Accounting Services in UAE for Amazon.ae and Noon Sellers, Ecommerce Brands and Growing Companies
Om Accounting provides bookkeeping, VAT and Corporate Tax record-keeping support, and marketplace settlement reconciliation for ecommerce businesses in the UAE — including sellers on Amazon.ae and Noon, D2C brands on Shopify and WooCommerce, and trading companies in the mainland and the free zones. We are an India-based firm working remotely, and we reconcile in the region of 15 to 18 lakh order-level transactions a month across our client base.
UAE ecommerce accounting has changed more in three years than in the previous fifteen. Corporate Tax arrived, Small Business Relief is scheduled to end, Emirate-level VAT reporting was introduced for larger e-commerce sellers, and mandatory e-invoicing is being phased in through 2027. Books that were adequate in 2022 are frequently not adequate now.
| What we handle | Bookkeeping, VAT-ready records and return preparation support, Corporate Tax record-keeping, Amazon.ae and Noon settlement reconciliation, month-end close, MIS |
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| Who it is for | Amazon.ae and Noon sellers; Shopify and D2C brands; mainland and free zone trading companies; businesses preparing for e-invoicing |
| Where | Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Ajman, Ras Al Khaimah and the free zones |
| How we work | Remotely from India, inside your accounting software or from exported files |
| What we are not | A UAE-licensed audit firm or a registered FTA tax agent — see the boundary section below |
| Pricing | Quoted against your actual transaction volumes, not a price list |
What we do, and what we do not
We will be direct about the boundary before anything else, because it matters more here than in India.
We are an accounting and bookkeeping firm based in India. We maintain your books, reconcile your marketplace settlements and bank accounts, prepare the records and schedules your VAT and Corporate Tax filings are built from, and produce your monthly management reporting. That is substantial work and it is what most UAE ecommerce businesses actually need done every month.
We are not a UAE-licensed audit firm, and we are not a tax agent registered with the Federal Tax Authority. Where your filing needs to be submitted or signed by a registered agent, or where an audit is required, that sits with your local firm — and our job is to hand them a set of books they can work from without rebuilding. A great many UAE businesses run exactly this split, and it is usually cheaper and better than asking one provider to do both.
Amazon.ae and Noon: the settlement is not your sales
This is the heart of what we do, and it is the reason UAE sellers come to us rather than to a general bookkeeper.
When Amazon.ae or Noon pays you, the amount that lands is already net. Behind it sits gross sales, less returns and refunds, less the very high return-to-origin rate that comes with cash on delivery in this market, less marketplace commission, less fulfilment and shipping charges, less payment and collection fees, less advertising and promotional deductions, less any other adjustments. Record that credit as revenue and your turnover is understated, your VAT return stops agreeing with your marketplace reports, and every cost of selling on that channel disappears from the books.
Sellers running both platforms have a further problem: Amazon and Noon report differently, settle on different cycles and give the same deduction different names. Comparing them honestly means bringing each back to the same basis — gross sales, the deductions specific to that platform, and the net that reached the bank.
Cash on delivery, and why UAE books drift more than most
COD remains a large share of UAE ecommerce, and it creates a reconciliation problem that markets with lower COD rates simply do not have. Money moves from customer to courier to you, on the courier’s own remittance cycle, with failed deliveries and returns netted against it — and the remittance almost never matches a clean set of orders.
On the digital side, Telr, PayTabs, Network International, Stripe and the buy-now-pay-later providers each net their fees before payout and each run their own refund and chargeback flow. Unreconciled COD and gateway balances are the single most common place we find amounts a UAE business had quietly written off as unexplainable.
VAT: what your records have to support
VAT in the UAE is charged at 5 percent, with registration mandatory once taxable supplies and imports exceed AED 375,000 in a twelve-month period and voluntary registration available from AED 187,500. For an ecommerce business the difficulty is rarely the rate — it is proving where a supply happened and what it consisted of once a marketplace has netted everything down to one payment.
There is also a reporting rule that specifically targets ecommerce. Resident taxable persons whose e-commerce taxable supplies exceed AED 100 million in a twelve-month period must report those supplies in the VAT return on an Emirate-by-Emirate basis, based on where the customer receives the supply — the individual’s residential address, or for a business customer the establishment most closely connected to the supply. That obligation began on 1 July 2023 for businesses that crossed the threshold in the calendar year to 31 December 2022.
