Did that villa actually make money?
Folioz keeps every quote, vendor invoice and site cost against the job it belongs to. You see your margin while the job is still running, not three months after the handover.
Villa 12, fit-out
Contract AED 160,000AED 160,000 margin before labour
Every bill, pinned to the job it belongs to.
Stone, joinery, paint, transport, the snag fix. Each one lands on Villa 12 the moment you log it, so the job always knows what it has cost.
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Transport and NOC fees
Site costAED 6,800+ VAT 340, calculated - 2
Paint and finishes
Purchase orderAED 14,200+ VAT 710, calculated - 3
Snagging: remedial work
Extra costAED 8,900+ VAT 445, calculated - 4
Marble and stone supply
Vendor invoiceAED 52,000+ VAT 2,600, calculated - 5
Joinery subcontractor
Vendor invoiceAED 41,500+ VAT 2,075, calculated
Example figures, ex-VAT. Each line came from a document, so nothing is typed twice.
- 6 to 1The places a job's answer hides today, and the one address it lands at instead.
- 0 retypingLog a bill once and it becomes a job cost, with 5% VAT worked out for you.
- 60 daysOf warning before a visa, labour card or licence runs out. A warning, never a block.
- 2027The year UAE e-invoicing starts for most businesses. We are building the invoice data your provider needs.
The answer is in six places. You are looking in one.
The quote is a spreadsheet. The invoice is a photo in a WhatsApp group. Labour is a notebook. The visa date is in somebody's head. Nobody can say if the job made money until it is long over.
Folioz gives all of it one address: the job.
One thread, from quote to profit.
Everything you do for a job hangs off the same line. Nothing is typed twice, and every number can be traced to the document behind it.
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Quote it, and keep every version
Quotations with line items and a full version history. When the client changes their mind, v2 doesn't overwrite v1. Both are there, linked by the same number.
QuotationABC-QUO-2026-0007v1v2Stone cladding, 86 sqm92,000.00Joinery, lump sum68,000.00Total ex-VAT160,000.00VAT 5%8,000.00 -
Order it, with changes on record
Purchase orders to your vendors, numbered automatically. Price changes become variations on the order, not a phone call you'll forget.
Purchase orderABC-PO-2026-0019Stone supplierAED 48,000.00Variation 1: extra slabs+ 4,000.00Order value ex-VAT52,000.00 -
Log the invoice once. It becomes a job cost.
Pick the project when you record a vendor invoice and it lands in that job's costs automatically. VAT is calculated for you. Part-payments and paid, partial or unpaid status are tracked as you go.
Vendor invoice 4471Linked to Villa 12Amount ex-VAT52,000.00VAT 5%, calculated2,600.00Total54,600.00Paid 30,000.00Partial -
Get paid on a schedule you can see
Payment milestones for the client, change orders when scope grows, and extra works logged against the job so they get billed instead of absorbed.
Payment scheduleVilla 12Advance 30%ReceivedProgress 40%ReceivedHandover 30%Due 14 Nov -
Invoice and receipt, branded and numbered
Invoices, statements and payment receipts as clean PDFs with your logo and bank details. Numbers run per company, per type, per year, so they never collide or skip.
Documentsnumbers are examplesABC-INV-2026-0003InvoiceABC-RCP-2026-0011ReceiptXYZ-INV-2026-0001Your other company -
Know where the job stands today
Revenue, vendor costs and extra costs per project with the margin worked out, not guessed. Labour from attendance is the next piece, and we say so rather than pretend.
Project summaryExampleRevenue172,000.00Vendor and site costs123,400.00Margin before labour48,600.00
Two companies. One crew. No muddle.
Many UAE contractors run two or three legal entities that share the same workers and the same vendors. Most software pretends that isn't a thing. Folioz starts from it.
Company A
Company B
One worker, one record. Their days, costs and payroll are tagged to whichever company the work was for, and VAT and corporate-tax figures are always worked out one company at a time, never blended. Example data shown.
Visas don't expire quietly. Now they can't sneak up.
Visa, labour card, Emirates ID, trade licence and your vendors' insurance and safety papers get flagged inside the 60-day window. It's a warning, never a block, so a late renewal doesn't stop your site. Drag the date and watch.
Example data. Reminder emails to your company's team are built too.
UAE e-invoicing is coming for every business.
Not just the VAT-registered ones. If you invoice another business or a government entity in the UAE, you'll issue structured electronic invoices through an accredited provider, and you'll receive supplier invoices the same way.
- 01Under AED 50M revenue? Appoint your accredited provider by 31 March 2027 and be live by 1 July 2027. Larger businesses have earlier dates.
- 02Invoices must go out within 14 days of the transaction. Not appointing a provider on time costs AED 5,000 for every month of delay, and a missed invoice costs AED 100, up to AED 5,000 a month.
- 03Folioz is not a provider and doesn't pretend to be. We're building the part before it: correct, numbered invoice data, handed to the accredited provider you choose. In progress, not live.
Summary for orientation, not legal or tax advice. Sources: Ministry of Finance e-invoicing page, Ministerial Decisions 243 and 244 of 2025 (dates amended by Decision 66 of 2026), Cabinet Decision 106 of 2025. Checked 7 October 2026.
Are you ready? Five honest questions
Tick what's true today.
Built like it's holding your payroll. It is.
Salaries, Emirates ID numbers, bank details and client prices are exactly what a contractor should worry about. Here is what's in place.
Two-factor for everyone
Every sign-in needs an authenticator code. There are backup codes for the day a phone goes missing.
Walled off twice
One company's data is kept apart from every other customer's by the app and again by the database itself, and we test that on purpose.
A trail for every change
Sign-ins, security events and data changes are logged, and the logs are never quietly deleted.
Sensitive actions ask twice
Changing bank details or sign-in methods needs your password again, and the Owners get an alert.
Roles that mean it
Owner, Admin, Manager, Staff and Viewer, with a permission matrix. The last Owner can't be removed.
Take it, or delete it
Download your data any time. Ask for deletion and you get a 30-day window to change your mind.
Questions people ask.
Who is Folioz for?
UAE fit-out, joinery, marble and stone, MEP and other trades contractors with roughly 5 to 50 staff, especially those running one to three companies that share labour and vendors. If you sell retail or want a full accounting suite, it isn't the right tool.
Does it replace my accountant's software?
No, and it isn't meant to. Folioz is the layer that shows profit per job. Your books stay where they are. An export pack your accountant can import is on the list.
Can I use it today?
Not yet. We're letting people in from the list in small batches, starting with a few contractors who'll work closely with us. Join the list and we'll tell you when your spot opens.
What will it cost?
Not announced. We'd rather price it against what one badly costed job costs you than guess a number now. People on the list hear first.
Does it do e-invoicing?
We're building the invoice data and the hand-off to the accredited provider you choose. It is in progress, and we won't call it "compliant" until it has been tested end to end with a provider. Folioz will not be an accredited provider itself.
Can my site team send photos on WhatsApp?
That's the plan: photograph an attendance sheet or an invoice, a person confirms the figures, and it's saved. It isn't built yet, and nothing will ever be saved without a human check.
Is my data safe?
See the controls above. We only describe things that exist and are tested, and we'll tell you the moment the pre-launch checks are done.
Find out which job lost you money. Before the next one does.
Join the list. A few contractors will get in first, and they'll shape what we build next.