1Counter and consumer delivery sales are excluded for now
B2C is outside the mandate at this stage, which covers the bulk of a typical restaurant's revenue.
The headline for restaurants is reassuring: your ordinary counter and delivery sales to individual customers are outside the mandate today. The detail is less reassuring if you also do catering, corporate accounts or events.
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B2C is outside the mandate at this stage, which covers the bulk of a typical restaurant's revenue.
The moment you invoice a company for an event, a staff canteen or a corporate account, you are issuing a business invoice.
Food suppliers, equipment providers and service contractors will be sending structured invoices. Plan where they land and how they are matched.
Several branches under one licence need consistent numbering and consolidated reporting decided before implementation, not after.
None of this is technical. All of it saves time later.
Our e-invoicing product is being built now, alongside the ERP, CRM and accounting systems our technology team already runs for UAE clients. Early-access clients get their requirements built into the core rather than bolted on afterwards, which is genuinely better for them and better for the product. Start with invoicing and add the rest when your business actually needs it.
GoldenKey is a business setup and compliance consultancy. We are not a Ministry of Finance Accredited Service Provider, and we do not claim to be one. Our software is built to work alongside the ASP you appoint. Scope, timelines and pricing are agreed in writing before any work starts.
Short, practical answers. If yours is not here, ask us directly — we answer even if you never become a client.
Ordinary consumer sales are currently excluded. Catering, corporate accounts, events and any business invoicing are in scope.
Look at who is invoicing whom. Sales to individual consumers sit outside; commission and service invoices between you and the platform are business transactions.
Usually not. The common approach is routing business transactions from the POS into a compliant invoicing system.
Excel, Tally, Zoho, an ERP or paper — send us your current setup and we will tell you what has to change and what does not.
No cost, no obligation. We tell you which phase you fall into and what you actually need.
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