ERP development · General trading ERP
General trading ERP software in the UAE serves the most common licence in the country: a company that buys whatever sells, from overseas suppliers in several currencies, and sells it locally, to dealers or for re-export. The catalogue is mixed, the margin per deal matters more than the category and the paperwork for customs, VAT and banks is constant. e-tijariX, offered, implemented and supported by Next Orbit, includes a general trading preset for this business.
Quick answer
General trading ERP software in the UAE must handle a catalogue that changes with each deal, purchases in foreign currencies with landed cost, stock across warehouses at FIFO cost, sales locally and for re-export and a ledger that produces VAT 201 and corporate-tax workings. e-tijariX, offered, implemented and supported by Next Orbit, includes a general trading preset, multi-currency purchasing with FX revaluation, quotes with margin guard, bank statement import and PINT AE e-invoicing readiness, in Arabic and English. Next Orbit migrates the data and trains each team.
What we deliver
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Deliverable 01
Purchase orders in supplier currency, letters of credit and advances tracked, container references on receipts, landed cost allocation and customs declarations feeding the VAT return. See purchase order software.
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Deliverable 02
Categories and specification templates for electronics, equipment, consumables or textiles, units with conversions, kits and bundles, lots and serials where needed, multi-warehouse stock with bins and AI search in either language.
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Deliverable 03
A quote builder with margin guard and bilingual terms, proformas for letters of credit, tax invoices, dealer tiers with credit and export invoices with confirmed VAT treatment. See ERP for trading companies.
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Deliverable 04
General ledger with cost centres by deal or division, multi-currency receivables and payables, FX revaluation at period end, bank statement import for 22 UAE formats with smart matching and a thirteen-week cash forecast.
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Deliverable 05
VAT 201 from live data, a corporate-tax pack, e-invoicing readiness, multi-company consolidation, 223 permissions, field-level hiding of cost and a full audit log. See multi-company accounting software.
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Part of our ERP development service. The same architecture-first process, quality control and support apply; tell us the problem and one of our expert engineers will map it to a plan.
Discovery CallNext Orbit implements from one office in Dubai for general trading companies across Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, the wider UAE and the GCC, including free zone traders in Jebel Ali and mainland LLCs in Deira.
The project covers a flexible catalogue, multi-currency purchasing with landed cost, FIFO stock across warehouses, quotes and tax invoices, dealer terms, letters of credit and bank reconciliation, and finance with VAT 201, corporate tax and e-invoicing readiness, in Arabic and English.
Categories, specification templates and units are added as new lines arrive, with kits and bundles for deals that combine items, and AI search finds items by any description in Arabic or English.
FIFO cost including freight, duty and clearance, margin guard on the quote and profit on invoice in the cockpit show whether each shipment made money.
Purchases in USD, EUR, CNY or INR, FX revaluation at period end, letters of credit tracked to receipt and bank statements matched from 22 UAE formats.
Customs declarations, re-export documents, tax invoices with every FTA field and PINT AE e-invoices are produced from the same records rather than re-typed.
Architecture-first
Before a line of production code is written we draw the system: the people who use it, the services behind it and the systems it must talk to. This reference architecture from our ERP development practice is the starting point we adapt to your operation.
Flow 01 Inventory Finance & accounting Reports & Power BI
Flow 02 Sales Finance & accounting Reports & Power BI
Flow 03 Procurement Finance & accounting Reports & Power BI
Flow 04 Projects & assets Finance & accounting Reports & Power BI
Flow 05 HR & payroll Finance & accounting Reports & Power BI
Technology stack
Chosen per project from tools we run in production. Pick a category to see the part of the stack behind it.
How it runs
5 stages, each with a deliverable you can review and sign off before the next begins.
A review of product lines, suppliers and currencies, warehouses, customer types, banking arrangements, licences and the documents each deal requires.
e-tijariX in the general trading preset on Next Orbit sample data, following a deal from RFQ and import to sale and bank match.
Catalogue, stock at landed cost, customers and dealers with terms, suppliers with currency balances and open LCs are imported and reconciled.
Companies, currencies, landed cost rules, document templates, VAT codes, dealer tiers, bank formats, roles and field-level security are set.
Warehouse counts, Launch Centre checks, guided tours for sales, logistics and accounts, then support from Dubai as new lines are added.
Who it is for
Companies in Deira and across the UAE selling mixed product lines locally and to dealers, buying from overseas suppliers in several currencies on varied terms.
Traders moving goods in and out of Jebel Ali and other zones, with customs declarations, bank documents and letters of credit attached to every deal.
Companies quoting one-off supply contracts from RFQs and delivering in stages against letters of credit, with margin tracked per project rather than per product.
Groups with several licences, divisions and branches that need consolidated reporting in one login while each manager sees only their own scope.
Platforms we offer
e-trainia is our own platform; e-tijariX, MeezanX and AuthentiQ we implement and support. Each can be customised for your operation.
B2B + B2C commerce, inventory & ERP
Dealer and consumer sales, multi-warehouse stock, procurement and VAT accounting on one product master.
B2B + B2C one store, one stock figure
Explore e-tijariXQuestions, answered
Hold a changing catalogue, buy in foreign currencies with landed cost, keep FIFO stock across warehouses, quote and invoice locally and for re-export, reconcile UAE bank statements and produce VAT 201 and corporate-tax workings. e-tijariX, offered, implemented and supported by Next Orbit, does this through its general trading preset on one database.
Purchase orders, bills and payments are recorded in the supplier currency with the rate on each document, landed cost is added in AED and payables are revalued at period end with the FX difference posted. Supplier statements and ageing are available in both the foreign currency and AED.
Yes. Advance payments and letters of credit are recorded against the purchase order, shipment references and documents are attached to the receipt, and the bank entries are matched on statement import. Open LCs appear in the cash forecast so finance can see commitments by month.
Import declarations are captured against receipts and flow to the relevant VAT 201 boxes, reverse charge is applied where it applies and export invoices carry the treatment your adviser confirms, with supporting documents attached. The corporate-tax pack reflects the same transactions. This is not tax or legal advice.
No. Categories, specification templates, units and lot or serial rules are set per product line within the same catalogue, so electronics, consumables and equipment coexist with their own attributes. Presets for electronics, auto parts, building materials, FMCG and fashion can be layered on when a line becomes a division.
FIFO cost including freight, duty and clearance is carried on each stock layer, margin guard checks the quote and the Executive Cockpit answers profit on invoice from true cost. Cost centres by deal or division and the report builder give branded Excel exports, including RTL Arabic sheets, for the owners.
Yes. Free zone and mainland companies run as separate entities with their own letterhead, numbering, VAT registration and bank accounts, consolidate with inter-company eliminations and switch in one login. Roles with 223 permissions and field-level hiding decide what each person in each company sees. See e-tijariX.
Further reading
Quote-to-cash for UAE trading companies: run RFQ, quotation, proforma, tax invoice, delivery order and receipt in one flow, without spreadsheets.
Bank reconciliation for UAE businesses: statement import in CSV, PDF, MT940 and CAMT.053, suggested matches, rules that learn and open banking feeds.
Is your ERP software ready for UAE e-invoicing? A readiness checklist covering VAT data, Peppol exchange, audit trails and links to an accredited provider.
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