Getting Started

Thanks for visiting the Tertiary Education Commission's Developer Portal.

This guide is to help you get started and hopefully get you up and running with TEC's APIs as quickly as possible.

Follow the steps below and if there are any issues hit the "Contact Us" link above.

Regards,
TEC API Team

1) Your first step is to use this developer portal to apply for a subscription.

The developer portal URL is : https://ff-developer-dev.tec.govt.nz/

Use the sign up process to register.

2) Confirm sign up by clicking on the verification link that is sent to your sign up email.

3) Sign in to the portal, in the top right of the screen select your username and click on profile.

Once inside your profile page navigate to the Products page, select Feesfree.

4) On the Products page, you will be able to create a subscription for Feesfree product. Enter the name of your subscription (this is your application name) into the text box and click 'Subscribe'.

A TEC API administrator will be alerted that you have submitted an application. They will review your request and if appropriate, authorize it.

5) You will be able to see your subscription in a state of "Submitted" (not approved) in either the "Profile" page (see screenshot below) or the "Products" page (see above screenshot).

6) You should receive an email informing you that your subscription is pending approval by a TEC administrator.

7) When your subscription has been approved by a TEC administrator you will get an email confirming your access.

8) You are almost there!

To consume TEC APIs you must retrieve an OAuth token from TECs token provider service. Please use the Postman collection below as your reference.

Please note that to view the token API specification you must be logged into the developer portal. 

To call the token API you require a set of client credentials. At this time it is not possible to "self service" these credentials. A TEC administrator will contact you with your client credentials. 

To get you started we have provided a Postman collection that you can download here