For UAE restaurants, cafés and cloud kitchens that keep their POS at the counter. Aqid ERP brings the POS's daily totals into the books at 5% VAT, puts each branch's sales under its own emirate on the VAT 201, values ingredients at average cost and pays kitchen staff through a WPS salary file.
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 UAE restaurants, cafés and cloud kitchens that keep their POS at the counter. Aqid ERP brings the POS's daily totals into the books at 5% VAT, puts each branch's sales under its own emirate on the VAT 201, values ingredients at average cost and pays kitchen staff through a WPS salary file. 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 is not a restaurant POS: its till sells from an item list, with no tables, kitchen screen or modifiers, so Foodics or your current POS stays at the counter.
| For | Restaurants & cafés |
|---|---|
| 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 | On Growth and Premium, at weighted average cost |
| Recommended plan | Growth (AED 109 a month before VAT): ingredient stock across several stores, payroll with no employee limit and up to three settlement channels. |
| Price | AED 109 a month before VAT · 60-day free trial today, no card |
| Not built yet | Aqid ERP is not a restaurant POS: its till sells from an item list, with no tables, kitchen screen or modifiers, so Foodics or your current POS stays at the counter. |
Orders, tables, the kitchen screen and receipts stay on Foodics or whichever POS you run; Aqid ERP's own till sells from an item list and has none of those. The POS's daily or weekly totals come in as a sales entry. A direct Foodics connection exists but has not yet been proven on live accounts.
Give each branch its emirate, and its sales reach that emirate's line of the VAT 201. The same branch tag carries its rent, supplier bills and share of payroll, so a Sharjah branch and an Ajman branch each have their own profit and loss.
Coffee, meat, dairy and takeaway packaging are stock items held in one store or several. Each purchase moves the weighted average cost, transfers move stock between kitchens, and the month-end count shows what was really used.
A monthly run in AED produces the WPS SIF file for your bank and accrues end-of-service gratuity. Wages are due on the 1st under Resolution 340 of 2026, and the run warns you when the payday is later or an employee has no IBAN. Residence visa, work permit and health insurance expiry dates sit on each employee record.
POS totals come in as a sales entry, so the bank deposit can be checked against what the POS reported. Settlement files from Stripe, Amazon, noon, Salla and Zid are imported and matched line by line.
Ingredients and packaging in several stores or kitchens, transfers between them, weighted average cost, and stock counts typed in or pasted from a sheet.
Purchase orders to suppliers become bills. An approval limit in AED, VAT included, holds large orders for a second approver, and staff can claim small market buys as expenses.
Monthly payroll in AED, the WPS SIF salary file, gratuity accrued every month, payslips in Arabic and English, and notices 30 and 7 days before a staff document expires.
Tax invoices to companies for catering and events, each with its signed PINT AE XML, sent by email or WhatsApp, with a payment link once you connect a payment provider.
Profit and loss per branch or cost centre, balance sheet, cash flow, bank reconciliation, supplier ageing and the corporate tax estimate your adviser starts from.
Your POS issues the receipts at the counter. Aqid ERP holds the totals it reports at 5% VAT under the branch and emirate they belong to, and lays out the VAT 201 from the ledger: standard-rated sales by emirate, and input tax on suppliers and rent, each box opening to its documents. You enter the figures on EmaraTax yourself, by the 28th day after the period ends; the layout has not yet been checked with a live filing.
Sales to walk-in customers are outside the UAE e-invoicing phases announced so far. Invoices to businesses are not: a catering invoice to a company already leaves Aqid ERP with signed PINT AE XML, and a business under AED 50M must send such invoices through an accredited service provider from 1 July 2027 (from 1 January 2027 at AED 50M or more). Aqid ERP's connection to a provider is not yet live, and Aqid ERP is not itself a provider.
A café that sells only to consumers will still need a provider to receive its suppliers' e-invoices. Confirm your dates with the Ministry of Finance and the FTA, and take any VAT question about your menu, service charges or delivery sales to your tax adviser.
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's till has no tables, kitchen screen or modifiers. Keep Foodics or your current POS for orders and receipts, and bring its totals into Aqid ERP for the books, the VAT 201 and payroll.
Yes. Set the emirate on each branch and its standard-rated sales reach that emirate's box, among 1a to 1g. You still type the return into EmaraTax yourself, and the layout has not yet been tested with a live filing.
Sales to consumers are outside the phases announced so far. Invoices to companies, such as catering, are in: a business under AED 50M appoints an accredited service provider by 31 March 2027 and sends through it from 1 July 2027. Dates have moved before, so confirm yours with the FTA.
Yes. Wages are due on the 1st of the following month and 85 percent must go through WPS. Before a run closes, Aqid ERP warns when the payday is after the 1st or an employee has no IBAN. No bank has yet accepted an Aqid ERP WPS file, so test the first one with yours.
No. Sales arrive as POS totals, not per dish. Purchases go into stock, you count at month end, and the count adjustment shows what was used at weighted average cost.
Yes. Migration help is free during the offer to 31 December 2026, and you can start with a 60-day free trial before choosing a plan.
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