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Document intake for UAE accounting firms

However clients send their paperwork, Ledger reads it.

Scanned bundles, phone photos, supplier PDFs and WhatsApp forwards. Ledger's agent splits them into documents, reads every line, files each one to the right client and period, and checks it against UAE law. Your team only reviews the exceptions.

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From Arakan, the regulatory compliance platform for UAE businesses

Example batch3 files · 188 pages
  • june-receipts-scan.pdf

    186 pages

    41 documents
  • IMG_2031.HEIC

    Phone photo

    1 receipt
  • From Al Noor Trading

    WhatsApp · PDF

    1 invoice
43 documents filed to Q2 2026

24

Purchases

15

Expenses

4

Sales

3 held for review: 2 low-confidence totals, 1 TRN not 15 digits

Illustration of a mixed batch, not customer data

See it at work

Short walkthroughs, recorded in Ledger on realistic demo data.

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From a client's pile of papers to a checked, ready-to-file VAT return

10 min

Every payment, matched to its bill

A quarter's bank statement for Al Noor Building Materials, read line by line, each payment paired with its bill, salaries and duty marked as needing no document, balances agreeing, and the whole thing downloadable to Excel.

1 min

Drop the pile in, skip the keying

Scans, photos and PDFs go into one window; Ledger sorts them, reads every line and files each to the right ledger.

1 min

Prove the zero rate before you file

Al Noor's export declarations and bills of lading are linked to the sales they support, Trade checks shows which zero-rated sales still lack evidence, and the client's import declarations are checked against the FTA's own list.

2 min

Let your clients send the bills

A portal in your firm's branding where clients send bills from their phone and answer requests, switched on client by client, with the firm told each morning what came in.

2 min

File Form 201 without keying a figure

Al Noor's third-quarter VAT return drafts itself from reviewed documents: standard-rated sales split by emirate in Box 1, imports in Box 6, recoverable VAT in Boxes 9 and 10, and nineteen thousand four hundred and thirty dirhams to pay in Box 14, with the PDF and audit Excel ready to hand over.

2 min

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The work before the work

Most of a bookkeeping quarter goes on getting documents into shape.

It arrives in every format

Phone photos at an angle, scanned bundles, supplier PDFs, WhatsApp forwards. Nobody sends paperwork the same way twice.

One file, forty documents

A client scans a whole month into a single PDF. Someone has to find where each invoice starts and ends before any entry gets made.

Whose is it, and which quarter?

Before a line is coded it has to be matched to the right client, the right ledger and the right tax period, usually by hand.

The intake agent

Every file goes through the same four steps, without anyone sorting it first.

  1. 1

    Splits

    Large files are broken into pages, and pages are grouped back into separate documents, so a 200-page scan becomes the invoices inside it.

  2. 2

    Reads

    Text-based PDFs are read directly; scans and photos go to vision models. Counterparty, TRN, dates, amounts and VAT, with a confidence score.

  3. 3

    Sorts

    Each document is placed in sales, purchases or expenses by matching the client's own TRN and name, then filed to the period its date falls in.

  4. 4

    Checks

    Every line is tested against UAE tax rules. Anything uncertain, from low confidence to a TRN that isn't 15 digits, is held for review with the reason.

Batches run in the background. Close the tab and come back to the result. The original reading of each document is kept next to any correction your team makes.

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Where documents come from

Take paperwork the way clients already send it.

Available

Drag and drop, in bulk

PDFs, scans and photos (JPG, PNG, HEIC). Up to 2,000 pages in a batch and 500 MB per file, uploaded straight to encrypted storage.

Available

WhatsApp, on your firm's own number

Connect the WhatsApp Business number you already use. Clients keep messaging you; the files they send go into their ledger.

Coming next

Zoho Books & Xero

One connection per client, pulling only the records you choose.

Email forwarding

A dedicated address per firm for bills and receipts.

Spreadsheets

Sales registers and expense exports read row by row.

Bank statements

Statement import and matching against recorded documents.

Built on a compliance platform

Reading documents is the start. Getting them right is what Arakan does.

Arakan maps UAE businesses to the regulations that apply to them and tracks whether they meet them. Ledger runs on the same foundations: the same legal library, the same evidence store and the same review controls. Extraction is checked against the law, not just stored.

Client dinner, distributor meeting

Receipt · read from a phone photo

AED 2,400.00

VAT 120.00

Input VAT on entertainment is not recoverable

VAT Executive Regulation (Cabinet Decision 52/2017), Art. 53

AED 120 excluded from Box 9

Checks that cite the law

Ledger's rules are linked to articles in Lexara, Arakan's library of UAE legislation. Each flag names the article it comes from, so a reviewer can read the source.

Custody of every original

Each file is kept in Vault, Arakan's evidence store, encrypted and with its own audit trail. Every figure on a return traces back to the page it was read from.

Review before anything is final

Returns move from draft to review to approval. Approval is blocked while flags or uncoded lines remain, and the period locks once the return is filed.

From documents to filings

Checked lines feed the VAT 201 return box by box, and the Corporate Tax and advisory workpapers your team signs off.

Getting started

Your first client's documents, read today

  1. Step 1

    Add your clients

    Each client becomes its own entity with TRN and licence, so documents can be recognised as theirs.

  2. Step 2

    Send in the paperwork

    Drop a batch, or let clients send it on WhatsApp. You see the page count before reading starts.

  3. Step 3

    Review the exceptions

    Confirm what's held for review, clear the flags, and approve the return.

Spend the quarter on judgement, not data entry.

Let Ledger read, sort and check the paperwork, however it arrives. Your team reviews the exceptions and signs off.

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