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Estonian companies can now be established just using Smart-ID app. The first ever company established online using Smart-ID was today accepted by Registration Department of Tartu County Court. Previously, this was only possible using an Estonian digital ID card or mobile-ID.<\/p>\n

It just became even easier to establish a company online in Estonia. Online company formation is now possible for Smart-ID users through a new self-service portal<\/a> provided by Unicount.<\/p>\n

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Unicount<\/a> connects directly to the Estonian Business Register through an API, while offering additional tools, services and guidance to make the process of creating a company more user-friendly. It is also now the first portal to integrate Smart-ID for company creation, which is not yet possible directly through the Estonian Business Register.<\/p>\n

Smart-ID<\/a> is a mobile app launched in 2016 by SK ID Solutions for online verification and digital signing. It’s already compatible with a wide range of services in Estonia, including banking and tax filing, and is particularly popular with e-residents as they are\u00a0unable to use mobile-ID. The Smart-ID account needs to be registered on or after 8 November 2018 to be used for company creation through Unicount as this was the date when new Smart-ID accounts gained Qualified Electronic Signature status equal to Estonian mobile-ID and ID-card.<\/p>\n

The Estonian Centre of Registers and Information Systems<\/a>, the state agency that operates Estonian Business Register, launched company registration API<\/a> at the beginning of 2017. It was made to be used by service providers who assist Estonian e-residents with online company formation.<\/p>\n

Unicount started serving e-residents in the autumn of 2019, enabling easy Estonian company formation for one-person businesses through a self-service online portal. As of 9 of March this service is accessible to anyone with Estonian personal identification code and capable of signing with Smart-ID, ID-card or mobile-ID.<\/p>\n

SK ID Solutions<\/a> is the partner of the Estonian state in issuing certificates for national identity documents. The company introduced Smart-ID in Baltics 2017. First 18 months saw a million Smart-ID user accounts registered, three years later they have over 2,6 million users doing over 50 million transactions every month in more than 200 e-services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Estonian companies can now be established just using Smart-ID app. The first ever company established online using Smart-ID was today accepted by Registration Department of Tartu County Court. Previously, this was only possible using an Estonian digital ID card or mobile-ID. It just became even easier to establish a company online in Estonia. Online company […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[65,72],"class_list":["post-2814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-english","tag-unicount"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nNow you can use Smart-ID for company formation | Unicount<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Now you can use Smart-ID for company formation in Estonia. 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