UAE e-invoicing: what is confirmed and what Zeyto does

This lesson separates three things: what the Ministry of Finance (MoF) has announced, what a business must still decide, and what Zeyto actually does. Dates in this area have already been amended once, so treat the dates below as a snapshot and check the MoF and FTA websites.

What the Ministry of Finance has announced

• Two Ministerial Decisions, Nos. 243 and 244 of 2025, set the scope and the implementation timetable of a national electronic invoicing system.
• The MoF announcement says it covers business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-government (B2G) transactions and is based on the OpenPeppol standard. Issuers and recipients must appoint an Accredited Service Provider (ASP).
• A pilot with selected taxpayers started on 1 July 2026.
• Businesses with annual revenue of AED 50 million or more: implement from 1 January 2027. The deadline to appoint an ASP was moved from 31 July 2026 to 30 October 2026 by an amendment the MoF announced in May 2026; the go-live date was unchanged.
• Businesses below AED 50 million: appoint an ASP by 31 March 2027 and implement from 1 July 2027.
• In-scope government entities: appoint an ASP by 31 March 2027 and implement from 1 October 2027.

So '2027' is a series of dates, not one. Your date depends on your revenue. The MoF said it would publish a list of accredited providers, so use that list rather than a vendor's own claim.

What an ASP does

In the model the MoF describes, you do not send invoices to the tax authority yourself. A provider accredited by the MoF exchanges the structured invoice data on your behalf. Your accounting software has to produce the data and hand it to the provider you appointed.

What Zeyto does today

• Settings, UAE E-Invoicing builds a draft e-invoice file (XML, in the PINT AE style) for each submitted sales invoice and sales return, keeps a copy, and lists it in a queue.
• Park Mode builds and stores the files without sending them. Parked invoices stay parked.
• There is no live connection to a service provider. With Sandbox ticked, Dispatch Queue only simulates an answer; with Sandbox cleared, it reports that no live connector is installed.
• Zeyto is not an Accredited Service Provider and does not claim to be one. Zeyto's own help says nothing reaches the FTA, so you should not treat this screen as e-invoicing compliance.
• In the other direction, you can paste a supplier's e-invoice XML and Zeyto drafts a purchase invoice for you to check and submit.
• A sales invoice is queued only if e-invoicing is enabled and the customer has a TIN or 15-digit TRN, a Peppol Participant ID and an Endpoint Scheme. Only sales invoices and sales returns are queued, not POS sales.

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Settings, E-Invoicing: what Zeyto does today.

Rules change; always check the FTA website. For e-invoicing also check the Ministry of Finance website.