Countries · Gulf (GCC)
Accounting, invoicing & POS software for Bahrain.
Manama retailers, restaurants, salons, and service firms run on one platform: POS tills that keep selling offline, 10% VAT posted on every sale and purchase, three-decimal dinar amounts, and Arabic and English on one page.
- Retail and restaurant POS that works offline
- 10% and zero-rated VAT ready
- Three-decimal dinar on screen, receipt, and ledger
- Arabic–English documents
Workspace settings
BH- Country
- Bahrain
- Base currency
- BHD · Bahraini dinar
- VAT
- 10% · 0%
- Registration
- VAT registration number
- Languages
- Arabic and English
Chosen once at setup. Rates, labels, currency, and financial year stay editable — a new rate is a setting, not an upgrade.
Out of the box
What ships for Bahrain.
These are the defaults the workspace starts with when you pick the country. Every one of them is a setting you can change.
| Setting | Default for Bahrain |
|---|---|
| Tax regime | VAT, with inclusive or exclusive pricing per business, and tax split to its own ledger on every posting. |
| Shipped rates |
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| On documents | Your VAT registration number and business details on every invoice, quotation, receipt, and voucher. |
| Currency | Bahraini dinar (BHD) as the home currency, with the right number of decimals on every document and in the books. |
| Languages | Workspace in Arabic and English, with right-to-left layout in Arabic and paired Arabic–English labels on printed documents. |
| Financial year | The calendar year is typical. Set yours, and lock closed periods. |
Why it fits here
Built for how business runs in Bahrain.
Flowyana is POS and VAT software for Bahrain businesses that want the till and the books to agree. A 10% rate on VAT-inclusive shelf and menu prices means the tax has to be backed out of every line correctly and posted to its own ledger. Flowyana computes tax per line, inclusive or exclusive, and the receipt, the voucher, and the tax summary all show the same figure.
The retail POS scans barcodes and counts stock per branch; the restaurant POS runs floors, tables, and kitchen tickets, with recipes that consume ingredients as dishes sell. Both keep selling and printing when the connection drops. The dinar is kept to three decimals on the POS, on documents, and in the ledger, and each drawer closes in a cash session against its expected total.
From your postings, the tax returns report gives a standard VAT return: taxable sales and output VAT, purchases and input VAT, exports, reverse charge, and the net, with every figure opening to its documents. You or your accountant enter the figures on the NBR portal, then lock the period so nothing posts behind it.
Businesses here are often small teams doing several things at once: a salon that retails products, a café with a catering arm, a trader with a showroom. Each product has its own plans, so the salon takes bookings and POS, the café takes restaurant POS and purchasing, and both add accounting when they want the books in the same place.
Compliance, stated plainly
E-invoicing and filing in Bahrain
VAT has been 10% since 1 January 2022, with a 0% rate for zero-rated supplies such as basic food items. VAT returns are filed with the National Bureau for Revenue, monthly for larger businesses and quarterly for others. The NBR is designing a phased e-invoicing system for invoices between businesses, expected to begin with large taxpayers, but no effective dates or technical format had been published.
Source: National Bureau for Revenue (NBR), Bahrain, as of October 2026.
What Flowyana does — and does not — claim
- Does: posts VAT to its own ledger on every sale, purchase, expense, and POS settlement; keeps a tax summary that agrees with the ledger; puts your VAT registration number on every document; locks closed periods.
- Does not: claim certified integration with any e-invoicing or filing platform. Get any vendor’s status in writing before you buy — including ours — and let your accountant confirm what and when you must file.
Common in this market
The businesses we see most in Bahrain.
Each industry has its own page with the module set, the workflow, and the automation that fits it — and each buys only the modules it runs.
Retail & supermarkets
Barcode tills, stock per branch, drawers that reconcile.
See the setup →Restaurants & cafés
Floors, KOT, VAT-inclusive menus with tax split in the books.
See the setup →Salons & spas
Appointments, retail at the counter, product stock counted.
See the setup →Contractors & maintenance
Job cards and tickets that end in invoices.
See the setup →Agencies & consultancies
Pipeline to project to invoice, live P&L.
See the setup →Questions
Flowyana in Bahrain, answered.
Is Flowyana POS software for Bahrain shops and restaurants?
Yes. The retail POS handles barcode scanning, stock per branch, and cash sessions; the restaurant POS adds floors, tables, kitchen tickets, and recipes that consume stock. Every sale posts with its 10% VAT into the same books.
Is Bahrain’s 10% VAT set up?
Yes. The Bahrain profile ships 10% standard and 0% zero-rated VAT, inclusive or exclusive pricing, and the tax posts to its own ledger on every sale, purchase, expense, and POS settlement.
Does it prepare the Bahrain VAT return?
It gives you a standard VAT return report from your own postings: taxable sales, output VAT, purchases, input VAT, exports, reverse charge, and the net. There is no box-by-box NBR layout yet. Filing on the NBR portal is done by you or your accountant.
Does the POS work without internet?
Yes. The till keeps selling and printing without a connection and sends its sales to the books when the connection returns.
What about the dinar’s three decimal places?
The dinar is handled with three decimals on documents, on the POS, and in the ledger, so fils amounts print and post exactly. Cash rounding at the till can be set to the step you use.
What about NBR e-invoicing?
No dates or formats had been published as of October 2026, and we make no claim about a system that does not yet exist. Your invoices are already structured, VAT-split records, which is what any e-invoicing route builds on.
Can we invoice in dollars?
Not yet. Books and documents are kept in one home currency, the dinar. If you need to issue invoices in several currencies, tell us before you buy.
See Flowyana set up for Bahrain.
Tell us what you sell and how many branches you run in Bahrain. We’ll set the workspace up with your VAT rates, currency, and documents, walk you through it live, and recommend the plan that fits.