{"id":24582,"date":"2026-08-25T19:15:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T17:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cipc.co.za\/?p=24582"},"modified":"2026-08-25T19:15:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T17:15:49","slug":"important-notice-system-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cipc.co.za\/?p=24582","title":{"rendered":"Important Notice: System Maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; background_color=&#8221;#e7e7e8&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.18.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; background_color=&#8221;#e7e7e8&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.6&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; background_color=&#8221;#e7e7e8&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;0px||53px|||&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dear valued customers<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Please be informed that an update has been implemented on the eServices system to improve the validation of customer profiles and prevent the use of duplicate contact details.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As part of this update, the system now checks whether the email address and cellphone number entered during registration or profile updates are already associated with another CIPC customer profile.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you receive an error message stating that your email address and\/or cellphone number is already associated with another CIPC profile, you are kindly requested to use a different email address and\/or cellphone number that is not linked to another customer profile.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This enhancement is intended to improve the integrity of customer information and ensure that contact details are uniquely associated with the appropriate customer profile.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We apologies for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your cooperation and understanding.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thank you for your continued support.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cipc.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/41-OF-2026.pdf\">Notice 41 of 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear valued customers Please be informed that an update has been implemented on the eServices system to improve the validation of customer profiles and prevent the use of duplicate contact details. As part of this update, the system now checks whether the email address and cellphone number entered during registration or profile updates are already [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cipc.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cipc.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cipc.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cipc.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cipc.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24582"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cipc.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24588,"href":"https:\/\/www.cipc.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24582\/revisions\/24588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cipc.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cipc.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cipc.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}