Validated
Jurisdictions · Egypt
Egypt: the validated baseline.
Egypt is the only jurisdiction we call validated, and the word is doing real work. The founder’s NREA-licensed EPC arm runs this platform daily on Egyptian projects — every VAT line, withholding certificate, e-invoice and permit task on this page is exercised in production by us before it is sold to you. Everywhere else we are honest about being earlier. Here, the platform is simply how the company runs.
§01 · REGULATORY SNAPSHOT
The numbers the engine carries for Egypt
Choose Egypt in Setup & Legal and this is what cascades through the record — no localisation pack, no manual table of rates.
| Currency | EGP — with multi-currency lines in EGP, SAR, AED, JOD, USD and EUR when a project needs them |
|---|---|
| VAT | 14%, applied on invoices by the jurisdiction profile |
| Withholding tax | 3–10% by vendor category, applied on AP bills, with WHT certificates for vendors |
| E-invoicing | ETA — generation of compliant e-invoices with QR is live; submission to the government gateway is on the integration roadmap |
| Authorities encoded | NREA · EgyptERA · regional DISCOs · municipality · Civil Defense · ETA |
| Geography | 27 governorates and a DisCo picker on the record |
Authority names as encoded in the engine’s Egypt profile: the New & Renewable Energy Authority, the Egyptian Electric Utility & Consumer Protection Regulatory Agency, the regional distribution companies, the local municipality, the Civil Defense Authority and the Egyptian Tax Authority.
One detail worth saying out loud: Egypt is a profile, not a hardcoded default. The engine reads the jurisdiction off the lead or the project and routes from there — which is why the same platform can carry an Egyptian rooftop and a Jordanian one side by side without either record borrowing the other’s tax rules.
§02 · RUNS NATIVELY
What the dashboard runs natively for Egypt
Not integrations, not add-ons — behaviour the engine executes because the project says Egypt. The test is simple: raise an invoice and watch it carry 14% VAT, a withholding line and an ETA e-invoice without anyone configuring a tax table first.
- ETA e-invoicing — Finance generates ETA-compliant e-invoices with QR. Submission to the government gateway is on the integration roadmap; we say that plainly rather than imply a connection that does not exist yet.
- Withholding tax — Egyptian AP bills apply 3–10% WHT by vendor category, and the platform produces the WHT certificates your vendors will ask for.
- Labour rules — payroll, leave and end-of-service follow Egyptian labour rules in HR, and payroll lands in finance through the payroll-to-finance bridge.
- Compliance calendar — Egyptian filing and renewal obligations on the calendar, not in someone’s head.
- Geography — 27 governorates and a DisCo picker on leads and projects, so the record knows which distribution company your interconnection answers to.
- Permits in the delivery path — Egyptian projects carry DISCO net-metering, municipality structural and Civil Defense fire-safety permits inside the 8-state delivery machine, with evidence attachments and audit-logged transitions.
- The wedge, end to end — an Egyptian lead gets a 2-second quick estimate, watermarked “preliminary — engineering review pending”; the engineer opens the designer studio auto-seeded with no re-keying; and the won deal auto-creates the project with the study, SLD and BOM attached.
§03 · THE STUDIO SIDE
What the studio produces for the Egyptian market
The design studio is where the Egyptian heritage runs deepest: the engine began as the founder’s Cairo engineering workbook, used on 2.5+ GW of Benban-financed projects, and every release is regression-gated to within ±0.5% of that validated baseline.
- Egyptian tariffs in the jurisdiction tariff set, with load analysis from a flat bill or a 12-month consumption profile.
- Simulation on a PVGIS 8,760-hour typical meteorological year, with a full hourly shading matrix and bypass-diode mismatch modelling — the physics does not get simpler because the market is local.
- 25-year NPV, IRR and payback against the tariff the client actually pays, plus a costed BOM and a client one-pager for the sales conversation.
- The DISCO net-metering package — the engineering single-line diagram and permit package shaped for Egyptian net-metering applications.
- NREA filings covered by the permit package — the same filings our own licensed arm submits.
- The 10-section bankable feasibility PDF — IEC 61724-1 methodology, P50/P90 with documented uncertainty — priced per study in EGP below.
§04 · EGYPT PRICING
Priced for the Egyptian market, in EGP
Global pricing is in dollars. For Egyptian companies we also quote in EGP, two ways — both indicative pending local validation.
Pay per study
EGP 900–1,200
per bankable study
The on-ramp: pay for the studies you produce. No subscription, no seat count.
Whole-company flat
EGP 10,000–15,000
per month
One flat monthly figure for the whole company — predictable in a market where dollar subscriptions are not.
Indicative pending local validation — these EGP points are being validated with Egyptian EPCs now. The dollar plans on the pricing page are the fixed list: $199, $499 and $899 per month, annual at monthly × 10.
There is no free tier and no self-serve signup theatre. The on-ramp is the study itself — pay per bankable PDF, see what the engine produces for a real Egyptian site, then decide whether the company moves onto the platform. Demos are founder-led.
§05 · CUSTOMER ZERO
We also build solar in Egypt ourselves.
Voltara Systems is a software company — and the founder also operates a licensed Egyptian solar-EPC services arm, NREA-licensed, that runs on this platform daily. The Egyptian profile is not market research; it is the system of record of a working Egyptian contractor. When an ETA rule shifts or a DISCO changes its forms, we feel it on our own invoices and permit files first — and the profile gets corrected because our own delivery depends on it.
§06 · QUESTIONS
Egypt, asked straight
- Does Voltara generate ETA-compliant e-invoices?
- Yes. Finance generates ETA-compliant e-invoices with QR for Egyptian projects today. Submission to the government gateway is on the integration roadmap — generation is live, the gateway connection is not, and we keep that distinction explicit.
- Does it support Egyptian net-metering applications?
- The design studio produces the DISCO net-metering package — the engineering single-line diagram and permit package an Egyptian net-metering application needs — alongside NREA filings. On the dashboard side, the project carries the DISCO net-metering permit through the delivery states, with the municipality structural and Civil Defense fire-safety permits tracked as their own items where the project requires them.
- How is the 3–10% withholding tax handled?
- Per vendor category, on AP bills: the engine applies the right withholding rate for the vendor’s category when the bill is recorded, and produces the WHT certificates vendors ask for.
- Is Egypt really validated?
- Yes — and it is the only jurisdiction we call validated. Our own NREA-licensed EPC arm runs the platform daily on Egyptian projects, and the design engine is regression-gated against the founder’s Cairo baseline — the workbook used on 2.5+ GW of Benban-financed projects — to within ±0.5% on every release.
Run Egypt on the validated baseline.
Demos are founder-led, from Cairo. We will raise an Egyptian invoice with VAT and withholding, generate the ETA e-invoice with its QR, and walk a rooftop through the DISCO permit path — on the same platform our own crews bill on.
EGP pricing is indicative pending local validation. Paddle.com is the merchant of record for the dollar plans.