EmaraTax onboarding

Connect your Sovos account to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) e-invoicing network through the Federal Tax Authority (FTA) portal.

Important:

Never register directly on EmaraTax for UAE e-invoicing. Register through Sovos first. Direct EmaraTax registration will result in an incomplete setup and your Pan-European Public Procurement On-Line (PEPPOL) Participant ID will not be correctly linked to the Sovos platform. Always use the Sovos-assisted flow described on this page.

Before you can send invoices, Sovos registers you in the PEPPOL network and links your account to the UAE e-invoicing system through EmaraTax, the Federal Tax Authority (FTA) portal. This process creates your PEPPOL Participant ID (0235: + TIN) and assigns you the UAE products in Compliance Network.

Use this section to create your PEPPOL Participant ID and connect your account to the UAE e-invoicing network. When you're ready to test your setup, use the Sovos-provided test identifiers in the UAT environment.

Before you begin

Depending on whether you already have a Sovos account, your starting point differs. There are three use cases:

New to Sovos: You have no existing Sovos account. Start the onboarding flow in the Onboarding process page. It will create your organization, company, and Compliance Network access automatically.
Existing Sovos customer: You already have a Sovos account. Before starting the onboarding flow, you have to add your company's Corporate TRN to your organization's companies list in Compliance Network. Then follow the onboarding flow. This process will use your existing account and assign UAE products to it.
Onboarding multiple companies: You have to multiples companies to onboard. In this case, you have to complete the full onboarding flow for your first company. For every new company, add the company's Corporate TRN to your Companies list first and run the onboarding flow again for that company.

Onboarding flow

Make sure you've done the following:

Addressed the Prerequisistes and considerations.
Completed the Before you begin steps.

The onboarding process for creating an account is a collaborative handoff between user and Sovos.

Give your company details and primary contact information to Sovos.
Sovos registers your account and directs you to log in to EmaraTax.
In EmaraTax, go to the E-Invoicing section and select InvoiceNow Biz as your ASP.
EmaraTax redirects you to the InvoiceNow Biz platform for verification. InvoiceNow Biz verifies your account and creates your PEPPOL Participant ID (0235: + TIN), then redirects you back to Sovos.

You can now start e-invoice generation.

Switch to Sovos from another ASP

Address the prerequisites and considerations.
Complete the Before deploying to production steps.

Log in to EmaraTax.
Go to the E-Invoicing step and clear your current ASP for your TIN.
Confirm that the unlinking is complete and that your TIN has no ASP linked to it.
Complete the create new account steps to select Sovos as your new ASP.

Switch from Sovos to another ASP

Complete the prerequisites steps.

Log in to EmaraTax.
Go to the E-Invoicing step, and clear InvoiceNow Bizas as your active ASP.
EmaraTax redirects you to the Sovos platform, where Sovos deletes and deactivates your PEPPOL ID.
Select your new ASP in EmaraTax and continue with e-invoice generation through them.

Generate API credentials

You need your Sovos login credentials.

Sovos API credentials let you send invoices programmatically. through the Indirect Tax API.

Log in to Sovos Compliance Network.
Go to Settings and select API credentials.
Select Create new credentials.
Copy and securely store the client ID and client secret.
CAUTION:
You can't retrieve the client secret after leaving the API credentials page.

Use your credentials to generate an OAuth 2.0 bearer token for all API calls.

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