How to get MitID Erhverv as a sole proprietorship

1: Prepare your company

If only one individual from your compnay needs access to public self-service solutions and to read Digital Post on behalf of your company, you do not need to connect to MitID Erhverv. 

The owner of the sole proprietorship can automatically log in to the company’s behalf with his/her private MitID e.g. to read the company’s Digital Post. 

Read more if you are unsure whether or not you need MitID Erhverv
If you have several employees in the company who must be able to act digitally on behalf of the company (e.g. read the company’s Digital Post or report illness or maternity leave), you need MitID Erhverv.
When you connect your company to MitID Erhverv, you can do so in two ways:
  • The owner connects the company via the digital connection flow.

  • A reporter (e.g. an administrator in your company) logs into the digital connection flow and prepares the connection. After that, the owner must login and accept the reporter’s choice.

2: Connect your company to MitID Erhverv

First step is for the owner or the reporter to log in with their private MitID. It is to prove their identity to MitID Erhverv.

It is important that all users and administrators can be identified securely and unambiguously through a login.

The login information is only used to identify the person. The information is not shared with the organisation or saved.

The owner must accept the terms and conditions of MitID Erhverv.

The terms govern the creation and ongoing use of MitID Erhverv. The terms will be updated on a regular basis. Upon updates, all organisation administrators will be notified of the new terms. The new terms will apply 3 months after the update is sent to all user organisations in MitID Erhverv.

The addition of new services or functionality to MitID Erhverv, and special terms attached thereto that do not affect the existing functionality and operational conditions of the user organisation, may be done without notice.

Read the terms of MitID Erhverv

Once you have accepted the terms, you must appoint an organisation administrator.

The organisation administrator will be in charge of your organisations setup in MitID Erhverv (see step 3).

The owner may choose to have the role themselves or to appoint someone else as an organisation administrator. Or both.

Read more about the role of organisation administrator

Finally, the connection can be confirmed and approved.

At the end of the connection to MitID Erhverv, a receipt will be received by e-mail. The selected organisation administrator will also receive an e-mail with a link to set up the company in MitID Erhverv.

3: Setup the company
Once your company has completed the connection to MitID Erhverv, the organisation administrator will receive an e-mail with a link to the setup flow.

The first step is for the organisation administrator to log in with his/her private MitID to prove the identity to MitID Erhverv.

It is important that all users and administrators can be identified securely and unambiguously through a login.

The login information is only used to identify the person. The information is not shared with the organisation or saved.
The organisation administrator will subsequently have to choose how users within the company should be able to login.

The organisation administrator will have to decide on:
  1. Should your users generally be able to use their private MitID when they act digitally on behalf of your company? Then the user only needs one MitID. The company's data and the user’s data are completely separate when a user uses their private MitID on behalf of the company
  2. What separate MitID authenticators does the organisation make available to users if a user wants to have one MitID for private use and another for business purposes? MitID app is pre-selected when you set up your organisation in MitID Erhverv. If you want to make other MitID autenticators available to your users (e.g. code display, audio code reader or chip), you can select them in MitID Erhverv after the setup has been completed

Read more about how to login with MitID Erhverv
The organisation administrator must then choose how the person wants to log in.
  1. With private MitID (e.g. the MitID app used for private use). Then the user only needs one MitID. The company's data and the user’s data are completely separate when a user uses their private MitID on behalf of the company
  2. With a separate MitID for business use. The user then has one MitID for private use and another MitID for business use
In the setup flow, the organisation administrator can choose a MitID app as separate MitID. If you want to use a code display, audio code reader or chip after setting up MitID Erhverv, it can be selected under settings in MitID Erhverv.
Finally, the organisation administrator must approve the setup. The company now has MitID Erhverv.

The organisation administrator can now log into MitID Erhverv.

4: Activate users

If you have imported users and administrators from NemID medarbejdersignatur to MitID Erhverv before the 1st of november 2023, the users can be activated. Only after the users are activated are they able to login on behalf of the association.

Under ‘Imported Users’ in MitID Erhverv, the user administrator can view all imported users and is able to:

  1. Activate the users individually by clicking on the user and choose how they should be able to login (e.g. with private MitID or a separate MitID)
  2. Activate all or several users simultaneously by selecting the users and choose how they should be able to login (e.g. with private MitID or a separate MitID)
  3. Delete users who do not need to be activated in MitID Erhverv

Users who are not activated will remain under the ‘Imported Users’ page until they are activated or deleted.

After activation, each user receives an activation e-mail.
After the user administrator has activated the users, each user must activate.

The user has received an e-mail with an activation link and will have to user their private MitID the first time they have to login.

If the user administrator has chosen that the user can login with private MitID, the user must now approve or reject this. If the user administrator has chosen that the user can login with a separate MitID e.g. a MitID app, the user must also activate this.

Once the user has been activated, the user can act digitally with e.g. MitID app on behalf of the company.
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Now you are ready to connect to MitID Erhverv

Once you have prepared your company for the connection to MitID Erhverv, the owner or a reporter can start the connection process.