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APIs for Online Digital Services

Online CDC Service API

The Department is developing inbound and outbound APIs to facilitate the flow of CDC data between the Online CDC Service and the IT systems of councils and private certifiers.

The outbound API enables a council or private certifier to receive the CDC data entered by an applicant into the Online CDC Service directly into their IT system in real-time. This eliminates the need for double entry of application details into the IT systems of councils or private certifiers.

Councils or private certifiers can then progress the application in their own IT system (conduct completeness checks, request and receive additional information and provide a determination) as the inbound API transfers this data from council or private certifier to the Online CDC Service.

Please scroll down to access each API for the Online CDC Service.

View the CDC API Integration workflow

View the Online CDC - API release notes and roadmap 

CDC – API Release Notes

The following enhancements were made to the Online CDC Service APIs:

Release Date                Notes
1 December 2023 November Maintenance Release. Click here for a list of enhancements. Click here for list of schema changes.
6 November 2023 October Maintenance Release. Click here for a list of enhancements. Click here for schema changes.
29 September 2023 September Maintenance Release. Click here for a list of enhancements. Click here for schema changes.
1 September 2023 August Maintenance Release. Click here for a list of enhancements. Click here for schema changes.
16 June 2023 June Maintenance Release. Click here for a list of enhancements. Click here for schema changes.
31 March 2023 March Maintenance Release. Click here for a list of enhancements. Click here for schema changes.
10 February 2023 January Maintenance Release. Click here for a list of enhancements.
4 November 2022 October Maintenance Release. Click here for a list of enhancements. Click here for schema changes.
9 September 2022 August Maintenance Release. Click here for a list of enhancements Click here for schema changes.
29 July 2022  July Maintenance Release. Click here for a list of enhancements. Click here for schema changes.
1 July 2022 June Maintenance Release.  Click here for a list of enhancements. Click here for schema changes.
27 May 2022  May Maintenance Release. Click here for a list of enhancements. Click here for schema changes.
01 April 2022 March Maintenance Release. Click here for a list of enhancements.
04 March 2022 February Maintenance Release. Click here for a list of enhancements. Click here for schema changes.
04 December 2021 November Maintenance Release. Click here for a list of enhancements. Click here for schema changes.
29 October 2021 October Maintenance Release. Click here for a list of enhancements. Click here for schema changes.
30 September 2021 September Maintenance Release. Click here for a list of enhancements. Click here for schema changes
28 August 2021 August Maintenance Release. Click here for a list of enhancements. Click here for schema changes.
31 July 2021 July Maintenance Release. Click here for a list of enhancements. Click here for schema changes.
25 June 2021 June Maintenance Release (to be activated on 1 July 2021). Click here for a list of enhancements. Click here for schema changes.
26 March 2021 March Maintenance Release . Click here for a list of enhancements. Click here for schema changes.         
16 December 2020  Online Complying Development Certificate Service API – Release Notes. Click here to view the release notes.

CDC – API Roadmap

The following enhancements to the Online CDC Service APIs will be made. Please note, these enhancements are subject to change.

Planned Release Date  Notes
December 2020 Inbound and outbound APIs to facilitate the flow of CDC data between the Online CDC Service and the IT systems of councils and private certifiers.