go to Administration > Connection Settings. Select OAuth company settings.
- Click New to create the company settings record for your company. Note: one entry is created per company. If you have several different excise numbers, these must be entered using a separate company entry and be saved with the same excise number as in the linked Government Gateway account.
- In the Basic data section, assign a Name to the new company settings record for your company.
- In the Companies section, click Add, select your company from the list, then click OK.
- Click Apply to save the record. In the OAuth company settings overview, the new company settings record is then displayed.
- To save the company settings, click the save icon in the upper right corner of the screen.
- Select the newly created company settings record and click Open.
- In the Basic data section, click on the Grant authority link.
- The Government website will open in a new tab.
- Follow the instructions on the Government website to grant authority for AEB to interact with HMRC on your behalf.
- Once completed, return to EMCS Filing.