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The address your invoices are sent to, the XML they travel in, and the rules that make a provider reject one. In plain words, with a sample.
Peppol ID
Every company on the Peppol network has an address, called the Peppol ID, the electronic address or the participant identifier. In the UAE it is 0235 followed by your 10-digit TIN. Your provider registers it in the Peppol directory when you onboard, so other providers can find you.
Your customers have the same kind of address. Your invoice carries both: yours as the seller and theirs as the buyer. A buyer that is not yet on the network is addressed with the Ministry’s predefined endpoint, 0235:9900000098, so your invoice still goes through.
PINT AE
PINT AE is the UAE version of the Peppol invoice format. An e-invoice is an XML file built on the international UBL standard, with the UAE’s own fields and rules on top. The data dictionary published by the Ministry lists every field, which are mandatory and what each may contain.
You do not write this file. Your accounting system and your provider build it from the invoice you post. But its rules decide whether your invoice is accepted, so your records have to carry what it needs: a TRN for every VAT-registered customer, an electronic address, a due date where an amount is payable, and AED amounts for the VAT totals even on a foreign-currency invoice.
Sample
<Invoice xmlns="urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:Invoice-2">
<cbc:CustomizationID>urn:peppol:pint:billing-1@ae-1</cbc:CustomizationID>
<cbc:ProfileID>urn:peppol:bis:billing</cbc:ProfileID>
<cbc:ID>INV-2027-0001</cbc:ID>
<cbc:IssueDate>2027-01-15</cbc:IssueDate>
<cbc:DueDate>2027-02-14</cbc:DueDate>
<cbc:InvoiceTypeCode>380</cbc:InvoiceTypeCode>
<cbc:DocumentCurrencyCode>AED</cbc:DocumentCurrencyCode>
<cac:AccountingSupplierParty><cac:Party>
<cbc:EndpointID schemeID="0235">1234567890</cbc:EndpointID>
<cac:PartyTaxScheme><cbc:CompanyID>100123456700003</cbc:CompanyID><cac:TaxScheme><cbc:ID>VAT</cbc:ID></cac:TaxScheme></cac:PartyTaxScheme>
</cac:Party></cac:AccountingSupplierParty>
<cac:AccountingCustomerParty><cac:Party>
<cbc:EndpointID schemeID="0235">9900000098</cbc:EndpointID> <!-- buyer not yet on Peppol -->
</cac:Party></cac:AccountingCustomerParty>
<cac:TaxTotal><cbc:TaxAmount currencyID="AED">50.00</cbc:TaxAmount></cac:TaxTotal>
<cac:LegalMonetaryTotal><cbc:PayableAmount currencyID="AED">1050.00</cbc:PayableAmount></cac:LegalMonetaryTotal>
<cac:InvoiceLine> ... one line per item, with quantity, unit, price and VAT category ... </cac:InvoiceLine>
</Invoice>Illustrative, with the fields that make a UAE e-invoice different highlighted. A real file carries the full seller and buyer blocks, one block per line, and the VAT breakdown.
Rejections
From the documents we sent through an accredited provider’s test network while building our connection. These are the ones that caught real invoices.
Questions
0235 followed by the 10-digit TIN, for example 0235:1234567890. The scheme 0235 is the UAE's identifier scheme on the Peppol network.
Peppol International Invoice model, UAE specialisation. It is the UAE version of the Peppol invoice format.
Yes. An e-invoice is an XML file built on the UBL standard, with the UAE's own rules on top. The data dictionary lists every field.
The sample above shows the parts that make a UAE e-invoice different: the customization ID, the 0235 endpoints and the AED amounts. The full file is longer, with one block per invoice line.
The directory where providers look up a company's Peppol ID to deliver to it. Your provider registers you in it when you onboard.
The Ministry's predefined endpoint 0235:9900000098. Your invoice still goes through the system and the tax data still reaches the FTA.
The Ministry of Finance, which accredits the service providers and sets the UAE rules on the network.
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