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FBR integration

BooksPOS does not report invoices to FBR yet

Here is where fiscal integration stands, what has to happen before it can go live, and what BooksPOS will never do to look compliant.

Not live

Today

  • No invoice is sent to FBR. Receipts are ordinary sales receipts, not fiscal invoices, and the till says "FBR not configured".
  • Every sale is recorded with its fiscal state as "not applicable", tax at zero and each item's tax category as "unclassified", until a verified tax setup exists for your business. BooksPOS does not guess tax rates.
  • BooksPOS never prints an FBR invoice number or verification QR code that it did not receive from FBR.
  • We do not claim to be an FBR-licensed integrator; live reporting will go through one. The fiscal steps inside BooksPOS (a fiscal document per sale, submission, rejection, an unknown outcome that is reconciled rather than resent, and queueing only under a verified outage procedure) are built and can be tried in test mode against a clearly labelled mock. Test-mode receipts say "TEST MODE - NOT AN FBR INVOICE" and carry no QR. The live FBR routes are not built: they need a licensed integrator, credentials and the current technical document.

Why it is not simply switched on

FBR has two separate routes, POS integration and Digital Invoicing. Which one applies, if any, depends on your registration, your business category and the notices in force; it is not simply "retailers use POS". FBR's own FAQ says notified businesses integrate through a licensed integrator.

A printed tax number is not proof that an invoice reached FBR. And selling while offline is a different question from whether you may issue a fiscal invoice during an outage: that must follow the procedure agreed for your route, not an assumption that everything can be sent later.

What is needed before live reporting

  1. Your tax profile: NTN/STRN, registered address and business category.
  2. The route, chosen with evidence: FBR POS or Digital Invoicing.
  3. A licensed integrator, and sandbox credentials to test with.
  4. Verified HS code, unit and rate mapping for each product.
  5. The approved procedure for outages on that route.

The till's Sync & FBR screen shows this same checklist. When these are in place, sales will carry their real FBR state (accepted, rejected or unknown and being checked), never a success that did not happen.

This page is not tax advice. Confirm your own obligations with FBR, your tax adviser or a licensed integrator.
The FBR integration panel saying it is not configured, that receipts are not fiscal invoices, and listing what is needed before live fiscal invoicing
The FBR panel on the store PC. Screenshot of the current build (26 Sep 2026), synthetic demo data.

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BooksPOS is in development and not yet production-ready. We are looking for a small number of book depots, stationers and wholesalers to pilot it with us. There is no public download yet.

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