UAE E-invoicing 2026-2027: Who Must Act and When
The UAE e-invoicing timeline in plain words: provider and go-live dates by company size, the new penalties, what changed in October 2026, and a checklist.
For professional services
Run your engagements, timesheets and client reporting on one platform
Hours logged against the client, timesheets approved before they count, utilisation for each person, budgets that show their burn, and a status page the client can open.
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What you get
The parts of Tarleaks a professional services firm uses most. Each links to the full feature list.
Every hour logged against the client
Start a timer on a task or log hours by hand. Each entry says whether it is billable, at what rate and in what currency.
Timesheets approved before they count
Project hours and clock time meet in one weekly timesheet. A manager approves it or sends it back with a reason, and nobody can approve their own week.
Utilisation and budget burn
See each person's billable hours against their available hours, less approved leave, and each engagement's budget burn from approved hours at their billable rate.
Billable time and project cost
Ask the assistant for approved billable time by client and project, priced at the rate on each entry. Approved hours also reach accounting as project cost.
A status page for the client
Give the client a password-protected link to the engagement's health, progress, dates and the status reports you choose to share. Tasks and people stay private.
From proposal to engagement
Quote the work in the sales pipeline with lines, discounts and tax. When the deal is won, one button starts the delivery project with the client, amount and owner filled in.
Apps you will use
The apps a service firm usually starts with. Each joins the same people, clients and ledger.
Project Management
Engagements, tasks, timers, budgets, utilisation and client status pages.
Time & Attendance
The weekly timesheet, its approval, leave and clock time.
CRM & Sales Pipeline
Leads, deals and quotes, and the project a won deal starts.
Accounting & E-Invoicing
Invoices, recurring retainers, expense claims and profit by project.
Document Management
Client workspaces, version history and password-protected links.
Meetings & Video
Client meetings, recordings, minutes and action items.
Also used every week
Smaller pieces that keep client work in order.
- Monthly or quarterly retainers raised from a recurring invoice whenever someone runs what is due. Accounting
- Staff claim travel and client expenses, one line per receipt, for a controller to approve. Accounting
- Income and cost lines tagged to a project or department, with the result for each. Accounting
- A shared document workspace for each client or engagement. Documents
- Files sent to a client through a link that asks for a password. Documents
- Client meeting minutes drafted for review, with confirmed action items sent to their owners as to-dos. Meetings
Guides
Plain-language guides from our blog, with their official sources, and step-by-step guides for each role.
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Step-by-step role guides
Questions
Can a client follow progress without a login?
Yes. The project owner creates a link with a password and an optional expiry. The client sees health, progress, dates and the status reports you share, and the link locks for fifteen minutes after five wrong passwords.
Do approved hours become an invoice?
Not by themselves. Approved hours reach accounting as project cost and billable lines, and finance can ask for approved billable time by client and project, but your team raises the client invoice.
How is utilisation worked out?
Billable hours against available hours for each person. Available hours are working days times your hours per day, less approved leave.
Can we bill a monthly retainer?
Yes. A recurring invoice repeats weekly, monthly, quarterly or yearly. Someone presses the run-due button, or asks the AI Copilot, to raise everything that is due.
Not covered yet
- Approved billable hours do not become a client invoice by themselves, and the billable-time figure does not yet subtract hours already invoiced.
- The project profit and loss page cannot yet read invoices, so it shows cost from approved hours but no revenue or margin.
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