Arabic English invoice template for UAE businesses

Tax invoices may be issued in Arabic, in English or in both. The authority can request an Arabic translation of documents it reviews, which is a practical reason to have key fields in Arabic already. Some government buyers and semi-government entities write Arabic into their procurement terms, so read the purchase order before you send the first invoice.

The required particulars are the same whatever the language: the "Tax Invoice" heading, both TRNs, a sequential number, dates, line details, the VAT amount in AED and the total.

Labels are the easy part because they never change. Customer names and line descriptions take more care, since a poor machine translation reads badly to an Arabic-speaking finance team.

• Heading: Tax Invoice / فاتورة ضريبية
• Field labels: invoice number, date, TRN, quantity, unit price, VAT, total
• Your legal name as it appears in Arabic on your trade licence
• The customer's Arabic legal name, copied from their licence or PO
• Line descriptions, where the customer asks for them
• Amounts in Western digits for both languages, so totals match exactly

Run English left to right on the left half and Arabic right to left on the right half, with figures in a shared central column. Avoid stacking long Arabic text under English in the same cell; it wraps unpredictably when printed.

• Heading: Tax Invoice | فاتورة ضريبية
• Supplier: Sahara Print House LLC | شركة دار صحارى للطباعة ذ.م.م, Sharjah, TRN 100XXXXXXXXX009
• Customer: a Sharjah government department, TRN 100XXXXXXXXX002
• Line: 2,000 annual report copies | ٢٠٠٠ نسخة من التقرير السنوي, AED 21 each, net AED 42,000, VAT 5% AED 2,100
• Total due | المبلغ المستحق: AED 44,100.00

HelloBooks reads Arabic and English supplier bills and receipts with its AI OCR, so incoming documents in either language land in your books correctly. The app interface itself is in English. For outgoing invoices, a bilingual Arabic and English invoice layout can be set up for your business as a customisation.

Book a call at /book-a-demo or email hello@hellobooks.ai with a sample of the layout your customers expect, and the team will configure it. Once it is in place, every invoice the AI agent drafts uses that layout and you approve it before it goes out.