About Offline Utility
As per ZATCA’s mandate, businesses in the retail industry need to comply with signed e-Invoices and report transactions to ZATCA within 24 hours for B2C and instant for B2B transactions (Whether originated from Back-office or Retail counter). This has raised the need for a light-weight offline utility services to stay compliant with the requirements keeping into consideration of security level restrictions to have zero to minimal impact on connectivity from Retail counters.
Why is there a need for an Offline Utility service?
Dependency of internet connectivity for B2C Invoices
Inability of POS systems to integrate with 3rd party compliance platform and government ZATCA portal for e-Invoice generation
Lack of real-time e-Invoice generation and longer TAT for B2B transactions
No adequate systems for sequencing, tamper-proofing & archival of e-Invoices
Decentralized data coming from various POS systems
e-Invoicing Journey
