Accredited Service Providers for UAE e-Invoicing

The UAE runs a five-corner model. Corner 1 is the supplier, corner 2 the supplier's Accredited Service Provider, corner 3 the buyer's provider, corner 4 the buyer, and corner 5 the Federal Tax Authority. Corners 2 and 3 do the work: your provider takes invoice data from your systems in whatever format you agree, converts it to the UAE standard XML, transmits it to the buyer's provider across the OpenPeppol network, and in parallel reports the tax data to the FTA. Confirmations travel back the same way.

That structure is why there is no do-it-yourself option. Article 6(7) of Ministerial Decision No. 243 of 2025 requires the issuer and the recipient to meet their exchange and reporting obligations through the appointment of an Accredited Service Provider, and Article 3(1) of Ministerial Decision No. 64 of 2025 provides that a service provider may only provide electronic invoicing services in the UAE where it holds accreditation. The Ministry also maintains a Central Register of accreditations under Article 3(2).

One provider covers both directions. The Ministry's Guidelines state that a person within scope must appoint only one provider for both sending and receiving — you cannot run accounts receivable through one vendor and accounts payable through another.

The Ministry of Finance publishes the register of accredited providers under Article 16(2)(b) of Ministerial Decision No. 64 of 2025, on its eInvoicing pages. That page is the only authoritative source, and it carries a "last updated" timestamp — check it and use it.

It is a live register, and it moves fast. Two facts from our own reading make the point. On 17 August 2026 the page carried three overlapping tables and 39 providers with accreditation numbers. On 21 August 2026 it carried two tables: accredited providers each with an accreditation number, and a separate, shorter list of pre-approved providers under final accreditation assessment. The count of accredited providers had risen in the intervening days, and the page's own stamp read 20 August 2026. Any article that prints "the list of UAE approved ASPs" as a fixed table is out of date within weeks — including any table we might publish here.

So we do not reproduce it, and we do not name or endorse a provider. We cannot verify a vendor's claims about its own capabilities, and a name on a page here would not tell you whether that entity still holds accreditation on the day you sign.

Article 5 of Ministerial Decision No. 64 of 2025 — as replaced by Ministerial Decision No. 56 of 2026 — sets eight cumulative conditions, expanded across Articles 5(bis) to 11. They are worth knowing, because they are the floor beneath every provider on the register, and they tell you which questions are already answered and which are not.

The pathway runs in two stages, and knowing which stage a vendor has reached is the single most useful thing you can establish about it.

In February 2026 the Ministry published Considerations for Selecting an Accredited Service Provider, version 1.0. It is short, it is neutral, and it is the closest thing to an official buyer's checklist. We would rather point you at it than substitute our own opinion of a vendor. Its questions group into six themes:

• Experience and background. How long the company has provided electronic invoicing services, how long it has been a Peppol service provider, how long it has operated, how long it has operated in the UAE, and its accreditation date.
• Geographical reach. Which countries it serves, and which Emirate it is based in.
• Product ownership. Whether the platform is its own or a third party's, whether support is direct or subcontracted, and what value-added services come with it.
• Integration and data management. Whether it integrates with your existing ERP, accounting or invoicing systems, and whether the data is stored in the UAE or overseas.
• Compliance, security and service levels. Which certifications it holds, what protects the data, what the support response times are, and whether uptime is covered by a service level agreement.
• Pricing and scalability. The pricing model, whether there are additional costs, how the platform scales, and the product roadmap.

On pricing, the Ministry adds one concrete recommendation: make sure the contract includes the 100 free electronic invoice exchange and reporting services a year that every provider has declared under Ministerial Decision No. 64 of 2025.

Search results for "UAE e-invoicing approved ASP list" return three different things, and only one of them is the register you want.

The Ministry of Finance register of Accredited Service Providers. Published under Article 16 of Ministerial Decision No. 64 of 2025. This is the one that matters. Accredited entries carry an accreditation number.

The Ministry's pre-approved list. Providers that have completed pre-approval and are undergoing final accreditation assessment. They may operate under Article 4(2), but only until the Ministry's deadline for completing accreditation, and they have no accreditation number.

The FTA's accredited tax accounting software vendors. A different register, run by a different authority, for a different purpose. An accounting package or ERP appearing there is not thereby an Accredited Service Provider. If a software vendor answers the question "are you accredited?" by pointing at the FTA's software list, they have answered a different question.

We will not name a provider, rank providers, or describe one as the best option. This firm has no published assessment of any vendor's platform, and repeating a vendor's own claims would be presenting marketing as verification. The register is the Ministry's; the due diligence is yours; the questions above are the Ministry's own.

We do not publish a price. No official source publishes what accredited providers charge, and the pricing models differ — subscription, per transaction, or bundled with an ERP. The only documented entitlement is the 100 free exchanges a year.

The count we publish is a reading on a date, not a standing fact. Read on 21 August 2026, the Ministry's page showed 42 accredited providers, each with an Accreditation Number, and 10 pre-approved providers under final accreditation assessment in a second table without one. It moved twice in the nine days before that. Open the register, read its "last updated" stamp, and count the rows yourself before you act on the number.