Saudi e-invoicing software: ZATCA Phase 2 clearance and reporting, from your normal invoice
Xrero issues your tax invoices and simplified invoices in the ZATCA XML format, stamps them, and sends them to the Fatoora platform: tax invoices for clearance, simplified invoices for reporting within 24 hours. Arabic and English on the same document, prices shown in Saudi riyals, set up for you.
SAR 101 per user per month (billed as AED 99). One-time setup from SAR 3,062 (AED 2,999), done by our team. 15-day trial included.
Phase 2
clearance + reporting
SAR 101
per user, per month
AR / EN
invoice and XML
24 h
reporting window, tracked
What Phase 2 changes for a Saudi business
A tax invoice stops being a PDF you email and becomes a signed XML document that ZATCA receives.
Today, in many Saudi companies
- Invoices made in Word, Excel or a Phase 1 program that cannot talk to Fatoora
- No cryptographic stamp, no hash chain, no invoice counter
- Tax invoices handed to customers before ZATCA has cleared them
- Simplified invoices reported late, or not at all, when the shop is busy
With Xrero
- Every invoice, credit note and debit note is generated as ZATCA XML with UUID, counter and hash chain
- Stamped with your own CSID from the Fatoora portal; the QR carries all nine tags
- Tax invoices go to clearance first; the cleared document, with ZATCA's QR, is what your customer gets
- Simplified invoices are queued for reporting with the 24-hour deadline tracked, offline or online
Which wave are you in?
ZATCA brings businesses into Phase 2 in waves, announced at least six months ahead. The current announcement:
| Wave 25 | VAT-able revenue above SAR 187,500 in 2022, 2023, 2024 or 2025 | Integrate with Fatoora by 1 February 2027 |
Source: ZATCA news, “ZATCA Determines the Criteria for Selecting the Targeted Taxpayers in Wave 25”. Earlier waves are already live. Not sure which wave you are in? Send us your VAT number and revenue band on WhatsApp and we tell you.
How onboarding works
Three steps, all from inside your own Xrero system. We do them with you on a call.
Your Fatoora OTP
You log in to the Fatoora portal with your ZATCA (ERAD) account and generate a one-time code. Xrero creates the certificate request and receives your compliance certificate (CSID).
The six compliance documents
ZATCA asks every solution to prove it can produce a tax invoice, a simplified invoice and their credit and debit notes. Xrero runs the six documents automatically and shows you ZATCA's answers.
Production, then invoice as usual
Your production certificate is issued and every invoice you post is cleared or reported from then on. Your team keeps invoicing the way it always did.
See it in 60 seconds
A read-only login to our demo company, Baqala, on ZATCA's developer sandbox. Nothing to install, and nothing you do there reaches ZATCA.
Sign in
ksa.xrero.com — user demo, password demo. Read-only: you can open everything and change nothing.
Saudi Tools → ZATCA Reports
Every document with ZATCA's answer — cleared, reported or rejected — its invoice counter (ICV) and its hash chain.
Open INV/2026/00078
A tax invoice cleared by the sandbox on 18 September 2026: the QR, the UUID, the previous-invoice hash and the cleared XML as an attachment.
Print it
The Tax Invoice PDF with the ZATCA QR and the “Cleared by ZATCA” ribbon. The SANDBOX watermark stays on every demo document.
What the Saudi edition includes
Saudi accounting with ZATCA built in, plus the apps a growing business runs on.
ZATCA Phase 2 documents
Tax invoices, simplified invoices, credit notes and debit notes in UBL 2.1 XML with the stamp, hash chain and QR ZATCA requires.
Clearance and reporting
Tax invoices cleared before delivery; simplified invoices reported within 24 hours; every response from ZATCA kept with the document.
Saudi chart of accounts and VAT
SOCPA-style chart, 15% VAT, bilingual Arabic-English invoices, customer VAT numbers validated once and reused.
Tamper-evident by design
Counters that never reset, an append-only transmission log, cleared invoices that cannot be edited or deleted, a 6-year archive with ZATCA-named exports.
Retail and trading apps
Point of sale, inventory, sales, purchase and an online store on the same data as your accounting.
Set up for you
Your customers, products and opening balances migrated, your team trained on your own invoices, in Arabic or English.
Where we stand with ZATCA — plainly
- Validated against ZATCA's developer sandbox on 18 September 2026: all six compliance document types accepted, and live clearance, reporting and a credit note accepted with zero warnings.
- ZATCA does not certify or approve software. Its Solution Providers Directory is voluntary and, in ZATCA's own words, not an approval; our application to be listed is in progress.
- Simulation and production onboarding always use your own Fatoora portal credentials, so ZATCA's certificates are issued to your business, never to us.
Data, hosting and billing
- Your data is hosted in Frankfurt (EU) with daily backups; you keep full access to and export of every invoice and record from Saudi Arabia, as the VAT regulations require.
- Prices are shown in Saudi riyals for reference (AED 1 ≈ SAR 1.02). Xrero is a UAE company, so invoices are issued in AED; a VAT-registered Saudi business accounts for the VAT under the reverse-charge mechanism — no Saudi VAT is added by us. Ask your accountant if unsure.
- Support in Arabic and English on WhatsApp, Sunday to Thursday, Riyadh hours.
Questions we get asked
Straight answers, the same ones we give on the phone.
What is ZATCA Phase 2?
The Integration phase of Saudi e-invoicing: invoices are generated as XML in ZATCA's format, carry a cryptographic stamp, a hash chain and a QR code, and are sent to ZATCA's Fatoora platform — tax invoices for clearance before delivery, simplified invoices for reporting within 24 hours.
Does Phase 2 apply to my business?
ZATCA notifies businesses in waves at least six months ahead. The latest announcement, Wave 25, covers businesses whose VAT-able revenue exceeded SAR 187,500 in 2022, 2023, 2024 or 2025, with integration due by 1 February 2027. Earlier waves are already live.
What is the difference between clearance and reporting?
A tax invoice (B2B) is sent to ZATCA first and only the cleared document goes to your customer. A simplified invoice (B2C) is given to the customer immediately and reported to ZATCA within 24 hours. Xrero does both automatically.
Is Xrero certified by ZATCA?
No, and no software is: ZATCA does not certify solutions. Xrero was validated against ZATCA's developer sandbox on 18 September 2026 — six compliance document types and live clearance and reporting accepted with zero warnings. ZATCA keeps a voluntary, non-binding directory of solution providers; our listing application is in progress.
Do I need to change how I invoice?
Only if you invoice from Word, Excel or a template today. In Xrero you issue the invoice as usual; the XML, stamp, QR and the exchange with ZATCA happen with it.
Does it work in Arabic?
Yes. Invoices carry Arabic and English on the same page, every screen is bilingual, and the XML carries the same figures.
What do I need to start?
Your VAT registration number, access to the Fatoora portal with your ZATCA account to generate the one-time code, and one hour with us for onboarding. No Saudi commercial register is needed on our side.
What does it cost?
SAR 101 per user per month, billed as AED 99, and a one-time setup from SAR 3,062 (AED 2,999) depending on the size of the business. No annual maintenance fee, 15-day trial included; the full price list is on the pricing page.
See your own invoice cleared by ZATCA
Twenty minutes on WhatsApp. Bring one of your invoices and we show you the XML, the stamp and ZATCA's answer.
Page updated 18 September 2026.