Five Licensing Boards Moving to eLIPSE Portal March 30, 2026
Summary
The MA Division of Occupational Licensure is moving five boards (Architects, Embalming and Funeral Directing, Landscape Architects, Public Accountancy, and Real Estate Appraisers) to its new eLIPSE online portal on March 30, 2026 at 8:00 a.m. ePLACE access for these boards will end on March 25, 2026 at 5:00 p.m., with users advised to complete all applications, renewals, or updates by 4:00 p.m. that day. Two already-transitioned boards — Real Estate Brokers and Salespersons and Plumbers and Gas Fitters — will experience brief service interruptions during the transition window.
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The Division of Occupational Licensure is transitioning five additional licensing boards from the ePLACE portal to the new eLIPSE system on March 30, 2026 at 8:00 a.m. The affected boards are Architects, Embalming and Funeral Directing, Landscape Architects, Public Accountancy, and Real Estate Appraisers.
Licensees and applicants working with these boards should complete any pending applications, renewals, or updates in ePLACE before March 25 at 4:00 p.m., when access will be disabled ahead of the migration. The Real Estate Brokers and Salespersons and Plumbers and Gas Fitters boards, which already operate on eLIPSE, will have a short service interruption during the transition.
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The DOL is Moving the Next Group of Boards to the New eLIPSE Portal on March 30, 2026 at 8a.m.
3/11/2026
- Division of Occupational Licensure
The Division of Occupational Licensure is moving another group of licensing boards to its new online system, eLIPSE, on March 30, 2026 at 8:00 a.m. This update is part of the Commonwealth’s ongoing work to make licensing services simpler, faster, and easier to use online.
The boards transitioning to eLIPSE are Architects, Embalming and Funeral Directing, Landscape Architects, Public Accountancy, and Real Estate Appraisers. To get ready for the switch, ePLACE access for these boards will end on March 25 at 5:00 p.m. To avoid delays, we encourage you to finish any applications, renewals, or updates in ePLACE by 4:00 p.m. that day.
Two boards that already use eLIPSE — Real Estate Brokers and Salespersons and Plumbers and Gas Fitters — will have a short service interruption during the transition, and licensing services will be temporarily unavailable during that time.
All other boards will continue using ePLACE until they are scheduled to move to eLIPSE in the future.
Division of Occupational Licensure
The Division of Occupational Licensure (DOL), through its boards and offices, licenses and regulates more than 500,000 individuals, businesses, and schools to engage in over 100 trades and professions in Massachusetts.
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