# Upload eIDAS certificates

If you have a data processing agreement with Tink Germany you can use your own QWAC and QSEAL eIDAS certificates in order to encrypt sensitive communications and identify your organizations to users.

As a user with admin rights to our cockpit you are in charge of uploading new certificates, activate and, if necessary, delete them.

All you need for the upload is:

* the certificate itself
* the appropriate key
* OAuth Redirect URI

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If the uploaded certificate is validated successfully the information including the private key is stored encrypted in our database.
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There are some banks that require a certificate registration. For Santander (DE) and Raiffeisen/HYPO/VKB (AT) we do an automatic registration for you. PayPal, Kontist and ErsteSparkasse (AT) you need to register the certificate by yourself.

After a successful automatic registration, the certificate will be tested and approved by FinTecSystems. After that you will receive an info email and you can activate the certificate.&#x20;

After activation every transaction will be processed with the your own eIDAS certificate.


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