What FBR digital invoicing changes for distributors, and how Targets handles it
Digital invoicing with the Federal Board of Revenue is now part of running a distribution business in Pakistan. Here is what it means at the invoice, and how it works inside Targets.
Companies in Pakistan are posting invoices to the Federal Board of Revenue's digital invoicing system. For a distribution business that raises hundreds of invoices a day across many distributors, that is not a form to fill in once. It is a change to how every invoice is created.
What changes at the invoice
- Each invoice carries the customer's registration status, because GST, advance tax and non-filer rates depend on it.
- The company's NTN and STRN print on the slip.
- Once posted, the invoice carries its FBR reference and cannot be edited. Corrections are new transactions, not edits.
How Targets handles it
Registration numbers are set once in the company settings. Each customer's status is recorded on their profile. Invoices are posted to FBR from the portal without leaving the system, and posted invoices lock automatically.
Because tax is applied by the system from the customer's status, the rep on the phone does not decide the rate and the distributor's clerk does not correct it later. The same order produces the same tax on every device.
Outside Pakistan
FBR posting is specific to Pakistan. Tax settings for other countries are configured per company, which is how Targets will handle VAT and e-invoicing as it opens in the Gulf.
If you are still posting to FBR by hand from a separate screen, this is one of the quickest things to fix. Bring one day's invoices to a demo and we will post them.