Global tax software for businesses on Qoyod
Qoyod sits on ZATCA's Phase 2 provider directory and submits every invoice to Fatoora in real time. Its VAT return is a report, filing it is a separately quoted service, and the product covers Saudi Arabia alone. Commenda registers you and files across all 50 US states, the EU, the UK, and 70+ countries.
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Monitor your exposure outside Saudi Arabia
Qoyod's country selector offers Saudi Arabia. The UAE, Jordan and Egypt are marked Soon and link nowhere. Commenda watches every market you actually invoice into, across all 50 US states, all 27 EU member states, and 70+ countries.
File the return Qoyod only prepares
Qoyod produces a VAT return form, monthly or quarterly. Submitting it is a separately quoted service that partner accounting firms perform, and paying the tax is documented as two journal entries you post by hand.
One dashboard for every entity
Qoyod states that each entity needs its own subscription. Commenda holds every entity on one dashboard, with registrations, exposure and filings tracked per entity and rolled up.
Coverage comparison
What does Qoyod cover, and where does it stop?
Qoyod's figures come from its own e-invoicing page, VAT return service, enterprise page and Arabic help centre, plus ZATCA's own provider directory, checked on July 30, 2026. Saudi VAT registration and filing is not a coverage Commenda publishes, and the first two rows say so.
Submitting e-invoices to Fatoora
- Qoyod
- Handled, above the entry plan. Real-time submission in UBL and XML
- Commenda
- Not something we do. Saudi e-invoicing belongs with Qoyod
Filing your Saudi VAT return
- Qoyod
- A separate service. SOCPA-certified firms review it and file on your behalf
- Commenda
- Also not ours. Our published filing coverage is the four rows below
Paying the tax across to the authority
- Qoyod
- Not handled. Its help centre documents two journal entries you post by hand
- Commenda
- Tracked per jurisdiction on every filing we make
US sales tax on your US sales
- Qoyod
- Not handled. No US state or sales tax content exists on the site
- Commenda
- Permits, calculation, and returns in all 50 states, amendments included
EU VAT and UK VAT
- Qoyod
- Not handled. OSS, IOSS, HMRC and Making Tax Digital are not mentioned
- Commenda
- OSS and IOSS registration, returns in every member state, and UK VAT filed
Knowing where you owe abroad
- Qoyod
- Not handled. No registration threshold appears anywhere on the site
- Commenda
- Economic and physical thresholds in 50 states and 70+ countries, with alerts before you cross
Running more than one company
- Qoyod
- One subscription per commercial registration, by its own documentation
- Commenda
- Every entity on one dashboard, with registrations and filings tracked per entity
| Qoyod | ||
|---|---|---|
| Submitting e-invoices to Fatoora | Handled, above the entry plan. Real-time submission in UBL and XML | Not something we do. Saudi e-invoicing belongs with Qoyod |
| Filing your Saudi VAT return | A separate service. SOCPA-certified firms review it and file on your behalf | Also not ours. Our published filing coverage is the four rows below |
| Paying the tax across to the authority | Not handled. Its help centre documents two journal entries you post by hand | Tracked per jurisdiction on every filing we make |
| US sales tax on your US sales | Not handled. No US state or sales tax content exists on the site | Permits, calculation, and returns in all 50 states, amendments included |
| EU VAT and UK VAT | Not handled. OSS, IOSS, HMRC and Making Tax Digital are not mentioned | OSS and IOSS registration, returns in every member state, and UK VAT filed |
| Knowing where you owe abroad | Not handled. No registration threshold appears anywhere on the site | Economic and physical thresholds in 50 states and 70+ countries, with alerts before you cross |
| Running more than one company | One subscription per commercial registration, by its own documentation | Every entity on one dashboard, with registrations and filings tracked per entity |
Calculate taxes globally on Qoyod using Commenda
In Qoyod a tax is something you create by hand: pick a ZATCA category code, type a percentage, and it cannot be deleted afterwards. That works when the answer is one national rate. A US address can need a state, county, city and district rate together, and an EU sale needs the right treatment more than the right number. Commenda derives both from the transaction.

Track your global exposure from Qoyod
No registration threshold appears anywhere on Qoyod's site or in its help centre, because Qoyod is a Saudi product and Saudi registration does not work that way. Selling abroad does. Commenda measures your invoices against economic and physical thresholds in all 50 US states and 70+ countries and notifies you at 80% of a threshold, before you cross. A short questionnaire covers physical presence.

