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EI Bridge

Egyptian e-invoicing, fully automated — for any ERP.

EI Bridge Enterprise connects any ERP to the Egyptian Tax Authority through two database views or two staging tables. It validates, signs and submits every invoice around the clock, and turns live tax-authority data into your VAT and withholding returns — without changing a line of ERP code.

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Real-time operations hub and FX Studio
Real-time operations hub and FX Studio
Lines of ERP code changed
Zero
Hardware token signing time
< 10 ms
Automatic rejection guard
72h
Accounting hours saved yearly
500+
  • Any ERP: SAP, Dynamics, Odoo or custom
  • Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server
  • Egypt Trust and MCDR e-Tokens
  • GS1 and EGS catalogues
  • Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace
  • RSA-2048 signed licensing

Why finance leaders choose EI Bridge

Six business problems, solved on day one

EI Bridge was engineered around the costs that quietly drain Egyptian finance departments every single year.

  • Works with any ERP, zero touch

    EI Bridge never touches your ERP. Your DBA exposes two views — or two staging tables — and that is the whole integration. SAP, Oracle EBS, Dynamics, Odoo or a fully custom system all work the same way, because EI Bridge only reads its own contract layer. And where no database link is possible at all, invoices import straight from Excel.

  • Tax intelligence: VAT Form 10 and WHT Form 41

    Save 500+ accounting hours annually by generating the official VAT return and the WHT Form 41 declaration in a single click, straight from live tax-authority data.

  • 72-hour legal grace shield

    Protect company cash flow. EI Bridge counts down the statutory window and rejects inaccurate vendor invoices before they become legally binding tax debts.

  • Hardware token signing in under 10 ms

    Sign invoices instantly with Keep-Alive PKCS#11 sessions — no PIN prompt per invoice, no stalled batches, no locked tokens at month end.

  • Full GS1 and EGS catalogue visibility

    Drastically reduce “Invalid Item Code” rejections with parallel multi-page synchronisation and full GPC Brick Level 4 classification for every product you sell.

  • One engine, every company

    Run an entire holding group — multiple companies, branches and tax registration numbers — through one unified, licensed engine instead of paying per entity.

Integration model

How it connects to your ERP

One afternoon of DBA work, and not a single line changed inside your ERP. This is the entire integration.

  1. Step 1: Your ERP

    SAP · Oracle EBS · Dynamics · Odoo · or a fully custom system

  2. Step 2: Two views or two tables

    Invoice headers and line items, exposed once by your DBA. Names are configurable per company.

  3. Step 3: EI Bridge

    Reads, validates, signs with your token, and submits — automatically, around the clock.

  4. Step 4: Egyptian Tax Authority

    Accepted, UUID returned, PDF archived and reconciled back to your records.

  • No database access at all?

    Upload invoice headers and line items straight from an Excel file. On this path column names are matched automatically, so your existing spreadsheet layout usually works as-is.

  • Read-only by design

    EI Bridge never writes back into your ERP. Submission status is kept in its own separate table, so read-only access to the two views is enough — and your ERP triggers are never disturbed.

  • A ready SQL script for your DBA

    We hand your DBA one script that creates the two views (or tables) with the exact column names EI Bridge expects. They point it at their own source tables and run it — nothing to guess, nothing to map.

  • One engine, many companies

    Each company in a holding group points at its own views or tables — on its own database server if needed — all managed from a single installation.

The complete product tour

13 enterprise modules. One executable.

Every screen below is a live production module of EI Bridge Enterprise v2.1.2. Select any screenshot to view it full-screen.

Secure sign-in and role-based access control
00Security and connectors

Secure sign-in and role-based access control

The security gateway of the platform. Every user signs in against your own encrypted company directory, and sees only the screens their role permits.

  • Central sign-in verified against your existing company login table over an encrypted connection, with stored-procedure support.
  • Dynamic role isolation that hides sensitive financial reports and tax screens from unauthorised staff.
  • One-click setup and encryption of the master company database connection.

Business value

Complete protection against unauthorised invoice submission, with a precise audit trail behind every action.

Real-time operations hub and FX Studio
01Operations and automation

Real-time operations hub and FX Studio

The daily cockpit for your billing team: what is pending, what went out today, what was rejected — and the tools to fix all of it in bulk.

