Bahrain: no e-invoicing mandate yet · the NBR is piloting a central platform · VAT-compliant tax invoices are what the law asks for today.
Fatoora

Bilingual invoicing for Bahrain, ready before the mandate.

10% VAT tax invoices with your VAT account number, three-decimal dinars done right, every document numbered and archived in the structure the NBR is expected to adopt. 14-day free trial, no card, prices in BHD.

Al Noor Trading W.L.L.
VAT 200000000000002 · Manama
Tax invoice
INV-2026-0042 · 2026-10-20
Annual maintenanceBHD 360.000
Spare parts × 4BHD 80.000
VAT 10%BHD 44.000
TotalBHD 484.000
UUID 9f2c… · ICV 42 · archived

Why now

Excel and Word invoices will not survive the mandate

NBR will ask for structured, numbered, tamper-evident documents. A spreadsheet is none of those.

English-only tools break Arabic

Arabic is optional on the invoice, but your customers read it. Most SME software treats it as an afterthought.

The mandate is being built, not announced

The NBR has a central platform in pilot and no published format or date. Clean, structured invoices now mean no migration later.

What you get

Bilingual invoices

Arabic, English or both side by side, with your VAT account number, QR-ready, immutable after issue.

Quotes, credit notes, recurring

Every document a trading company, clinic or agency sends — numbered in one sequence.

POS and cash drawer

Walk-in sales as simplified invoices, shift open and close, cash reconciled.

Get paid faster

Invoices on WhatsApp, payment links (cards, Apple Pay), bank statement import.

Multi-branch, roles

Cashier, manager, admin; every branch in one account; plans differ by branches and invoices a month.

E-invoicing-ready

UBL 2.1 XML, hash chain and archive today; the NBR connection is switched on when the format is published.

Where Bahrain stands

  1. 2019-01-01

    VAT introduced; 10% since 2022.

  2. 2023-11-16

    NBR drops the prior-approval requirement for issuing and keeping invoices electronically.

  3. 2026

    Central e-invoicing platform in pilot with selected taxpayers (as reported by vendors; not an NBR publication).

  4. Pending

    NBR publishes the format, the phases and the dates.

There is no NBR accreditation to hold yet, so nobody has one. What we promise: your documents are already in the structure every Gulf authority uses, and the NBR connection is switched on for every customer when the format is published.

Pricing in BHD

Unlimited users on every plan. Plans differ by branches and invoices a month; extra invoices are still issued and billed per invoice. 14-day free trial, no card.

Starter

7 BHD/month

1 branch

500 invoices a month

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Growth

15 BHD/month

3 branches

2,000 invoices a month

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Pro

26 BHD/month

10 branches

10,000 invoices a month

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Questions

Is e-invoicing mandatory in Bahrain?

Not yet. The NBR is developing a central platform and has not published a format or a date. Ordinary VAT tax invoices remain valid, and we track the status on this page.

Are you NBR compliant?

There is nothing to be compliant with yet. Our documents are numbered, chained and archived in the UBL structure the region uses, and we run the same model live with ZATCA in Saudi Arabia.

Can I invoice in Arabic only?

Yes — Arabic, English or bilingual, per customer or per document.

Do you integrate with my accounting software?

Zoho Books, QuickBooks Online, Xero, WooCommerce, bank statements (CSV, MT940), WhatsApp and Tap Payments today, plus a REST API with webhooks. More ERP connectors are in pilot with first customers — tell us which you use.