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Fawtar in English
Fawtar is Arabic-first financial software for Saudi businesses — invoicing, collections, a real ledger, payroll and POS. The product interface and the invoices it issues are Arabic. These pages explain it in English.
31 English pages. The rest of the site, and the product itself, is in Arabic.
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What Fawtar is, who it is for, and what it is not.
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E-invoicing and ZATCA
What the regulation actually requires of the document you issue.
- Saudi e-invoicing: ZATCA Phase 1 and Phase 2
- Saudi tax invoice vs simplified tax invoice
- XML format for Saudi Phase 2 e-invoices
- Saudi invoice numbering: sequence, no deletes
- Storing Saudi e-invoices: at least six years
- Saudi credit and debit notes: do not delete the invoice
- Advance-payment invoices in Saudi Arabia
Quoting, invoicing and getting paid
The part after the invoice is issued, which is where the money is.
- Quotation software for Saudi businesses
- Quote acceptance: a product record is not an invoice
- Recurring and subscription invoices: each cycle is a new document
- Receivables aging: a reading of the balance, not a legal judgment
- Retail POS invoice vs wholesale tax invoice
- Bank reconciliation without a live bank feed
Accounting, VAT and payroll
The books behind the documents, and the filings they feed.
Comparisons
Published by Fawtar, sourced, and not written so Fawtar wins every row.
Fawtar is an independent invoicing tool. It is not a government body and is not affiliated with ZATCA. Phase 2 linking happens from your own account on the Business plan, after you enter an OTP from the Fatoora portal.