UAE e-invoicing on SnapLedger · Lesson 6 of 7

Records, and the day the network is down

1:36 · Captions: English, Arabic, French and Chinese.

E-invoices have to be kept, and found again when your accountant or the tax authority asks. And sooner or later, a service you depend on goes down. In this lesson, Dunewood's records are in one place, and an outage doesn't stop the invoicing.

What you'll learn

  • Find every e-invoice you sent and received in one archive
  • Export a month's files in one go
  • Keep invoicing while the e-invoicing service is down

Step by step

  1. The archive — The archive lists every e-invoice Dunewood sent and received this month: the invoices, the credit note, the suppliers' bills, each with its files.
  2. One export — When the accountant asks for the month, Lina exports it: one file with every PDF, every XML and every filing record.
  3. Whose archive — These are Dunewood's own copies. The official archive stays with Tax Star, its provider, for as long as the law requires.
  4. The service is down — Now, the day the e-invoicing service is down. A strip at the top of every page says so.
  5. Invoicing anyway — Lina invoices anyway. The invoice is issued and booked as usual; its e-invoice waits in line, and will go by itself.
  6. Back by itself — When the service is back, the line empties itself. Filed, and nobody had to press anything.
  7. The incident record — And if Dunewood ever has to report an outage, the record is in Settings: when it started, when it ended, and which e-invoices waited. Every record kept, and nothing lost to an outage.

Next, the last lesson: e-invoicing for every client of a corporate service provider.