When does UAE e-invoicing become mandatory?
In phases: a voluntary pilot opens in July 2026, accredited service providers must be appointed by October 2026, large taxpayers go live in January 2027, and all remaining businesses — including SMEs — join by July 2027.
What is PINT-AE 1.0.4?
PINT-AE 1.0.4 is the UAE's national e-invoice format — its profile of the international Peppol / UBL 2.1 standard, established under Ministerial Decisions 243 and 244 of 2025. Every invoice must be structurally and arithmetically perfect in this format to be accepted.
Are you an ASP?
No — and deliberately not. Aurenta is the ASP-agnostic correctness layer. You appoint any accredited service provider; Aurenta makes the invoice correct and defensible before your ASP transmits it.
What happens when an invoice fails validation?
Every run ends in exactly one of four verdicts: PASS (safe to proceed), REVIEW (a human checks a discrepancy first), BLOCKED (a fatal violation prevents filing), or REFUSED (data sovereignty could not be guaranteed, so the run fails closed). In every case the evidence is still sealed.
Can't an AI just fabricate a clean invoice?
Yes — pixels, arithmetic and conformance can all pass on a fabricated document. That's why Aurenta doesn't stop at the image: when an invoice checks out on its face, it's corroborated against out-of-document truth — public registries, your buyer feeds, and your own payment history. A first-time vendor paid into a first-time bank account raises an advisory REVIEW. Advisory, never blocking — releasing money is always a human act.
Does invoice data ever leave the UAE?
No. In sovereign mode, OCR, retrieval and telemetry run only on self-hosted, in-region models. If no in-region model is available, the system stops rather than silently falling back to a foreign cloud API — sovereignty is fail-closed by design.
What are the penalties for non-compliance?
Under Cabinet Decision No. 106 of 2025, failing to issue a compliant e-invoice carries a penalty of AED 100 per invoice, capped at AED 5,000 per calendar month — in addition to existing VAT penalties of AED 2,500–5,000 for each unissued tax invoice, and the operational cost of rejected filings.