For audit, bookkeeping and tax firms in the UAE running their own practice's books. Aqid ERP bills monthly bookkeeping fees automatically, invoices audit engagements in stages, gives each service line a P&L, pays staff through the WPS file, and lays out your firm's own VAT 201 and corporate tax estimate.
Sign up as this kind of business and the books start with the accounts it posts to, beyond the country's chart:
It also sets the invoice terms, whether prices include VAT, and the setup steps that matter for it. You can change it later, and nothing you have is removed.
Start with this setupFor audit, bookkeeping and tax firms in the UAE running their own practice's books. Aqid ERP bills monthly bookkeeping fees automatically, invoices audit engagements in stages, gives each service line a P&L, pays staff through the WPS file, and lays out your firm's own VAT 201 and corporate tax estimate. Aqid ERP lays out the FTA's VAT 201 from the books, generates every invoice as signed PINT AE XML for the 2027 e-invoicing mandate and runs payroll in dirhams with a WPS salary file and end-of-service gratuity. The Growth plan fits, at AED 109 a month, with a 60-day free trial. Not built yet: Aqid ERP runs your own firm's accounting; it is not a practice management tool for your clients' books.
| For | Accounting firms |
|---|---|
| E-invoicing | PINT AE: signed UBL XML kept with each invoice; sending through an accredited service provider is not yet live (the mandate starts in 2027) |
| VAT | 5% standard rate; the VAT 201 is laid out from the books, sales by emirate |
| Payroll | A WPS salary file, end-of-service gratuity, GPSSA pension for Emirati staff, payslips in Arabic and English |
| Stock | Not needed by most businesses of this kind |
| Recommended plan | Growth, at AED 109 a month before VAT: payroll with no employee limit and consolidation if your firm runs as more than one company. |
| Price | AED 109 a month before VAT · 60-day free trial today, no card |
| Not built yet | Aqid ERP runs your own firm's accounting; it is not a practice management tool for your clients' books. |
Each bookkeeping, VAT-return or payroll client gets a recurring invoice, issued on the same day each month and emailed automatically. Share it on WhatsApp in one tap, and add a payment link once you connect a payment provider.
Send the audit or corporate tax engagement as a quote the client accepts through the customer portal, then invoice it in stages as the work moves: on signing, at fieldwork, on the signed report. Each invoice is tagged to the engagement.
Make audit, bookkeeping, VAT, corporate tax and advisory cost centres. Tag fees to them and allocate staff salary cost from the payroll entry, by re-tagging it or with an allocation journal, so the P&L shows which line carries the firm through the year.
Your firm has its own VAT 201 due by the 28th day after each period and its own corporate tax return within nine months of the year end. Aqid ERP lays out the first from your ledger and estimates the second, with the Small Business Relief test, for a colleague to review.
Recurring fee invoices, engagement quotes clients accept online, credit notes, payment links once a payment provider is connected, statements, ageing and email reminders.
Engagements as projects and service lines or partners as cost centres, each with its own P&L.
A UAE chart of accounts in Arabic and English, an append-only ledger, bank reconciliation, deferred revenue for fees billed in advance, approval limits, an audit log and periods locked once filed.
Your firm's own estimate from the period's profit: the 0% band to AED 375,000 and 9% above, and the Small Business Relief test, with the IFRS for SMEs statements the return starts from.
Monthly payroll in AED, the WPS SIF salary file, gratuity accrued every month, bilingual payslips and expiry reminders for residence visas and Emirates IDs.
Several companies of your own group, for example a mainland firm and a free-zone company, under one login with consolidated statements and intercompany reports (Growth or Premium).
VAT in the UAE is 5% on most goods and services. How it applies to your fees, especially for clients outside the UAE, is a question you would put to a colleague for a client; put it for your own firm too, then set it on your items. Standard-rated fees reach the box of the emirate your office is in, box 1d for Ajman.
Your invoices to businesses are in the e-invoicing mandate. A firm under AED 50M in revenue appoints an accredited service provider by 31 March 2027 and transmits from 1 July 2027. Aqid ERP signs each invoice as PINT AE XML now; it is not a provider itself, and its connection to one is not yet live.
The VAT 201 is a working paper: each box opens to the invoices and bills behind it, and you type the figures into EmaraTax. The layout has not yet been checked with a live filing.
For small businesses that need compliant invoicing
77 د.إ / month
For teams that want the full books, not only invoices
109 د.إ / month
For companies with branches, devices and volume
214 د.إ / month
No. Aqid ERP is for your own firm's accounting. Multi-company covers companies in your own group, not a practice portal across clients.
No. There are no timesheets or hourly billing. Bill fixed monthly fees, staged engagement fees or one-off invoices.
Each client has a recurring invoice emailed on schedule, with a payment link once a payment provider is connected. Statements, ageing and automatic email reminders follow up late payers.
Neither. It lays out the VAT 201 box by box from the ledger for you to enter on EmaraTax, and produces a corporate tax estimate with the 0% and 9% bands and the Small Business Relief test for an adviser to work from.
Yes. QuickBooks, Xero, Zoho Books and Wafeq exports have ready mappings; Odoo and Daftra come in through the generic import with a mapping saved after the first file. Migration help is free during the offer to 31 December 2026.
Yes. Tag fees to a cost centre for each service line or partner, allocate salary cost to it with a re-tag or allocation journal, and run its P&L.
Set up for the UAE's rules from the first day.
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