URA EFRIS Integration API & Gateway
Uganda's leading automated system for securing **official URA EFRIS compliance**. Seamlessly hook QuickBooks, Tally, Zoho, SAP, or custom POS databases to our high-performance RESTful API gateway. Secure required asymmetric client-signing SSL certificates and authorize transactions in under 3 seconds with absolute transactional accuracy.
Official Compliance & Corporate Security
Bank-Grade Transaction Privacy
Securing your enterprise financial records and maintaining customer trust is our highest priority. Our integration gateway establishes a highly secure, private tunnel that automatically fiscalizes invoices to the official URA tax servers, ensuring absolute data confidentiality.
Our senior implementation consultants handle the entire security setup, portal registration, and endpoint mapping for you. Your business gets a secure, hassle-free compliance gateway that operates smoothly in the background, requiring zero technical complexity from your internal team.
Hassle-Free Security Onboarding:
- ✓Complete management of your company's secure system keys and portal registrations.
- ✓Official URA compliance validation check performed on all digital tax receipt layouts.
- ✓End-to-end sandbox testing to guarantee a zero-downtime transition for your live POS systems.
Enterprise Trust Specifications
We handle the heavy lifting of tax gateway security parameters so your sales staff, accounting managers, and executive leadership can focus purely on business growth.
Engineered for absolute tax automation
Real-Time 3s Fiscalization
Direct background handshakes secure legal transaction signing, automated XML structuring, and instant submission directly to URA compliance clusters.
Asymmetric SSL Signatures
Secures all payloads utilizing asymmetrical RSA 2048-bit client-signing keys and self-signed certificates, matching URA strict authentication guidelines.
E-Invoice Layout Formatting
Generates legal 6-section receipts containing monopaced verification keys, FD serial numbers, and URA-compliant scannable verification QR links.
Automatic TIN Validations
Validates purchaser TIN numbers in real time directly against official URA databases to secure tax credit allocations and avoid filing rejects.
Dynamic Tax Mapping Engine
Performs automatic net-to-gross calculations, splits transaction discount allocations, and structures local excise duties per item rules.
Credit Notes & Stock Control
Beyond sales invoices: file credit notes (T110) for refunds and returns, and keep URA stock accurate with increases (T131), decreases (T132), and branch-to-branch transfers (T139).
Plug-and-Play ERP Middleware Integration
Any ERP / POS — REST API
Our primary integration path: a single secure REST API (X-API-Key auth) any system can call. Register products, fiscalize invoices, file credit notes, and manage stock straight from your own software.
QuickBooks Online & Desktop
Our most complete connector. OAuth product and invoice sync for Online; local database sync via QB Web Connector for Desktop branches and legacy retail registers.
Zoho Books & Custom POS
Direct connection over our RESTful JSON endpoints — capture invoices on creation and trigger immediate EFRIS fiscalization from Zoho or any bespoke POS.
Xero — Beta
Xero connectivity is in active development. Talk to us to join the early-access rollout and shape the integration for your workflow.
Every EFRIS Document, One Gateway
This isn't just invoice fiscalization. Our gateway implements the full set of URA EFRIS interfaces so your ERP can handle the entire fiscal lifecycle — sales, refunds, stock, and reference lookups — through one authenticated REST API.
Invoices
- ✓Standard B2C & B2B (buyer TIN)
- ✓Export invoices (T112)
- ✓Zero-rated, Exempt & Deemed VAT
- ✓Item & invoice-level discounts
Credit Notes
- ✓Refunds, returns & cancellations
- ✓Linked to the original invoice
- ✓Query by original invoice number
Products & Stock
- ✓Register goods & services
- ✓Automatic opening stock
- ✓Stock increase, decrease & branch transfer (T139)
Excise Duty
- ✓Fixed-rate & percentage excise
- ✓Beer, spirits, cigarettes, soft drinks, fuel
- ✓Works with discounts & every tax type
Reference Lookups
- ✓Taxpayer validation by TIN
- ✓Commodity categories & units of measure
- ✓Excise codes & branch listing (T138)
Health & Diagnostics
- ✓Live server-time sync
- ✓Gateway diagnostic self-test
- ✓Invoice status & failed-only queries
RESTful JSON API Integration
One HTTPS endpoint, authenticated with a single X-API-Key header. Post a plain-JSON invoice and receive the signed URA fiscal document number (FDN) and scannable verification QR — no XML wrangling, no certificate handling on your side.
- ✓Multi-company, multi-tenant isolation with per-client API keys & rate limiting
- ✓Standard, B2B, Export, Zero-rated, Exempt & Deemed VAT invoices
- ✓Safe-retry lookups (
GET /invoice/{number}) to prevent double-fiscalization
// 1. Authenticate with your gateway API key
const res = await fetch(url, {
method: 'POST',
headers: { 'X-API-Key': 'msk_live_…' },
body: JSON.stringify({
format: 'simple',
invoice_number: 'INV-2026-0009',
customer_name: 'Mary Jane',
items: [{ item_name: 'Shoes', quantity: 1,
unit_price: 11800, tax_rate: 18 }]
})
});
// 2. Signed URA fiscal receipt returns in seconds
const { fdn, qrCode } = await res.json();
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Postman Collection
Every endpoint — invoices, credit notes, products, stock, purchase orders, and reference data — pre-built with example payloads. Import and fire real requests in minutes.
Custom ERP Integration Guide
Field-by-field reference for product registration, invoicing, credit notes, stock, and packaging — including excise duty, discounts, and every tax type. Everything a developer needs to wire up any ERP.
Ready to automate your URA EFRIS compliance?
Mapping databases, configuring QuickBooks desktop connectors, and managing SSL certificate keys requires technical expertise. Our Kampala-based senior tax integration engineers handle the entire process from endpoint mapping to public certificate portal upload, guaranteeing a secure, stress-free integration.