How do I activate portal access for secondary certificate holders?
Your new secondary digital certificate holders will need you to activate their profile in the portal before they can successfully login for the first time. This is when you choose which activities they will be able to conduct on your entity’s behalf. Ask your secondary digital certificate holder to try logging in to the portal after they have downloaded and installed their new certificate. Once they have done this, they will appear in your ‘access pending’ list. The next step is to login to the portal yourself, and activate your new certificate holder’s access. The way you do this is different depending on which portal you want them to use. Please click on one of the links below for a demonstration. Business Portal Tax Agent Portal If you would like to delegate this task to your secondary digital certificate holder(s), make sure you check the Delegated administrator box (Business Portal) or Make this person an administrator box (Tax Agent Portal) when you approve their access. They’ll