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Every application on a real free-zone process, with an owner at every step

Thirteen steps for RAKEZ, eleven for Ajman Free Zone, and a full ANC path. Not a generic pipeline with stages you renamed, but the actual sequence each authority puts you through.

The problem

Nobody can tell you what step an application is on

Ask three people about the same file and you get three answers. The coordinator thinks documents are complete, finance is waiting on a payment nobody chased, and the client was told 'next week' eight days ago.

  • Missing documents surface halfway through instead of at the start.
  • Files sit with someone who has been on leave since Tuesday.
  • There is no record of who approved what, so mistakes turn into arguments.
  • The client gets a status only when they chase for one.
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Al Noor Trading LLC
RAKEZ · 13-step workflow · Step 4 of 13
ETA 04 Sep
Paused, waiting on client
  1. Application createdSales
  2. Quotation sentSales
  3. Client onboarding formClient
  4. Documents collectedCoordinator
  5. Payment approvedFinance
  6. Free-zone processingOperations
  7. Supervisor approvalSupervisor

The stepper: current step, the role that owns it, and an ETA marked paused because the ball is in the client's court.

The workflow

What happens between a signed client and an issued license

Every step below is a hand-off. The system knows whose turn it is, and the audit log knows who had it last.

  1. 01

    Application created

    Sales

    Converted from a won lead in one click, or opened directly by sales.

  2. 02

    Sales review and quotation

    Sales

    Package and pricing set, branded quotation PDF generated and emailed.

  3. 03

    Client onboarding

    Client

    The client fills in their own company details through a secure link. No login, no back-and-forth email.

  4. 04

    Documents collected and verified

    Coordinator

    A checklist per application. Coordinators see what has landed and what is missing without opening a drive folder.

  5. 05

    Payment recorded and approved

    Finance

    Finance signs off before processing starts, so nothing gets submitted against an unpaid file.

  6. 06

    Free-zone processing

    Operations

    The authority-specific steps: name reservation, initial approval, documentation, issuance. Your team works the real process.

  7. 07

    Supervisor approval

    Supervisor

    A final check before the license is marked issued and the client is activated.

Client-facing ETA

The clock stops when you're waiting on them

Each application carries a milestone-based estimated completion date. The moment a step depends on the client, whether for a passport copy, a signature or a decision, the countdown pauses and the reason is written on their screen.

  • Your ETA stays credible because it is not absorbing client-side delay.
  • Clients see exactly what is blocking them and can act on it from the app.
  • A public tracker covers clients who never install anything, with no login required.
  • Milestones update as steps complete, so the date moves for real reasons only.
9:41
Al Noor Trading LLC
RAKEZ · Commercial license
Estimated completion4 Sep
Step 4 of 13
Action needed
Upload the shareholder passport copy to keep your timeline on track.
Upload document
  1. Documents received
  2. Payment confirmed
  3. Name reservation
  4. License issued

Documents, checked once

Each application carries its own document checklist. Uploads land in encrypted cloud storage attached to the file, not in a shared drive folder someone renamed. Coordinators verify against the list rather than from memory.

A trail you can defend

Every action is logged with who did it, which role they were acting in, and when. When a client disputes a timeline or a colleague disputes an approval, the answer is in the record instead of in someone's recollection.

Activity finder

Describe what the client's business actually does and get back matching licensed activities from roughly 19,000 RAKEZ and AFZ entries. It turns a twenty-minute search through a PDF into a sentence.

Scope, honestly

Two things this doesn't do

Worth knowing before you talk to us rather than after the contract.

There is no workflow builder

Workflows are built and maintained by us, per free zone, to match each authority's real process. You don't drag steps around in an editor. If your process differs, tell us when you get in touch.

There is no direct authority integration

Nothing submits to RAKEZ or AFZ portals on your behalf. Free-zone data is reference data; your team still does the submission. What changes is that the tracking around it stops being manual.

Next step

Run one of your live applications through it

Pick an application currently stuck somewhere. We'll show you where it would sit, who would own it, and what the client would be seeing.