UAE mandate live · pilot phase open

Will your invoices pass?

UAE e-invoicing becomes mandatory in 2027. PDF invoices stop counting. Get your deadline, your gaps and your risk — free, in 2 minutes.

10 questions · report in your inbox · no card
Readiness reporte-invoicing.org
58Needs work
Readiness score
Your deadline1 Jul 2027
ASP appointedNo
System capabilityPartial
Master dataGood
Est. penalty exposureAED 10,000 /mo
What changes

The rules are already signed.

Ministerial Decisions 243 & 244 of 2025 set the system. Cabinet Decision 106 sets the fines.

1 Jan 2027

Deadline for businesses with revenue of AED 50M+. ASP must be appointed by 30 Oct 2026.

1 Jul 2027

Deadline for every other VAT-registered business in the UAE.

51 fields

Mandatory on every standard tax invoice. One missing field means rejection.

AED 5,000/mo

For operating without the system or an accredited provider — plus AED 100 per bad invoice.

Understand the system

What e-invoicing actually is —
and why an ASP alone won't save you.

Not a PDF. Structured data.

An e-invoice is not a PDF sent by email. It's a structured XML file — the UAE's PINT AE format — where every piece of information sits in a defined field: seller TRN, buyer TRN, tax category per line, amounts in AED. Machines read it. Machines validate it. Machines reject it.

How the Peppol network moves it

The UAE runs a five-corner model on the international Peppol network. You never send an invoice directly to your customer again — it travels through accredited providers, and the tax data reports to the FTA in near real time.

CORNER 1
Youcreate the invoice
CORNER 2
Your ASPvalidates & converts
CORNER 3
Buyer's ASPreceives & checks
↓ tax data      ↓ delivery
CORNER 5
FTAreal-time reporting
CORNER 4
Your buyerreceives the invoice
The five-corner (DCTCE) model. Both sides need an accredited provider.

Readiness is a programme, not a purchase.

Most businesses think compliance means signing an ASP contract. The ASP is one step of six — and usually not the hardest one.

01
Gap analysis

Map your invoice data against the 51 mandatory fields and your transaction scenarios. Know what's missing before anyone builds anything.

02
Data readiness

Buyer TRNs, legal names, addresses, tax codes — incomplete master data is the #1 cause of rejected invoices. Cleaning it takes months, not days.

03
System capability

Your ERP, accounting software or POS must produce structured data for every scenario you bill — exports, free zones, foreign currency, credit notes.

04
Appoint your ASP

Choose from the official MoF list, contract, integrate, and test. Both you and your buyers need one.

05
Process & people

Finance, sales and IT need new workflows: rejection handling, FTA incident notification within 2 business days, month-end reconciliation. Stakeholder buy-in isn't optional.

06
Test before you must

The voluntary phase is open now. Businesses that pilot early go live calmly. The rest discover their gaps in production — with penalties running.

The point of e-invoicing.org: steps 01 and 02 are exactly what our free checkers measure. Find your gaps now, while fixing them is cheap.
How it works

Two minutes. Full picture.

01
Answer 10 questions

Sector, systems, transactions. No documents needed.

02
See your score

Compliance wave, deadline countdown, penalty exposure — instantly.

03
Get the plan

A prioritised gap list in your inbox. Optional reminders as your deadline nears.

Independent by design. We don't sell ASP software.

Built by UAE tax professionals. We check your readiness and point you right — we have nothing to upsell you into.

Invoice checker

Test a real invoice.

Upload one invoice. Our rules engine checks it twice: is it a valid tax invoice under today's VAT rules, and is its data ready for e-invoicing in 2027? Free during the pilot phase.

$ e-invoicing check invoice_0042.pdf
△ VAT check — full tax invoice, 2 issues today
✓ Seller TRN — valid 15-digit
✕ Buyer TRN — missing, mandatory for B2B
✕ Tax category code — not found on lines
△ Issue date — 07/06/2026 → YYYY-MM-DD
✓ Legal address — complete
→ score 68/100 · 8 missing · 4 format issues

Your deadline won't move.
Your readiness can.

Free check · instant score · no credit card.

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Last step

Where should we send your report?

Deadline, score, gap list and penalty exposure — in one PDF.

e-invoicing.org readiness report

Here's where you stand.

Readiness score
0
Your compliance wave
Est. monthly penalty exposure
AED 0
AED 100 per non-compliant invoice (capped 5,000/mo) + AED 5,000/mo without a system or ASP.

Priority actions

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e-invoicing.org invoice checker

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