Accounting software & implementation

Accounting software chosen, set up and ready for UAE e‑invoicing

We help you pick the system that fits the business, move your data across with balances that tie, set up VAT and tax codes the way an auditor expects, and connect it all to your e-invoicing provider before your date arrives.

Trusted by 500+ UAE businesses.

Your e-invoicing dates

Choose your annual revenue.

Revenue of AED 50 million or more

Appoint an Accredited Service Provider

by 30 October 2026
 days left

E-invoicing becomes mandatory

from 1 January 2027
 days left

Revenue below AED 50 million

Appoint an Accredited Service Provider

by 31 March 2027
 days left

E-invoicing becomes mandatory

from 1 July 2027
 days left

Ministerial Decision No. 244 of 2025, with the first-wave provider deadline as amended in May 2026. Counted in Dubai days.

The same invoice, twice

Today an invoice is a document you send. Under e-invoicing it is data your software sends, checked on the way, and the document is only a picture of it. That is why the software, and how it is set up, matters now in a way it did not before.

Today: a document, emailed. Nobody checks it until a VAT audit.
Seller TRN
100 ••• ••• ••• 003
Buyer TRN
100 ••• ••• ••• 017
Invoice date
2027-01-14
Tax category
Standard rate, 5%
Line amount
10,000.00
VAT amount
500.00
Currency
AED
Under e-invoicing: data in a set format, validated field by field before it reaches your customer.

A wrong field stops the invoice

A missing TRN or the wrong tax category is caught by your provider before it goes, not by the FTA months later. Fixing it then means fixing the set-up.

Every customer and item needs clean data

Customer TRNs, addresses, item descriptions and tax codes have to be right in the system, because the system now speaks for you.

The FTA sees each invoice

The tax data of every invoice reaches the FTA as it is exchanged, so what you report on your VAT return has to agree with it.

Five corners, and the one we make sure is right

UAE e-invoicing runs on the Peppol network. Your invoice leaves your software, passes through your Accredited Service Provider and your customer’s, and arrives in their system. The tax data goes to the FTA on the way.

1

Your accounting software We work here

Where the invoice is created, from your customer, item and tax records.

2

Your provider

Your Accredited Service Provider. Validates the data and sends it on.

3

Your customer’s provider

Receives it on your customer’s behalf over Peppol.

4

Your customer’s software

The invoice arrives as data, ready to be booked and paid.

5

Federal Tax Authority

Receives the tax data of the invoice from the providers.

Corners two to five are run by accredited providers and the FTA. Corner one is yours, and it is where nearly every rejected or wrong invoice starts: data that was never clean in the accounting system in the first place.

What we fix in corner one before your provider ever sees it:

Missing customer TRNsTax codes mapped to the wrong rateCredit notes not linked to invoicesFree-text items with no tax categoryDuplicate customers

Which software, honestly

There is no best accounting system, only the one that fits how your business buys, sells and stocks. Sometimes the right answer is the one you already have, set up properly.

Cloud accounting

Zoho Books, Xero, QuickBooks Online

ERP

Odoo, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, SAP Business One

Keep what you have

If it works and its data is sound

Suits
Service firms and traders with simple stock, one or two companies.
Stock across warehouses, manufacturing, several companies or branches.
A team that knows its system, where the problem is the set-up, not the software.
Stock and costing
Basic stock and cost of sales.
Full costing, batches, landed costs, production.
As it is today, reviewed.
Several companies
A separate file for each, consolidated outside.
One system, intercompany and consolidation inside it.
Depends on the system.
What we watch for
Outgrowing it in two years and moving twice.
A project that grows past its budget before go-live.
Whether it can hand clean data to your e-invoicing provider in time.

Product names are examples, not a ranking. Check with the vendor that the version you buy connects to your Accredited Service Provider before you sign.

A typical project, week by week

One company moving to cloud accounting. The old and the new system run side by side for a month-end before anyone switches the old one off.

  • Design: decided with you
  • Build: done by us
  • The day you switch
  • First close, side by side

Illustrative. ERP projects, several companies or years of history to move take longer; we give you a plan with real dates after the first call.

A Ripple accountant training a client's finance manager on a new accounting system in a Dubai office

Set up by the people who will read the numbers

  • Tax codes from people who file VAT returns

    Every rate, exemption and reverse charge mapped so the VAT return builds itself, and so your e-invoicing provider accepts what it is sent.

  • Opening balances that tie

    Brought across from your last audited or closed accounts and reconciled line by line, so year one does not start with a suspense account.

  • Training on your own transactions

    Your team learns on your customers, your items and your month-end, not a demo company, and we sit with them through the first close.

Questions about software and e-invoicing

When does e-invoicing apply to my business?+

If your annual revenue is AED 50 million or more, you must appoint an Accredited Service Provider by 30 October 2026, and e-invoicing becomes mandatory for you from 1 January 2027. Below AED 50 million, the dates are 31 March 2027 to appoint a provider and 1 July 2027 to go live.

Do we have to change our accounting software?+

Not necessarily. Your software has to produce clean invoice data and pass it to your Accredited Service Provider. Many established systems can, with the right set-up and connector. We check yours first, and only recommend a move if it cannot do the job or the business has outgrown it.

What is an Accredited Service Provider?+

A provider accredited by the Ministry of Finance to validate and exchange e-invoices over the Peppol network and pass the tax data to the FTA. Each business in scope must appoint one. Your accounting software sends invoices to it; it does the rest of the journey.

How long do we have to keep our accounting records?+

VAT records for at least five years, and Corporate Tax records for seven years after the end of the tax period they relate to. When you change systems, the old records still have to be kept and readable for that long, so we plan where they will live before the old system is switched off.

Can you move all our historical data?+

Usually we bring across opening balances and the current year’s transactions, and archive earlier years in a form you can still search and hand to an auditor. Moving every historical transaction is possible, but it is slow and rarely worth what it costs.

Talk to an accountant before you sign a software contract

Thirty minutes, a look at the system you have and the dates you face, and an honest view of whether to fix it, connect it or replace it.

  • Free first consultation
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  • Response within 24 hours