Clearance flag - Enable and disable

Clearance and Reporting
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Q1. The documentation talks about clearance flag being enabled or disabled. How is that set?

I am confused about the concept of clearance. Reporting API says
‘This API will be used to submit test Simplified e-invoices, credit or debit note to a test ZATCA backend system as part of the Reporting process

When Clearance is disabled, this API can also be used to submit test Standard e-invoices, credit or debit notes for Reporting’
Q2. Why should clearance be disabled for Standard e-Invoices but not for the others?

Q3. The “Clearance API” clears a single standard invoice, credit note, or debit note. If it is disabled for standard invoice, it should be sent as Reporting.
How is reporting done for credit and debit notes? Is clearance disabled or enabled?

Q4. I assume there is no clearance process for simplified invoices?

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Certificate Type Codes: Meaning & Required Compliance Checks

The TITLE field in your CSR represents what invoice types your EGS (E‑Invoicing Generation Solution) unit will support. It’s represented by a 4‑digit binary code "TSCZ":

  • T = Tax Invoice (standard)

  • S = Simplified Tax Invoice

  • C, Z – reserved for future use, currently set to 0.

The codes map as follows:

Compliance Checks Based on Certificate Type

Once your CSR is accepted, your EGS unit must pass compliance by submitting sample invoices as follows:

  • 1000: Submit 3 Standard documents:

    1. Standard Tax Invoice

    2. Standard Debit Note

    3. Standard Credit Note

  • 0100: Submit 3 Simplified documents:

    1. Simplified Tax Invoice

    2. Simplified Debit Note

    3. Simplified Credit Note

  • 1100: Submit all 6 documents (3 Standard + 3 Simplified)

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Dear @malar,

Please find the answers below:

A1: You can ignore this header in the clearance API, stick only to basic auth + accept-version + accept-language.

A2: Clearance is for B2B tax documents while reporting is for B2C tax documents, however, clearance hasn’t been disabled for a signle time till now by ZATCA, it’s just a pre-defined procedure by ZATCA in case of any disaster circumstances.

A3:reporting is for B2C invoicee. and no clearance disabled/enabled needs to be specefied in the API request.

Q4: Yes, B2C tax documents can be shared directly with the customers without any clearance procedure, taxpayers has 24 hours to report the XML invoice to ZATCA.

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@Aturkistani thank you