Odoo E-Invoicing in the UAE: ASP Status, Setup and Costs

You can meet the UAE e-invoicing mandate with Odoo. Odoo issues your invoices and credit notes; a connector passes them to an accredited service provider (ASP), which validates them in the PINT AE format, sends them over the Peppol network and reports the tax data to the Federal Tax Authority (FTA). Your job as an Odoo user is to clean your data, choose an ASP with a working Odoo connector and test before your deadline: 31 March 2027 for businesses with revenue below AED 50 million.

This page is written by Kenobiz Solutions, an Odoo partner in Dubai (about us). It is updated on the day the official ASP list changes.

Key facts

• 30 October 2026 and 31 March 2027: deadlines to appoint an ASP for businesses with revenue of AED 50 million or more, and below AED 50 million. Go-live is 1 January 2027 and 1 July 2027.
• 51 mandatory fields for an electronic tax invoice and 49 for a commercial e-invoice (MoF Mandatory Fields v1.0, 23 February 2026).
• 100 free e-invoice exchange and reporting services per year: every accredited ASP must give them to each customer (Ministerial Decision No. 168 of 2026, Art. 9(4)).
• AED 5,000 per month or part of a month for failing to implement on time, including not appointing an ASP (Cabinet Decision No. 106 of 2025).
• PDFs stay for a while: when your buyer is not live yet, a regular tax invoice such as a PDF is still required alongside the e-invoice (Guidelines v1.1, §10.2.2).

What does Odoo do, and what does the ASP do?

The UAE uses a "5-corner" model. Corner 1 is you, the supplier, issuing from Odoo. Corner 2 is your ASP, corner 3 your customer's ASP, corner 4 your customer. Corner 5 is the FTA, which receives the tax data from the ASP. The Ministry of Finance expects that reporting in near real-time. The full picture is in our guide to Peppol and PINT AE.

Two consequences. First, the ASP cannot fix bad data: if a customer's TRN is wrong in Odoo, the e-invoice is wrong. Second, your ASP sees only what the connector sends, so the connector's quality matters as much as the ASP's. The UAE e-invoicing requirements page lists what an e-invoice must contain.

Which Odoo versions can do UAE e-invoicing?

Ask three precise questions before you choose:

1. Version: "Is your connector live with customers on my exact Odoo version?" A demo on a newer version proves little.
2. Hosting: "How is the connector installed on my hosting type, and does it need a particular Odoo plan?" A connector may be a module installed in your database or an external service that talks to Odoo through its API.
3. Maintenance: "Who updates the connector when Odoo releases a new version, or when the UAE specification changes?" PINT AE is versioned (1.0.4 at the time of writing), so updates will come.

If you run an old, heavily customised Odoo, the e-invoicing deadline is a good moment to plan the upgrade properly rather than patch the old database.

What should an Odoo user do now?

1. Confirm your phase. Revenue means the gross income of your most recent accounting period, from your financial statements. At AED 50 million or more, you must appoint an ASP by 30 October 2026 and go live on 1 January 2027. Below that, appoint by 31 March 2027 and go live on 1 July 2027. See all UAE e-invoicing deadlines, or take the two-minute readiness check.
2. Check your version, edition and hosting, and list any customisation that touches invoices, credit notes or taxes.
3. Clean your master data. Customer legal names, addresses and TRNs; the TIN (the first 10 digits of the TRN), which identifies participants on the network; free zone customers, which need extra details; product descriptions and units; VAT codes for standard-rated, zero-rated, exempt and reverse-charge lines.
4. Fix your credit-note habits. E-credit notes are mandatory for cancellations, price reductions, refunds and errors. Debit notes are not used in the UAE system: corrections go through credit notes (MoF FAQ). Stop editing posted invoices.
5. Choose an accredited ASP. Start from the official list of accredited service providers and ask: is the Odoo connector live on my version? Are the 100 free documents per year written into the contract? What is the price per document after that? Do received invoices count? How are rejections handled, in which language, and how fast? Can I leave with reasonable notice?
6. Install, configure and test. Test a standard invoice, a credit note, a foreign-currency invoice, a free zone customer, a supplier e-invoice received into Odoo and a deliberate rejection.
7. Train the team and set routines. Notify the FTA of a system failure within 2 business days. Notify your ASP of changes to your FTA-registered data within 5 business days of the FTA confirming them. Each failure costs AED 1,000 per day of delay.

For the generic version of these steps, whatever your software, see how to implement UAE e-invoicing.

How much does e-invoicing cost for an Odoo user?

ASP fees. There is no standard price; compare offers on the same volume. For example, Wafeq's API-based ASP service for other software lists AED 890 per year per taxpayer seat including 1,000 document credits, with extra credits from AED 0.35 down to AED 0.20 per document (public price consulted on 10 October 2026; we have not checked whether it offers an Odoo connector). Ask every ASP whether received invoices and credit notes count as documents.

Connector. A connector may be sold as a one-off module licence or a subscription, or be provided by the ASP itself. Check who pays for updates.

Implementation. The partner's time depends on the state of your data, your version and your customisation. A recent, standard Odoo with clean customer records is a small project; an old, customised database with incomplete TRNs is not. Our Odoo pricing guide explains the cost drivers, and a fixed quote removes the guesswork.

The cost of waiting. Failing to implement on time costs AED 5,000 per month or part of a month, and each late e-invoice or credit note AED 100, up to AED 5,000 per calendar month. See all UAE e-invoicing penalties or estimate your exposure with the penalty calculator.

What happens when the official ASP list changes?

Do not wait for any vendor's announcement to act. The deadline applies to you, not to your software vendor: if your revenue is below AED 50 million, you must have an accredited ASP appointed by 31 March 2027 whatever happens.

If you are new to Odoo, start with our overview of Odoo in the UAE. If you already use it and want a second opinion on your version and connector, book a demo on your own invoices or read our guide to choosing an Odoo partner. To compare Odoo with tools whose vendor is itself an ASP, see UAE e-invoicing software compared. What the latest release changes is summarised in what's new in Odoo 20.

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