Construction & Contracting — Saudi Arabia
Contracting in the Kingdom means juggling several sites at once, a store yard full of cement, rebar and cable, subcontractor claims, retention held for months, and FATOORAH e-invoicing rules that do not wait for your paperwork to catch up. Tallium AI puts your job costing, purchase orders, material stock, progress invoicing and VAT-ready accounting in one app, with unlimited users so every site engineer, storekeeper and accountant works from the same numbers. One flat price in USD, billed monthly from signup, cancel anytime — no free trial and no per-seat fees.
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Key takeaways
Materials are bought in a rush, labour hours are logged on WhatsApp, and subcontractor claims arrive weeks later. By the time the accountant pieces it together, the project is handed over and the margin is whatever is left. Without live cost-to-date against the contract value, quoting the next tender is guesswork.
Cement, rebar, pipes, cable and fittings move between the main store and several sites, and the transfer is often just a phone call. Storekeepers issue material without a document, so you order again for stock you already own, and year-end counts never match the ledger.
Saudi Arabia's standard VAT rate is 15%, registration is mandatory once taxable supplies pass SAR 375,000 (voluntary from SAR 187,500), and e-invoices must be issued in the ZATCA-required format with the buyer's VAT number on B2B invoices. Rebuilding all of that from spreadsheets before each VAT return is slow and easy to get wrong. Confirm current rules with ZATCA or a qualified local tax professional.
Interim payment certificates, 5–10% retention held per claim, advance payment recovery and variation orders all have their own timelines. When they live in a folder rather than in your accounts, retention releases go unchased for months and cash you have already earned sits with the client.
Tag purchase orders, supplier bills, material issues, subcontractor claims and expenses to a job as they happen. Tallium AI shows cost-to-date against the contract value and each claim raised, so you see the margin on the Riyadh tower while you can still act on it, not at handover.
Receive deliveries against the purchase order, issue material to a site with a signed record from the mobile app, and transfer between the main store and site stores in a couple of taps. Stock levels update live, reorder alerts fire before the crew is idle, and counts reconcile because every movement has a document behind it.
Issue tax invoices in the FATOORAH-required format with your VAT number, the buyer's VAT number and VAT shown per line, and let Tallium AI keep the output and input VAT totals running as you post. When the VAT return is due, the numbers are already there instead of being rebuilt from files. Confirm current rules with ZATCA or a qualified local tax professional.
Record each progress claim, the retention withheld and advance recovery against the contract, so your receivables show what is genuinely due now and what is held back until defects liability ends. AI insights flag ageing claims and slow-paying clients so someone actually chases them.
Raise POs for cement, steel and fittings against a job, approve them, and match supplier bills to what actually arrived on site — so overbilling and duplicate orders get caught at the gate.
Progress claims, retention and variation orders on FATOORAH-ready tax invoices with your VAT number and the client's, sent from the office or the site.
Output and input VAT tracked on every transaction with a running position, so preparing the VAT return for ZATCA is a review rather than a rebuild.
Run the main yard and site stores as separate locations, with receipts, issues, transfers and reorder points visible from one screen.
Full double-entry books, bank matching, WPS-era payroll costs and expenses — with receipt scanning that reads a fuel or hardware receipt from a photo.
Build your plan in a minute — pay only for the parts of your business you run. From $99/month per warehouse.
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