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

Both are telecommunications businesses.

EDI license: The full name of EDI certificate (Electronic Data Interchange) is value-added telecommunications business license - online data processing and transaction processing business, which belongs to the category of B21 value-added telecommunications business. Specifically, it refers to the use of various A data, transaction, and transaction processing application platform connected to a communication network, which provides users with online data processing, transaction, and transaction processing services through the communication network.

Transaction processing business includes handling various banking services, stock trading, ticket trading, auction commodity buying and selling, fee payment, etc.

Operational ICP: The ICP certificate is a license for website operation. According to the "Internet Information Services Management Measures" and the "Notice on the Licensing and Registration of Internet Information Services", operational websites must apply for an ICP certificate. Otherwise, it is an illegal operation. Anyone who engages in Internet information services without obtaining a business license or completing registration procedures will be ordered to make corrections within a time limit by the relevant competent authorities in accordance with the law, and will be fined, ordered to close the website and other administrative penalties; if a crime is constituted, criminal liability will be pursued in accordance with the law.

The ICP business license provides service activities such as information or web page production to Internet users for a fee through the Internet. The content of commercial ICP operations mainly includes online advertising, agent production of web pages, paid provision of specific information content, e-commerce and other online application services.

Both the ICP certificate and the SP certificate belong to the B25 subcategory of the B2 category, that is, the B25 information service business.

Secondly, the business scope of the two is different.

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

For example: 58.com, Rentfang.com, Sogou/Baidu Search, Douban, Zhihu, etc. The most typical of them are information release websites like 58.com.

Operational ICP certificate: Simply put, ICP certificate is an Internet information service, which mainly releases information content through the Internet and obtains profits through information.

Such as banking services, stock trading, ticket sales, auction commodity sales, fee payments, service APPs, online malls, etc. The most typical one is the e-commerce platform.

Finally, the application departments for the two are different.

Because ICP is an Internet-based business and the Internet has no boundaries, it is a nationwide qualification. The handling department is always in the local communications bureau.

SP certificates are divided into full-network SP certificates and ground-network SP certificates. Ground-network SP certificates operate local SP services, and the application department is the communications bureau of the province, city, or autonomous region where the enterprise is located. The whole network SP certificate operates nationwide SP business, and the handling department is the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the country.

Tianlei Consulting reminds: If you want to open a business online, you must have an ICP certificate; but if you want to conduct transactions, you must have an EDI certificate.