BIR POS accreditation (Permit to Use)

BIR POS accreditation — formally a Permit to Use (PTU) — is a separate approval from your business's own BIR registration: it certifies a specific computerised system to issue official receipts and sales invoices.

This is general information, not tax or legal advice — confirm the current rule with your accountant or the BIR before relying on it.

Not yet reviewed by an accountant or BIR consultant.

Why it matters

Registering your business with the BIR and accrediting the specific software you use to print receipts are two different processes. Having the first does not give the second any legal force — a system without its own PTU cannot legally print a document labelled as an official receipt or sales invoice, no matter how correct its arithmetic is.

This trips people up because the two are easy to conflate: a property is properly registered, a piece of software prints a professional-looking receipt with the property's TIN on it, and it is natural to assume that makes the document official. It does not, on its own.

If a printed document from an unaccredited system is labelled as an official receipt or sales invoice, that is a real misrepresentation — to the guest and to the BIR — regardless of whether the numbers on it happen to be correct.

In MangoHost

MangoHost has not been accredited by the BIR as a point-of-sale or computerised accounting system. By default, every printed restaurant bill states this plainly rather than staying quiet about it. If your property has separately obtained its own Permit to Use for this system, you can enter your permit number and machine serial in Settings, and the document prints as a Sales Invoice with both on it. Obtaining that permit — if you want or need it — is your property's own process with the BIR; MangoHost does not apply for it on your behalf and does not claim to already hold it.

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Related terms

BIR registrationBIR registration is a property's registration with the Bureau of Internal Revenue — the tax registration that makes it a legal business.
Senior citizen and PWD discountPhilippine law entitles senior citizens and persons with disability to a 20% discount and VAT exemption on their share of a restaurant bill, on presentation of a valid ID.

MangoHost gives Philippine properties these numbers without a month-end spreadsheet. Book a 30-minute walkthrough and see them on your own rooms.