The Red Sea port city and gateway for pilgrims runs on trade: the historic souqs of Al Balad, fashion and dining along Tahlia and Prince Sultan streets, and importers supplying the whole western region. StartERP gives Jeddah businesses 78 industry POS terminals, inventory, purchasing, accounting and ZATCA e-invoicing in one system.
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Every part of the city has its own trade. Here is what sells where, and the StartERP terminal each kind of shop uses.
The old town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2014, is still a working market: Souq Al Alawi and the lanes around Bab Makkah sell fabrics, perfume and oud, spices, gold and gifts, and stay busy late into the night in Ramadan.
Through Al Rawdah, Al Zahra and Al Andalus these two streets carry the city's fashion boutiques, cafés, restaurants and salons, where evening trade and weekend crowds set the pace.
Families come to the waterfront for dinner, coffee and entertainment, while Al Hamra adds offices, clinics and service businesses that need invoices and accounts as much as a till.
New residential districts, compounds and the beaches of Obhur keep opening supermarkets, coffee shops, salons and car washes that serve families close to home.
Dense neighbourhoods live on the corner grocery, the butcher, the barber and the mobile phone shop: small stores with many daily sales, where a fast till and exact stock matter most.
Jeddah Islamic Port, the warehouses of Al Khumrah and the industrial city to the south hold the importers, wholesalers, spare-parts dealers and logistics firms that supply the western region.
The busy weeks are the same every year. StartERP keeps up with them: offline selling at the counter, staff added in minutes, and reports by hour, branch and cashier.
Shops open late, restaurants take iftar and suhoor orders, and perfume, oud, sweets and gift sales peak before Eid.
King Abdulaziz International Airport is the main gateway for pilgrims, so travel agents, car rental, hotels, restaurants and gift shops see visitors all year and a surge in the Hajj season.
Summer holidays, festivals such as Jeddah Season and the beaches of Obhur bring evening crowds to cafés, restaurants and entertainment venues.
Founding Day (22 February), Saudi National Day (23 September), back-to-school and the November sales bring offers that need clear discounts on every VAT invoice.
Register the business with the Ministry of Commerce, online through the Saudi Business Center.
Get the shop licence for your location from Jeddah Municipality through the Balady platform.
Register with ZATCA once taxable sales pass SAR 375,000 a year (voluntary from SAR 187,500), then add your VAT number in StartERP.
Sign up, pick your business category and add products. Phase 1 e-invoices with the QR code print from your first sale.
When ZATCA notifies your Phase 2 wave, connect the store to Fatoora with the ZATCA Phase 2 add-on; StartERP then clears and reports every invoice.
Shops and offices in Al Balad, Al Hamra, Al Rawdah, Al Safa, Al Salamah and Obhur run StartERP from any browser, tablet or phone, with nothing to install and no server to keep.
Take cash, mada, Apple Pay and STC Pay or "on account", and split one bill across methods; every payment lands in the day's cash-up.
ZATCA Phase 1 and Phase 2 (Fatoora) e-invoicing, with your VAT registration number on every invoice issued in Jeddah.
Staff in Jeddah switch the screens between Arabic and English, and customers get bilingual receipts on paper or WhatsApp.
Open a second branch in Makkah and Taif and run both from one account, each with its own invoice numbering, stock and cash drawer.
Daily sales, shifts and reports close on Arabia Standard Time (UTC+3), so a late-night sale counts on the right day.
Goods arriving through Jeddah's port pass through importers, wholesalers, workshops and shops before they reach a customer. StartERP follows them the whole way: purchase orders and stock by warehouse, carton and piece sales, shifts for round-the-clock work, and bilingual receipts at the counter.
Religious visitors come to Jeddah in waves, and every business feels the season at once: shops, restaurants, barbers, hotels and travel offices. StartERP keeps queues short with barcode checkout and ready boards, gives visitors bilingual receipts, and runs extra branches from one account.
Shopkeepers, workshops and contractors from the towns around Jeddah come here to buy, often in bulk and on account. StartERP gives each business that serves them retail and wholesale prices, carton sales, credit limits and cheque payments, with delivery notes for goods that leave by truck.
ZATCA Phase 1 and Phase 2 (Fatoora) e-invoicing.
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Yes. Shops, restaurants, salons, workshops and trading companies across Jeddah, from Al Balad to Obhur, run StartERP in the browser, with 78 POS terminals made for their business type, prices in Saudi Riyals and ZATCA e-invoicing.
Yes. One account runs every branch, in Jeddah, Makkah, Taif and Rabigh or anywhere in Saudi Arabia, each with its own invoice numbering, stock and cash drawer, and reports for one branch or all of them together.
The same day. Sign up online, choose your business type and add your products; nothing is installed, and the 15-day free trial needs no card. Screens and receipts work in Arabic and English.
Yes. StartERP prints Phase 1 e-invoices with the QR code from day one. With the ZATCA Phase 2 add-on it connects your store to Fatoora, clears standard (B2B) invoices before they go to the buyer and reports simplified invoices within 24 hours, with the status shown on every invoice.
No. StartERP runs in the browser, so you set it up yourself in minutes: the wizard loads your business category's starter items or imports your product list from Excel, and help is available in Arabic and English.
Yes. Add as many cashiers and devices as you need at no extra cost, keep selling if the internet drops, and see sales by hour and cashier to plan staff for the next peak.
We share our prices on request, so you pay only for what your business needs. Every store gets 7 modules and up to 2 POS terminals that make sales, with unlimited users and devices. Pick the add-on modules, POS terminals and hardware you need, send a price request and we will email you a quote. Subscribe monthly or yearly, or buy the licence once. Every store starts with a 15-day free trial and no card is needed.
Prices on request: pick the modules your business needs and we will email you a quote. Subscribe or buy the licence once. Unlimited users and devices. Every store starts with a 15-day free trial.
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