Moving to e-invoicing in Egypt does not just change how an invoice is issued — it changes what your archive has to do. Supporting documents that used to sit in a cabinet now have to come out quickly and in order at any review. This page is about that part specifically: the document side, not the tax system itself.
This is the situation we see most. The company has sorted out issuing invoices electronically, but delivery notes, supply contracts, receipt confirmations and statements are still paper in cabinets. Any review request then becomes a search project: days of work, and sometimes a document that is never found at all. The problem is not the invoicing system — it is everything behind it.
That is the only measure that matters. If the answer is "an hour or more", or "it depends who is in", the archive is not ready no matter how tidy it looks. A ready archive produces the document in seconds, for anyone with permission, without anybody having to remember where it was filed.
Do not start from the oldest. Start with the current year and the one before — those are what actually get requested. Then work backwards gradually. Companies that try to digitise twenty years at once stall within a month. More important still: start with the document types that are requested most, not with the largest pile.
We work on the document side: identify your document types and volumes, recommend the right devices and software, run the digitisation on your premises or ours, and set up indexing, permissions and retrieval. We are not tax advisors and we do not give tax advice — the tax and accounting side belongs with your accountant or legal advisor.
No. Registration, integration with the system and the tax side are your accountant's or your invoicing provider's work. We handle the documents: digitising, indexing and access.
The archiving page covers **how** we turn paper into digital — devices, OCR and indexing. This page covers **what** needs converting and where to start when audit readiness is the driver.
Both are possible, and the decision comes down to your data policy and your accountant's advice. Many companies in Egypt prefer an on-premises copy on their own servers, and that is fully supported.
It depends on archive size and document types. We always start with a small sample to measure the real throughput on your own paper — an estimate without a sample is guesswork.
Talk to us and the ITCO team will recommend the devices and solutions that match your workload and budget.
