The Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority (ZATCA), has made “ZAKATY" service available for individuals “optionally", allowing them to pay their Zakat through ZAKATY App or the official website (zakaty.gov.sa), using trusted, and secured payment methods, through e-payments channels, in a way that ensures a fast and flexible service execution. 

ZATCA spokesperson, Mr. Houmod Alharbi, has explained that  ZAKATY service, comes from ZATCA's commitment into finding a complete Zakat services; which offers individuals the opportunity to perform their Zakat smoothly, and in complete easiness, to deliver directly to deserving beneficiaries, confirming that the total amount of the Zakat received by individuals through the service has benefited those deserving beneficiaries of Zakat, registered for Social Insurance and Empowerment Agency in the Ministry of Human  Resources and Social Development, indicating that the service offers the accessibility to select the deserving beneficiaries of Zakat, most notably, families most in need of housing, divorced families, prisoner's families, and other deserving beneficiaries.

Mr. Alharbi added that the service allows individuals to calculate the amount due of Zakat of all kinds, including, money, gold, silver, Saudi & foreign stocks, investment funds, real estate, and  trade offers, noting that the service offers the feature of calculating Zakat on gold according to its purity, ZAKATY service is associated to global prices of gold and silver, and also offers the ability to access the prices of stocks and investment funds daily in the market closing price.

ZATCA's spokesperson mentioned that “ZAKATY" service has witnessed a large and increasing interaction to individuals, which has reached the total amount that benefitted deserving beneficiaries of Zakat of all categories, since establishing the service 8 years ago, for more than 760 million SAR.​