Saudi Arabia
Under ZATCA’s e-invoicing (Fatoora), a business in the integration phase issues every sale to a consumer as a simplified tax invoice with a QR code, from a solution onboarded on the Fatoora portal, and reports it to ZATCA within 24 hours; credit notes too. A business still in the first phase only generates and keeps its e-invoices.
First of all
- You are the seller, so the fiscal receipt is yours to issue. The receipt BlinkFix gives your customer confirms the payment BlinkFix took in your name; it is not a fiscal receipt.
- Only the owner can set up, change or remove the fiscal connection.
- BlinkFix switches fiscal connections on country by country. Until the app shows your connection as Connected, issue every fiscal receipt yourself, on your own till or system.
What you do
- Find out from ZATCA, or your adviser, which phase and wave your business is in.
- Onboard your e-invoicing solution on the Fatoora portal. Where the app offers a connection for Saudi Arabia, set it up in Work › More › Place settings › Fiscal receipts; until the status says Connected, issue invoices from your own onboarded solution.
- Give the customer a printed copy at once. An electronic copy only if the customer agrees.
- Keep your VAT number and legal name right in BlinkFix.
Once your connection works
- BlinkFix sends each sale your country’s rule records when you collect the money: when a card payment through BlinkFix succeeds, or when a payment in cash or on your own card terminal is recorded as received (for example when your staff mark the order as paid). A way of paying your country does not record is not sent: your country’s box says which.
- Tips are never on your fiscal receipt. BlinkFix’s service fee is on BlinkFix’s own invoice to the customer, not on your register.
- When an order is cancelled after payment, or you refund it, BlinkFix sends the correction document your country asks for. A refund that BlinkFix pays from its own money does not touch your register.
- Sales from before you connected, or before your country’s rule starts, are not sent: issue those receipts yourself.
- If a receipt fails, BlinkFix tries again and tells you. If it still fails, issue the receipt another way within the time your law allows.
- Each order’s fiscal receipt is in the Fiscal receipts tab of VAT and receipts, with Re-run for one that failed.
- While the app shows your country in test mode, BlinkFix marks every fiscal number as a test and shows none to your customers. Whether your fiscal printer, register software or provider counted a receipt as a real fiscal one depends on its own setup: check with your provider, so that each sale is fiscalised once, neither missed nor twice.
What BlinkFix’s table says
Saudi Arabia
Simplified tax invoices with a QR code from a ZATCA-onboarded solution, reported within 24 hours; an electronic copy only if the buyer agrees.
- What the law asks
- Each sale is reported to the tax office
- Ways BlinkFix’s table allows
- a vendor’s certified software, a cloud fiscal service
- Cloud fiscal service
- None chosen in BlinkFix’s table yet
- Test mode
- BlinkFix runs this country in test mode: it marks every fiscal number as a test and shows none to customers. Whether a receipt counted as a real fiscal one depends on your printer’s, software’s or provider’s own setup.
- Electronic fiscal receipt
- Only if the customer agrees
- Fiscal reports
- None