UAE e-invoicing on SnapLedger · Lesson 2 of 7

Checked before it goes, then filed

1:49 · Captions: English, Arabic, French and Chinese.

With e-invoicing, a small mistake costs more. A missing detail, or a TRN with a digit short, and the network refuses the invoice while your customer waits for it. In this lesson, every invoice is checked before it's issued.

What you'll learn

  • Write an invoice the way you always have
  • Let the e-invoice check find what's missing, before anything is issued
  • Watch it file, and see its history

Step by step

  1. The invoice — Lina invoices Qamar Bay Logistics for its new office furniture, the way she always has: the customer, the lines, the VAT.
  2. The check — As she types, the e-invoice check reads the invoice the way the network will. It has found one thing: Qamar Bay's address has no emirate. Nothing has been issued, and the invoice number is still free.
  3. Fixed at the source — She saves the draft, and fixes it where it belongs: on Qamar Bay's card in the Customer Book, so every invoice to them is right from now on.
  4. Ready — Back on the invoice, the list is clear, and Tax Star's automatic check has passed too. It's a machine check of the UAE rules: a few seconds, and no one has to read it.
  5. Issued and filed — She issues it. The invoice is booked and its PDF made, as always, and the e-invoice goes to Tax Star. Seconds later: filed, on the UAE's e-invoicing network, on its way to Qamar Bay's own provider.
  6. Its history — Its history keeps every step: checked, sent, filed, and who did it, with the filing record and the XML ready to download.
  7. Where it stands — And in the Invoice Center, a new column shows where every e-invoice stands. Lina doesn't chase anything; she looks. Checked before it goes, and filed in seconds.

Next: the sales that aren't e-invoiced the usual way, a homeowner and a hotel abroad.