Cabinet Decision 28/2024 and FTA Decision 2/2024 walked end-to-end. PEPPOL PINT-AE format, the five-corner model that makes the network work, choosing an Accredited Service Provider, mapping your existing invoice fields to PINT-AE schema, and the six-step readiness plan every UAE business should be running right now. The track is designed for finance leaders, IT integrators, and operations owners who need to be live before Phase 1 hits.
Watch lessons 1-3 to build the format and protocol foundation. Watch lessons 4-5 for the practical ASP-selection and field-mapping work that you need to do once, not repeatedly. Watch lesson 6 if you're racing toward the deadline or behind it. Watch lessons 7-8 once you're live, to optimize day-2 operations. Every lesson cites Cabinet Decision 28/2024, FTA Decision 2/2024, and the underlying PEPPOL BIS Billing 3.0 specification.
Videos publish Q1 2027 in two waves — lessons 1-4 in January, lessons 5-8 in February. All recordings will include real Phase-1 implementation lessons learned in the first 6 months after the 1 July 2026 mandate.
The four-year journey from MoF announcement to mandate. Tax-gap economics — UAE's VAT-gap analysis estimated 12B+ annual loss to non-compliance. Fraud-reduction via real-time invoice visibility. The strategic positioning vs Saudi (already live), Malaysia (live), and the EU peers.
What PEPPOL is as an international standard, why the UAE chose it, and what makes PINT-AE different from PINT-SA (Saudi), PINT-MY (Malaysia), or generic PEPPOL BIS Billing 3.0. The structural fields — header, invoice lines, tax breakdowns, references.
Sender → sender ASP → PEPPOL network → receiver ASP → receiver. The model that lets two parties exchange invoices without bilateral integration. What each corner does, the cryptographic guarantees, and where things go wrong in the wild.
What to look for in an ASP: pricing model (per-invoice vs flat), integration depth (API quality), customer support locality (UAE business hours), SLAs, retention guarantees (the 7-year archive obligation), data-residency claims. The active UAE ASP shortlist as of mandate go-live.
Field-by-field translation from a typical UAE Tax Invoice (Article 65 format) to the PINT-AE XML schema. Edge cases: VAT-exempt lines, multi-currency invoices, attachments, credit notes, discount lines. Bilingual EN+AR field handling.
What an SMB should be executing right now to be live before 1 July 2026. ASP onboarding, sandbox testing, parallel running, customer comms, supplier renegotiations, internal training. The pre-mandate sequence that prevents the panic-day-1 scramble.
The expected 2027-2028 expansion to B2C transactions, likely cash-register-based per the strategy paper. What an SMB should plan for now even if not B2C-relevant today. Implications for retail POS systems, online stores, and consumer-facing invoicing.
Daily flow once mandate is live. Failed transmissions, retries, error codes from the ASP, dispute handling with the receiver, the 7-year archive obligation, and the monthly reconciliation between what you sent vs what FTA recorded.
Videos drop Q1 2027 as a post-Phase-1 retrospective. One email per lesson release with direct YouTube link.
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