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UAE E-Invoicing : Accredited Service Provider & Compliance

Appoint once. Comply everywhere in the UAE.

You cannot send invoices to the FTA yourself. You appoint one Accredited Service Provider through EmaraTax, and it carries every invoice you issue and receive. We are accredited, live, and we plug into any ERP or none at all.
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CERTIFIED & COMPLIANT

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API
safe
ERP
Tax

Time left to appoint an Accredited Service Provider

Deadline 30 October 2026 for entities with annual revenue of AED 50 million or more

B Invoice Connects to

Oracle
Oracle Cloud ERP
Oracle
Oracle Fusion
SAP
SAP S/4HANA
SAP
SAP ECC
Dynamics
Microsoft Dynamics 365
infor
Infor
Bee
Any ERP
Bee
Non-ERP applications

The distinction most buyers miss

Pre-approved is not accredited.

The Ministry of Finance maintains two lists. Dozens of providers hold pre-approval, which permits participation in the pilot. Full accreditation is a separate status, and it is the one required to operate in production once the mandate begins.
Some providers have marketed pre-approval as accreditation. If you appoint one and they do not complete accreditation before your go-live date, the penalty clock runs against you not against them.
Ask every provider on your shortlist for written confirmation of their accreditation status. We hand ours over in the first meeting.
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Pre-approved only

Can join the pilot

  • Limited to pilot and testing activity
  • Cannot support production go-live on its own
  • Must still complete full accreditation
  • Risk of missing 1 January 2027 sits with you

Accredited - Bee Aura Tech

Can operate in production

  • Completed the MoF and FTA accreditation process
  • Authorised to validate, sign and transmit live invoices
  • Appointable through EmaraTax today
  • Peppol Access Point and SMP in our own right

Find your phase

Two questions. Then you know your date.

Scope is determined per legal entity, not per group, and on audited revenue rather than a forecast. Companies sitting near the AED 50 million line routinely place themselves in the wrong phase and lose six months of runway.
If your group holds several UAE entities, expect them to land in different phases. Each one needs its own appointment through EmaraTax.
Ask every provider on your shortlist for written confirmation of their accreditation status. We hand ours over in the first meeting.
Select both to see your deadline
We will show your ASP appointment date, your go-live date and your penalty exposure.

Implementation timeline

The dates that govern your programme

The appointment deadline for the first cohort moved from 31 July to 30 October 2026 by ministerial decision in May 2026. The go-live dates did not move the extension was runway, not relief.
UAE e-invoicing phases – verified 3 September 2026
Category
Appoint an ASP by
Mandatory from
Notes
Large businesses — annual revenue AED 50m or more
30 Oct 2026
1 Jan 2027
Extended from 31 July 2026. Receiving capability required from the same date.
Other businesses — under AED 50m
31 Mar 2027
1 Jul 2027
The largest cohort by entity count.
Government entities
31 Mar 2027
1 Oct 2027
B2G flows land here.
Any business, voluntarily
From 1 Jul 2026
Optional
Pilot open. No penalty exposure during the voluntary period.

Appointing late is expensive even when it is legal

Typical timelines from appointment to go-live run 60 to 90 days across the market. Appointing on the last permitted day leaves a compressed runway to 1 January 2027, and a failed test cycle resets the sequence, not the deadline. Master data cleansing is almost always the long pole and that work can start before you have signed anything.

How the UAE model works

A five-corner network, not a government portal

Saudi Arabia clears each invoice through a state platform. The UAE does something different. Invoices travel between Accredited Service Providers over the Peppol network, and tax data is reported to the FTA as a fifth corner.

CORNER 1 → 2

You and your ASP

Your ERP posts the invoice. We extract it, validate against the PINT AE schema and mandatory field rules, and apply the digital signature.

CORNER 3

Buyer's ASP

Transmitted over Peppol to your counterparty’s accredited provider, which validates and acknowledges receipt.