  • Live flow indicators for pending, submitted-today and rejected invoices.
  • Bulk processing toolbar: requeue submissions and adjust dates to stay inside the statutory window.
  • Excel ingestion as a full alternative path — upload invoice headers and line items straight from a spreadsheet when a database link is not available, with automatic column mapping.
  • FX Studio for multi-currency invoices, plus a visual editor to inspect and correct line items and detailed taxes (T1 VAT, T4 WHT).

Business value

Eliminates the backlog of stuck invoices and avoids late-submission penalties in day-to-day billing.

Executive tax intelligence and compliance cloud
02CFO and tax intelligenceFlagship module

Executive tax intelligence and compliance cloud

The CFO module. A full year of sales and purchase invoices pulled from the tax authority cloud, reconciled, and turned into official filings in seconds.

  • Annual cloud pull of 12 months of sales and purchase invoices, with the taxable base reconciled in seconds.
  • VAT return (Form 10) generated instantly as an official Excel sheet with the approved tax formulas built in.
  • WHT Form 41 engine: quarterly vendor transactions, adjustable withholding rates, multi-sheet Excel export.
  • Smart bulk PDF archiving named by full UUID and amount, foldered by period with an Excel manifest of direct links.

Business value

Saves 500+ accounting hours a year and keeps the company 100% inspection-ready at all times.

24/7 zero-touch submission engine
03Operations and automation

24/7 zero-touch submission engine

Set it once and invoices keep flowing to the tax authority overnight, on weekends, and through the busiest closing periods — with no human on duty.

  • Flexible scheduling: manual runs, timed intervals (every X minutes), or a fixed daily hour.
  • Polly v8 resilience pipeline with Token Bucket rate limiting to protect your IP from throttling and absorb slow tax servers.
  • Sequential batch processing of up to 100 documents per run with live per-invoice status monitoring.
  • Smart circuit breaker that pauses and recovers automatically when the authority endpoint degrades.

Business value

Round-the-clock unattended operation removes the cost of manual data entry and after-hours overtime.

Live ETA portal cloud explorer
04Operations and automation

Live ETA portal cloud explorer

Everything the tax authority portal shows you — but dozens of times faster, searchable, and downloadable in bulk from inside your own network.

  • Instant retrieval of all issued and received documents at 100 documents per page.
  • One-click download of the official signed PDF invoice complete with its QR code.
  • Inspect the unified cryptographic document structure (JSON) and the CAdES-BES signature fingerprint.

Business value

Recovers hundreds of hours otherwise lost to manual searching and slow page loads on the tax authority website.

Vendor invoices and 72-hour rejection countdown
05CFO and tax intelligence

Vendor invoices and 72-hour rejection countdown

Egyptian law gives you 72 hours to reject a wrong vendor invoice. Miss the window and it becomes your tax liability. This module makes sure you never miss it.

  • Live countdown of the statutory 72-hour rejection window with colour-coded alerts as the deadline approaches.
  • Formally reject an invoice and transmit the rejection request to the tax authority instantly with a legal reason code.
  • Automatic calculation of claimable input VAT for deduction inside the VAT return.

Business value

Protects company cash from paying tax on incorrect or fictitious invoices before they are irreversibly accepted.

ETA item codes and catalogue intelligence engine
06Operations and automationFlagship module

ETA item codes and catalogue intelligence engine

The single biggest cause of rejected invoices in Egypt is a missing or wrong item code. This engine removes that failure mode entirely.

  • Parallel full synchronisation of every published GS1 code and EGS code for thousands of items in seconds.
  • Instant local cache — the catalogue loads in 0 seconds and searches complete in under 2 ms with no lag.
  • Global GPC Brick Level 4 tax classification surfaced in its own searchable column.
  • Pro context menu to copy codes or push them straight into your ERP codes table.
  • Official tax Excel template for uploading thousands of codes at once with automatic EG-[RIN] numbering.

Business value

Sharply reduces “Invalid Item Code” rejections and makes launching new products immediate.

Document packages and legal bulk tax archiving
07CFO and tax intelligence

Document packages and legal bulk tax archiving

When the auditor asks for two years of invoices, you hand over a single indexed archive instead of scheduling a week of printing.

