Act as a data user
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How to use
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Identification
Log in with your personal online banking codes, a mobile certificate or a certificate card.
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Act as a data user
Choose this role if you want to use the Incomes Register as a data user.
Please note that using this role requires your organisation to grant you the master user role or some other data user role.
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Select a role
The list includes all the data user roles available to you for the use of the Incomes Register.
Always select the role you need to carry out a certain task.
A data user is either an organisation or authority which, by law, has the right to obtain data from the Incomes Register.
A master user is a person appointed by the data user organisation to carry out administrative functions in the Incomes Register on behalf of the organisation.
Data search roles
An organisation may have one or more roles for accessing data.
Data search
You can search for data in the Incomes Register according to the data access rights granted to your organisation or the role granted to you.
Subscriptions
Only the master user can request records and transcripts. However, you can view summary reports of record queries also in other roles.
How to search for subscriptions
Master users
An organisation must always have at least two master users.
As a master user, you manage your organisation’s authorisations in the e-service. In the service, you can also view the data content of your organisation’s data permission. Your tasks also include keeping in touch with the Incomes Register.
Learn more about the master user’s tasks and contact channels
Authorisations
As a master user you can authorise your organisation’s employees to use the Incomes Register. Your organisation’s data user roles are defined in the data permission.
In addition to granting authorisations, you are responsible for editing and revoking them. Please remember to revoke an authorisation if a person no longer needs it for their job.
Ensure that authorisation is carried out in accordance with your organisation's decision-making and other procedures.
How to authorise a data user role
Subscriptions
Browse the subscriptions you have made, order a new transcript, or make a new record subscription in accordance with your organisation’s data access rights.
How to search for subscriptions
Requesting a transcript or and record
Data content of the data permission
As a master user, you can view the data content of your organisation’s data permission in the e-service. You can also download the data content as a csv file.
Sector representative and contract contact person
As a sector representative or contract contact person for the data permission, you can view the data content of the data permission in the e-service. You can also download the data content as a csv file.
In the Incomes Register, data users are the organisations and authorities to which the act on the Incomes Register grants the right to search for och view data reported to the Incomes Register. These parties may only use the data in the extent and for the purposes laid down in the act.
The data is used for decision-making and in other statutory duties.
A separate data permission decision is made for each organisation entitled to data permission. It defines what information the representatives of the organisation may retrieve and view, and to what extent.
Read more about data permission
Data users can retrieve data through the interface or the e-service.
Accessing data through the interface
The majority of data users retrieve data from the Incomes Register to their software via an API. In this case, the organisation will be identified by a technical certificate installed in the software.
Use of data in the e-service
Some organisations also use the Incomes Register’s e-service. Representatives of a data user identify themselves in the e-service with personal online banking codes, a mobile certificate or a certificate card.
You can only use the e-service on behalf of a data user if you have been authorised by your organisation’s master user to act as a data user.
Data users do not use the Suomi.fi authorisation. Instead, the master user of each organisation grants the authorisations in the Incomes Register’s e-service. The master user is also responsible for the maintenance of the granted authorisations.
You can only use the Incomes Register’s e-service on behalf of a data user if you have been authorised by your organisation’s master user to act as a data user.
Data users do not use the Suomi.fi authorisation. Instead, the master user of each organisation grants the authorisations in the Incomes Register’s e-service. The master user is also responsible for the maintenance of the granted authorisations.
Representatives of a data user who have been granted an authorisation must identify themselves in the Incomes Register’s e-service with their personal credentials.
Most data users retrieve data from the Incomes Register to their software via an API. In this case, the organisation will be identified by a technical certificate installed in the software.
Page last updated 5/7/2026