CORNER 4

Your buyer

The invoice arrives in their AP system as structured data, not a PDF somebody has to key in by hand.

CORNER 5

The FTA

Both providers report a Tax Data Document to the FTA E-Billing System, which returns a processing status.

PDFs stop being invoices

A structured XML document conforming to PINT AE is the tax invoice. A PDF becomes a readable copy with no fiscal standing. Emailing one is not compliance.

Scope is B2B and B2G

Business-to-business and business-to-government flows are in scope. B2C is excluded from the current phase and expected later.

The FTA does not validate

The E-Billing System is a tax data repository for oversight and reporting. Validation happens at the ASP layer, which is why your provider’s validation engine matters.

What we actually do

Nobody in your finance team learns anything new.

Your AP and AR teams keep posting invoices exactly the way they do today. Everything below happens between the ERP and the FTA.
When one of our customers went live elsewhere in the region, the finance director told us he did not know it had happened until someone mentioned they were compliant. That is the standard we build to.
See it with your own invoices
1
Capture
Invoice data arrives from Oracle, SAP, Dynamics, Infor, any ERP, a non-ERP application, an API call, a portal upload, or a PDF processed by AI extraction.
2
Validate
Over 100 checks against the PINT AE schema and the MoF mandatory field requirements. TRNs verified, tax treatment applied, PO and GR matched, errors flagged before anything leaves your building.
3
Sign and transmit
Digitally signed and transmitted over Peppol to the buyer's ASP, with the Tax Data Document reported to the FTA E-Billing System.
4
Reconcile
Status written back against the invoice in your ERP. Month-end reconciliation and archiving run automatically. No separate portal to check.

< 3 wks

Kickoff to production
Typical ERP implementation

100+

Validation checks
Typical ERP implementation

> 95%

AI extraction accuracy
Across invoice formats

1,500+

E-invoices monthly
Across production tenants

Cost of getting it wrong

The penalties run monthly, and they stack

Cabinet Decision No. 106 of 2025 is not one fine. Each category runs independently, so a single unresolved integration problem can trigger several at once.
Violation
Penalty
Accumulation
Failure to implement the system, or appoint an ASP, by your deadline
AED 5,000
Per month or part month
E-invoice not issued or transmitted within the required window
AED 100 / invoice
Capped at AED 5,000 per month
Electronic credit note not transmitted on time
AED 100 / note
Capped at AED 5,000 per month
Issuer fails to report a system failure in time
AED 1,000 / day
Daily, uncapped
Recipient fails to report a system failure in time
AED 1,000 / day
Daily, uncapped
ASP not updated with changes to registered information
AED 1,000 / day
Daily, uncapped

The fines are not the real exposure

An invoice that fails to transmit is an invoice your customer will not pay on time. For a business issuing several thousand invoices a month, a week of failed transmissions is a working capital problem long before it is a penalty problem. Gaps in transaction data can also make the resulting VAT return incorrect — a second, separate exposure from the same root cause.

Partner programme — UAE

Your clients are already asking you which ASP to appoint.

Every audit and tax practice in the Emirates is fielding the same question this quarter. You can refer it out and watch the relationship drift, or you can own the answer, keep the client, and earn on it.
We built this programme for audit firms specifically. You already hold the trust, the client list and the audited revenue figures that determine each client’s phase. We hold the accreditation and the platform. Neither of us needs to build what the other has.
BUILT FOR AUDIT FIRMS

Referral

You introduce the client. Bee contracts, implements and supports.

15%

recurring, for the life of the account
  • No technical work on your side
  • Bee handles the full sales cycle
  • Paid quarterly on collected revenue
  • Co-branded client collateral
  • Independence preserved you are not the vendor
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Reseller

You own the client relationship and invoice them directly at your own rate.

