PRA E-IMS compliance, from the same counter as FBR

No — they are two authorities with separate systems. A Punjab restaurant that is also registered for federal sales tax can owe reporting to both, which is why running two disconnected tools is a common and expensive mistake. eInvoicePro submits to FBR and to PRA E-IMS from the same counter, so staff learn one workflow instead of two.

Scope turns on turnover, not on sector. Rule 3 of the Punjab Electronic Invoice Monitoring System Rules 2019 catches a registered person with turnover of Rs 6 million or more from restaurant services, or Rs 10 million or more from any other service, in FY 2017-18 or any year since. The August 2026 enforcement drive names hotels, restaurants, coffee shops and marriage halls, but that is the drive, not the scope of the duty. Confirm your own position with a qualified tax adviser before you budget.

No. PRA's August 2026 enforcement notification bars handwritten receipts, kitchen order slips and pre-bills at hotels, restaurants, coffee shops and marriage halls. Note that nothing commenced on a single date in August — the duty to invoice through e-IMS rests on the 2019 Rules, and PRA was already issuing show-cause notices over it in 2024. What changed in 2026 is the intensity of enforcement, not the obligation.

Yes, on the same turnover basis as anyone else. This is widely reported the other way round, so it is worth being precise: the 2019 Rules contain no schedule of covered sectors, and rule 11 repealed the older restaurant-only rules, so e-IMS reaches all registered persons over the threshold. Personal-care services are taxable under the Second Schedule at headings 9821.4000 and 9821.5000, and PRA's own Circular No. 1 of 2026 lists restaurants, hotels and beauty parlours together as its major service sectors. A parlour over Rs 10 million turnover is in scope.

Not issuing an EIMS receipt carries a penalty of between Rs 400,000 and Rs 1,000,000, and repeat violations can result in the premises being sealed for up to one month. The penalty attaches to the receipt itself, so a sale that was recorded correctly in your accounts can still expose you if the customer was given the wrong document. How a particular default is characterised depends on your own facts — take advice rather than relying on the range alone.

Do not start by buying software. Read what the notice actually alleges and which period it covers, confirm whether your business is in the enforced categories and over the Rs 6 million annual income threshold, and put the notice in front of a qualified tax adviser before you respond — response windows are short and an answer given quickly but wrongly is harder to walk back than one given properly. Once you know your position, getting compliant stops the exposure from continuing. We are happy to look at the operational side with you on a short call.

Usually yes. Counters can keep their familiar screens while eInvoicePro handles validation and submission behind them, either through the product or through the API for POS software houses. Book a demo and we will map your current counter flow before anything is replaced.

A PRA integration is scoped by how many counters you run, whether branches share tax treatment, and whether you are integrating an existing POS or starting on eInvoicePro screens. A single-site restaurant is a different project from a multi-branch marriage hall operator — we scope it on a short call rather than quoting a number that fits nobody.