NOVAEINV — UAE e-Invoicing addon
This page. Sales Invoice + Credit Memo + Prepayment posting hooks, ASP connector with batch UUID, E-Invoice Role Center, inbound supplier-invoice receipt — embedded in Business Central.
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Add-ons · Localisation & Compliance · UAE e-Invoicing
UAE FTA e-invoicing for Business Central — wired before phase 1 deadline.
UAE FTA e-invoicing engine · PEPPOL 4-corner · UBL 2.1 · ASP integration · Test data sets · FTA portal sync — Microsoft Solutions Partner shipping UAE e-invoicing for BC across the GCC.
100+BC rollouts
FTAPhase 1 ready
4Delivery centres
24/7NovaCare support
Mandate · six dates that matter
The FTA gave the UAE a precise calendar. Plan against it.
Ministerial Decision 244 of 2025 set the phasing. The earliest hard date is 30 October 2026 — when Phase 1 businesses must have their Accredited Service Provider appointed. Volunteer earlier and you pay zero fines until your mandatory go-live.
1 Jul 2026
Voluntary pilot opens
FTA-invited businesses begin Peppol testing.
30 Oct 2026
ASP appointment deadline
Phase 1 (revenue ≥ AED 50M).
1 Jan 2027
Phase 1 go-live
Mandatory B2B & B2G for ≥ AED 50M.
31 Mar 2027
Phase 2 ASP deadline
Everyone else + government entities.
1 Jul 2027
Phase 2 go-live
All remaining in-scope businesses.
1 Oct 2027
Public sector go-live
All UAE government entities.
What Novasoft ships
Everything you need to be FTA-ready in Business Central.
Six modules, one extension. Installs into your existing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central tenant — no fork of finance, no parallel ERP, no spreadsheet workarounds.
Sales invoices, credit memos & prepayments
Hooks the standard Business Central posting routines for Sales Invoice, Sales Credit Memo and Prepayment. Your finance team keeps clicking “Post” in the same screen they use today — the PINT AE payload is emitted in the background.
ASP connector with batch UUID tracking
Talks to your appointed Accredited Service Provider over a secured API. Every submission carries a UUID that follows the invoice from BC → ASP → FTA → buyer — click any UUID and see the full trail.
E-Invoice Role Center
A dedicated role centre for finance and AR. Cues show submitted, accepted, rejected and pending counts; activities surface anything that needs human review; one-click drill-through to the posted document.
UAE master data, pre-loaded
Peppol Participant IDs, Peppol UOM codes, item classification identifiers, VAT exemption codes, credit reasons, allowance reasons, payment-means codes — the UAE code lists ship with the addon, not as a separate data project.
Inbound supplier invoices
Receive PINT AE invoices from your suppliers over the same Peppol pipe. Incoming documents land in BC AP with header and lines parsed, ready to match against the PO and post — no PDF re-keying.
5-year audit-grade log
Every transmit, acknowledgement and inbound receipt is logged with timestamp and UUID for the UAE 5-year retention rule. Filter by TRN, customer or period; export the full audit trail for an FTA request in one click.
How it works
The Peppol 5-corner model, explained in plain English.
An invoice is no longer an email attachment between you and your customer. It is a structured XML message that travels through two regulated Access Points (your ASP and your buyer’s ASP) and is captured by the FTA in real time as it passes. Same content; different plumbing.
- C1 · Supplier ERPYou post the invoice in Business Central the same way you do today.
- C2 · Your ASP (Taxilla)Validates the PINT AE XML, signs it digitally, transmits over Peppol.
- C3 · Buyer’s ASPReceives the message on the buyer’s behalf and delivers it onward.
- C4 · Buyer ERPPosts the invoice into AP automatically — no PDF re-keying.
- C5 · UAE FTACaptures the tax data in real time and stores it for audit.
From posted invoice to FTA acknowledgement
Seven steps, all inside Business Central.
Your finance team keeps clicking “Post”. Everything below the line happens automatically — logged, archived and visible inside the same Sales Invoice they already use.
