Features

Everything Purpl does.

127 things Purpl does, on iPhone, Android and the web.

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Purpl AI assistant

Type or speak. It creates, updates and answers from your own books, and checks every change with you first.

  • Create invoices, quotes, receipts, bills, purchase orders, salaries and claims by describing themAI
  • Update documents, and add or edit contacts and productsAI
  • Duplicate a document, or convert a quote straight into an invoiceAI
  • Every change shows a confirmation, with its total, before it commitsAI
  • Mark documents as sent, and quotes as accepted or rejectedAI
  • Record a customer's payment against an invoiceAI
  • Approve, reject, void or pay out expense claimsAI
  • Profit & loss, cash flow and a dashboard summary for any period you nameAI
  • Overdue invoices, and which customers owe you mostAI
  • Revenue by customer, spend by vendor, and your best-selling productsAI
  • Every figure it quotes matches what your screens showAI
  • Voice mode: hold to speak, release to sendAI
  • Spoken replies, read aloudAI
  • Attach a receipt, bill or trade licence and Purpl works out what it isAI
  • Search invoices, bills, quotes, receipts, purchase orders, claims, salaries, contacts and productsAI
  • Open the assistant from the Reports hub and the dashboardAI

Document scanning

Photograph it and the form fills itself.

  • Scan receipts and bills with your camera; the form fills itself, with VAT per itemAI
  • Scan purchase ordersAI
  • Scan PDFs of up to five pages on your phoneAI
  • Scan your trade licence to fill in your business detailsAI
  • Arabic-only address fields translated to English automaticallyAI
  • Review and confirm every scan before it saves

Invoices, quotes & receipts

From quote to cash, with full UAE VAT on every line.

  • Quotes, invoices and receipts with full VAT support
  • Convert a quote into an invoice in one tap
  • Cancel and reissue: create a new version from a cancelled document
  • Cancelling a receipt reverses the linked invoice payment
  • Standalone receipts for cash sales
  • Discounts and fees in percent or AED
  • Email documents straight from the app
  • Customers accept or decline quotes from the email, no login needed
  • Choose a PDF design for each document, with a full-screen preview

Bills, purchase orders & claims

Every cost recorded once, with the paperwork attached.

  • Bills and purchase orders with VAT-inclusive or exclusive lines
  • Turn a purchase order into a bill
  • Quick Bill for costs with no supplier bill, paid now or later
  • Record bill payments, including partial payments
  • Attach several files to a bill
  • Smart vendor matching to avoid duplicate suppliers
  • Petty cash payments
  • Expense claims with an approval queue
  • Salaries and payslips, emailed to employees

Credit notes, returns & advances

Corrections that keep a clean audit trail.

  • Credit notes against sent or paid invoices, with the original kept intact
  • Debit notes on bills
  • Sales and purchase returns
  • Customer and vendor refunds tied to the real credit balance
  • Record customer advances and deposits, then apply them to invoices
  • Link an advance to a quote so it applies when the quote becomes an invoice

Recurring documents

Set it once for rent, retainers and subscriptions.

  • Invoices that send on a schedule: daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly or yearly
  • Bills that repeat, such as rent, utilities and subscriptions
  • Approve generated documents one by one or all at once
  • Skip one occurrence without breaking the schedule
  • Resume a paused schedule and catch up missed cycles
  • An optional reminder the day before a recurring bill is due

UAE VAT & compliance

Your UAE VAT return, prepared from your own books.

  • The complete UAE VAT return, every box calculated from your invoices and bills
  • Tap any box to see the exact transactions behind it
  • Validate and lock a period, with the filing deadline in view
  • File on EmaraTax, then record the reference back in Purpl
  • Sales broken down by emirate, the way the FTA asks for it
  • Reverse charge handled end to end, with the required statement on the invoice
  • Partial VAT recovery worked out and squared up at year end
  • Told which period is affected if something changes after filing
  • Bills claiming input VAT without a tax invoice flagged before a period locks
  • Exempt and zero-rated items labelled on PDFs
  • Export the return as PDF or CSV for your accountant

Accounting & books

Real double-entry books, written for you.

