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# Tervisekassa
> Connect sick-leave certificates to the right absences on your schedule.
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Connect Tervisekassa so certificates of incapacity for work become absences on the schedule. Before connecting, decide which absence policies colleagues should see and have a board member grant Begin the company’s mandate.
Tervisekassa is rolling out gradually for Estonian workspaces and needs the **Pro** plan. If it is
missing from **Settings → Integrations**, ask us about enabling it. Your role must also allow
managing integrations.
## Grant the mandate
Open **Settings → Integrations → Tervisekassa → Setup**. Check the company registry code; add it
in workspace settings if it is missing.
In **Mandate on eesti.ee**, use **Open eesti.ee** or send the displayed steps to a board member.
They sign in, open **Volitused**, and grant Begin OÜ, registry code `12100876`, access to the
Tervisekassa employer X-tee services.
After the board member grants access, choose **Mark the mandate as granted** in Begin. This
records their confirmation; it does not grant the mandate.
## Choose the absences colleagues see
Open **Absence mappings** and map each certificate type you use to a time-off policy. Create the policy first if none is available. Use **Reason overrides** when a particular reason should use a different policy, such as a work accident rather than ordinary sick leave.
Everyone who can read the schedule can see the mapped absence and its Tervisekassa origin in the history. The certificate itself, with its type, reason and number, stays with the people who manage integrations. The reason code Begin copies onto the absence is separate: reading it on the schedule or in a report takes the **View others' time-off details** permission, so colleagues see the absence without it. A downloaded report file is not yet narrowed this way. No diagnosis is fetched or stored.
These absences arrive approved and published. Consider that automatic visibility before turning on the connection.
## Connect and check
Turn on the header switch. Begin checks hourly; use **Check for certificates** on **Sync** to ask now. Check the run result and the resulting absences. Closed certificates that need your data appear under **Waiting for data**.
**Connected** means Tervisekassa answered. An empty result can mean there are no certificates or
that the eesti.ee mandate is missing. Begin cannot distinguish those cases. Check the mandate if
expected certificates do not arrive.
Turning the connection off stops future checks and leaves existing absences in place. The [intermediation procedure](/for-managers/integrations/tervisekassa-intermediation) explains the basis for Begin’s access and its logging.
**Tervisekassa: access and limits**
* **Who can:** the default Administrator role manages integrations; Manager and Employee do not. A custom role can carry that permission.
* **Where:** integration access is controlled per role in **Settings → Permissions**.
* **Limits:** one employer connection per workspace. Closed certificates are available for the last 15 months.
* **Not supported:** opening, closing or editing a doctor’s certificate. Begin AI cannot manage the connection or read certificate details; it sees the resulting time off.
## Next
Complete the employer’s part after a certificate closes.
Set up employment filings separately.
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