Below that threshold the rule does not bite, but the underlying discipline still does: if your systems do not capture reliable customer location data, you cannot produce the analysis if you grow into it, and you cannot answer a query about it afterwards. We set the data capture up while it is cheap rather than after it is needed.
Corporate Tax: the record-keeping is the work
UAE Corporate Tax applies at 0 percent on taxable income up to AED 375,000 and 9 percent above it, for financial years beginning on or after 1 June 2023. Registration with the Federal Tax Authority is required of taxable persons regardless of whether tax is payable, with a penalty for late registration, and the return is filed and the tax paid within nine months of the financial-year end.
Small Business Relief is the point most worth your attention right now. A resident business with revenue at or below AED 3,000,000 can elect to be treated as having no taxable income — but as things stand that relief is available only for tax periods ending on or before 31 December 2026 unless it is extended. If your business has been relying on it, the sensible planning window is now, and it starts with knowing what your taxable income would actually look like without it. That calculation is only as good as the books underneath it.
For free zone companies the 0 percent rate is not automatic. A Qualifying Free Zone Person pays 0 percent on qualifying income, but non-qualifying revenue is capped at the lower of 5 percent of total revenue or AED 5 million — and exceeding that cap moves the entire profit to 9 percent. Whether you are inside or outside that cap is a bookkeeping question before it is a tax question, because it depends on revenue being classified correctly, transaction by transaction, throughout the year rather than reconstructed at the end of it.
E-invoicing: what is coming, and when
The UAE is phasing in mandatory e-invoicing under a programme run by the Ministry of Finance and the Federal Tax Authority. A voluntary pilot opened in July 2026. The first mandatory wave is scheduled for 1 January 2027 for large VAT-registered businesses, with the remaining VAT-registered businesses following on 1 July 2027. It covers business-to-business and business-to-government supplies; business-to-consumer transactions are outside the mandate.
The model matters for how you prepare. The UAE has adopted a Peppol-based five-corner architecture, with invoices in the PINT AE format, and businesses cannot transmit directly — you connect through a service provider accredited by the authorities. In practice that means your invoicing data has to be clean, complete and structured well before your wave date, because the network will reject what your current process may currently tolerate.
If you sell B2B or to government entities in the UAE, this is worth preparing for in 2026 rather than in the quarter before it applies. If you are purely B2C, it does not apply to you directly today — but your suppliers will be inside it, which changes what arrives in your purchase records.
Working with an India-based accounting team
The practical questions are usually the same three, so here they are answered plainly.
Time zone. India is one and a half hours ahead of the UAE. In practice that means a working day that overlaps almost completely with yours — this is not an offshore arrangement where questions wait overnight.
Software. We work inside your existing accounting system where you give us access, or from exported files where you would rather not. Zoho Books, QuickBooks and Xero are the most common for our UAE-facing work, and we also work in Tally and in spreadsheet-based workflows.
Cost. An India-based team is materially cheaper than an equivalent in-house hire in Dubai, and it scales with volume rather than sitting as a fixed monthly salary. But the reason to choose us is the marketplace reconciliation, not the rate — a cheaper bookkeeper who has never reconciled a Noon settlement will cost you more than they save.
What lands in your inbox each month
- Profit and loss, and balance sheet
- Marketplace-wise sales, stated gross and net with the bridge between them
- Amazon.ae and Noon settlement reconciliation
- Marketplace fees and advertising deduction analysis
- Returns and RTO analysis, as a rate rather than a lump
- COD and payment gateway reconciliation
- VAT-ready summaries and supporting schedules
- Bank reconciliation
- Receivables, payables and inventory
- Channel-wise profitability
When your books are months behind
Common, and worth saying at the start rather than at the filing deadline. Clean books take one to two weeks to bring into a running cycle. A backlog of six months or more takes two to six weeks or longer depending on volume, because we rebuild from source documents and reconcile rather than rolling forward figures we cannot verify. With Corporate Tax now in force and a nine-month filing window, a backlog is no longer just untidy — it is a deadline problem.
Our largest practice is in India, and outside the UAE we also work with ecommerce sellers and growing companies in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Singapore. Groups that sell across more than one of these markets are handled by one team rather than by separate providers who never reconcile to each other.
