Bookkeeping software for businesses in the UAE

The right system for a small business in the United Arab Emirates should keep its books in AED, produce professional invoices, record expenses and supplier bills, organise cash and bank activity together, handle payroll, track stock where the business holds any, and produce a profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow an accountant can review. Braynix Books does all of these in one place, and starts with a setup shaped to the trade — a shop, a clinic, a restaurant or a haulier — rather than an empty ledger. There is a 30-day free trial and no credit card is required.

Braynix Books is global. It keeps books in any currency and at any tax rate, so a business anywhere can use it. Payroll rules are built in for 13 countries — Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana, Rwanda, Ethiopia, the United States, the United Kingdom, India, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia — and each has its own page. Anywhere else, payroll still runs but falls back to a generic calculation rather than that country's statutory law. The one direct tax-authority integration is Kenya's KRA eTIMS.

Salaries are recorded and payslips produced against each employee's Emirates ID. No income tax is deducted from salaries, which is how employment income works in the UAE. GOSI-style pension contributions for UAE and GCC nationals are not calculated, and the product does not produce a WPS salary file. Everything else on the payslip — basic pay, allowances, advances and any deduction you enter yourself — works the same way it does elsewhere in the product.

Braynix Books keeps tax-rated invoices and purchases and produces a tax summary you can use when preparing a return for the Federal Tax Authority (FTA). It does not submit returns on your behalf. It is not connected to any United Arab Emirates e-invoicing service — the one direct tax-authority integration in the product is Kenya's KRA eTIMS. Each business stays responsible for confirming its own obligations.

Yes. It is a web application that runs on desktop, Android and iPhone, so an owner can check the day's figures from anywhere while a bookkeeper works on the same records. Two people can work at the same time and changes sync.