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SAV Academy

A complete, practical manual for the whole system. Every lesson shows the workflow on real SAV screens and its accounting, VAT and UAE e-invoice impact.

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SAV Academy · Sales Cycle

Sales invoice

Sales invoice
Real SAV screen (synthetic QA data)

Purpose

Issue a sales (tax) invoice to a customer. This is the central revenue document: it recognises income, VAT output and the customer receivable, and is the source document for UAE e-invoicing.

Who uses it

Accountants and sales staff with the Sales permission.

Prerequisites

  • •A customer master record
  • •Items or services to sell
  • •The correct VAT category per line

Step by step

  1. 1Open Sales → Invoices → New.
  2. 2Select the customer; the address and TRN load automatically.
  3. 3Add lines: item/service, quantity, unit price and VAT category (Standard 5%, Zero, Exempt, Out-of-scope).
  4. 4Review the computed subtotal, VAT and total.
  5. 5Save as draft to review, then Post to make it a legal accounting document.
  6. 6Print or, if e-invoicing is enabled, run the Readiness Preview before issuing.

Key fields

CustomerDetermines receivable sub-ledger, TRN and e-invoice buyer details.
Line VAT categoryDrives the VAT output amount and how the line appears on VAT reports.
Quantity × Unit priceLine subtotal before VAT.
Invoice dateThe tax point that places the invoice in a VAT period.

Practical example

Invoice to Gulf Trading LLC: 10 units × 100 AED = 1,000 AED, Standard 5% VAT = 50 AED, total 1,050 AED.
Accounting impact
On posting: Debit Accounts Receivable 1,050; Credit Sales/Revenue 1,000; Credit VAT Output 50. The entry appears in the Trial Balance, the customer statement, the P&L (revenue) and the Balance Sheet (receivable).
VAT impact
The 50 AED is VAT output for the invoice's tax period and feeds the VAT return / VAT reports. Zero-rated and exempt lines are reported separately with no 5% charge.
E-invoice impact
When the company has UAE e-invoicing enabled, the posted invoice is the source for the canonical UAE document and the PINT-AE XML. The Readiness Preview checks seller/buyer/line data before issuing; the human invoice layout does not change and never shows raw XML or a QR code.

Warnings

  • •Once posted, an invoice is a legal document — correct it with a credit note, not by editing.
  • •The invoice date sets the VAT period; a wrong date reports VAT in the wrong period.

Common mistakes

  • •Choosing the wrong VAT category (e.g. Standard on an export that should be Zero).
  • •Editing a posted invoice instead of issuing a credit note.

Tips

  • •Run the Readiness Preview on your first e-invoice customer to catch master-data gaps early.
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