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.
- Where the app offers a connection for Saudi Arabia, onboard your place with ZATCA in Work › More › Place settings › VAT and receipts › Fiscal connection: choose “Cloud provider”, copy the one-time code from the Fatoora portal (it works for one hour), give your details and press “Onboard with ZATCA”. BlinkFix makes the unit’s key, gets its certificates from ZATCA and runs ZATCA’s checks. 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