Oman Tax Conference, Muscat · Tuesday 15 September 2026 · the Fawtara launch session
On 15 September 2026, at the Oman Tax Conference in Muscat, His Excellency Nasser bin Khamis Al Jashmi, Chairman of the Oman Tax Authority, pressed send on the GoRoute platform and issued Oman’s first e-invoice through the Fawtara system. The invoice travelled the Peppol network from one Omani company to another and was reported to the Authority while the room watched.
The recording is one minute and forty-nine seconds. Qasim Shah, co-founder of GoRoute.ai, ran the live demonstration: a business-to-business invoice first, then a consumer receipt with its Fawtara QR code scanned on stage.
The invoice and the receipt exactly as the platform rendered them on the day. Both carry their Peppol document identifiers; the receipt carries the Fawtara QR code that was scanned on stage.
Below is what the recording shows, written out, so this page says what happened without anyone pressing play. Where a fact comes from Oman’s published rules rather than from the stage, it links to the source.
The Oman Tax Authority used its session at the Oman Tax Conference to announce a new phase of Oman’s e-invoicing rollout and to launch the first tax invoice issued through the Fawtara system. The Chairman, His Excellency Nasser bin Khamis Al Jashmi, sent that invoice himself, on the GoRoute platform, from the stage. The recording above is that moment and the two demonstrations that followed it.
A real business-to-business invoice between two Omani companies on the production network: Security and Safety Services Corporation as the seller and Innovative Business Solutions as the buyer, invoice number SSSC-INV-LAUNCH-001, issued 15 September 2026 for OMR 10.000 plus 5% VAT, OMR 10.500 in total. Both companies were registered with the Authority as Fawtara participants before the event. The invoice was not a mock-up; it is a tax record for both of them.
The slide on screen is the five-corner model that Fawtara is built on. The seller’s system hands the invoice to its Service Provider, the invoice crosses the Peppol network to the buyer’s Service Provider and lands in the buyer’s system, and both providers report a tax data document to the Authority. On stage, every corner was GoRoute: the invoice left, arrived, was acknowledged back to the seller, and the Authority’s system recorded it, in seconds.
The second demonstration was a simplified tax invoice, the kind a shop prints for a walk-in customer: OMR 5.000 plus VAT, OMR 5.250 in total, issued at 11:23 on the day. It carries the Fawtara QR code, which was scanned live: the scan shows the seller, its VAT identification number, the date and time, the total with VAT, and the document’s identifier, exactly as the Authority’s specification requires. The receipt’s tax data went to the Authority the same way the invoice’s did.
Because the network is no longer a plan. The dates are already law: Decision 189/2026 makes electronic tax invoices mandatory from 1 April 2027 for taxable persons whose annual supplies exceed OMR 5,000,000, and from 1 October 2027 for everyone else, with limited exemptions available on application. What the Chairman did on Tuesday is what every business in Oman will do from its own date: connect through an accredited Service Provider, keep the system it already uses, and issue. The Decision itself is on the Tax Authority’s site; our reading of it is on the page that owns Oman’s e-invoicing dates.
GoRoute is an accredited e-invoicing Service Provider with the Oman Tax Authority, accredited on 29 July 2026 through Union Digital Technologies SPC, its Omani entity, and a Peppol-certified Access Point and SMP in its own right. The platform that ran on stage is the platform a business connects to: Odoo, Oracle, Tally, Dynamics, Zoho Books, Excel and the store platforms are already wired in, the invoice is validated against the Oman PINT rules before it leaves, and the tax data document is filed with the Authority automatically. The Oman e-invoicing page has the detail.
A launch like this is the visible end of months of work by people on both sides of the table. These are some of them.
Abdullah Ishaq Al Ismaili
Chief Executive, Union Digital Technologies SPC
The reason GoRoute has an Omani home. Union Digital holds the Tax Authority accreditation and is the Service Provider of record for every Omani business on the platform, and it stood with the Authority through the pilot, the registrations and the launch.
Our thanks go to the whole Oman Tax Authority team: the people who built and ran the test environments, answered every observation we raised, registered the pilot taxpayers, opened production C5 the week before the conference, and staffed the session itself. A national e-invoicing network is a team effort, and Oman’s was built by a good one.
