This document provides stepwise guidance to an app developer, demonstrating how to use shutdown API by an application. With the help of an application that is installed on the IED, the app developer can shut down the IED by accessing the API. Triggering the shutdown operation is currently only possible through UI. But in some cases the shutdown can be triggered by host system (like in the power loss case with UPS usage). These system services should be able to trigger shutdown operation as well.