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Clear answers for Pakistani businesses moving to FBR's Digital Invoicing system — what it is, how integration works, where PRAL fits in, and how it differs from IRIS.
190in-depth guides · updated for 2026
What FBR Digital Invoicing is, who must use it, the 2026 rules and fines, what it costs, and how to start sending QR-coded sales tax invoices to FBR in real time.
Read the full guideFBR digital invoicing integration in 6 steps (Oct 2026): DI API v1.12, free sandbox and 5-year token, 3 routes compared by cost and time, and a worked invoice.
Read the full guidePRAL digital invoicing explained: what PRAL does, the free 5-year token, IP whitelisting, sandbox tests, and when a ready platform saves you work.
Read the full guideIRIS digital invoicing explained: what you do on IRIS, what the DI API does, 5 setup steps, 5-year tokens, and which software works with it. Updated Oct 2026.
Read the full guidePhotographers, videographers and event managers are named in SRO 288(I)/2026. Shooting is a service, albums and prints are goods — how to bill each.
Read guideA professional fee is a service, taxed by SRB, PRA, KPRA or BRA — not FBR. Here is when FBR digital invoicing still applies to an accounting firm.
Read guideOne NTN, many shops. How FBR digital invoicing works across branches: one token, branch invoice prefixes, the right province, and offline-branch fixes.
Read guideUoM is how you count an item. Pick the unit FBR allows for your HS code, stop error 0099, and see which trades must use MT, KG, KWH or SqY.
Read guideSteel melters pay Rs 30 per electricity unit, or Rs 5 if FBR-integrated with 70%+ imported scrap. SRO 1245, the 29 Sep SRO 1664 changes and STGO 22 explained.
Read guideSTGO 08 of 2026: FBR orders a clear printed retail price and sales tax on 56 Third Schedule items. What to print, the sweets relief, and invoice fields.
Read guideAsaan Tajir app: join FBR's SRO 1166 fixed tax scheme by phone, pay 1% (min Rs 25,000), get the green plate, and when digital invoicing still applies.
Read guideIssue an FBR digital invoice at the time of supply: delivery or payment, whichever is earlier (s.2(44), Finance Act 2024). Advances and part payments.
Read guideHow jewellers issue FBR digital invoices: 3% on locally made jewellery (no input tax), 25% on imported pieces under SRO 297, old-gold exchanges, bookings.
Read guideHow bakeries and mithai shops issue FBR digital invoices: bread and nan exempt, buns and rusks at 10%, cakes and sweets at 18%, cafe sales, Tier-1 rules.
Read guideHow printing presses, packaging and label makers issue FBR digital invoices: printing is manufacture, books exempt, brochures and boxes 18%, job work.
Read guideFBR Circular 01 of 2026 (11 Sep 2026) explained: invoices for exempt sales and advances, Rs 1m to Rs 5m non-integration penalty, fake-invoice register.
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