What is Suomi.fi e-Authorizations?

An electronic mandate for acting on behalf of another party

Suomi.fi e-Authorizations can be used to act on behalf of another person or organisation in services that use Suomi.fi e-Authorizations to check the right to use the services.
As a rule, these services are e-services.

In Suomi.fi e-Authorizations, you can

grant a private individual, company, association or some other organisation a mandate to act on your behalf
accept a mandate that a private individual, company, association or some other organisation has granted to you to act on their behalf
request a mandate from a private individual, company, association or some other organisation to act on their behalf.

A mandate granted in Suomi.fi e-Authorizations is an electronic power of attorney. Its details are entered in the authorisation register. The digital services of different organisations such as Kela or Finnish Customs check from the authorisation register whether the person or the organisation has the right to act on behalf of another party.

A mandate in Suomi.fi e-Authorizations is not always needed for acting on behalf of another party because the services using Suomi.fi e-Authorizations check your rights from basic registers such as the Population Information System and the registers of the Finnish Patent and Registration Office.

In which services can I act with a mandate?

You can use a mandate from Suomi.fi e-Authorizations to act on behalf of another party in services that use Suomi.fi e-Authorizations to check the right to use the service.

The actual acting on behalf of another person or organisation takes place in the e-services of the different organisations, such as in the Tax Administration’s MyTax, Kela’s MyKanta or the digital service of the wellbeing services county.

When you want to act on behalf of another party in the services of an organisation, familiarise yourself with the instructions for that service. The instructions provide more detailed information on how to use Suomi.fi e-Authorizations in the service concerned.

Examples of instructions provided by individual services:

It is not possible to create a power of attorney in Suomi.fi e-Authorizations and print it for visiting the service in person. The mandates granted are only for using e-services or the services of pharmacies.

There are no separate user IDs for Suomi.fi e-Authorizations.

Log into Suomi.fi e-Authorizations at suomi.fi/e-authorizationsOpens in a new window. by clicking the Identification button.

Log into Suomi.fi e-Authorizations at suomi.fi/e-authorizations by clicking the Identification button.

Always log into the service using your personal ID, i.e. as yourself.

Then choose whether you want to act

as yourself
on behalf of another person
on behalf of a company or organisation.

If you are a foreigner and do not have Finnish authentication tokens, you can identify yourself to Suomi.fi e-Authorizations with the Finnish Authenticator app. In this case, you can only act as yourself.

The Suomi.fi activity history lists who has used your mandate to act on your behalf and in which service they have used it. The page does not show information about transactions made on behalf of another person before November 2022.

If the mandate has been granted to an organisation, the activity history will list the name of the organisation that acted on your behalf. If you would like more detailed information on the use of a service, please contact the service that was used.

Unfortunately, organisations such as companies, associations and societies cannot yet see in the Suomi.fi activity history if a service has been used their behalf.

Go to the Suomi.fi activity history.

If you want to view older information, please contact the Digital and Population Data Services Agency.

See the more detailed instructions on requesting information from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency.Opens in a new window.