  • Journal entries written automatically for invoices, bills and receipts
  • Chart of accounts you can manage
  • Trial Balance, Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss, Cash Flow and Account Ledger
  • Opening balances from your existing financial statements
  • Guardrails that stop entries in closed periods
  • Fixed assets with automatic depreciation
  • Capitalise a bill straight into an asset
  • Share capital, shareholder loans, contributions and drawings

Bank reconciliation

Match your statement to your books in minutes.

  • Import your bank statement as CSV or Excel
  • Match transactions to invoices, bills and receipts, including partial payments
  • Categorise anything else straight to an account
  • Bank rules that fill in recurring transactions like rent automatically
  • Progress per account, with duplicate detection

Reports, forecasts & insights

Know where the business stands, and where it is heading.

  • Reports hub with Purpl AI one tap away
  • Income and bill insights with tap-to-drill charts
  • Sales funnel from quote to invoice to receipt
  • Payroll report with summary, details and disbursements
  • Weekly Business Update: last week, the next fortnight, and a 14-day cash viewAI
  • Chase overdue invoices by call, WhatsApp or email from the weekly update
  • 6-month forecast of revenue, costs, profit and cashAI
  • What-if scenarios, each compared with your base forecastAI
  • CFO Deck with a Business Health Score and AI-written insightsAI
  • Figures in AI-written forecasts and weekly updates are checked against your dataAI

Team, documents & security

Run it with your team, safely.

  • Roles and permissions, including a Finance Team role
  • New employees receive their login by email
  • Face ID or fingerprint lock
  • Business Passport: your key company documents in one place
  • Document Vault for every invoice, bill, receipt and note
  • Product catalogue with categories and monthly trends
  • Request account deletion in the app, with a grace period

iOS, Android & web

One account on your phone and your desktop.

  • Native apps for iPhone and Android
  • A full desktop web app at app.purplai.com, with a side rail and wider data views
  • Top up tokens with a card on the web, or in the app through the App Store and Google Play
  • Dark mode on every screen
  • Calendar of reminders, invoice due dates and bill payments
  • Guided tours and per-screen help for first-time users
  • In-app support with attachments, or chat with the team on WhatsApp
  • A demo workspace full of sample data in the mobile app, no sign-up needed

Inventory

Stock that stays in step with your books.

  • Track any product as a stock item, with its quantity and unit of measure
  • Stock valued at weighted average cost, recalculated on every purchase
  • Bills for stock add to Inventory, and every sale records its cost of goods sold automatically
  • Sales and purchase returns valued at the cost that actually applied
  • Stock adjustments for count differences, damage, loss and write-downs, each reversible
  • Selling more than you hold is refused, so quantities never go negative
  • Opening stock entered item by item, checked against your uploaded financial statements
  • Stock Summary, Valuation, Movements, Adjustments, Ageing and Margin by item reports
  • Export the stock reports as PDF for your accountant
  • Inventory-to-ledger reconciliation that names which stock class is out

Document templates

Invoices and quotes that look like your brand.

  • Design your own templates in a full-page builder on the web, where the preview is exactly the PDF
  • One builder for quotes, invoices, receipts, bills and purchase orders
  • Start from a gallery of templates and presets for colour and type
  • Drag sections into place, reorder table columns, and hide a field without deleting it
  • Paper size, orientation and page numbers that reach the printed document
  • Save a draft, test-send it to yourself, then publish
  • Version history with a side-by-side comparison and one-tap restore
  • Quick edits on your phone with a full-page, zoomable preview

Arabic

The whole app, and your documents, in Arabic.

  • The full app in Arabic, switchable in Language & Region settings
  • Invoices, quotes, receipts and other PDFs in Arabic, with Arabic fonts built in
  • Notifications and emails in each user's own language
  • Purpl AI replies in Arabic when the app is in ArabicAI

Card payments

Get paid by card, straight from the invoice.

  • Generate a card payment link from any invoice and email it to your customer
  • A payment page your customer opens with no login and no app
  • Connect your Stripe account inside Purpl, with live status
  • Payouts broken down to the invoices inside them, with fees reconciled automatically

Start free today.

Every new account gets 2,500 tokens, around 100 invoices' worth. Top up only when you need more. See pricing

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