Forms.qa prices in Qatari Riyals. Every other SaaS company in our category prices in US dollars and leaves the currency conversion to the customer’s card. We made a different call, and we want to explain why — because pricing signals are substantive, not cosmetic.
The default-USD problem
When a SaaS homepage says “$29/month,” a Qatari buyer reads three things at once: the nominal price, a currency-risk tax (whatever FX their card network applies), and a signal that the buyer isn’t the primary audience. The third is the one that matters. USD-only pricing says, quietly, “we built this for somewhere else.”
What QAR pricing signals
Four things, all substantive:
- We assume you’re here. Our homepage, our pricing page, our invoices, our support hours — all calibrated for Qatar and the wider Gulf. QAR pricing is just the most visible artefact.
- No surprise tax footnote. Qatar has not introduced VAT (and the timeline keeps slipping). Our QAR price is what you pay. If Qatar adopts VAT, we will itemise it transparently — never bury it in a “plus applicable taxes” line.
- We carry the FX risk. Our cloud bills are in USD; your QAR price doesn’t move when the Riyal does, because the peg (QAR 3.64 = USD 1 since 2001) makes that honest. If we ever price in SAR or AED, that’s a call we absorb, not something we pass to you line-item.
- Procurement can process us without escalation. A Qatari procurement workflow that approves any QAR purchase under X at Tier-1 without legal escalation means Forms.qa fits the default path, not the exception path. This matters more than it sounds — most SaaS spend dies in escalation queues.
How we handle taxes today
Qatar has no VAT today, so the price on our pricing page is the price on your invoice. We track the GCC VAT framework agreement; the day Qatar opts in, we will add a clearly itemised tax line and update this page the same week — not bury it in fine print.
What this means for procurement
If you’re in finance or procurement at a Qatari organisation, QAR pricing does three things for you: it aligns invoices to the same currency as your ledger, removes FX reconciliation work, and makes the vendor-approval case easier. We made this call for those reasons — it wasn’t a branding exercise.
Other currencies
SAR, AED, USD on request — shown as a secondary display option on the pricing page. The pegged GCC currencies (QAR, SAR, AED, BHD, OMR) each have their own peg ratio to USD, so the displayed numbers differ, but none of them moves day-to-day. USD is computed at the current rate with the FX cost bundled in.