How Do I Use SBI eTrade Inside yono Business for Exports and Trade Finance?

What is SBI eTrade and how do yono Business, eTrade and eForex fit together?

yono Business is SBI's umbrella corporate platform: a single URL and a single user ID covering five applications. Corporate Internet Banking (CINB), eTrade, eForex, Cash Management Product (CMP) and Supply Chain Finance (SCF), per SBI's official Technology Offering page . ETrade is the trade-finance module inside that platform; eForex is a separate module for FX rate booking and forward contracts. If you are looking for "the SBI trade portal", you are looking for eTrade. Reached through yono Business.

How do I activate eTrade from CINB (Omnibus Document, board resolution, indemnity bond)?

If your company already uses CINB, you do not start from scratch. SBI's yono Business user manual 3.3. Post Login Additional Subscription documents how an existing CINB administrator subscribes to eTrade (and eForex) after logging in. The online step is only half the journey: the signed paperwork still goes to the branch.

A private limited exporter holds a current account at an SBI trade-designated branch and already transacts on CINB through yono Business. The finance head (a CINB administrator) wants eTrade access to receive export LC advices online. The journey below follows SBI's yono Business user manual 3.3 (Post Login Additional Subscription). </> } result= >

1. The CINB administrator logs in at yonobusiness.sbi.bank.in and opens the additional-subscription journey to add eTrade to the existing corporate profile (manual 3.3).
2. The application captures the eTrade regulator/administrator users for the company. The same structure shown in SBI's CINB / yono Business registration help pages.
3. The manual lists the documents that must then be physically submitted, signed, to the branch: the Omnibus Document , a Board Resolution , the Agreement cum Indemnity Bond for eTrade , and KYC documents .
4. The branch scans the signed documents and approves the subscription; activation follows branch approval, not the online submission.

If your company is not yet on CINB at all, the pre-login onboarding page for CINB, e-Trade and e-Forex is at corp.sbi.bank.in , with field-by-field help at the ybbihelp pages. The board resolution should authorise both the platform subscription and the named administrator users; your branch will insist the resolution wording matches the names captured online.

How do I apply for an import LC and receive export LC advices online in eTrade?

These are SBI's two strongest documented trade journeys, and both live in eTrade. On the import side, SBI's official yono Business page describes the Import LC (IMLC) application as fully digital. "no need to visit the branch", with stamping waived and real-time status. On the export side, the What's New release notes document an export LC advising dashboard: LCs advised to you and their amendments, MT700 download, and amendment accept/reject.

Note the asymmetry: for an exporter, the documented eTrade value today is on the receiving side of LCs. Seeing what has been advised to you, pulling the MT700, and responding to amendments. Lodging your export documents against that LC is not a journey SBI documents online; treat it as a branch/trade desk process until your RM confirms otherwise. For LC fundamentals, see our letter of credit guide .

How do I book, roll over or cancel a forward contract in eForex?

Forward contracts at SBI live in eForex , not eTrade. A distinction that trips up many users hunting for hedging menus inside the trade module. SBI's official pages document online rate booking with live rates and limit and stop-loss orders, and the What's New release notes document the full forward lifecycle on the Forex Dashboard: roll-over, full or partial cancellation, order placement and swap points.

Among the six bank portals we researched for this series, SBI eForex is the only one with an officially documented end-to-end forward lifecycle (book, roll over, cancel). On other portals, cancellation in particular is undocumented and routes through dealing desks.

On charges, SBI's forex schedule (effective 01.05.2025) prices forward contracts at "Rs.500/- plus swap cost and cancellation charges, wherever applicable". For booking sales and purchase contracts and each request for early delivery, extension or cancellation (not applicable for normal delivery of forward contracts).

How do I get a FIRC or FIRA from SBI?

This is the highest-searched SBI trade question, and the honest answer is uncomfortable: no SBI page documents a self-service FIRA or e-FIRC download inside yono Business or eTrade (research as read 15 August 2026). SBI's own foreign inward remittance page describes the process generally without any portal download journey. Third-party guides describe a request-form-to-branch process. Until SBI documents otherwise, treat FIRA/e-FIRC retrieval as a trade-branch request.

