Most invoice tools are built for English. Arabic invoices bring their own challenges: right-to-left text mixed with Latin product codes, Arabic-Indic digits (٠١٢٣٤٥٦٧٨٩), the Arabic decimal separator (٫), Hijri dates, and currency written as ر.س or د.إ. AlFasil is built for exactly this.
What AlFasil handles
- Names stay in Arabic. Supplier names and item descriptions are kept exactly as written — never translated or transliterated.
- Digits are normalized.
١٬٢٣٤٫٥٠becomes1234.50in your spreadsheet, so formulas work. - Currency symbols such as ر.س, د.إ, ر.ق, د.ك and د.ب become SAR, AED, QAR, KWD and BHD.
- Hijri dates are converted to Gregorian using the Umm al-Qura calendar; the printed Hijri date is kept in its own column.
- Three-decimal currencies (KWD, BHD, OMR) keep their precision:
1.500dinars stays 1.5, not 1,500.
Arabic spreadsheets
Choose Arabic column headers when exporting and the Excel sheet opens right-to-left. Or keep English headers with Arabic content — useful when your accounting system expects English column names.
Bilingual documents
Gulf invoices are often printed in both languages. AlFasil reads both and records the languages it found, so you can filter by them later.