UAE E-Invoicing ASP List: Every MoF Accredited Service Provider (2026)

Revised for Ministerial Decisions No. 168 and No. 197 of 2026.

The UAE Ministry of Finance register, last updated 20 October 2026, lists 69 accredited e-invoicing service providers (ASPs). It also still shows three providers under a pre-approved heading, a stage Ministerial Decision No. 168 of 2026 abolished from 1 October 2026. The decision gives them no more than 30 days from that date, to the end of October, to complete accreditation. Both tables below are drawn from the MoF eInvoicing Accredited Service Providers page, which carries its own last updated stamp and changes without notice.

What an ASP does, and why the invoice cannot go direct to the FTA

Businesses in scope do not transmit invoices to the FTA themselves. Every in-scope invoice passes through an accredited service provider, which makes the appointment a regulatory obligation with a deadline, not a software purchase you can defer.

MoF's term for the architecture is the 5-Corner Model. Corner 1 is the supplier, Corner 2 the supplier's ASP, Corner 3 the recipient's ASP, Corner 4 the recipient, and Corner 5 the FTA receiving the tax data. The invoice moves as structured XML validated against PINT AE and routed over Peppol.

A PDF emailed to a client is not an e-invoice under this system. Neither is a scan, nor a paper original. If the document is not structured data validated to PINT AE and sent through an accredited provider, it does not exist as far as the FTA is concerned. Scope covers B2B, B2G, G2B and G2G. B2C is excluded. See MoF's eInvoicing Guidelines V1.1 (1 June 2026) and Mandatory Field Requirements V1.0 (23 February 2026).

Onboarding runs through the FTA's EmaraTax platform. Selecting the provider is one step; registering that selection and completing onboarding is another, and that step most often has no clear owner.

Accredited is now the only status that counts

Since 1 October 2026, a provider either holds accreditation or it does not. Ministerial Decision No. 168 of 2026 repealed Ministerial Decision No. 64 of 2025 (Article 18) and, with it, the pre-approval stage. Under Article 3(1) of the new decision, a service provider may only provide, or continue to provide, e-invoicing services in the UAE after it has obtained accreditation.

The route to accreditation runs through Articles 11 to 13. The Ministry reviews the application; the provider then completes OpenPeppol interoperability testing and end-user verification testing with the FTA (Article 12(1)), followed by tax data reporting testing, OpenPeppol services testing and trial runs on the production environment, including one conducted in coordination with the FTA (Article 12(2)). Once it grants accreditation, the Ministry must publish the provider's details under Article 13(1)(b). That publication duty is the list.

The renewal rules matter for anyone signing a multi-year contract. Accreditation is valid for two years from the date it is granted under Article 13(3), not permanently. A provider must apply to renew at least 70 business days before expiry (Article 15(1)); if it misses that window, or fails to fix the reasons a renewal was rejected, its accreditation is cancelled on the expiry date and its links to every business it represents are revoked (Article 15(7)). Article 16 also lets the Ministry terminate accreditation, in which case the provider must tell its customers within five business days and is removed from the Central Register. Accreditation can be lost, so your contract should say what happens if it is.

The accredited ASP list

The providers below have completed accreditation testing, including a trial run on the production environment with the FTA, and MoF publishes them under its duty to publish every accredited provider, now Article 13(1)(b) of Ministerial Decision No. 168 of 2026. The list is not a ranking, and not a statement that any provider fits your business.

MoF publishes the list in alphabetical order and updates it as providers are accredited. Its introduction still cites Article 16 of Ministerial Decision No. 64 of 2025, a decision since repealed; the equivalent provisions are now Articles 12 and 13 of Ministerial Decision No. 168 of 2026.

The authoritative version is the MoF eInvoicing Accredited Service Providers page, which carries its own last updated stamp. Check it before relying on any copy, including this one.

What happened to the pre-approved ASP list

Under the old decision, MoF also published a second list: providers granted pre-approval and still completing their final production testing. Ministerial Decision No. 168 of 2026 removed that stage. Article 19 gives providers already holding pre-approval no more than 30 days from 1 October 2026 to complete accreditation, which runs to 31 October 2026 on the usual count, and requires the Ministry to terminate the pre-approval of any that do not. The MoF register still lists the following providers under that heading:

None of them holds an accreditation number on the register. To check whether one has been accredited since this update, look for the name in the accredited table above or on the MoF page. A provider that completed accreditation appears there with a number. One that has not is barred by Article 3(1) from providing e-invoicing services in the UAE, whatever the status of its pre-approval. The decision sets no deadline for MoF to update the register after granting accreditation, so if a name is missing, ask the provider for its accreditation number and the date it was granted.

What the list tells you, and what it does not

The list answers the one question buyers most often skip: whether a provider is accredited at all. It cannot answer any of the others. Every accredited provider cleared the identical tests on the identical production environment, and a list built to prove a common floor cannot tell you who stands above it.

That floor is not an abstraction. Article 4 of Ministerial Decision No. 168 of 2026 requires an active Peppol-certified service provider whose product has been in operation for at least two years, though Article 4(3) lets the Minister waive any of those conditions. The tests are another matter: Article 12 requires a trial run on the production environment, in coordination with the FTA, before accreditation is granted, and the waiver does not reach it. A genuinely high floor. Still a floor.