18%

off list you set the retail price
  • You bill the client, Bee bills you
  • Partner portal with multi-client dashboard
  • Free onboarding for your first 3 clients
  • Named partner manager at Bee
  • Firm listed on Bee's UAE partner page
Apply as a reseller
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Managed Partner

You run first-line support and onboarding. Bee stays behind the platform.

Contact sales

off list, plus enablement revenue
  • You keep 100% of enablement fees
  • Optional white-label portal
  • Bee provides L2/L3 escalation only
  • Free staff certification and training
  • Minimum 10 client commitment
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A partner portal, not an email thread

Every tier above Referral gets the partner portal: client status across your whole book, submission volumes, exception queues, deadline tracking by entity, and commission statements. You see which client is at risk before they call you.

Why audit firms specifically

You already know each client’s audited revenue, which is the figure that determines their phase. The appointment is a one-time decision per client, and whoever answers the question first usually keeps it.

Independence stays intact

Referral is designed for firms with audit independence constraints: you introduce, we contract and deliver, and you never become the client’s technology vendor. Where independence is not an issue, Reseller and Managed give you more of the margin.

Free UAE e-invoicing certification for your team

We run certification for partner staff at no cost, covering the legal framework, the five-corner model, PINT AE, EmaraTax appointment, penalty exposure and phase determination. Your team can advise clients accurately whether or not they appoint us.
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Coverage across the Emirates

Wherever your entity is licensed, the obligation is federal

The Electronic Invoicing System applies to businesses conducting business in the UAE regardless of which emirate issued the trade licence, and regardless of whether the entity sits on the mainland or in a free zone. What changes by location is your VAT treatment, not your e-invoicing duty.

Dubai

Mainland DED, DMCC, JAFZA, DAFZA, DIFC, Dubai South, Dubai Internet City.

UAE

ADDED mainland, ADGM, KEZAD, Masdar City. Government entities follow the 1 October 2027 date.

Sharjah

SEDD mainland, SAIF Zone, Hamriyah Free Zone, Sharjah Publishing City.

Ras Al Khaimah

RAK DED and RAKEZ. A high concentration of mid-market entities in the July 2027 cohort.

Ajman

Ajman DED and Ajman Free Zone. Same federal obligation, same PINT AE format.

Umm Al Quwain

UAQ DED and UAQ Free Trade Zone.

Fujairah

Fujairah Free Zone and Fujairah Creative City.

Multi-emirate groups

Scope is per legal entity and per revenue band, never at group level. Entities routinely land in different phases.

Free zone does not mean exempt

This is the most common misreading we encounter. A Designated Zone is treated as outside the UAE for VAT purposes in respect of goods, subject to conditions, which changes how the transaction is categorised on the invoice. It does not remove the obligation to issue that invoice through the Electronic Invoicing System.

What you get

One dashboard, one control set, one support model

Built for the UAE, and ready for every other market you operate in.
Multi-region e invoicing dashboard for tax authority compliance

Single dashboard

Every entity, every invoice status in one view — validating, transmitted, reported, rejected.

100+ validation checks

Run before anything reaches the Peppol network, cutting rejection rates and rework.

Automatic status write-back

FTA references and transmission outcomes land against the invoice in your ERP, not in a separate portal.

AI-driven extraction

Above 95% accuracy across invoice formats, including scanned PDFs and unstructured supplier documents.

2-way and 3-way matching

Validation against purchase order and goods receipt data before anything is transmitted.

Automated tax reconciliation

ERP transaction data matched against reported tax data, surfacing discrepancies before the VAT return.

Role-based access & 2FA

Permissions by entity, function and invoice type, with bank-grade two-factor authentication.

UAE data residency

Deployed on Microsoft Azure with residency configurable by jurisdiction where local policy requires it.

UAE-based team

Local implementation and integration specialists for onboarding, workshops, training and hypercare.

UAE e-invoicing FAQ

What finance and tax teams ask us

Is Bee Aura Tech an accredited service provider in the UAE?

