1. Get the fiscal country right, then confirm the page is there. Install Odoone Localization — United Arab Emirates from the Odoone apps catalogue, load the UAE chart of accounts if the company does not already have one, and open Settings › UAE. If that page and the UAE Company Setting tab are both present, the layer is in place and everything else in the programme is now reachable.
2. Tick only what you can name an obligation for. Go back to the tables in Lesson 3 and mark the features that match something your business actually has to do. Tick them one at a time, letting each install finish before the next, and leave the rest for the month you need them. An unticked toggle costs you nothing and is never a compliance risk.
3. Take the course for the first feature you enabled. Ticking installed it; the course configures it. Starting the right course now is the difference between a UAE layer that is switched on and a UAE layer that is working.

Which course that is depends entirely on what your business has to do, so pick from the obligation rather than from the module name:

• You file VAT returns, or you hold a Corporate Tax registration. Start with course 2.1, then take course 2.2 for the Corporate Tax completion set. If you run a group, course 2.4 covers VAT and Corporate Tax groups, and course 2.3 covers the FTA Audit File you may be asked for.
• You will have to send e-invoices. Start with course 3.1 for the mandate and the model before you touch anything technical, then take courses 3.2 and 3.3 for generation, validation and transmission.
• You pay staff in the UAE. Courses 4.1 and 4.2 teach UAE payroll itself, courses 4.3 and 4.4 teach End-of-Service and the Wage Protection System, and course 4.5 posts the result to your general ledger.
• You issue or receive cheques. Course 5.1 covers the UAE cheque lifecycle including post-dated cheques, and course 5.3 covers printing onto real bank leaves.
• You print tax invoices, vouchers or statements. Course 5.2 covers the FTA print pack, and it is a short one — worth taking early, because a compliant invoice layout is visible to every customer you have.
• You keep a trade licence, or you must maintain a UBO register. Courses 1.5 and 1.4 stand on their own and depend on nothing in accounting, so they can be done in any week that suits you.
• You are not sure yet what applies to you. Take course 1.2 next. Every UAE obligation eventually asks you for an identifier, and putting them in one register is useful whichever of the twelve toggles you end up ticking.

Not sure which of the twelve your business actually needs, or working with several companies in one database? Talk to Odoone about your UAE setup. A half-hour on the toggles at the start is cheaper than a quarter spent configuring a feature you did not need.

This content is general information for UAE businesses, not tax, legal, or financial advice. Rules change and cases differ — speak to a qualified advisor about your situation. Software behaviour described above is drawn from the Odoone Localization — United Arab Emirates user guide; where the guide is silent, this course says so rather than filling the gap.