It tells you a provider can move a compliant invoice, and nothing about whether they can move yours, from your ERP, with your master data, at your month end volume.

MoF's own publishing confirms it. Alongside the roster, the Ministry has issued Considerations for Selecting an Accredited Service Provider, V1.0. A regulator that publishes selection criteria is saying, plainly, that being on the list is not the same as being the right choice. Read the guide for the Ministry's criteria. Read what follows for the questions those criteria do not reach.

The questions to ask before you appoint

Start with the fast filter: confirm each shortlisted name is on the accredited list, with an accreditation number, before you book a demo. It takes a minute and it changes the conversation.

• Have they run the production trial with the FTA, and what broke in it? Every accredited provider has done one. What came back, and what they changed afterwards, separates a working UAE implementation team from a certificate.
• Two years of operating what, and where? Eligibility requires two years of product operation. Two years of Peppol traffic in Europe is not the same as operating experience under UAE tax data reporting, which is a far younger system. Ask which they have, and for how long.
• Who owns the EmaraTax onboarding, you or them? That handoff has a real owner. Whether they can name theirs, and say what they need from you and when, tells you how they run implementations.
• If you run multiple entities, how does onboarding work per entity? An operational question, not a legal one. Ask how many cycles they expect, what is shared, and who coordinates it.
• Do they have a proven connector to your accounting system? A native connector already used in UAE implementations costs far less in integration time than a bridge built for the first time on your project.
• Is your own data ready? Most rejected invoices are dirty master data, not platform failure: missing TRNs, inconsistent customer records, uncoded free text. Your work, and the largest predictor of a calm go-live.
• Does their PINT AE field coverage match your actual invoice types? Not the standard sales invoice: the credit note, the multi-currency invoice, the free zone transaction, the one operations raises at month end.
• What happens when an invoice is rejected? Who sees the error, in what system, how fast, and who fixes it. Ask to see the rejection screen, not a description.
• What is the support model? Hours, language, escalation path, and whether the person answering understands UAE tax context.
• What is the commercial model? Per invoice, per entity, per user, tiered by volume, and what happens when you cross a tier.
• How do you leave, and what do you take? Exit terms and data portability: what format archived invoices come out in, and how long retrieval takes.
• What happens if their accreditation is not renewed? Accreditation lasts two years, and renewal is the provider's job, not the Ministry's. Ask for the expiry date, how much notice you get if renewal is in doubt, and whether the contract lets you leave without an exit charge if the provider loses its accreditation.

These questions sort a shortlist. For the final choice, our guide to choosing an e-invoicing ASP in the UAE works through the route your accounting system sets, six comparison criteria, pricing models, the contract terms to settle before onboarding, and how to switch provider later.

If you have already appointed a provider

Check that your provider is on the accredited list. If it is, note its accreditation number and the date it was granted. Accreditation lasts two years from that date, so put the expiry in your diary and ask the provider when it plans to file for renewal.

If you signed with a provider that was on the pre-approved list, check the accredited list now. If the provider is there, it completed accreditation and the question is closed. If it is not, ask in writing for its accreditation number and the date the Ministry granted it. Under Article 3(1), a provider without accreditation cannot provide e-invoicing services in the UAE, so if it has none you will need to appoint an accredited one through EmaraTax.

The decision offers no fast track for a provider that misses the window. As written, it would need to apply under Article 11, and the Ministry has up to 90 business days to decide on that application or ask for more information, before any testing starts. This matters most for businesses with revenue of AED 50 million or more: their appointment deadline of 30 October 2026 falls at the very end of the window, so waiting to see whether the provider makes it leaves little time to switch. Check the source, not a copy.

The timeline, and the cost of getting it wrong

The appointment deadline for the largest category moved from 31 July to 30 October 2026 through Ministerial Decision No. 66 of 2026, issued 14 May 2026, which amended Article 5(a)(1) of Ministerial Decision No. 244 of 2025 and nothing else. The go-live dates did not move. That matters more than the extra three months: every week of delay is a week removed from implementation.

The pilot has been running since 1 July 2026, announced by MoF and the FTA on 26 June 2026 at an awareness event in Sharjah, involving selected stakeholders and accredited service providers, per Ministerial Decisions No. 244 of 2025 and No. 66 of 2026.

Penalties are set out in Cabinet Decision No. 106 of 2025, which the Ministry of Finance still lists on its eInvoicing page as of 21 October 2026. Two of its penalties, for an issuer or recipient failing to notify the FTA of a system failure, no longer have a duty behind them: Ministerial Decision No. 197 of 2026 repealed that notice from 1 October 2026, so they are left out of the table below.

The fines are not the real exposure. At the Decision 106 rates, AED 5,000 a month is an annoyance, and any finance leader can absorb it. The real cost is a botched go-live: invoices rejecting at volume in the first weeks of January, a sales team that cannot bill, customers who will not pay against a document the system never accepted, a finance team reconciling failures by hand while the per invoice charges accrue. That is a working capital problem wearing a compliance costume. The way to avoid it is not to appoint faster, but to appoint with enough runway left to test properly before the date that actually matters.