Web design for Abu Dhabi.
Where the buyer is often the government.
Abu Dhabi differs from Dubai in our work in one way that changes everything: a much larger share of the businesses who contact us sell to government entities rather than to consumers. That puts the UAE electronic invoicing programme at the centre of the brief, because business-to-government transactions are explicitly in scope and government entities have their own date.
Start a projectSelling to a government entity, as a system problem
The four things a supplier’s system needs that a consumer platform never has to think about.
Your invoices are in scope
The UAE programme covers business-to-government as well as business-to-business transactions, so a supplier’s system has to participate rather than treating e-invoicing as the buyer’s problem.
Government entities have a later date
Service provider appointment by 31 March 2027 and mandatory go-live by 1 October 2027. Your own date may be earlier than your customer’s, which is a sequencing question worth getting right.
A purchase order is the whole life cycle
Public buyers work to purchase orders, part deliveries, part invoices and retentions. A system that assumes one order equals one invoice cannot serve them.
Documents, not emails
Certificates, insurance, compliance paperwork, approvals — each with an expiry and an owner. A document register with expiry alerts is usually the highest-value screen we build for a public-sector supplier.
Sources, checked 31 October 2026
- Ministry of Finance (United Arab Emirates), UAE Electronic Invoicing Guidelines v2.0, 26 October 2026: an OpenPeppol five-corner model, an Accredited Service Provider appointed by 30 October 2026 for revenue of AED 50 million or more, go-live 1 January 2027
- Ministry of Finance (United Arab Emirates), Ministerial Decision No. 244 of 2025: the timetable for businesses under AED 50 million, with a service provider appointed by 31 March 2027 and go-live by 1 July 2027, and government entities by 1 October 2027
Arabic first, for this audience especially
- Official correspondence is bilingual Build the system so an invoice, a statement or a delivery note renders correctly in Arabic without anybody retyping it into a Word template.
- Mirrored layout, decided numerals The interface reverses and the numeral and calendar systems are a deliberate choice rather than a default.
- Names that search Arabic names have to be findable, which is a database decision made at the start rather than a search box added later.
When we are the wrong firm for this
If your procurement requires a locally registered supplier, or in-country data residency, we will not qualify as the contracting party — say so early and we can work behind a local partner instead, which is a normal arrangement and one we are happy with. We are also not an accredited service provider for the invoicing network; we build the system that connects to one.
Ask us about data residency in the first conversation. It is the question that most often ends these projects at the paperwork stage, and we would rather it ended at the start.
Before you ask.
Do business-to-government invoices fall under the UAE mandate?
Can you handle purchase orders, part deliveries and retentions?
Can you be the contracting supplier for a government tender?
Ready to get started?
Tell us what you need. We will scope it, price it and build it.
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