Saudi Arabia and Pakistan already tie each van invoice to the tax authority. The UAE and Oman follow in 2027 through accredited providers, and India needs an e-way bill for the morning load. Ibex Van Sales handles them as country packs on one engine, so adding a country never changes how the van sells.
Please read this first. This page describes how the product is designed to meet each country's rules as we understand them in October 2026. It is not tax or legal advice. Rates and dates marked to confirm come from secondary sources and have not yet been checked against the authority's own publication. Every country pack will be reviewed with a tax adviser in that country and tested against the authority's sandbox before it is switched on for a distributor.
How the engine works
The van never waits for the tax portal.
The phone classifies, numbers, signs and prints every document offline. A worker on the server then reports, clears or posts it to the authority or the provider, retrying with back-off and recording every attempt. The only exceptions are documents a country says are not valid until cleared, such as a Saudi standard B2B invoice or an Indian B2B invoice.
Tax or simplified, chosen for youBy the buyer's tax number and the country's thresholds: simplified up to SAR 1,000 for B2B in Saudi Arabia, AED 10,000 in the UAE, BHD 500 in Bahrain.
Numbered and chained on the deviceA number from the handset's own block, a counter that cannot be reset, and a hash chained to the previous document where the country requires it.
QR code on the paperBuilt on the phone for Saudi Arabia; replaced by the FBR's QR after posting in Pakistan; the signed IRP QR for Indian B2B invoices.
Deadline guardWhere a country gives 24 hours to report, the app warns at 12 hours unsynced and stops new tax invoices at 20 hours. Collections and end of day still work.
Corrections are new documentsAn issued invoice is never edited. A mistake is fixed by a credit note that references it, sent through the same channel.
Exact to the last minor unitTax worked out per line in whole halalas, paisa or fils, rounded half-up once per line. Three-decimal currencies (KWD, BHD, OMR) are handled natively.
Excise inside the priceWhere excise is charged upstream, it sits inside the product price and VAT is charged on the excise-inclusive amount to confirm. Drinks carry a sugar band so the excise share is right.
Arabic on the invoiceSaudi tax invoices always print Arabic, with English alongside. Arabic and Urdu print as images so cheap mobile printers render them correctly.
Records kept for the legal periodSigned documents are kept for at least each country's retention period to confirm, and ten years by default.
Country by country · as of October 2026
What each country asks of a van, and what the product does.
The first country pack will be Saudi Arabia or Pakistan, chosen with the pilot distributor. The other packs follow in the second and third releases.
Saudi Arabia
ZATCA e-invoicing, Phase 2 (integration)
First or second release
Tax
VAT 15%. Excise on sugary drinks of SAR 0.79 or 1.09 per litre by sugar level from 1 January 2026; energy drinks and tobacco 100%.
Mandate
Phase 2 applies in waves. Wave 25, taxpayers with revenue over SAR 187,500, must integrate by 1 February 2027.
For the van
Each handset is registered as its own invoicing device with its own certificate and non-resettable counter. Simplified invoices are signed, QR-coded and printed offline and reported within 24 hours. Standard B2B invoices need clearance before they reach the buyer, with the buyer's VAT number and national address.
Still open
The exact outage procedure for standard invoices, and whether Saudi distributors' data must be hosted in the Kingdom. Both are being confirmed with a tax adviser.
Pakistan
FBR digital invoicing
First or second release
Tax
Sales tax 18% to confirm. Further tax of 4% on supplies to unregistered buyers. Third Schedule goods taxed on the printed retail price.
Mandate
Real-time digital invoicing for all sales-tax registered persons, with penalties for non-integration from January 2026. Edits allowed only within 72 hours.
For the van
Each invoice is posted live for an FBR invoice number and QR. An invoice issued offline prints “Offline invoice” and is uploaded within 24 hours. Handsets are registered as invoicing machines, directly or through PRAL or a licensed integrator. Corrections are always credit notes.
Still open
Direct FBR connection or a licensed integrator; the rate for the 2026–27 year; how further tax applies to Third Schedule goods.
United Arab Emirates
Peppol PINT-AE through an accredited service provider
Second release
Tax
VAT 5%. Sugar-tiered excise on sweetened drinks from 1 January 2026 (AED 0.79 / 1.09 per litre to confirm); energy drinks and tobacco 100%.
Mandate
B2B and B2G e-invoicing through an accredited provider: revenue of AED 50 million or more from 1 January 2027, everyone else from 1 July 2027. B2C is excluded.
For the van
No certificate on the phone. The van prints and queues; the server sends invoice data to the distributor's provider, which converts it, delivers it to the buyer and reports it. Simplified invoices allowed up to AED 10,000.
Still open
Which accredited providers to connect, and the exact fields each requires.
Oman
E-invoicing through licensed providers
Third release
Tax
VAT 5%; excise 100% / 50%. Omani rial with three decimals.
Mandate
Decision 189/2026: suppliers over OMR 5 million from 1 April 2027, everyone else from 1 October 2027.
For the van
The same provider model as the UAE: print and queue offline, send through the provider when back online.
Still open
Whether and when B2C van sales are in scope; the provider list and data format.
India
GST e-invoice (IRN) and e-way bill
E-way bill R2 · IRN R3
Tax
GST 5% / 18%; 40% on aerated and caffeinated drinks and tobacco to confirm. CGST and SGST within a state, IGST between states.
Mandate
B2B invoices need an IRN above ₹5 crore turnover; at ₹10 crore or more, within 30 days. B2C is excluded. Goods moved above ₹50,000 need an e-way bill.
For the van
The morning load leaves on a delivery challan with an e-way bill for line sales, where the buyer is not yet known. B2C invoices print offline; a B2B invoice is valid only once its IRN is received. Invoice numbers stay within 16 characters per financial year.
Still open
How to hand over an offline B2B invoice; whether the e-way bill is raised at the depot counter or on the phone.
Bahrain
No e-invoicing mandate announced
First release · print
Tax
VAT 10%; excise 100% / 50%. Bahraini dinar with three decimals.
For the van
Print and sync. Simplified invoices up to BHD 500, in Arabic or English.
Qatar
Draft e-invoicing law, not yet in force
First release · print
Tax
No VAT. Excise 100%, with sugar-tiered excise from 6 July 2026.
Mandate
A draft e-invoicing law was approved by the Cabinet on 6 May 2026 and has not yet been enacted. It is expected to look like Saudi Arabia's.
For the van
A plain invoice with excise inside the price today. The pack slot is designed now and built once the law is published.
Kuwait
No VAT, no excise, no mandate
First release · print
Tax
None today secondary sources only.
For the van
A plain commercial invoice in Kuwaiti dinar with three decimals.
A worked example
How a Saudi van invoice adds up.
Two lines: five cartons of a high-sugar soft drink with a 2.5% manual discount, and ten packs of water with no excise. Prices are net of VAT with excise inside. Tax is worked out per line in halalas and rounded half-up once; the invoice total is the plain sum of the lines.
Illustration only. The excise rate and the VAT-on-excise rule are marked to confirm with a tax adviser.
Step
Soft drink
Water
Gross
5 × 60.00 = 300.00
10 × 7.35 = 73.50
Discount
2.5% = 7.50
0.00
Excise inside
98.10
0.00
Tax base
292.50
73.50
VAT 15%
43.875 → 43.88
11.025 → 11.03
Line total
336.38
84.53
Invoice total
SAR 420.91
Selling in more than one country?
Your country, your currency, your decimals.
Country, currency and decimals are set for each distributor, and every legal entity keeps its own tax numbers and invoice layout. Tell us where you sell and we will tell you where that country's pack stands.
