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Electronic Data Capture Service: service availability and issues

Check the availability and any issues affecting the Electronic Data Capture Service (EDCS) online service.

Updates to this page

From:
HM Revenue & Customs
Published:
1 January 2014
Last updated:
10 February 2023
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  1. Planned downtime from 1:00pm to 5:00pm on Sunday 12 February 2023 has been added.

  2. Information has been added about a service issue that may cause connection issues from 10am to 11am on Saturday 26 February 2022.

  3. A service issue from 10am to 11am on Saturday 19 February 2022 and a planned downtime from 10pm on Saturday 19 February 2022 to 1am on Sunday 20 February 2022 have been added.

  4. Scheduled maintenance on Wednesday 7 July 2021 from 6.30pm to 7.30pm has been added which will affecting EDCS NES WEB and EDS NES XML services.

  5. You will be unable to use this service from 10am to 11am on Tuesday 21 April 2020. Information about this issue has been added.

  6. Planned downtime messages for Thursday 31 October 2019 8pm to 8:40pm has been added.

  7. Planned downtime messages for Saturday 26 October 2019 9am to 11am has been added.

  8. Planned downtime messages for Friday 20 September 2019 from midday to 2pm and Saturday 28 September from 9am to 5pm have been added.

  9. Planned downtime for Wednesday 11 September 2019 10:30am to 11am has been added.

  10. You will be unable to use this service on Saturday 16 March 2019 from 9am to 11pm. Information about this issue has been added.

  11. This service will be unavailable on 23 February 2019 from 9am to 11pm, information about this issue has been added.

  12. Service issue for Thursday 8 November 2018 from 6pm to 11pm has been added.

  13. Due to emergency work required on Electronic Data Capture Service, submissions via this route will be queued and will send no response on Friday 31 August 2018 between 10am and 11am.

  14. Planned downtime on 19 November 2017 has been added.

  15. The issues with Electronic Data Capture Service (EDCS) have now been resolved.

  16. Service availability has been updated to reflect the current issues with the system.

  17. Planned downtime has been updated for maintenance work on the Electronic Data Capture Service 13 August 2017.

  18. Planned downtime on 12 March 2017 added.

  19. Planned downtime added to this page.

  20. Service issues section has been updated.

  21. Service issues section has been updated.

  22. Service issues section has been updated.

  23. Information on planned downtime for the EDCS online service has been updated.

  24. Service downtime has been added to this page.

  25. Downtime has been added to this page.

  26. Planned downtime has been added to this page.

  27. First published.

This publication was withdrawn on

HMRC has phased out the Electronic Data Capture Service (EDCS), an HMRC electronic submission route that enabled traders with specialist software to send customs transit declarations and messages directly to the New Computerised Transit System (NCTS).

This has been replaced by the Customs Declaration Service.

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