Document posted
Sales Invoice, Credit Memo or Prepayment — same BC screen.
Payload built
NOVAEINV emits PINT AE in the background, batch UUID stamped.
Sent to ASP
Secured API call to your appointed Access Point.
Validated & signed
Schema check + digital signature applied by the ASP.
FTA captures
Real-time submission to the regulator.
BC updated
UUID, status and acknowledgement pinned to the document.
Logged
Audit-grade entry kept for the UAE 5-year retention rule.
Why Novasoft + Taxilla
The compliance question is regulator-grade. Your partner should be too.
Novasoft is a Microsoft Solutions Partner with the Business Applications designation; Taxilla is a UAE Ministry of Finance pre-approved Accredited Service Provider and a certified Peppol Access Point. Two regulated entities, one connector — verifiable today on the partner directories below.
100+
Business Central rolloutsDelivered across the UAE, KSA, India and the USA on Microsoft Dynamics 365.5 yrs
LS Retail Diamond PartnerFive consecutive years — 2022 through 2026 — verifiable on the LS Retail partner directory.157
Countries via LS CentralThe platform Novasoft delivers also powers 110,000+ retail sites globally.Verify — Microsoft Solutions Partner directory · Novasoft KSA BC apps · AppSource publisher profile. See also adjacent Novasoft products we ship alongside the e-invoicing extension, and the readiness checklist below to score your starting position vs. why Novasoft.
What’s new · 2026 launches
Adjacent Novasoft products that pair with this one.
UAE e-invoicing is one of six finance and AI products Novasoft has shipped or refreshed in 2026. Pair as your roadmap permits.
KSA ZATCA Phase 2 (Fatoorah)
Sibling Gulf compliance app. ZATCA Phase 2 integration with QR-coded invoices and clearance flow for Saudi Arabia.
Explore ZATCAPurchase Co-Pilot
AI procurement assistant for Business Central — vendor analysis, AP automation, PO matching. Cyan-gold sibling app.
Explore Purchase Co-PilotAI in Microsoft Dynamics 365 BC
Editorial hub for Microsoft Copilot in BC — how it lands in finance, ops and sales workflows.
Read the hubNOVAHUB Partner Portal
Self-service partner / customer portal — KYC, AR aging, document upload, two-way messaging on BC.
Open NOVAHUBNovacare 360° managed support
Application + functional + infrastructure SLA for Business Central with single accountability. Underpins the e-invoicing extension post-go-live.
Explore NovacareThe finance team that wins this transition will not be the one with the best ASP. It will be the one whose ERP, ASP and FTA endpoints all answer to the same support contract on day one.Amit SobtiPractice Director · Business Central, Novasoft From the field · read our notes →
How Novasoft delivers
Four stages, 8 to 14 weeks from kickoff to first signed PINT AE.
No big-bang cutover. Every stage ends in a checkpoint you sign off — if the answer at the end of Assessment is “not ready”, we say so before contracts move.
01 Assessment
1–2 weeksAudit your VAT TRN setup, Peppol Participant ID readiness, customer master data quality, ASP appointment paperwork.
02 Design
1–2 weeksMap your BC posting groups to PINT AE fields, design the reconciliation tile, confirm archival paths and access rights.
03 Implementation
4–8 weeksInstall the BC extension, wire the Taxilla connector, load Participant IDs, train finance, run end-to-end on a sandbox.
04 Go-Live
1–2 weeksVoluntary pilot first, then cutover. Novacare 360° covers the first weeks of FTA traffic and ASP traffic in parallel.
Pre-flight
Your UAE e-invoicing readiness checklist — ten items.
If your finance lead can tick eight of these in 30 minutes, you are ahead of most of the market. If fewer than five, start the Assessment now — 30 October 2026 is just over five months away.
- Confirm your VAT TRN and derive your 10-digit TIN (first ten digits of the TRN).
- Quantify annual B2B + B2G invoice volume to determine your phase (above or below AED 50 million).
- List every billing system in scope — BC, secondary ERP, POS, e-commerce, manual.
