What is an Accredited Service Provider (ASP)?

Everyone says “appoint an ASP”. Nobody says what one does, or what happens to your records afterwards.

The five-corner model

1. You, the seller, create the invoice data.
2. Your Accredited Service Provider validates it and sends it on the Peppol network.
3. The buyer's Accredited Service Provider receives it.
4. The buyer gets the invoice.
5. Both providers report the transaction to the Federal Tax Authority.

That is the decentralised model the Ministry describes: seller to seller's ASP to buyer's ASP to buyer, with reporting at the sides. You do not send XML to the Authority yourself. You also do not become a provider by exporting a file. Ministerial Decision No. 244 of 2025 is the implementation decision; accreditation of providers sits under the 2025 eligibility decision on the same portal.

What an ASP does

An Accredited Service Provider validates, transmits and reports. Validation means the file is in the required shape before it enters the network. Transmission means it reaches the buyer's provider. Reporting means the Authority receives the tax data. Those three verbs are the job. Pricing, Arabic support and upload formats vary by provider — ask before you sign, using the Ministry's considerations note if you want a prompt list.

What an ASP does not do

A provider does not keep your customer book tidy. It does not notice that a buyer's address is a city name and nothing else. It does not walk your warehouse and add product VAT categories. If you hand over incomplete invoices, you get incomplete results — rejections, or a clean-up project billed as “onboarding”. The appointment is a pipe. The records are yours.

Choosing one

Start from the Ministry of Finance pre-approved list, not from an ad. Ask about small-business pricing, Arabic support, and the upload formats they accept — typed invoices, spreadsheets, XML, a mix. Ask what happens when a file fails validation: do you see the field name, or a ticket number? For a business that will appoint by 31 March 2027, you have time to compare; you do not have time to discover in June that the cheap plan does not accept your spreadsheet.

Fatura Sahla is not an ASP

Fatura Sahla is not an Accredited Service Provider. It does not transmit invoices to the Federal Tax Authority. It keeps records in the PINT-AE shape and exports XML on demand so the hand-over to a provider is a hand-over, not a reconstruction of two years of notebooks. When your date arrives, you appoint a provider from the Ministry list. Until then, the work is the data. If a salesperson promises that an app “is your ASP”, ask to see the Ministry accreditation. If they cannot show it, you still need a provider on the list when your appointment date arrives, and you still need complete records the day you connect.

How Fatura Sahla helps

The app hands over complete, validated data so the ASP step is a hand-over, not a clean-up.

We meet you where you are, and get you e-invoice-ready with near-zero overhead.

• Your sales live in notebooks, spreadsheets and sales people in the field

  Photograph the paper, import the sheet, or type it in. Every path ends in one complete record, checked in plain words.

• A computer, a smartphone, a tablet, or a simple phone with WhatsApp

  Works in the browser and on Android and iPhone. Send an invoice photo to WhatsApp and get the finished PDF back in the chat.

• A team that reads English, Arabic, Urdu, Hindi, or a mix of them

  The app, the WhatsApp replies and every check speak all four. Invoices print in English or Arabic, whatever the team uses.

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Fatura Sahla helps you get ready. It is not an Accredited Service Provider and does not send invoices to the Federal Tax Authority. This article is general information, not tax advice.

Last reviewed September 14, 2026