Painting firms in Saudi Arabia: what does Wave 25 mean for you?
If your firm's revenue subject to VAT passed SAR 187,500 in any year from 2022 to 2025, Wave 25 includes you: your invoicing system must be integrated with the Fatoora platform by 1 February 2027. InstaJack runs your quotes and invoices today — its Fatoora integration is being built for that date.
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What did ZATCA announce?
Last updated: November 2026 · Facts checked against ZATCA's own pages on 1 November 2026.
What does Phase 2 actually require?
How the job runs in InstaJack
Painters price by the room and repaint the argument every handover. In InstaJack rooms, apartments and villa exteriors are lines in your own price book — quoted from the empty room, approved on the link before the first coat — and a photo of the finished wall rides with the record.
These are the jobs your InstaJack price book starts with. No prices are shown here because pricing is your decision: you set every rate yourself, in Saudi riyals, when you set up your book.
How the job runs in InstaJack
- 1.0
Build the quote
Tap the job, set the quantity and unit. Your rates are already in the book.
- 2.0
Send it on WhatsApp
One tap sends a clean quote link from your own WhatsApp.
- 3.0
Client approves the link
They read the lines, the VAT and the total, and tap Approve. You see it the second it happens.
- 4.0
Invoice & get paid
The approved quote becomes the invoice, your bank details on it. Nothing is ever typed twice.
What works in InstaJack for Saudi Arabia today?
Pick Saudi Arabia at signup and your firm runs on the Saudi pack: Saudi riyals, the Saudi VAT name, rate and wording on your quotes and invoices, your tax ID labelled “VAT Number”, and a full Arabic interface, right to left. Quotes, bookings, invoices and chasing all run from your phone today.
What InstaJack does not do yet
Fatoora Phase 2 integration — clearance of standard tax invoices before issue, and reporting of simplified invoices within 24 hours — is not live yet. It is in active development now, being built ahead of the Wave 25 deadline of 1 February 2027. InstaJack is not approved or certified by ZATCA, and ZATCA's Solution Providers Directory is an indicative list, not an approval. Until the integration ships, a firm in Wave 25 scope still needs a Fatoora-integrated solution for its Phase 2 documents.
Questions firm owners ask
I run a small painting firm — does Wave 25 include me?+
Yes — if your revenue subject to VAT exceeded SAR 187,500 in any one of 2022, 2023, 2024 or 2025. The test is revenue, not trade, and most working firms in this trade pass roughly SAR 15,600 a month.
I price per room, not per metre. Can I?+
Yes. Rooms are a unit in your book, alongside per-job apartments and per-wall feature walls — your rates, your words, in riyals.
Can InstaJack send my invoices to Fatoora today?+
No — not yet. The integration is in active development now. What InstaJack does today is quotes and invoices in riyals with Saudi VAT wording, approved by the client on a WhatsApp link. Phase 2 documents still need a Fatoora-integrated solution until the integration ships.
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