Yes. Bee Aura Tech holds Accredited Service Provider status with the UAE Ministry of Finance and the Federal Tax Authority, and is a Peppol-accredited Access Point and Service Metadata Publisher in its own right. We provide written confirmation of our status on request, and you can appoint us through EmaraTax.

30 October 2026 if your annual revenue is AED 50 million or more, extended from 31 July 2026 by ministerial decision in May 2026. Businesses below AED 50 million and government entities must appoint by 31 March 2027. Failing to appoint carries a penalty of AED 5,000 for each month or part month of delay under Cabinet Decision No. 106 of 2025.

1 January 2027 for businesses with annual revenue of AED 50 million or more, 1 July 2027 for businesses below that threshold, and 1 October 2027 for government entities. The pilot and voluntary adoption window opened on 1 July 2026. The go-live dates did not move when the appointment deadline was extended.

Pre-approval permits a provider to take part in pilot and testing activity. Full accreditation is a separate and higher status required to operate in production once the mandate begins. Several dozen providers hold pre-approval and some have marketed it as accreditation. If you appoint a provider that does not complete accreditation before your go-live date, the penalty exposure is yours, so ask for written confirmation before signing.

No. Each business appoints a single Accredited Service Provider, which handles both outgoing and incoming invoices — your accounts payable and accounts receivable flows run through the same provider. If you want to change provider later, the update is made through the EmaraTax portal.

Through EmaraTax. Have a commercial agreement in place with an accredited provider first, then log in using UAE PASS or your registered credentials, verify your company details, and complete the appointment under the System Linking section. Selecting a provider commercially is not the same as appointing one — the EmaraTax step is what satisfies the deadline.

No. The UAE operates a Peppol-based five-corner model in which invoices are exchanged between Accredited Service Providers and tax data is reported to the FTA across that network. Appointing an ASP is a legal requirement, not a convenience.

PINT AE, the UAE localisation of the Peppol International Invoice specification, transmitted as structured XML and populated according to the MoF mandatory field requirements. Scanned documents, PDFs, JPGs and paper invoices do not satisfy the requirement. A PDF can still be produced as a human-readable copy, but the XML is the tax document.

No. Free zone entities, including those in Designated Zones, are within scope. Designated Zone status affects the VAT treatment applied to supplies of goods, which changes how the transaction is categorised on the e-invoice, but it does not exempt the entity from the obligation. The system is federal and applies across Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Ajman, Ras Al Khaimah, Umm Al Quwain and Fujairah alike.

Not in the current phase. The mandate covers B2B and B2G transactions. Business-to-consumer invoicing has been deferred and is expected in a later phase. Note that a business selling only to consumers may still be affected on the purchasing side if it buys from B2B or B2G suppliers.

Neither. Unlike Saudi Arabia's Fatoora framework, the current UAE framework does not require a printed QR code, and Arabic is not mandatory — English is acceptable. No additional digital signature requirement has been announced beyond what the Peppol framework already supports.

Yes. E-invoicing requirements apply to eligible transactions even when they occur between entities belonging to the same VAT group.

Not in the current phase. The mandate covers B2B and B2G transactions. Business-to-consumer invoicing has been deferred and is expected in a later phase. Note that a business selling only to consumers may still be affected on the purchasing side if it buys from B2B or B2G suppliers.

Typically two to three weeks from kickoff to production for ERP-integrated customers, and faster for API, upload or in-platform invoicing. The constraint is usually master data quality — counterparty TRNs, legal names and identifiers — rather than the integration itself, which is why appointing early and testing during the voluntary window matters more than the go-live date.

Pricing depends on entity count, invoice volume, invoice types and integration method, so we quote per organisation rather than publishing a list price. Contact us with those four figures and we will return commercial terms and an implementation plan. There is no charge for the readiness assessment or for processing a sample batch of your invoices.