Behind GoRoute is ClayDesk LLC, the US company that built the platform and holds its Peppol certification, Access Point and SMP provider POP000991 certified by OpenPeppol, and its ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and ISO 22301:2019 certificates. ClayDesk engineers the platform; Union Digital brings it to Oman under the Authority’s accreditation.
The platform on stage is the platform you would connect to
If your business, or your clients, are in Oman, the next step is a twenty-minute conversation, not a project plan.
Book a 20-minute briefingBoth. The documents were real: a business-to-business invoice from Security and Safety Services Corporation to Innovative Business Solutions, two Omani companies registered on the production network, exchanged over Peppol and reported to the Tax Authority live, and a consumer receipt whose Fawtara QR code was scanned on stage. It was also a demonstration, performed in front of the conference to mark the launch of the new phase of Fawtara.
Yes. The network the launch ran on is in production. A VAT-registered business connects through an accredited Service Provider, keeps the invoicing system it already uses, and can start before its mandate date. The dates in law are 1 April 2027 for taxable persons with annual supplies above OMR 5,000,000 and 1 October 2027 for everyone else, with limited exemptions available on application. Read more: the dates in law, which wave you are in.
Fawtara is the Oman Tax Authority's e-invoicing system. It runs on Peppol's five-corner model: the seller's system, the seller's Service Provider, the buyer's Service Provider, the buyer's system, and the Authority as the fifth corner receiving a tax data document from both providers. On stage every corner ran on GoRoute. Read more: the five-corner model explained, inside the tax data document.
A simplified tax invoice is the receipt a business issues to a consumer. Under Fawtara it carries a QR code that encodes the seller, its VAT identification number, the date and time, the totals and the document identifier, so anyone can verify it with a phone. It is not transmitted to the buyer over Peppol; its tax data document still goes to the Authority. Read more: simplified tax invoices and the 2027 clock.
PINT OM, Oman's profile of the Peppol international invoice, carried as UBL XML and validated against the Authority's rules before it leaves. The human-readable PDF or receipt is a rendering of that document, not the document itself. Read more: what format an Oman e-invoice must be in, the PINT OM identifiers.
GoRoute was the platform the Chairman pressed send on. It rendered the invoice as PINT OM, validated it, delivered it to the buyer over Peppol as the seller's Access Point, received it as the buyer's Access Point, returned the acknowledgement, and filed the tax data documents with the Authority. GoRoute is an accredited Service Provider through Union Digital Technologies SPC and a Peppol-certified Access Point and SMP in its own right. Read more: what accreditation means and how to check a claim.
Three steps: agree the service with the provider, connect the invoicing system, and confirm the registration on Oman's SMP. Odoo, Oracle, Tally, Microsoft Dynamics, Zoho Books, QuickBooks, Xero, Sage, SAP and Excel connect today, and any other system can call the API directly. Read more: how to connect an Omani business, what to settle before you connect, how to check the SMP registration.
The recorded walkthroughs cover Odoo, Oracle APEX, TallyPrime, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Zoho Books and Excel, and there are written guides for SAP S/4HANA, QuickBooks, Xero and Sage. The tutorials page holds every recording. Read more: Odoo, TallyPrime, Dynamics 365, Oracle APEX, Zoho Books, Excel, SAP S/4HANA, QuickBooks, Xero, Sage.
It is corrected with a credit note or a debit note that references the original, never by editing the original. The correction is itself an e-invoice and is reported to the Authority the same way. A rejected document is a different case: it never cleared and is fixed and resent. Read more: how to correct or cancel a cleared e-invoice, why Oman e-invoices get rejected, when a correct invoice never reaches the buyer.
Validate it first. GoRoute checks a document against the full PINT OM rule set and returns a compliance score with readable errors, in a sandbox that mirrors production, so the first live document is not the first attempt. Read more: how to test an Oman e-invoice before you send it.
Check the accreditation on the Authority's published list, check the provider is a certified Peppol Access Point in its own right, ask where the data is hosted, and ask to see the provider's own invoices flowing on the production network. This page is that last item for GoRoute. Read more: how to choose a Service Provider in Oman, the Fawtara readiness guide.
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