  • Request and generate bulk tax packages for thousands of invoices directly from the authority servers for any period.
  • Download packages in approved CSV, XML and JSON formats.
  • Store the compressed ZIP archives on your own company servers for reference during a tax inspection.

Business value

Total readiness for the annual tax inspection and an end to the cost of collecting and printing paper invoices.

Real-time email alerts and exception polling
08Operations and automation

Real-time email alerts and exception polling

A rejected invoice you find out about three weeks later is a penalty. One you find out about in three minutes is a correction.

  • Scheduled periodic polling of the tax authority servers to detect rejected or cancelled invoices the moment they happen.
  • Full compatibility with Microsoft 365, Google Workspace and on-premise Exchange SMTP.
  • Simultaneous instant notifications to multiple recipients across finance and IT.

Business value

Immediate intervention to correct invoices before the rejection window closes, avoiding penalties.

E-Token and digital signature health centre
09Security and connectors

E-Token and digital signature health centre

Billing stops the day a certificate expires or a token locks. This centre makes sure that day never arrives unannounced.

  • Automatic live detection of USB tokens, digital certificates and loaded drivers.
  • Proactive warning 30 days before certificate expiry, with a persistent banner on the main screen.
  • Silent ultra-fast RSA-2048 signing test in under 10 ms to confirm the key and PIN are healthy.
  • Built-in preventive guidance that stops accidental permanent PUK lockout of the token.

Business value

Prevents unplanned billing stoppages and last-minute certificate renewal emergencies.

Enterprise licence and subscription governance hub
10Security and connectors

Enterprise licence and subscription governance hub

Full transparency over what you are licensed for, how long it runs, and how many companies it covers — cryptographically verified, not self-reported.

  • Live tracking of licence status, remaining days and the number of authorised companies.
  • RSA-2048 cryptographic verification with a cloud time anchor that defeats local clock tampering.
  • Renew and upgrade licences and copy full technical reports with a single click.

Business value

Complete clarity over licensing cost and uninterrupted service continuity with no surprises.

Multi-company architecture and ERP connectors
11Security and connectors

Multi-company architecture and ERP connectors

Built for holding groups: every company, branch and tax registration number managed from one installation — each pointing at its own views or staging tables, on its own server if needed.

  • Manage holding groups and their multiple subsidiaries and branches under one unified application.
  • Reads through two views or two staging tables, so SAP, Oracle EBS, Dynamics, Odoo or any custom ERP integrates without one line of change to it.
  • Instant connectivity test buttons for both the databases and the tax authority endpoints.

Business value

Cuts licensing cost by more than 70% by running every company through one unified engine.

Platform identity, NILE.COM support and cloud auto-updater
12Security and connectors

Platform identity, NILE.COM support and cloud auto-updater

Egyptian tax rules change. EI Bridge keeps up on its own — and there is a named Egyptian company answering the phone when you need one.

  • Verified corporate identity from NILE.COM with direct support channels by phone, fax and web.
  • Zero-downtime cloud auto-updater that installs the latest release with a single click.
  • Fully standalone executable (61 MB) with no external runtimes, IIS roles or dependency chains.

Business value

Near-zero IT maintenance cost while the system stays aligned with the latest Egyptian tax legislation.

Build your business case

How much time does EI Bridge give you back?

Move the sliders to match your operation. The figures update instantly.

From 100 to 50,000
From 1 to 15

Illustrative model: assumes 4 minutes of manual handling per invoice plus 40 hours of monthly reconciliation, filing and portal work per accountant — of which EI Bridge automates roughly 65%. Not a measurement of any specific deployment.

Annual hours saved
2,548
Months of labour equivalent
15.9
Full working days returned to the team
319

Technical comparison

EI Bridge v2.1.2 vs. traditional middleware

Ten engineering criteria that decide whether an e-invoicing project succeeds or stalls.

  • Engineering criterion: Impact on ERP source code

    EI Bridge Enterprise v2.1.2
    Reads two views or two staging tables — any ERP integrates with zero code change (Zero-Touch).
    Traditional middleware
    Requires ERP code modification and expensive development fees.

