Finance Systems & Automation

UAE e-invoicing advisory & implementation

The UAE is moving invoicing from PDFs and paper to structured e-invoices, exchanged through Accredited Service Providers and reported to the authorities in near real time. Getting there touches your ERP, your master data, your tax codes and your people. We are not an ASP — we're the bridge between your business and your ASP: we assess your readiness, help you choose the right provider, integrate your systems, clean your data and take you through testing to a confident go-live, at a fixed fee agreed before we start.

5-corner
Peppol model adopted by the UAE
PINT AE
The UAE's structured invoice format
Not an ASP
We're the bridge to yours
Fixed fee
Agreed before we start

What it means

What is e-invoicing in the UAE?

E-invoicing is the UAE Ministry of Finance's programme to replace paper and PDF invoices with structured, machine-readable e-invoices for business-to-business and business-to-government transactions. An e-invoice isn't a PDF attached to an email — it's a data file, issued in the UAE's PINT AE format, that flows from your system to your customer's system and to the authorities without anyone re-typing it.

The UAE has adopted the Peppol "5-corner" model (a Decentralised Continuous Transaction Control and Exchange framework). You (corner 1) send your invoice through your Accredited Service Provider (corner 2), which validates it and delivers it to your customer's service provider (corner 3) and on to the customer (corner 4) — while the tax-relevant data is reported to the central platform (corner 5) in near real time.

That model has one defining consequence: every in-scope business must exchange invoices through an ASP — a service provider accredited by the Ministry of Finance. Your ERP no longer just prints an invoice; it must produce a valid PINT AE document your ASP can validate, deliver and report.

The rollout is phased, reaching businesses in waves — and readiness takes months, not days: master data, tax codes, invoice fields, credit-note flows and people all have to line up before your first live e-invoice. Start before your wave, and go-live is an anticlimax. Start after, and every rejected invoice is a receivable you can't collect.

Where we fit

We are not an ASP — we're the bridge to yours

An Accredited Service Provider runs the pipe: it validates, exchanges and reports your e-invoices. What it doesn't do is get your business ready to use that pipe. That's our side of the bridge — and it's why the two roles work best together, not as substitutes.

The ASP

A technology provider accredited by the Ministry of Finance. It validates your invoices against PINT AE, exchanges them over the Peppol network, and reports the tax data to the central platform. Every in-scope business must contract one.

Owns: the pipe — validation, exchange, reporting.

Stevva — the bridge

Your independent advisor and implementer. We assess your readiness, shortlist and select the right ASP for your volumes and systems, integrate your ERP, map your fields to PINT AE, clean your data, run testing and train your team. We're ASP-agnostic — we sit on your side of the table.

Owns: your readiness — systems, data, process, people.

Your business

You stay the issuer of record. Your ERP produces the invoice data, your team runs AR and AP, and your VAT and Corporate Tax filings must agree with what's reported. Our job is to make that effortless; the ASP's job is to carry it.

Owns: the transactions — and the obligation.

Already have an ASP in mind — or one chosen by your group? No conflict: we work alongside any accredited provider and make the integration land.

What we handle

What our e-invoicing advisory covers

One team takes you from "are we in scope?" to your first live e-invoice — and stays on for the waves, upgrades and audits that follow.

Readiness assessment & gap analysis

We map your invoice flows, systems and data against the mandate — scope, wave timing, gaps and a costed plan to close them.

ASP evaluation & selection

ASP-agnostic shortlisting against your volumes, systems and budget — then contracting and onboarding with the provider you choose.

ERP & accounting-system integration

Connecting TallyPrime, ZohoBooks, SAP, Oracle or your custom ERP to your ASP — API, middleware or connector, built and configured.

Data clean-up & PINT AE mapping

TRNs, addresses, tax codes, units and invoice fields cleaned and mapped to PINT AE — so invoices validate first time, not fifth.

Testing, pilot & go-live

End-to-end test cycles with your ASP — invoices, credit notes, edge cases — then a piloted cut-over on a date you control.

Training, SOPs & ongoing compliance

Your AR/AP teams trained, procedures rewritten, exceptions handled — and your VAT and Corporate Tax data kept in agreement.

What's involved

What e-invoicing readiness needs

Go-live is the easy part — if the groundwork is done. These are the essentials we put in place and verify before your first live e-invoice.

Accurate registration data

Your TRN, Corporate Tax registration and entity details — correct and consistent everywhere they appear.

Clean customer & supplier masters

Valid TRNs, legal names and addresses for every counterparty — the number-one cause of rejected e-invoices.

Tax codes mapped to invoice types

Standard, zero-rated, exempt, reverse-charge and out-of-scope treatments mapped to the right document and field values.

Invoice fields mapped to PINT AE

Every mandatory field sourced from your ERP — line data, references, currencies, rounding — validated against the spec.

A contracted, onboarded ASP

An accredited provider selected, contracted and connected — with roles and SLAs that fit your volumes.

An ERP that can produce the data

Your system configured — or extended with a connector — to emit complete, structured invoice data reliably.

Revised AR / AP procedures

Issuing, receiving, correcting and credit-noting flows redesigned for a world where invoices are validated in real time.

Compliant archiving & audit trail

E-invoices stored, retrievable and reconciled to your VAT and Corporate Tax filings for every period.

The signals

When to start — and why now

E-invoicing readiness is a project with a deadline attached. These are the situations we're brought into most — the earlier, the cheaper.

Your wave is approaching

The phased mandate is reaching businesses like yours, and you need a realistic plan that lands before the deadline — not after it.

Your system can't produce the format

Your ERP or accounting software has no path to PINT AE output, and you need a connector, upgrade or workaround designed.

You can't choose between ASPs

Every provider says they're the right one. You want an independent, ASP-agnostic comparison against your actual volumes and stack.

Your master data is messy

Missing TRNs, duplicate customers and free-text tax fields — fine for PDFs, fatal for validated e-invoices.

You run multiple entities or systems

A group with different ERPs, emirates and volumes needs one coherent rollout — not five separate experiments.

You want your tax data to agree

What's reported through e-invoicing must reconcile with your VAT returns and Corporate Tax filings — every period, automatically.

How we help

From assessment to go-live, in five clear steps

One team runs the whole readiness project — assessment, ASP selection, integration, testing and go-live — with a fixed fee agreed up front and a clear view of which step you're on.

1 Week 1

Readiness assessment

We map your invoice flows, systems, data and scope against the mandate, and hand you a gap report with a costed plan.

2 Week 2

ASP selection

We shortlist accredited providers against your volumes and stack, run the comparison, and support contracting.

3 Weeks 3–6

Integration & mapping

We connect your ERP to the ASP, map every field to PINT AE, align tax codes and clean the master data.

4 Weeks 6–8

Testing & pilot

We run end-to-end test cycles — invoices, credit notes, exceptions — and pilot with real counterparties.

5 Go-live

Cut-over & ongoing support

We manage the cut-over, train your team, and stay on for exceptions, reconciliations and the waves that follow.

Get started

Get e-invoicing ready before your wave arrives.

Tell us about your business — your accounting system, invoice volumes and whether you've chosen an ASP — and we'll reply within one business day with a readiness view and an all-inclusive price.

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