NEWTwo VAT methods, never mixed

You build to the millimetre.Now bill to the fil.

Job accounting for UAE contractors and workshops: joinery, fit-out, aluminium, MEP and every trade that bills in stages. Claims, retention and VAT, correct by construction.

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Marina tower, levels 2 to 5Live · Apartment kitchens
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62% of contract
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Jumeirah majlisLive · Wall panelling, ceiling
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Mirdif schoolLive · Classroom joinery
# Public
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Palm villa kitchenLive · Kitchen and pantry
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Tax invoice · INV-2601-0007Al Barsha villa · claim 1 · contract 100,000.00
EN ⇆
Total before VAT30,000.00
Less: Advance (30%)−9,000.00
Less: Retention (10%)−3,000.00
Taxable amount18,000.00
VAT (5%)900.00
Total (AED)18,900.00
One method on every deduction: before VAT.
900.00 VAT added to the Q3 return · contract billed 48%
The reality in a UAE workshop

Your workshop runs on craft.The paperwork runs on Excel,WhatsApp and memory.

The claim is rebuilt in a spreadsheet every month. Retention lives in a column nobody trusts. Delivery notes ride back from site in the pickup, and the VAT is added by hand the night before the deadline.

None of it is careless. It is how every workshop gets by. But one wrong cell is a dirham you never collect, or a penalty from the FTA.

The Mizarah way

Every contract.
Every claim.
Every fil. One ledger.

Claims that price themselves

Work done, advance recovery, retention and earlier claims come off in the right order, from the contract and the signed deliveries.

One VAT method per invoice

Deductions before VAT or after VAT, applied to every deduction on the invoice. Never mixed, and VAT is declared exactly once.

A contract bills 100%. Never 101.

The advance, the claims and the retention release add up to the contract value. A claim that would go over is refused, not warned about.

Arabic and English, every time

Every tax invoice prints in both languages with your logo, your TRN and the contractor's LPO reference.

Written with a joinery accountant of thirteen years, so the numbers on the certificate are the numbers in your books.

Try it with your own contract
Everyone in the workshop

Keep every job moving, from the estimate to the last retention.

One contract ties the quotation, the job cards, the deliveries, the claims and the VAT together, so each person sees the same numbers.

The certificate is the figure that posts

  • Retention held on its own account
  • Advance recovered in proportion, VAT declared once
  • The VAT 201 is ready when the quarter closes
Tax invoiceINV-2601-0007 · SAMPLE
Contract100,000.00
Claim1 of 3
MethodBefore VAT
Total before VAT30,000.00
Less: Advance (30%)−9,000.00
Less: Retention (10%)−3,000.00
Taxable amount18,000.00
VAT (5%)900.00
Total (AED)18,900.00
Najma, your assistant

Ask in your own words. Najma does the typing.

“Make a quote for Palm Meridian.” “Which invoices are late?” “Add this supplier.” Najma reads your books, fills in the prices, the VAT and the customer’s details, and shows you the result before anything is saved. For a new company she looks up its public details and asks whether it is the right one.

Nothing changes until you confirm. Every change is checked by the app first, then waits for your click.

Only what your role can open. A salesperson's Najma sees sales. Never payroll, never the bank.

Receipts become bills. Drop a supplier invoice or a photo of a receipt. She reads it, checks the totals and the TRN, and prepares a draft bill.

English or Arabic. Ask in either, by typing or by voice. She answers in the one you used.

Recorded in the app: a quotation prepared in seconds, waiting for the owner’s Confirm.
Discuss

Your office team, in one place.

For everyone with a Mizarah login: estimating, accounts, the foremen and you.

Try it with your team

Channels for each job, team or site, so the drawing and the decision sit together.

Private messages between colleagues, without a personal WhatsApp.

Shared files kept with the conversation they belong to, findable later.

The rules, playable

Correct to the fil. Try to break it.

Rules from a joinery owner's desk, built into every document. Flip the VAT method, try to bill past 100%, or drag one invoice into Arabic.

Rules lab · demo figures

One method per invoice. Never mixed.

Every deduction (advance, retention, earlier claims, discounts) follows the same method, and VAT is declared exactly once across the contract.

Deductions
Deduction type
Tax invoiceDeductions before VAT
Total before VAT30,000.00
Less: Advance (30%)−9,000.00
Less: Retention (10%)−3,000.00
Taxable amount18,000.00
VAT (5%)900.00
Total18,900.00
VAT is worked out after the deductions, on 18,000.00.
Why Mizarah?

Built at a joinery desk, not in a boardroom.

Generic accounting software was made for shops that sell a box and send an invoice. A contractor sells a contract, delivers it in pieces and gets paid in certificates.

“I did a joinery firm's books for thirteen years, in software built for shops. Every month I rebuilt the progress claim in Excel, worked out the retention by hand and kept the delivery book on paper. Mizarah is the system I wanted at my own desk.”

Muhammad Arslan, founder

Born in a UAE joinery. Thirteen years of one workshop's books, turned into software.

Built for the documents that get you paid. Quotation, delivery note, claim, tax invoice, retention release.

It refuses what's wrong. Over-billing, mixed VAT methods and VAT declared twice.

The price is on the page. One plan, every module, ten staff logins.

A registered company

Mizarah (SMC-Private) Limited, registered with the SECP, Pakistan. Company number 0361122. Check the register.

Backed up every night

An encrypted copy of every night's backup is kept off the server for 90 days.

Locked down

Encrypted connections. The database is not reachable from the internet. Every uploaded file is virus-scanned.

Your books stay yours

Nothing you enter is deleted when a trial ends. We never sell your data or use it to train AI. Privacy policy.

Pricing

One plan. The price is on the page.

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The whole product, with your own contract. No card needed. Nothing you enter is deleted when the trial ends.

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Mizarah · everything included
$399per year

$33.25 a month, which saves $189 against monthly.

  • Every module in the product
  • Ten staff logins
  • Unlimited invoices
  • Tax invoices in Arabic and English
  • Retention, advance recovery and VAT built in
  • Najma, the AI assistant: 100 tasks a month
  • Discuss: chat for your office team
  • Cancel any time

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