  • Engineering criterion: Supported source systems

    EI Bridge Enterprise v2.1.2
    Any ERP via views or staging tables on Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle — plus direct Excel import.
    Traditional middleware
    Tied to one ERP vendor or a single database engine.

  • Engineering criterion: Digital signing speed

    EI Bridge Enterprise v2.1.2
    Keep-Alive PKCS#11 hardware session — signing completes in under 10 ms.
    Traditional middleware
    Prompts for the token PIN on every invoice, stalling submission.

  • Engineering criterion: VAT return (Form 10)

    EI Bridge Enterprise v2.1.2
    Annual cloud pull and one-click generation of the approved Form 10 return.
    Traditional middleware
    Not available — requires laborious manual consolidation in Excel.
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  • Engineering criterion: Withholding tax return (Form 41)

    EI Bridge Enterprise v2.1.2
    Consolidates vendor transactions, adjusts withholding rates and exports an approved Excel workbook.
    Traditional middleware
    Not available.

  • Engineering criterion: Vendor invoices and the 72-hour window

    EI Bridge Enterprise v2.1.2
    Live countdown of the statutory 72-hour window with instant formal rejection.
    Traditional middleware
    Not available — requires checking the tax portal manually every day.

  • Engineering criterion: Item coding (GS1 and EGS)

    EI Bridge Enterprise v2.1.2
    Parallel full sync of GS1 and EGS with GPC Brick Level 4 and instant local cache.
    Traditional middleware
    GS1 codes go missing or coverage is limited to a small subset.

  • Engineering criterion: Smart PDF invoice archiving

    EI Bridge Enterprise v2.1.2
    Automatic naming by full UUID and amount, foldered by period with an Excel manifest.
    Traditional middleware
    Manual downloads with random, unorganised file names.

  • Engineering criterion: E-Token monitoring

    EI Bridge Enterprise v2.1.2
    Live USB detection, 30-day expiry warning and an instant cryptographic signing test.
    Traditional middleware
    None — billing stops abruptly the day the certificate expires.

  • Engineering criterion: Deployment package

    EI Bridge Enterprise v2.1.2
    One fully standalone executable (61 MB) — copy, run, done.
    Traditional middleware
    Complex installers with multiple IIS roles and runtime dependencies.
EI Bridge product box

The licensed package

What you actually receive

EI Bridge Enterprise ships as one licensed package. No modules sold separately, no per-user surprises, no professional-services invoice to make it work.

  • One standalone executable

    A single self-contained 61 MB EXE. No IIS roles, no external runtimes, no dependency chain to maintain.

  • All 13 modules included

    Every screen on this page, from tax intelligence to token health. Nothing gated behind a higher tier.

  • Multi-company licence

    Run an entire holding group’s companies and tax registration numbers under one RSA-2048 signed licence.

  • Zero-downtime updates

    The cloud auto-updater keeps you aligned with new Egyptian tax legislation at no additional cost.

  • Direct NILE.COM support

    A named Egyptian company behind the product, with phone, fax and web support channels.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Do we have to change our ERP?

No. Your DBA exposes two database views — or two staging tables fed by your own procedures — with the column names EI Bridge expects. We provide a ready SQL script for this. EI Bridge reads from that layer only and never writes back into your ERP.

Which databases and ERPs are supported?

Any ERP that can expose views or staging tables on Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle — including SAP, Oracle EBS, Dynamics, Odoo and fully custom systems.

What if we have no database access at all?

Upload invoice headers and line items straight from an Excel file. Column names are matched automatically, so your existing spreadsheet layout usually works as-is.

Can one installation serve several companies?

Yes. Each company in a group points at its own views or tables — on its own database server if needed — and all of them run under one RSA-2048 signed multi-company licence.

Which signing tokens does it work with?

Egypt Trust and MCDR e-Tokens. EI Bridge keeps a PKCS#11 session open so it does not ask for the PIN on every invoice, and its token health centre warns you 30 days before a certificate expires.

How are updates delivered?

A built-in cloud auto-updater installs new releases with a single click and without downtime, keeping you aligned with new Egyptian tax legislation at no additional cost.

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Book a 30-minute live session with the NILE.COM engineering team. We will connect to a sample of your Oracle or SQL Server data and submit a real invoice end-to-end.

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