Yes, and it is the partner profile we are actively building in the UAE. Three tiers are available: Referral at 15% recurring for the life of the account with no technical work on your side, Reseller at 18% off list where you own the client relationship and set your own retail price, and Managed Partner where you run first-line support with an optional white-label portal. Reseller and Managed tiers include partner portal access and free staff certification. See the programme.

Two conversations. Pick one.

The Electronic Invoicing System applies to businesses conducting business in the UAE regardless of which emirate issued the trade licence, and regardless of whether the entity sits on the mainland or in a free zone. What changes by location is your VAT treatment, not your e-invoicing duty.
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UAE e-invoicing software and Accredited Service Provider services

Bee Aura Tech holds Accredited Service Provider status with the UAE Ministry of Finance and the Federal Tax Authority and provides B Invoice, an e-invoicing compliance platform for businesses operating in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Ajman, Ras Al Khaimah, Umm Al Quwain and Fujairah. The platform reads accounts payable and accounts receivable invoice data directly from Oracle Cloud ERP, Oracle Fusion, SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Infor, any other ERP or non-ERP application, converts each document to the PINT AE structured XML format, applies the digital signature, transmits it across the Peppol network to the buyer’s Accredited Service Provider, and reports the Tax Data Document to the FTA E-Billing System.

The UAE Electronic Invoicing System is governed by Federal Decree-Law No. 17 of 2025 together with Ministerial Decisions No. 243 and No. 244 of 2025 as amended in May 2026, with administrative penalties under Cabinet Decision No. 106 of 2025. Businesses with annual revenue of AED 50 million or more must appoint an Accredited Service Provider through EmaraTax by 30 October 2026 and go live by 1 January 2027. Businesses below that threshold appoint by 31 March 2027 and go live by 1 July 2027, and government entities go live by 1 October 2027. A pilot and voluntary adoption window has been open since 1 July 2026, and voluntary adopters carry no penalty exposure during that period.

The UAE has adopted a Peppol-based five-corner Decentralised Continuous Transaction Control and Exchange model. VAT-registered businesses cannot submit invoices to the FTA directly and may appoint only one Accredited Service Provider, which handles both outbound and inbound invoice flows. Scope covers B2B and B2G transactions; B2C is excluded from the current phase. Full accreditation is distinct from pre-approval: pre-approved providers may participate in pilot activity, while full accreditation is required to support production e-invoicing from the mandatory go-live date. The FTA E-Billing System acts as a tax data repository for oversight rather than an invoice validation platform, so validation takes place at the Accredited Service Provider layer.

B Invoice supports UAE VAT at 5% together with zero-rated, exempt, out-of-scope and reverse charge treatments, TRN validation, Designated Zone handling, electronic tax invoices and electronic credit notes, more than 100 pre-transmission validation checks, automated tax reconciliation between ERP and reported data, error resolution workflows, malfunction notification handling and jurisdiction-configurable archiving on Microsoft Azure. Implementation for ERP customers typically completes within two to three weeks of kickoff. Bee Aura Tech is a Peppol-accredited Access Point and Service Metadata Publisher, ISO 27001:2022 and ISO 22301 certified, and operates a UAE partner programme for audit, tax and accounting firms with referral, reseller and managed partner tiers, partner portal access and free staff certification.

The same platform covers e-invoicing mandates in Saudi Arabia, Oman, Malaysia, India, Singapore, Germany, France, Vietnam, Colombia and the United Kingdom, so regional groups run one integration rather than one per country. For the global platform overview, see B Invoice multi-region e-invoicing compliance.

This page is provided for general information and does not constitute tax or legal advice. E-invoicing mandate dates, thresholds and technical specifications are set by the UAE Ministry of Finance and the Federal Tax Authority and are subject to change. Confirm your obligations with a qualified UAE tax advisor, and confirm any service provider’s accreditation status in writing before appointing them. Last verified: 3 September 2026.