Accounting software in Oman: getting ready for Fawtara and Peppol

Fawtara is the name of the Oman Tax Authority's e-invoicing programme. With e-invoicing, a tax invoice is created and sent as structured electronic data that software can read and the tax authority can use. Today many Omani invoices are typed in Word or Excel, printed or sent as PDFs. Under e-invoicing, they come out of an accounting or ERP system with the required fields filled in the same way every time: your VAT number, your customer's details, the items, the amounts and the VAT.

The Oman Tax Authority sets the phases and decides which businesses join in each one. Check its announcements for the dates that apply to you, or ask us and we will tell you what we know. Our page on e-invoicing in Oman follows the programme as it develops.

Peppol is an international network and set of standards for exchanging e-invoices and other business documents between companies. Businesses do not send e-invoices to each other directly. Each one connects through a certified Peppol access point, a service provider that sends and receives documents on its behalf:

Because every access point follows the same rules, any business on Peppol can exchange invoices with any other. Fawtara uses the Peppol network, so your accounting system will need to work with an access point. The UAE already runs e-invoicing on Peppol, which gives Omani businesses a useful preview: see e-invoicing in the UAE.

E-invoicing does not start on the day of the mandate. It starts the day your invoices come out of one structured system.

• The supplier creates the invoice in its accounting system.
• The supplier's access point sends it over the Peppol network in the agreed format.
• The buyer's access point receives it.
• The buyer's accounting system imports it, with no retyping.

E-invoicing only works if the data behind each invoice is complete and consistent. That is hard when invoices live in spreadsheets, in desktop software on one office PC, or in a different tool at each branch. A structured, cloud accounting system fixes that before any mandate arrives:

A business that already invoices this way will find the move to e-invoicing a configuration step. A business still on spreadsheets will have to clean years of data first.

• One record per customer and supplier, with legal name, address and VAT number entered once and reused on every invoice.
• One item list, with consistent names, codes and VAT treatment.
• Correct VAT on every line today, with VAT returns produced from the same data.
• Sales invoices and supplier bills in one place, so audits, VAT returns and future e-invoices all use the same records.
• Users, roles and an audit trail, so you know who created or changed each invoice.
• The whole financial cycle in check: quotes, invoices, payments, bills and reconciliations balance in one system, and the books stay in order.

Zoho Books is a structured, cloud accounting system with an Oman VAT edition: 5% VAT on sales and purchases, a VAT return report, invoices with your VAT number in English and Arabic, and customer, supplier and item records kept in one place. Running your invoicing in it now puts your data in order for e-invoicing. Zoho has not announced Fawtara support for Zoho Books in Oman, so we do not promise it; we will tell our customers when Zoho announces it.

Zoho Books is priced per organisation: Standard OMR 5.820 (3 users), Professional OMR 9.700 (5 users), Premium OMR 13.580 (10 users), Elite OMR 32.980 (10 users) and Ultimate OMR 77.600 (15 users) a month, billed annually, excluding 5% VAT, as of October 2026. Prices in OMR at the fixed exchange rate from Zoho's USD list price; your quote confirms the final price. See Zoho Books in Oman.

Groups with several legal entities, manufacturing or complex approvals may need a full ERP: Dynamics 365 Business Central, which we deploy with localisation for Oman, including Arabic. Compare the two in Zoho Books vs Business Central.

1. 1

   Move invoicing into one system

   stop issuing invoices from spreadsheets or separate branch tools.

2. 2

   Clean your master data

   customers, suppliers, VAT numbers, addresses and items, in Arabic and English.

3. 3

   Check VAT on every line

   standard, zero-rated and exempt treatments set per item.

4. 4

   Load opening balances and reconcile

   receivables, payables and the trial balance, checked against your old records.

5. 5

   Train the people who invoice

   accountants and sales coordinators who create invoices every day.

Gulf Infotech is the first and oldest Zoho partner in Oman, a Zoho Authorized Partner headquartered in Muscat since 2007, with 1,500+ active cloud customers across the Middle East. We set up Zoho Books for Omani VAT, move your data, train your team and support you afterwards, invoiced locally in OMR. Setup, data migration and training are quoted separately from the licence.