Who you are actually hiring
Om Accounting has run since July 2017 and was founded by Bhagirath Kirad, who has worked in accounting and finance professionally since 2007. The firm is a team of 15+ accounting and finance professionals, including Chartered Accountants and CPA professionals alongside B.Com and M.Com qualified accountants and experienced bookkeeping specialists. More on the practice is on our about page, and our outsourced accounting page sets out how overseas engagements run, how confidentiality and system access are handled, and what turnaround we will honestly commit to.
Approximately 38 of our 40+ clients are ecommerce businesses. Marketplace settlement reconciliation is not a service line we added — it is the core of the practice, and the ecommerce accounting page sets out the method in full.
Talk to us about your books
Tell us which platforms you sell on, roughly how many orders a month, whether you are mainland or free zone, whether you are VAT registered, and where the books stand today. That is enough for us to say whether we are the right fit and what the work would involve.
Call or WhatsApp +91 80944 44888, or write to cs@omaccounting.in. We work Monday to Saturday, 9 AM to 8 PM IST — which is 7:30 AM to 6:30 PM Gulf Standard Time.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do you handle accounting for Amazon.ae and Noon sellers?
Yes — it is the specific reason most UAE clients come to us. We reconcile settlement reports line by line against gross sales, returns, RTO, commission, fulfilment and shipping charges, payment and collection fees, advertising deductions and other adjustments, then to the bank credit. Sellers on both platforms get them brought back to one comparable basis rather than two disconnected sets of figures.
You are based in India. Can you actually do UAE accounting?
We do the bookkeeping, reconciliation, record-keeping and management reporting, and we prepare the records your VAT and Corporate Tax filings are built from. We are not a UAE-licensed audit firm and not an FTA-registered tax agent, so anything requiring a registered agent’s submission or an audit sits with your local firm. Many UAE businesses run exactly this split deliberately, because the monthly work and the filing signature are different jobs.
Will Small Business Relief still be available after 2026?
As things stand it is available for tax periods ending on or before 31 December 2026 unless it is extended, for resident businesses with revenue at or below AED 3,000,000. Whether it is extended is a policy decision, not something anyone can promise. What you can do now is find out what your taxable income would look like without it, which requires books that are actually current.
We are in a free zone. Do we still need to worry about Corporate Tax?
Yes. Free zone companies are taxable persons and the 0 percent rate is not automatic. A Qualifying Free Zone Person pays 0 percent on qualifying income, with non-qualifying revenue capped at the lower of 5 percent of total revenue or AED 5 million — exceed it and the whole profit moves to 9 percent. Staying inside the cap depends on revenue being classified correctly throughout the year, which is a bookkeeping discipline.
When does e-invoicing start applying to my business?
A voluntary pilot opened in July 2026. The first mandatory wave is scheduled for 1 January 2027 for large VAT-registered businesses, and the remaining VAT-registered businesses follow on 1 July 2027. It applies to business-to-business and business-to-government supplies, not business-to-consumer. Transmission is through an accredited service provider on a Peppol-based five-corner model, so your invoice data needs to be clean and structured well ahead of your wave.
Do I have to report my sales Emirate by Emirate?
Only if your e-commerce taxable supplies exceed AED 100 million in a twelve-month period — then supplies are reported in the VAT return by Emirate, based on where the customer receives them. Below that the rule does not apply, but capturing reliable customer location data is worth doing anyway, because retrofitting it later is far harder than collecting it now.
How do you handle cash on delivery reconciliation?
Courier remittances are matched back to order level rather than accepted as a lump, with failed deliveries and returns identified against the consignments they belong to. COD is where UAE books most often drift, precisely because the remittance almost never corresponds to a clean set of orders.
Which accounting software do you work in?
Zoho Books, QuickBooks and Xero are the most common for our UAE-facing work, and we also work in Tally and spreadsheet-based workflows. If you are already on a platform that works for you, we adapt to it rather than migrating a working ledger for our own convenience.
Do you work inside our system or from files we send?
Either. Where you provide access we work directly inside your accounting environment so nothing is duplicated. Where you would rather not issue access, we work from exported files and structured data and return output in the format you need.
What does it cost?
We quote after reviewing your actual volumes rather than from a price list. Pricing depends on order volume, how many platforms and payment providers are involved, whether COD reconciliation is in scope, the software, and whether there is a backlog to clear first. Send your volumes and we will tell you what the work involves.