The Easiest Way to Generate an eBRC: Portal, Workspace, or API Compared

Route one: the DGFT portal, yourself

The portal is the official home of the certificate, and it works. You sign in, find your IRMs in the repositories, match each remittance to its shipping bill or invoice, self-certify, and download. The trade is your time and attention: you learn the navigation, you repeat it per filing session, and you keep your own notes on what is done and what is pending. The full walkthrough is in how to generate an eBRC on the DGFT portal. If you file a handful of certificates a year and do not mind the routine, this route costs nothing but time.

Route two: a managed workspace like ebrc.in

The workspace route removes nearly all of the work, not just the navigating. On ebrc.in you connect your DGFT account once, from Settings, and the managing becomes the platform's job from that moment: your inward remittances are fetched and kept current on their own, each with a live status, filings are validated before anything is submitted, bulk spreadsheets are checked row by row with every error coming back named instead of silently failing, resubmitting never creates a duplicate, and the waiting and status-chasing until the certificate returns happens on our side, not yours.

What is left for you is the part only you can know: which invoice or shipping bill each payment belongs to. You supply those details, the guided form carries you through them pre-filled, and the certificate comes back, usually in about two hours, with the PDF, the eBRC number, and an exportable ledger waiting. There is nothing to learn first, and a test mode lets you practise before anything is real.

Route three: the eBRC API

ebrc.in's eBRC API is the same managed layer expressed as REST: you send the invoice and shipping bill data as JSON or Excel, get a request ID, and poll until the DGFT-issued certificate is ready to download. The full reference lives in the API documentation. Validation, row-level error reporting, duplicate protection, and the status-chasing in between stay on the platform side. It exists for platforms generating certificates for their customers and for enterprises filing at scale from their own tools, with every exporter entity holding its own DGFT connection. The integration story is in the eBRC API, explained.

How to pick, honestly

• Regular filings, or a desk that has better things to do: the ebrc.in workspace. The one-time connection replaces every future portal session, the platform carries the validation, error-checking, and status-chasing, and the ledger answers audits without spreadsheet archaeology.
• Certificates as part of a product, or hundreds of filings: the eBRC API, with the sandbox first.
• A few filings a year, comfortable with the portal: the portal route works. Keep a checklist and file soon after realisation.

Whichever route you choose, the certificate is identical: a DGFT-issued eBRC against your IEC. If you want the workspace route, sign up free at app.ebrc.in; there is no card and no volume limit for exporters.

Frequently asked questions

What is the easiest way to generate an eBRC?

For most exporters, a managed workspace such as ebrc.in: after a one-time DGFT connection your remittances arrive on their own, you supply only the invoice or shipping bill details, and validation, error checks, duplicate protection, and status-chasing are handled for you. The certificate is usually back in about two hours. The portal route works too; it simply asks you to do everything yourself.

Is the certificate different depending on the route?

No. Every route produces the same DGFT-issued eBRC against your IEC. The routes differ only in who does the clicking and how the records are kept.

Can I switch routes later?

Yes. The DGFT portal remains available to you regardless of how you usually file, and a workspace or API account reads from the same IRMs your bank reports.