- Shortlist and appoint an FTA-accredited ASP via the MoF / EmaraTax registry.
- Provision the BC extension into a sandbox and connect to the ASP API.
- Collect Peppol Participant IDs from your top 20 buyers and store on customer cards.
- Run UAT — post, transmit, validate, receive FTA acknowledgement, archive.
- Train finance on the reconciliation tile and the malfunction-notification flow.
- Confirm the 5-year archive path and the export-on-FTA-request procedure.
- Decide your voluntary-pilot date — ahead of the mandatory deadline removes fine exposure.
Free 30-minute readiness assessment
You have just over five months before the AED 5,000-per-month meter starts.
Book a working session with a Novasoft Business Central consultant. We’ll walk your VAT setup, your invoice volume, your ASP options and your sandbox readiness — and tell you honestly whether you need to start now or whether you can wait until Q3.
Talk to a consultant
Book a Free UAE e-Invoicing Readiness Assessment.
A Novasoft Business Central consultant will respond within one business day with a working-session slot and a short questionnaire to make the call useful.
- Reply within one business day
- 30-minute session, tailored to your invoice volume
- No pitch — an honest read on whether you start now or wait
Prefer email?
contact@novasoft.globalRequest your assessment
Six required fields — under a minute to send.
Common questions
UAE e-invoicing — the FAQ finance teams keep asking.
Every answer below is reflected verbatim in the FAQPage JSON-LD so it can win a snippet on the SERP.
When does UAE e-invoicing become mandatory for businesses on Business Central?
Phase 1 is mandatory from 1 January 2027 for businesses with annual revenue at or above AED 50 million, covering B2B and B2G invoices. Phase 2 follows on 1 July 2027 for everyone else. Government entities go live on 1 October 2027. Your ASP must be appointed before the matching deadline.
Do we need to change our Business Central environment to comply?
No. The Novasoft e-invoicing extension installs into your existing Business Central tenant. It hooks the standard Sales Invoice and Sales Credit Memo posting routines and emits a PINT AE XML in the background. Users keep posting invoices the same way they do today.
What is PINT AE and why does it matter?
PINT AE is the UAE variant of the Peppol International Invoice — the XML structure every compliant invoice must follow. It locks down field names, code lists, totals, VAT lines and seller/buyer Peppol Participant IDs so the FTA can validate every invoice in real time.
Why Taxilla as the Accredited Service Provider?
Taxilla is a UAE Ministry of Finance pre-approved ASP and a certified Peppol Access Point. The Novasoft connector talks to Taxilla over a secured API for validation, digital signing, FTA transmission and 5-year archival — so we never bypass the regulator path.
What happens if we miss a deadline or fail to issue an invoice?
Cabinet Decision No. 106 of 2025 sets the fine schedule. Non-implementation or missing ASP appointment is AED 5,000 per month. Late issuance is AED 100 per invoice and per credit note, capped at AED 5,000 per month. Failure to notify FTA of a malfunction is AED 1,000 per day. Voluntary early adopters avoid fines entirely.
Can we adopt e-invoicing voluntarily before our mandatory date?
Yes — the FTA voluntary pilot opens on 1 July 2026. Volunteers pay zero fines until their mandatory deadline and get a long runway to test PINT AE, train staff and de-risk the cutover. We recommend voluntary adoption for any business with the AED 50 million threshold approaching.
How long does a typical rollout take with Novasoft?
A standard rollout runs 8 to 14 weeks across our four-stage method — Assessment, Design, Implementation, Go-Live. The pace depends mostly on how clean your VAT TRN, Peppol Participant ID and customer master data are at the start.
Sources & further reading
- UAE Federal Tax Authority — tax.gov.ae (regulator)
- Peppol — who is Peppol (standard body)
- Microsoft Learn — Business Central VAT setup (vendor docs)
- Microsoft Learn India — Business Central overview (India locale)
- Novasoft — UAE e-invoicing 2026 editorial guide (companion deep-dive)
- Microsoft AppSource — Novasoft publisher profile
- Microsoft Solutions Partner programme
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