Terms of Service

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a binding agreement between you ("you", "your", "Customer") and Tarun Soft Consultancy, which operates the gstinapi.in platform ("we", "us", "our", "gstinapi.in").

By registering for an account, generating an API key, or making any call to our API, you confirm that you have read and accept these Terms. If you are accepting on behalf of a company, you confirm you are authorised to bind that company.

gstinapi.in provides a REST API and web interface that return publicly available registration details for Indian GSTINs — legal name, trade name, registration status, taxpayer type, constitution of business, registered address and related fields — sourced in real time through licensed GST Suvidha Provider (GSP) infrastructure.

We also offer an optional monitoring service that periodically re-checks GSTINs you have added to a watchlist and notifies you when their status or details change. Monitoring is sold as an annual subscription per monitored GSTIN and is separate from lookup credits.

We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of the Government of India, the GST Network (GSTN), or any tax authority. We are an independent commercial reseller of GSTIN verification data.

You must provide accurate registration details and keep them current. One person or business may not maintain multiple accounts to circumvent free allowances or rate limits.

Your API key is your responsibility. Anyone holding it can spend your credits. Keep it server-side, never commit it to a public repository or ship it in a browser or mobile app, and rotate it immediately from your dashboard if exposed. We are not liable for credits consumed through a key you have failed to protect.

You must be at least 18 years old and using the service for business or professional purposes.

Free allowance. Every account receives free lookup credits: currently 25 on signup, plus a one-time bonus (currently 25 each) for completing setup steps shown on the dashboard — up to 100 in total. These do not expire. Each bonus is granted at most once per account, and the amounts may change for new grants at any time. Purchased credits are only consumed once free credits are exhausted.

Credits. Lookups beyond the free allowance are paid for with prepaid credits bought in packs. One successful lookup consumes one credit. Requests that fail format validation are not charged. Purchased credits do not expire.

Payment. Payments are processed by Razorpay. We do not receive or store your card, UPI or bank credentials. Credits are added to your account once payment is confirmed. Prices are listed on our Pricing page and are inclusive of applicable taxes unless stated otherwise. A GST invoice is issued against the GSTIN on your profile where provided.

Refunds. Purchases are final. See our Refund & Cancellation Policy for the limited circumstances in which we issue refunds.

We may change prices at any time. Changes never affect credits you have already bought.

You agree not to:

• Resell, sublicense or redistribute raw API responses as a competing verification service
• Scrape, bulk-harvest or attempt to reconstruct a copy of the GSTIN database
• Exceed published rate limits, or use multiple accounts or IPs to evade them
• Use the service to harass, profile or build dossiers on individuals
• Reverse engineer, probe or attempt to gain unauthorised access to our systems
• Use the data in any way that breaches Indian law, including the GST Act and applicable data protection law

We may suspend or terminate an account that breaches this section, without refund.

We return what the upstream GST network returns to us, at the moment you ask. We do not create, verify or correct that data.

We do not warrant that results are accurate, complete or current. Records can be stale, mid-update, or temporarily unavailable at source. A lookup result is not legal, tax or compliance advice.

You are responsible for your own compliance decisions. Where a decision carries material financial or legal consequence — input tax credit claims, vendor onboarding, statutory filings — verify independently against the official GST portal. Do not treat our response as the sole basis for such a decision.

We aim for high availability but do not offer a contractual uptime guarantee on standard plans. The service depends on upstream GSP and GSTN infrastructure that is outside our control; outages there will affect us.

We may perform maintenance, change or withdraw features, and modify rate limits. Where a change is material and within our control, we will give reasonable notice by email.

Support is provided by email and WhatsApp during Indian business hours. We usually respond within one business day. Enterprise arrangements with defined SLAs are available on request — contact us.

The service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Our total aggregate liability for any claim arising out of or relating to the service is limited to the amount you actually paid us in the three (3) months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim.

We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential losses, including lost profits, lost input tax credit, penalties or interest levied by any authority, business interruption, or loss of data — even if we were advised such losses were possible.

Nothing in these Terms excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including liability for fraud.

You may stop using the service and request account deletion at any time by emailing help@gstinapi.in. Unused credits are not refunded on voluntary closure.

We may suspend or terminate your account immediately for breach of these Terms, suspected fraud, chargeback abuse, or where required by law. Where the cause is not a breach by you, we will refund the unused portion of any active monitoring subscription on a pro-rata basis.

These Terms are governed by the laws of India. The courts at Surat, Gujarat have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of or in connection with these Terms or your use of the service.

Before commencing proceedings, both parties agree to attempt in good faith to resolve the dispute by direct discussion for a period of thirty (30) days.

We may update these Terms. The "Effective date" above will change when we do, and material changes will be notified by email to registered account holders. Continuing to use the service after a change takes effect constitutes acceptance.

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