Automatically remit transactions around the world
Commenda takes out the permits, files the returns, and tracks the remittance in the countries Qoyod does not reach. That is all 50 US states on each state's own frequency, EU VAT with OSS and IOSS, UK VAT under Making Tax Digital, and GST across APAC and Canada. Returns are built from your synced data, and amended returns go out where a period needs correcting.

Manage your customers and exemptions in one place
Qoyod validates a customer record before ZATCA will take the invoice, including a national ID where a health or education exemption applies. Commenda keeps that record complete for every market: the customer, the verified tax ID, and the system it synced from, so a B2B buyer is treated as B2B in Ohio and in Ireland. Exemption certificates are collected through a portal, validated on upload, applied automatically where valid, and chased when they expire.

Consolidation
Why does Qoyod not know your total exposure?
Qoyod does the Saudi job thoroughly, from real-time Fatoora submission to ten checks before an invoice goes out. What it never had to solve is the second country, and that is the problem you inherit the day you invoice abroad.
Qoyod's map is one country, and it says so itself
The region picker in Qoyod's own navigation offers Saudi Arabia. The UAE, Jordan and Egypt each appear beside it marked Soon, with no page behind them. Its public API lists 19 resource types, and not one of them is a tax, a tax rate, or a return. This is a Saudi product doing a Saudi job well. Your export sales sit outside it.
What being on ZATCA's provider list does and does not mean
Qoyod is genuinely in ZATCA's Solution Providers Directory under Phase 2, the integration phase, alongside 461 others in a list of 1,055. ZATCA's own disclaimer on that page calls it a guiding list, non-legally binding to taxpayers, and states it is not considered as an approval by ZATCA of the e-solutions provided. Worth knowing before you treat a directory listing as a decision.
The return only sees what the return can see
Qoyod documents several things that fall out of its VAT return form: draft invoices appear in no report at all, tax on a manual journal entry does not reach the purchase tax report unless the tax account and tax type are both set, and a back-dated invoice lands in the period it is dated rather than the period you entered it, which can move a quarter you already submitted. The return also comes monthly or quarterly only, with no custom date range.
Selling into the US creates an obligation before you incorporate there
Selling into the US from a Saudi entity creates US sales tax obligations once you cross economic nexus thresholds, which sit at $100,000 or 200 transactions in most states, and 45 states levy a sales tax at all. Those pre-incorporation sales can create affiliate nexus exposure that carries over to the US entity once it is formed. We run a back-period exposure analysis against the Saudi entity's data before a US launch.
Cost of growth
What does compliance cost on each Qoyod plan?
Qoyod publishes its prices, and its own plan comparison marks the thing that matters most: ZATCA Phase 2 integration is not available on the entry plan. The API and every store connector sit on the same line. Figures are the riyal prices from the plan selection page, before VAT.
| What you need | What Qoyod charges or requires | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Where ZATCA Phase 1 generation starts | Basic, at SAR 1,200 a year or SAR 120 a month. One user, one branch, and no purchases module at all | Plan features |
| Where ZATCA Phase 2 integration starts | Professional, at SAR 1,800 a year or SAR 180 a month. Basic lists Phase 2 integration as not available | Plan features |
| Where the API and the store connectors start | Professional too. Basic lists the API, the Salla and Zid connections, and Zapier all as not available | Plan features |
| The tiers above that | Advanced is SAR 2,211 a year, down from SAR 3,300, or SAR 330 a month, with five users and five branches. The Business plan is priced on request | Qoyod pricing |
| An extra user, branch, or payroll employee | SAR 240 a year per user, SAR 480 per location, SAR 120 per payroll employee, and SAR 600 per point-of-sale user | Qoyod pricing |
| Getting the return actually submitted | A separate professional service, priced by quote. Accountants from SOCPA-certified firms review the return in Qoyod and file it with ZATCA on your behalf | VAT return service |
| A second legal entity | A second subscription. Qoyod states that one subscription supports one commercial registration only, and that a separate subscription is needed per registration | Managing several entities |
| US sales tax, EU VAT, or UK VAT | Not offered at any tier. Nexus, OSS, IOSS, HMRC and Making Tax Digital appear nowhere on the site or in the help centre | Qoyod product pages |
Where ZATCA Phase 1 generation starts
Basic, at SAR 1,200 a year or SAR 120 a month. One user, one branch, and no purchases module at all
Plan featuresWhere ZATCA Phase 2 integration starts
Professional, at SAR 1,800 a year or SAR 180 a month. Basic lists Phase 2 integration as not available
Plan featuresWhere the API and the store connectors start
Professional too. Basic lists the API, the Salla and Zid connections, and Zapier all as not available
Plan featuresThe tiers above that
Advanced is SAR 2,211 a year, down from SAR 3,300, or SAR 330 a month, with five users and five branches. The Business plan is priced on request
Qoyod pricingAn extra user, branch, or payroll employee
SAR 240 a year per user, SAR 480 per location, SAR 120 per payroll employee, and SAR 600 per point-of-sale user
Qoyod pricingGetting the return actually submitted
A separate professional service, priced by quote. Accountants from SOCPA-certified firms review the return in Qoyod and file it with ZATCA on your behalf
VAT return serviceA second legal entity
A second subscription. Qoyod states that one subscription supports one commercial registration only, and that a separate subscription is needed per registration
Managing several entitiesUS sales tax, EU VAT, or UK VAT
Not offered at any tier. Nexus, OSS, IOSS, HMRC and Making Tax Digital appear nowhere on the site or in the help centre
Qoyod product pages
Figures verified on July 30, 2026.
