Lesson 1 — What ships, and which document to use
The stake. Everything in this pack leaves your building. A tax invoice is read by somebody else's accounts department. A receipt voucher is read by whoever is chasing the payment. A statement of account is read by a customer deciding what to pay you and when. The printed form is the last place a gap in your data becomes visible, and the first place it costs you something.
The mental model. Install Odoone Print UAE Pack from Apps. It pulls the Print Studio modules and the UAE e-invoicing module with it, and there is nothing else to do — the templates arrive activated. Everything it ships is a normal Print Studio template, which is the sentence that matters most in this course: no form here is a black box you can only accept or replace. Install it on UAE companies. It is not harmful elsewhere, but the forms assume UAE rules and an AED-shaped chart of accounts.
What ships, in five lines.
- FTA Tax Invoice, Simplified Tax Invoice and Credit Note — bilingual English/Arabic, your TRN and your customer's, and a per-rate VAT summary.
- Payment Voucher and Receipt Voucher, with the amount in words in English and in Arabic.
- A Statement of Account for a partner.
- Per-bank cheque layouts for the major UAE banks.
- Print defaults for the VAT 201, Corporate Tax and financial statements.
Read the second line twice. The amount in words, in both English and Arabic, is the line a UAE finance office looks for on a voucher, and typing it out by hand is exactly the sort of task that produces the kind of mistake nobody notices until somebody audits the file.
Where to look. Print as you normally would: open the record, use the print action, take the PDF. Where a document type has more than one template, the Print with Template… action in the record's Actions menu lets you choose between them, and Lesson 5 is entirely about that action.
One pointer before the table. Every cheque layout ships as a starting point, flagged as needing calibration, and you calibrate it against a real leaf from that bank before you print a cheque for value — course 5.3 covers that work millimetre by millimetre, and this course does not repeat it. Settle one expectation here, though, because it decides what you order from your printer: the pack does not print cheque artwork. It positions your data on the bank's own pre-printed leaf, and no bank branding is included.
The worked example here is a decision rather than a figure. Three of the shipped forms go to a customer, and the question people ask first is which of the three to reach for. The record column below follows the name of each form rather than a mapping the guides set out, so read it as the sensible expectation and let the print action on your own record confirm it.
| Document | The record it prints from | What it carries | What the guides do not settle |
|---|---|---|---|
| FTA Tax Invoice | A customer invoice | Bilingual English/Arabic, both TRNs, a per-rate VAT summary | Which supplies require a full tax invoice |
| Simplified Tax Invoice | A customer invoice, chosen at print time | The same bilingual layout and the same VAT summary | When a simplified invoice may be issued instead |
| Credit Note | A credit note | The same bilingual layout and the same VAT summary | What obliges you to raise one |
Read the last column as the honest limit of this course. The module guides name the three documents and describe what each one carries. They do not state which supplies require a full tax invoice, when a simplified one may take its place, or what obliges you to issue a credit note — those are questions about the VAT rules rather than about the software, and the answer belongs with your tax advisor and the instrument itself. What the pack guarantees is narrower and still useful: whichever of the three you print, it carries both TRNs, the bilingual layout and the per-rate VAT summary.
MISSING FACT: the instrument and article that define when a simplified tax invoice may be issued instead of a full tax invoice, and the conditions under which a credit note must be issued.
The failure mode. A template is missing from the Print menu. Print Studio templates have to be activated: open the template and press Activate. That is the entire fix, and it is the first thing to check before anyone concludes that the pack installed badly or that a form was never shipped.
The idea to carry forward: the pack ships the forms and prints what you have already stored. The next three lessons are about what you have stored.