What is the difference between an EDI license and an ICP license?

Both are telecommunication business.

EDI license: EDI license (Electronic Data Interchange) full name is called value-added telecommunications business license - online data processing and transaction processing business, belongs to the category B21 value-added telecommunications business, specifically refers to the use of a variety of communication networks connected to the data and transaction, transaction processing application platform, through the communication network for the user to provide online data processing and transaction, transaction processing business. users through the communication network to provide online data processing and transaction, transaction processing business.

Transaction processing business includes handling various banking services, stock trading, ticket trading, auction merchandise trading, and expense payment.

Operational ICP: ICP certificate is the license for website operation. According to the "Measures for the Administration of Internet Information Services" and "Notice on Permission and Filing of Internet Information Service Processing", an operational website must apply for an ICP certificate, or else it will be an illegal operation. Without obtaining a business license or not fulfilling the filing procedures, unauthorized engagement in Internet information services, by the relevant competent authorities shall order rectification within a specified period of time, and give a fine, order the closure of the site and other administrative penalties; constitutes a crime, shall be held criminally liable.

ICP license to provide information or web page production and other service activities to Internet users through the Internet for a fee. Operational ICP business content is mainly online advertising, production of web pages, paid to provide specific information content, e-commerce and other online application services.

ICP license and SP license both belong to the B25 sub-category of B2, i.e. B25 information service business.

Secondly, the two have different business scope.

EDI license: online data processing, transaction business, the most typical is the e-commerce platform.

E.g.: 58 Tongcheng, Rent.com, Sogou/Baidu search, Douban.com, Zhihu.com, etc., the most typical of which is similar to 58 Tongcheng, such as the information dissemination category of the site.

Operational ICP license: Simply put, ICP license is an Internet information service, mainly through the Internet for the release of information content, through the information to obtain profit.

such as banking, stock trading, ticket trading, auction commodity trading, fee payment, service APP, online shopping malls, etc., of which the most typical is the e-commerce platform.

Finally, the two application departments are different.

Because ICP is an Internet-based business, the Internet is no boundaries, so it is a national qualification. The application department is always in the local communication authority.

SP license is divided into full-network SP license and local network SP license, local network SP license to operate local SP business, the application department for the enterprise's location in the provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions of the Communications Authority. The full network SP license to operate the national SP business, the application department for the country's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

Tianlei consulting reminds: to open the door to do business online, you have to have an ICP certificate; but to carry out transactions, you have to have an EDI certificate.