From the field
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“The platform works exactly the way I need it to. I have one team member who manages all of our exemption certificates, and that functionality has been particularly efficient for us. It allows him to handle everything seamlessly, making the handoff significantly easier.”
VP of Finance, TRX
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Frequently asked questions
The software does not. It produces a VAT return form under Reports, monthly or quarterly, and its own help centre adds that if you want the return reviewed and submitted on your behalf, that is the VAT service. That service is a separately quoted professional engagement in which accountants from SOCPA-certified firms review the return data in Qoyod and file it with ZATCA before the deadline. You can also take review only and file it yourself. Paying the tax is documented as two manual journal entries. Submitting an e-invoice to Fatoora is a different obligation from the periodic return, and Qoyod's documentation keeps them apart.
It is listed by ZATCA, which is worth stating precisely. Qoyod appears in ZATCA's Solution Providers Directory under Phase 2, the integration phase, and its own pages describe it as officially certified and Phase 2 compliant. ZATCA's disclaimer on that same directory page reads differently: the list is a guiding list, non-legally binding to taxpayers, of providers who expressed their willingness to meet the requirements, and it is not considered as an approval by ZATCA of the e-solutions provided. ZATCA also states it considers any taxpayer who meets the requirements compliant even if their provider is not on the list. The directory holds 1,055 entries, 462 of them Phase 2.
Check, because Qoyod's own plan comparison says no. Its help centre article on what each plan includes marks ZATCA Phase 1 integration as available on Basic and Phase 2 integration as not available. Phase 2 starts on the Professional plan at SAR 1,800 a year. The same article marks the API, the Salla and Zid store connections, and Zapier as unavailable on Basic, and Basic has no purchases module, no quotes and no fixed assets. If you connect a storefront to Qoyod, that connection is above the entry tier too.
It can, and Qoyod documents why. Tax entered on a manual journal entry does not appear in the purchase tax report, only as a lump line, and it will not reach the VAT return form at all unless both the correct tax account and the tax type field are set on the entry. Manual journal entries are also not synced to ZATCA Phase 2. Since Qoyod documents VAT payment itself as a manual journal entry, the entries recording your tax settlement are the ones least visible to the reporting they feed. Worth reconciling the VAT account statement against the return each period.
Potentially registered in several US states, and it starts before you have a US entity. Economic nexus thresholds sit at $100,000 of sales or 200 transactions in most states, 45 states levy a sales tax, and software taxability varies state by state rather than following one rule. A Saudi entity crosses those tests exactly as a US one does. Sales made before you incorporate can also leave affiliate nexus exposure behind for the US entity to inherit. Commenda measures your Qoyod invoices against every state, registers you where you are exposed, files there, and runs a back-period analysis before a US launch.
One, if your flow fits a scheme. For goods you ship into the EU from Saudi Arabia, IOSS is usually the right registration, since it covers imported low-value goods sold to EU consumers from outside the EU. For sales that begin inside the EU, the One-Stop Shop lets you register in a single member state and file from it for all 27 plus Northern Ireland, and for non-EU sellers we usually recommend the Netherlands or Ireland. Norway, Switzerland and Iceland sit outside OSS entirely. Hold stock in an EU warehouse and you need a local registration in that country regardless.
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