Authorization Service functionalities
In the Authorization Service, the user (end customer or their proxy, see Using Suomi.fi e-Authorizations) is offered the following functionalities:
Accepting an authorization request sent by a party
The Authorization Service shows pending authorization requests and their details.
An authorization request can contain specific accounting points (term used in the service: electricity location), or it may be about all the customer’s accounting points for which the customer holds a contract at the time of acceptance. The Authorization Service shows the user the accounting points for which an authorization is being requested, and notifies the user if the request contains accounting points for which an authorization cannot be made in line with the request (the contract situation required by the authorization type is not in place at the electricity location for the entire authorization request period). The user may accept or deny the request.
After the request is accepted, the Authorization Service sends authorizations to Datahub for those accounting points for which an authorization can be created.
If the user denies the authorization request, the request is no longer shown in the Authorization Service and can no longer be accepted. The party can see the denied requests in the CMS UI by searching for authorization requests with “Denied” status.
Creating a new authorization
A user can create new authorizations. There are three stages to creating an authorization:
Reviewing current authorizations
The Authorization Service lists the user’s currently valid authorizations.
If there are a lot of accounting points and authorizations, authorizations can also be reviewed by accounting points.
Terminating authorizations
The user can terminate a single authorization or several/all of their authorizations in one go. Selection is made easier by filters, which can be used to select authorizations granted to a certain party or current authorizations of a certain authorization type.
Renewing an authorization
A user can renew authorizations by changing their validity period. Authorizations renewed like this get a new start date as soon as they are renewed, as well as a user-selected end date. When changing the validity of authorization types that require the customer to hold a contract for the accounting point, the contract situation at the accounting point is taken into account. This means that the Authorization Service prevents extending an authorization to a time when the customer does not hold a contract for the accounting point.
The user may renew several authorizations at once by selecting several authorizations to change the validity periods of. Note that if the selection includes accounting point with contracts that are due to end, the latest possible new end date for all selected authorizations is the end date of the contract that ends first.