ERP Development Company in Dubai

We quote fixed fee in AED against written scope, with the 5 percent UAE VAT itemised separately, and the ranges below are honest bands rather than a price list. A single-module build or a focused extension on an existing ERP, for example a tax and eInvoicing connector, a WPS payroll file engine or a landed-cost module, typically runs AED 150,000 to AED 400,000 over ten to sixteen weeks. A production multi-module ERP for a single-entity or two-entity Dubai business covering finance, inventory, purchasing, sales and payroll, with migration from your current system and a supervised first close, typically runs AED 700,000 to AED 2,200,000. A group-wide programme across a mainland company, several free zone entities and a holding structure, with intercompany elimination, group consolidation, corporate tax segregation, customs integration and multi-site rollout, runs AED 2,200,000 to AED 6,000,000 and upward, usually phased over eighteen months or more. Third-party licences for SAP, Oracle, Microsoft or Odoo Enterprise are separate and passed through at cost. Our blended rate is meaningfully below London, Zurich, New York, San Francisco or Singapore equivalents and below a Dubai-resident systems integrator, because our engineers sit in Edmonton and Chandigarh rather than in DIFC office space.

The UAE eInvoicing programme run by the Ministry of Finance uses a Decentralised Continuous Transaction Control and Exchange framework based on OpenPeppol, structured as a five-corner model: you as supplier, your Accredited Service Provider, the buyer's Accredited Service Provider, the buyer, and the Federal Tax Authority. Your ASP validates the invoice data, converts it to the UAE standard XML format, transmits it to the counterparty's ASP, reports tax data to the FTA in parallel, and returns status messages back through the chain. The Ministry states plainly that PDF, Word documents, images, scanned copies and emailed invoices are not eInvoices, which means the readiness problem is a data-quality problem inside your ERP, not a printing problem. In practice we audit whether your master data can actually populate the mandatory fields: counterparty tax registration numbers, correct entity identification per licence, line-level tax categories, unit codes and currency handling. Then we build the ASP connector, the status-message handling for rejections, and a reconciliation report between what the ledger says and what was reported. On the legislative side, the eligibility criteria and accreditation procedure for service providers were set by Ministerial Decision No. 64 of 2025, and Ministerial Decision No. 244 of 2025 deals with implementation of the electronic invoicing system; both are listed in the Federal Tax Authority's legislation index. We deliberately do not print a go-live date here, because the rollout is phased by taxpayer category and the phase dates have moved. Confirm the date that binds your specific entity with your registered tax agent and your chosen ASP, and build the connector so the switch-on is a configuration change rather than a release.

As separate legal entities with a full intercompany layer, always. A JAFZA or DMCC company and a mainland Dubai LLC are distinct persons with distinct trade licences, distinct tax registrations and distinct customs identities, and modelling them as branches of one company creates a reconciliation problem that surfaces at the worst possible moment. UAE Corporate Tax became effective for financial years starting on or after 1 June 2023, and the Qualifying Free Zone Person regime makes the segregation question sharper: a free zone entity that wants the qualifying treatment has to be able to show, at transaction level, which revenue is qualifying income and which is not. That is a chart of accounts and dimension design decision, and it has to be made before the first journal is posted, not reverse-engineered from a general ledger extract at year end. We build a dimension for income category alongside entity, cost centre and project, so qualifying and non-qualifying revenue is separable by report rather than by manual tagging. We also model intercompany pricing and documentation so transfer pricing support falls out of the system. Your registered tax agent owns the final positions; we build the ledger that lets them defend those positions with data.

Yes, and UAE payroll is more distinctive than most incoming ERP consultants expect. The Wage Protection System operated through the Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation requires salary data to be submitted in a defined salary information file through an authorised agent bank or exchange house, with UAE IBANs, employee labour card and Emirates ID identifiers, and matching between what was declared to MOHRE and what was actually paid. We generate that file from the payroll run rather than from a side spreadsheet, and we validate IBAN structure and identifier formats before submission so rejections do not eat a payday. End-of-service gratuity is accrued monthly rather than calculated in a panic at termination, with the accrual visible as a liability on the balance sheet. DIFC employers are a separate case, because the DIFC Employee Workplace Savings scheme replaces traditional end-of-service gratuity with funded contributions, so a group with both mainland and DIFC entities needs two payroll treatments in one system. Emiratisation reporting needs headcount classified by nationality and skill category so the ratio is a report, not an annual scramble. Ramadan reduced working hours and a Sunday-to-Thursday or Monday-to-Friday week are configuration in the time and attendance rules.

Yes, and for any importer, exporter or free zone trader this is where ERP value concentrates. Dubai Customs operates through the Dubai Trade portal and the Mirsal declaration system, and the practical requirement is that a customs declaration, its duty and its clearing charges attach to the same purchase order and consignment record that the goods receipt and the supplier invoice attach to. Otherwise landed cost is guesswork and duty recovery is manual. We build the ERP so a consignment carries its declaration number, declaration type, duty amount, deposit or refund state and clearing agent charges as structured data, then apportion those costs across the receipt lines by value, weight or volume as your policy dictates. Free zone movement is modelled explicitly: goods sitting in a designated zone, goods moved into the mainland with the duty and import VAT consequences that triggers, and goods re-exported without entering the mainland at all. Where a direct machine interface is available to your entity through Dubai Trade or your clearing agent, we integrate it. Where it is not, we build structured capture with document attachment and audit trail. We confirm interface availability and your specific entitlement during discovery rather than promising it in a proposal.

Most Dubai groups should implement a product and let us build the edges, and we will tell you that even though the custom build is the larger engagement for us. SAP S/4HANA and Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP suit large groups with the internal finance function to run them and the budget for a multi-year programme. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central suits mid-market groups already on Microsoft. Odoo has a large and genuine UAE mid-market presence with a much lower licence cost and a real customisation path. Focus and Tally dominate the smaller trading segment and are often the system being migrated away from. The case for custom is narrower and specific: your core process is a competitive asset that no product models, such as a trading desk with unusual back-to-back structures or a rental and services hybrid, or the product would need so much modification that upgrade risk exceeds the build risk. The honest middle path, and the one we recommend most often, is a product core with custom modules at the boundary: the tax engine, the eInvoicing connector, the customs interface, the payroll file generator and the group consolidation, all built to survive vendor upgrades.