Premium Partner
Wafeq, for companies that have to get e-invoicing right
UAE e-invoicing is arriving on a published timetable, and the question stops being which software you like and becomes which software is accredited to transmit on your behalf. Wafeq is one of the ones that is.
Where it is strong
What Wafeq is genuinely good at
Built for this region, not localised into it
Arabic and English throughout, UAE and Saudi tax handled natively rather than bolted on. If you operate on both sides of the border, that difference is measured in hours a month.
An accredited service provider for UAE e-invoicing
Wafeq holds Approved Accredited Service Provider status with the Federal Tax Authority and supports Peppol BIS 3.0, which is the standard the UAE regime is built on.
ZATCA on the Saudi side
The same file serves a Saudi entity's Phase 2 obligations. For a group with entities in both countries this is the shortest route to compliance in each.
And where it is not. It is a younger product than the global incumbents, and the third-party app ecosystem is smaller. If your business depends on an obscure integration, check it exists before you commit — we will check it with you.
What we do
The work, not the licence
Software is the easy half. The part that decides whether your books are usable is how it is configured and who checks what goes into it.
Implementation
Chart of accounts, tax codes against your real supply types, users and approval flows, opening balances tied to your last accounts.
E-invoicing readiness
Master data cleaned, customer tax registration numbers verified, invoice templates brought up to specification, and a test run before your phase date rather than during it.
Migration
From Excel, Zoho, QuickBooks, Xero or Tally, reconciled to the prior year rather than dumped in.
Ongoing bookkeeping
We run the file monthly, or review what your in-house accountant posts, under any of our packages.
If you are not sure whether e-invoicing applies to you yet
It applies on a phased timetable, and the phase you fall into depends on your revenue. Getting the date wrong in either direction is expensive: early and you pay for readiness you did not need, late and you are non-compliant on a published deadline. The free assessment works out which phase you are in from your own numbers.
Questions
Wafeq, answered straight
Why would I choose Wafeq over Zoho Books?
If e-invoicing compliance is the pressing problem, or you run entities in both the UAE and Saudi Arabia, Wafeq is usually the shorter path. If you are already inside the Zoho suite and e-invoicing is still some way off for your revenue band, Zoho Books is usually the better fit. We have no reason to push either — the implementation fee is the same.
Does Wafeq handle UAE e-invoicing on its own?
It holds Approved Accredited Service Provider status with the FTA and supports Peppol BIS 3.0, so the transmission side is covered. What it cannot do is fix your master data. Missing customer tax registration numbers and invoice templates that do not meet specification are where readiness projects actually fail, and that part is manual.
We have a Saudi entity as well. Does one subscription cover both?
Wafeq serves both markets, but each legal entity keeps its own books and files under its own regime. We set them up as separate entities with a consistent chart of accounts so the group consolidation is arithmetic rather than a reconstruction.
How long does an implementation take?
A clean single-entity setup with tidy opening balances runs about two weeks. Where the previous records need rebuilding first, the rebuild is the timeline and the software setup is the easy part. We tell you which of the two you are after seeing the file.
Also partnered
The other two we work in daily
We are a partner on three platforms rather than every platform, because a partnership that means anything requires using the product enough to know what it cannot do. We still support QuickBooks, Xero, Tally and the enterprise systems.
Talk to us about Wafeq
Tell us where you are — new setup, a migration, or a file that needs sorting out.