A simplified tax invoice with its QR code, and a reader that checks any invoice's code.
Type your business's name and VAT number once. Then add the items with their prices, and the page works out the VAT and draws the QR code with the five fields ZATCA set, on an 80 mm receipt or an A4 page. Under the invoice, a reader shows what any tax invoice's code holds and checks it.
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Read a tax invoice's QR code
Point the camera at the QR code on a receipt, or paste what a phone's scanner app showed.
What a simplified tax invoice must show
According to the Authority's guideline on tax invoicing (third edition, May 2026): the date it is issued, the supplier's legal name, the address of its establishment and its VAT number, a description of the goods or services, the amount payable for them, and either the VAT amount or a clear statement that the amount includes VAT at 15%. Since 4 December 2021 a simplified invoice has also carried the QR code with the five fields.
When a simplified invoice is enough
A simplified invoice is issued in two cases: for a supply worth less than SAR 1,000, or for any supply to a natural person who is not registered for VAT, whatever its value. Otherwise a full tax invoice is needed, with the buyer's details and VAT number. The page reminds you when the total reaches SAR 1,000.
What is in the QR code
Five fields: the seller's name, its VAT number, the invoice's date and time, the total including VAT, and the VAT amount. Each field is written as its number and its length in bytes, then its text; the fields are joined and Base64-encoded, at most 500 characters. The second phase adds four signed fields, made by an e-invoicing system connected to the FATOORA platform with a certificate from the Authority, which a web page cannot do. So this template draws the first-phase code, and the reader tells you whether an invoice's code carries the second-phase signature.
Does this page replace an e-invoicing system?
No. Since 4 December 2021 the Authority does not accept, from a VAT-registered business, an invoice written by hand or made manually in a text editor; the business must issue and keep its invoices in an e-invoicing system that meets the Authority's requirements, such as a cash register or a cloud system. This page keeps no invoices and signs nothing, so it is not that system, and the sheet says it is a sample. Use it to see what a compliant invoice holds, or to check an invoice you received.
Dashing and Saudi e-invoicing
Dashing was built for shops in Iraq, which has no e-invoicing yet. Today it does not connect to the FATOORA platform and does not issue second-phase invoices. If you are in Saudi Arabia and required to connect, choose a system that is connected to the platform.
Common questions
What does a Saudi VAT number look like?
Fifteen digits that start and end with 3. The page flags a number in any other form and draws no code until it is right.
How do I check an invoice I received?
Scan its QR code with the camera, or paste the text a QR reader app shows. The reader shows the seller and its VAT number. Below them come the date and the amounts. It checks the VAT number's format and that the VAT is 15%, and says whether the second-phase signature is there. It cannot tell whether the invoice was reported to the Authority.
Do the prices include VAT?
The page starts with prices including VAT, as shops display them, and takes the VAT out of the total. If your prices are before VAT, untick the box and 15% is added. The VAT is rounded once, on the invoice, so the total before VAT plus the VAT equals the total to the halala.
Are the invoices kept?
No. Your browser keeps the business's name, address and VAT number and the next number, not the invoices themselves, which is one reason the page is not an e-invoicing system.