What SBI does publish is the price. In the forex service charges schedule effective 01.05.2025, charges related to e-BRC, e-FIRC, GR waiver certificates and other export/import certificates are Nil for Export Credit Customers ; for non-export-credit customers, e-BRC: Nil , e-FIRC Charges: Rs. 200/- for usage, no charges for issuance , and other certificates / attestations: Rs. 1,000/- (same charges for duplicate). The full charges table is in section 6.

On eBRC: since the 2023-24 DGFT revamp, the eBRC is self-certified by the exporter on the DGFT portal. The bank's role is limited to reporting realisation into EDPMS. Nothing on sbi.bank.in ties eBRC to eTrade. The process is the same for every bank, and our eBRC filing guide covers it end to end. For the FIRC-vs-FIRA distinction itself, see FIRC vs BRC and the FIRA download guide .

How do inward remittance disposal and EDPMS regularisation work with SBI?

When an export payment lands, the bank needs your disposal instruction. Which account to credit, at what rate, and the purpose code to report. For SBI, no official page shows online disposal or purpose-code declaration in yono Business or eTrade (research as read 15 August 2026). The practical route is the branch or an email to your trade branch. Confirm the exact process with your relationship manager.

The same applies to EDPMS regularisation: no official SBI page describes submitting request letters or regularisation documents for EDPMS/IDPMS items through eTrade or yono Business. (By contrast, ICICI documents a digital shipping-bill regularisation journey. See our ICICI Trade Online guide .) Assume branch or trade-desk email, and confirm with your RM.

What do SBI's export and forex charges look like?

The rows below are transcribed verbatim from SBI's Foreign Exchange Transaction Related Service Charges notice. as published, effective 01.05.2025 (revised charges column, plus GST as applicable). SBI splits most charges between Export Credit Customers (companies with a sanctioned export credit limit, who pay an upfront limit-linked charge instead) and Non-Export Credit Customers, who pay per transaction. Units differ line to line (per shipping bill, per remittance, per quarter, percentage with min/max). Read each row with its unit; the figures are not comparable across rows or across banks without them.

Source: SBI, Revision of Forex Transaction Related Service Charges. As published, effective 01.05.2025 (plus GST as applicable). Export Credit Customers instead pay an upfront charge on the sanctioned export credit limit (0.10% p.a. Up to Rs. 50 crores; 0.06% p.a. On the amount exceeding Rs. 50 crores, at sanction/renewal), which is why most of their per-transaction rows read Nil.

Which trade tasks work in eTrade or eForex and which still need the trade branch?

This table is the honest core of this guide. It reflects only what SBI officially documents (portal research as read 15 August 2026): PORTAL means a documented self-service journey on an SBI page; BRANCH means a documented paper process; where nothing official confirms either, the row says so and the answer is your relationship manager. SBI's documentation of export-side self-service is thin. The strongest documented journeys are import LC and export LC advising.

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What should be on my SBI eTrade subscription and branch-document checklist?

Before you subscribe

• Confirm your current account sits at a trade-designated SBI branch and that your company is live on CINB with a named administrator
• Decide up front whether you need eForex as well as eTrade, so one board resolution cycle covers both subscriptions
• Draft the Board Resolution to match the administrator and user names you will capture online
• Prepare the branch pack from the 3.3 manual: Omnibus Document, Board Resolution, Agreement cum Indemnity Bond for eTrade, and KYC documents. All physically signed
• If your users were created after 07 May 2026, plan on the yono Business login path only. Not the legacy etrade.sbi.bank.in login

Once you are live

• Confirm with your RM, in writing, the routes for export bill lodgement, remittance disposal, FIRA requests and EDPMS regularisation. None is documented as a portal journey
• Set a standing process for FIRA/e-FIRC requests to the trade branch for every settlement that needs one (budget branch turnaround time)
• Track every shipping bill against the nine-month FEMA realisation window. Late realisation costs Rs. 500/- per quarter (delay period) plus overdue interest, per the 01.05.2025 schedule
• Submit shipping bill documents within the RBI 21-day timeline. Late submission is Rs. 500/- per shipping bill
• If you carry export credit limits, verify you are classified as an Export Credit Customer. Most per-transaction export charges become Nil under the upfront limit-linked charge
• Re-check the yono Business What's New page periodically. The trade journeys are being revamped and export-side self-service may land there first

Update history

• 2026-08-18 First published.