Cloud accounting software for UAE businesses

The best accounting software for a UAE small business keeps real double-entry books, issues tax invoices with your TRN and 5% VAT, and produces VAT-ready and corporate-tax-ready reports without extra spreadsheets. AmalERP does all three in one cloud system that also covers inventory, POS and manufacturing — from AED 99/month with a 7-day free trial, so a growing business doesn't outgrow it in a year.

AmalERP issues tax invoices carrying your TRN and 5% VAT in AED, supports standard-rated, zero-rated, exempt, out-of-scope and reverse-charge coding on every transaction, and produces VAT-ready sales, purchase and tax summary reports from your double-entry ledger — the figures you need when preparing your VAT return in EmaraTax.

UAE Corporate Tax is calculated from your accounting profit, so the real requirement is clean, auditable books. AmalERP gives you real double-entry accounting, an auto-built chart of accounts, a full audit trail, financial-year locking, and profit & loss and balance sheet statements you or your tax consultant can work from. AmalERP is accounting software, not a tax filing agent — your return is still filed with the FTA.

AmalERP is not currently listed on the FTA's Tax Accounting Software register. That accreditation is optional in the UAE — businesses may legally keep their records in non-accredited software — and it is a step on our roadmap. What matters day to day is that your invoices, tax coding and reports meet the FTA's requirements, which AmalERP is built to do.

UAE accounting and ERP software typically runs AED 100–300 per user per month, and traditional ERP vendors add implementation fees that often start around AED 12,000–30,000. AmalERP starts at AED 99/month for the whole business with two users included, remote onboarding instead of a paid implementation project, and modules you add only when you need them.

Yes. Most UAE businesses moving to AmalERP come from Excel, Tally or an ageing desktop package. Onboarding is remote: we set up your chart of accounts, VAT codes, customers, vendors and opening balances with you, and you can be issuing live invoices the same day.

Accounting software records the money: invoices, payments, ledgers and financial statements. An ERP records the business: the same ledger plus stock movements, purchase orders, production, branches and staff, all posting to the accounts automatically. In practice, a UAE trading company running accounting software alone usually ends up maintaining a parallel stock spreadsheet — which is exactly the double entry of data an ERP removes.

Software does the bookkeeping; it does not replace professional judgement. AmalERP posts correct double-entry records and produces the statements and VAT figures your accountant or tax agent works from, which usually means less billable clean-up time. For VAT return filing and corporate tax positions, a UAE tax agent is still the right call.

Every plan includes 2 users and 1 branch. Extra users are AED 39/month each and extra branches AED 79/month each, billed annually. Users can be scoped by role and branch, so a data-entry clerk does not see your profit reports.

Yes. You can transact in foreign currency and hold customer and vendor balances in it, while your books stay in AED. Where a tax invoice is issued in a foreign currency, the VAT amount is converted to AED so the invoice stays compliant, and exchange differences post to your ledger rather than sitting in a spreadsheet.

Yes — external accountants and auditors are typically given a scoped user account so they can pull ledgers, trial balance and VAT reports themselves instead of asking you to email exports. That access counts as a user on your plan and can be switched off between engagements.

Records are retained in the cloud for the life of your account, which matters because UAE VAT records must generally be kept for at least five years and corporate tax records for seven. Posted entries cannot be silently edited — corrections are made by reversal — so the audit trail shows what happened and when, which is what an FTA audit or a year-end review actually asks for.