E-invoicing with Xero in the UAE.

Xero has no UAE e-invoicing of its own. Your invoices need an accredited service provider, and Xero’s interface allows a connection to one, with your permission.

Tell us you use Xero and we confirm how your invoices connect before anything is set up. Until a connection is in place you can create e-invoices in your client portal, which sends them through the provider, and record them in Xero as now.

Either way the tax data reaches the FTA and the portal shows every document and its status.

The provider rejects what the format cannot carry. For every VAT-registered customer you need the TRN and the electronic address. For every invoice a due date where an amount is payable. For foreign-currency invoices the VAT totals in AED.

We fill the missing TRNs and electronic addresses in your customer and supplier records in the client portal, so that Xero invoices are accepted from the first one.

Xero holds the customer’s tax number. The electronic address is kept in the portal records.

Invoices in a currency other than AED need the VAT totals in AED.

Credit notes must name the invoice they correct and carry a reason code, set in the portal.

Xero can keep emailing the PDF to your customer. The XML through the provider is the legal e-invoice.