The Nigeria Revenue Service (NRS) has authorised Upperlink Limited as the system integrator on Nigeria’s national e-invoicing platform, even as the company will support businesses while Nigeria advances the phased implementation of mandatory electronic invoicing.

The authorisation will enable Upperlink to connect businesses and institutions to the NRS Merchant Buyer Solution (MBS) framework, support real-time invoice validation, secure transmission, and compliant digital tax reporting in line with the new national e-invoicing regime.

The Managing Director of Upperlink, Olusegun Akano, said the company’s authorisation as a System Integrator reflects its long-standing strength in enterprise technology, digital infrastructure, and nationally scaled service delivery. The company has built a reputation as one of Nigeria’s premier indigenous technology firms.

“We have delivered secure, scalable, and easy-to-use platforms for business, government, financial services, and digital transformation initiatives. We are licensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as a Payment Solution Service Provider (PSSP) and operate as an aggregator to the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS).

This underscores our depth in regulated payment infrastructure and transaction technology. We are the first ICANN-accredited registrar in Nigeria. This is our additional capability in digital infrastructure and cloud-related services,” Akano explained.

Further, the Chief Marketing Officer, Opeyemi Oni, shed light on the NRS’s Mandate. He said the NRS approval has strengthened Upperlink’s commitment to “helping Nigerian businesses comply seamlessly with the new e-Invoicing framework while reducing operational friction, improving transparency, and enabling trusted digital record keeping across the ecosystem.”

This development comes at a critical time in Nigeria’s tax digitisation journey. The NRS has confirmed a phased rollout of e-Invoicing across large, medium, and emerging taxpayers, with mandatory onboarding windows tied to annual turnover bands above N5 billion, between N1 billion and N5 billion, and below N1 billion.

Businesses are expected to integrate their invoicing or accounting processes with the NRS-approved framework and ensure real-time issuance, validation, and submission of invoices through authorised channels from their go-live dates.

As a system integrator, Upperlink would design, deploy, integrate and support invoicing compliant systems for organisations that need to connect with the national e-Invoicing infrastructure. This includes support for businesses with existing enterprise systems as well as organisations that require middleware or portal-based solutions to meet the new compliance obligations.