CSR signing and serial number field

Signing process
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We are a payment gateway solution provider operating in the KSA region, functioning as a PTSP (Payment Technical Service Provider).

As our transactions are processed through our banking partner, the transaction commission is collected from the bank. Based on our understanding, our solution needs to be onboarded to the Fatoora system as a taxpayer. Accordingly, we will be required to generate standard invoices to the bank for settlement purposes.

During the onboarding process, while generating the CSR, there is a field labeled “serial number.” As we do not use any physical invoicing devices, we believe this field may not be applicable in our case.

Kindly confirm whether we are required to implement the Fatoora invoicing solution. If so, please advise what value should be entered in the “serial number” field during the CSR generation process.

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Dear @infibeamSA,

There are no restrections regarding the serial number but the format, it should be as the following:

“1-Solution provider/Company name|2-Solution name/Version|3-Serial Number”

In your case, you can make up a serial number and modify it to suits you, the validation on the serial number is based on the entry format only:

1-X|2-X|3-X

Regards,

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Yes, you are required to implement the Fatoora invoicing solution if you are VAT-registered in Saudi Arabia and issuing standard tax invoices to the bank for transaction commissions

The “serial number” field is a mandatory component of the Certificate Signing Request (CSR)

ZATCA specifies that the serial number should follow the format:

“1-Manufacturer or Solution Provider Name|2-Model or Version|3-SerialNumber”

For example: “1-hay|2-23|3-35435”

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it can be your server serial no

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@infibeamSA if you are registered for VAT in KSA, you need to check the dates by when you should onboard your E-Invoicing Generation Solution (EGS) from which you generate KSA Tax Invoices. Here is the link to check roll out phases https://zatca.gov.sa/en/E-Invoicing/Introduction/Pages/Roll-out-phases.aspx

For serial number, as suggested by members above you can include best available information in serial number field of CSR.

You may consider aligning internally with your tax team as this forum is not intended to discuss policy level aspects of E-Invoicing.

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Hi,

Thank you for your clarification. Since we are a company and will be issuing an invoice to the bank for fee collection, do we need to onboard our solution as a one-time activity by calling the Onboarding API of the Fatoora system?

Regards,

Govindraj

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Thank you for your clarification. Since we are a company and will be issuing an invoice to the bank for fee collection, do we need to onboard our solution as a one-time activity by calling the Onboarding API of the Fatoora system?

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Dear @infibeamSA,

Yes, onboarding process is one time activity, but, you should take the expiry date of the onboarded device (PCSID) into your consideration which can be found on the onboarded devices list on fatoora portal for each onboarded device.

Regards,