Measure your business's readiness for the National E-Invoicing System
Answer five questions about where your business stands with Jordan's National E-Invoicing System (JoFotara), and get an instant readiness percentage, a risk score, and a recommended next step.
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The National E-Invoicing System has been mandatory in Jordan since 1 April 2025 for every seller of goods or provider of services. Measure where your business stands before an audit does.
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Jordan’s National E-Invoicing System (JoFotara) requires every seller of goods or provider of services in the Kingdom to issue invoices through the system or through accounting software integrated with it, a mandate in force since 1 April 2025. Each invoice reaches the Income and Sales Tax Department in UBL 2.1 format, and the Department validates it and returns it with a QR code before it goes to the buyer. An invoice issued outside this path is not accepted as a tax document.
This readiness check measures where your business stands against the system’s requirements through five questions: portal registration, how you issue invoices, integration credentials, the QR code, and how you correct invoices. You then get a risk score out of 15, a readiness percentage out of 100%, and a clear recommendation for the next step. The result is indicative, and the binding reference remains the Income and Sales Tax Department’s instructions and the National E-Invoicing System portal.
What is the JoFotara readiness check?
It is a free tool from Qoyod that turns your current position into three readable outputs: a total risk score, a readiness percentage, and a readiness level (good readiness, medium risk, or high risk). The tool asks for no email and no registration, and the result appears the moment you select your answers.
The areas this check measures differ from e-invoicing calculators built for other markets, because the National E-Invoicing System works on real-time clearance and requires no digital signature from the taxpayer. Integration runs on three values you generate from the portal: the Client ID, the Secret Key, and the activity number.
How is the readiness percentage calculated?
Each answer carries a risk score from 1 to 3, where 1 is the lowest risk and 3 the highest. The five scores add up to a total risk score between 5 and 15, which converts to a readiness percentage through this formula:
- Readiness percentage = ((15 − risk score) ÷ 10) × 100%
- Risk score of 7 or less: good readiness. Review your document types and confirm every invoice is tied to its accounting entry.
- Risk score between 8 and 11: medium risk. Complete the technical integration and confirm the QR code appears on every invoice.
- Risk score of 12 or more: high risk. Start registering and integrating now, before unaccepted invoices pile up.
The five areas the check measures
- Portal registration: registering alone is not enough. A business that registered but never issued a single invoice through the system is still issuing unaccepted documents.
- How invoices are issued: keying invoices manually on the portal satisfies the legal form, but it disconnects invoices from your books, doubles the work, and opens the door to errors.
- Integration credentials: generating the Client ID, Secret Key, and activity number is a halfway step. The value shows when those credentials sit inside accounting software that sends the invoice and receives the response.
- The QR code issued by the Department: the code is not generated locally. The Department issues it after validation, so a missing code means the invoice never passed through the system at all, and buyers can verify it through the Sanad app.
- How corrections are made: an invoice cannot be edited after issuance. Corrections run through a return invoice (credit note) that references the original invoice.
What happens if you stay outside the system?
An invoice not issued through the National E-Invoicing System is not accepted as a tax document, so the buyer loses the General Sales Tax input deduction and the expense is not recognized for income tax. The fine ranges from JOD 200 to 500 per violation, doubling on repetition, and the business is excluded from government tenders and public procurement.
How Qoyod helps you comply
Qoyod is integrated with the National E-Invoicing System in Jordan. An invoice issued from Qoyod goes out in UBL 2.1 format, reaches the Income and Sales Tax Department, and comes back validated with the official QR code, with General Sales Tax calculated at 16% in Jordanian dinars. The integration covers the full document set: income invoices, general sales tax invoices, special sales tax invoices, and return invoices (credit notes), in both cash and receivables forms. Integration details and features are on the National E-Invoicing System in Jordan page.
Every invoice generates its accounting entry directly, with the general ledger, customer balances, inventory, and financial reports in the same platform. The guide to how Jordan’s national e-invoicing system works step by step walks through the full journey, and you will find more free tools in the Qoyod calculators library.
Frequently asked questions
Who is required to use the National E-Invoicing System?
Every seller of goods or provider of services, not only businesses registered for General Sales Tax. Professionals such as doctors, lawyers, and consultants are covered too, and a business not registered for sales tax issues an income invoice carrying no tax.
Is the result of this check approved by the Income and Sales Tax Department?
No. The check is an indicative tool for estimating your readiness. The official reference is the Income and Sales Tax Department’s instructions and the National E-Invoicing System portal.
Do I need a digital signature or a certificate to issue invoices?
No. The National E-Invoicing System requires no digital signature from the taxpayer. Integration runs on credentials you generate from the portal: the Client ID, the Secret Key, and the activity number.
Is keying invoices manually into the portal enough?
Legally, yes. But it means double entry: once on the portal and once in your books. Integration through accounting software issues the invoice and records its entry in one step.
How do I correct an invoice issued by mistake?
With a return invoice (credit note) that references the original invoice. An issued invoice cannot be edited or deleted, and the system rejects negative quantities or prices on invoice lines.
What should I do if my risk score is high?
Register on the National E-Invoicing System portal, generate your integration credentials, enter them in accounting software integrated with the system, then issue your first compliant invoice and confirm the QR code it comes back with.