Ajman Free Zone activity register
Services licence activities in Ajman Free Zone
The short answer
Ajman Free Zone's Services licence family covers 609 of the zone's 1,689 registered activities, set apart from the 536-activity Commercial family that covers the storage, import, export, and distribution of goods. A Services licence sits against advisory and professional activities instead, such as accounting, bookkeeping, auditing, and tax consultancy. Ajman Free Zone (AFZ) itself decides which activities belong in this family and which combination any one licence can carry. Velarozone works through that register on your behalf; it is not the authority and does not issue the licence.
Ajman Free Zone organises its activity register into three broad groups — industrial/manufacture, commercial, and services — and registers each company structure against one or more of them, as set out on AFZ's own [types of business page](https://afz.gov.ae/en/start-your-business/type-of-business.html). The Services family is built around advisory and professional work: the register includes entries such as Accounting & Bookkeeping, Accounting Records and Books Keeping Organisation, "Accounting, bookkeeping and auditing activities; tax consultancy", and Accounts Auditing. The Commercial family sits alongside it with 536 activities built around trading and the buying and selling of goods; AFZ's own [business licence types page](https://afz.gov.ae/en/start-your-business/business-license-types.html) names the corresponding licence as its Business Licence, alongside a separate Industrial Licence for manufacturing and a Sole Professional Licence for freelancers.
AFZ's own guide to company structures confirms that services is a stand-alone category: a Free Zone Establishment (FZE), a Free Zone Company (FZC), or a branch of a foreign company can each be registered for "commercial, industrial/manufacture or services" activities, set out on its [types of business page](https://afz.gov.ae/en/start-your-business/type-of-business.html). The Government of Ajman's own licence summary draws the same line from the other direction, describing the service licence as the one issued "to those wishing to carry out service activities within the free zone", citing consultation, management studies, and information technology consultation as examples. Neither page tells you which named activities from the register you can combine on one licence — that is settled against AFZ's own list, case by case.
Take a founder applying mainly for Accounting & Bookkeeping, with Accounts Auditing as a second activity. Both names sit inside AFZ's Services family rather than Commercial, since neither involves storing, importing, exporting, or distributing goods. That placement does not by itself confirm the two activities can share one licence — AFZ still checks any combination, within or across families, against its own register at application stage. What it does confirm is the family the founder is applying into, and the broad obligations — renewal, an immigration file for any visas, and federal corporate tax registration — that come with an AFZ licence of any kind.
A Services licence is not tied to one type of workspace. AFZ's own [products and facilities page](https://afz.gov.ae/en/start-your-business/product.html) lists executive offices, furnished offices, a shared business centre, and warehouse space among the products on offer, and a Services licence carries the same ongoing obligations as any other AFZ licence: annual renewal through the authority, an immigration file for any visas attached to the company, and federal corporate tax registration and filing through the Federal Tax Authority.
Velarozone's part in this is to work through AFZ's register with you, match the activity names you actually need against what the Services family contains, and carry the application and renewal paperwork through AFZ's own process — not to decide the licence or stand in for the authority that issues it. [Why Velarozone](/why-velarozone) sets out that division of labour in more detail.
What the Services classification covers
Activities in this family describe work sold as a service: consultancy, training, installation and maintenance, agency work, logistics services, and operational support. Each register entry names a defined service line rather than a product.
Service activities vary widely in their conditions — some are open to any qualified applicant, while others touch a regulated field where a federal or emirate regulator's approval sits alongside the licence.
What a services licence here is structured for
A licence built from this family suits a business that invoices for expertise, time, or operational work rather than for goods — consultancies, agencies, technical services, and support operations.
The activity description should track the service you actually deliver. Advisers see the same failure repeatedly: a broad-sounding activity chosen for convenience, which then does not match the contract a client or bank is reading.
From the register
Activities in this family, by name
A sample of the 609 activities Ajman Free Zone files under Services, exactly as the register names them. Activity names are the authority's own wording and are shown in English in every language; register codes are not published.
- (without Repair) Towing and Transporting of Broken Down Cars
- Accounting & Bookkeeping
- Accounting Records and Books Keeping Organization
- Accounting, bookkeeping and auditing activities; tax consultancy
- Accounts Auditing.
- Acting and Related Arts Training
- Administrative Business Training
- Administrative Training Services
- Advertisement Designing & Producing
- Advertisement Material and Samples Distribution
- Advertising
- Advertising Researches & Consultancies
- Advertising services through websites
- Agents Care Centre
- Agents titling
- Agricultural Enterprises Investment, Institution and Management
- Agricultural Research & Consultancy
- Agriculture and Animal and Fisheries Wealth Engineering Consultancy
- Air Cargo Services
- Air Means of Transportation Inspection and Classification
- Air-Condition, Ventilations, Air Filtration Systems Installation & Maintenance
- Airline Travel Agency
- Alarm Systems Installation, Fitting and Repair
- Alternative Power and Researches Consultancy
- animals Pets Raising
- Antiquities and Precious Acquisitions Repairing
- Antiquities and Traditional Instruments and Ware Making
- Archeological Restoration & Conservation Engineering Services
- Architectural Engineering Consultancy
- Architectural Production and Drawing Technical Consultancy
What this page does not decide
Decision factors
What changes the answer
This Services family sits inside AFZ's wider activity register, which the authority maintains and can revise independently of this page.
- The register snapshot behind this page was captured on 25 August 2026; AFZ can add, retire, or re-categorise activities after that date.
- Any activity name quoted here should be checked against AFZ's current list before it goes on an application.
- Facility products such as offices, business centre space, and warehouses are listed separately from the licence itself and can change independently of the activity register.
Where this family is a strong fit
- Your core activity is accounting, bookkeeping, auditing, tax consultancy, or a comparable professional or advisory service, rather than buying and selling physical goods.
- You hold, or are setting up, a company structure that AFZ permits to register for services activities — its own guide names the FZE, the FZC, and the foreign company branch explicitly.
- You can work from one of AFZ's own facility products — an executive office, a furnished office, or shared business centre space — rather than needing a large warehouse footprint.
- You are comfortable having the exact activity names on your licence confirmed during the application against AFZ's register, rather than before it.
Where it is the wrong family
- Your core activity is storing, importing, exporting, or distributing goods — that sits in AFZ's Commercial family, not Services.
- You need manufacturing or production capability — that sits in AFZ's industrial/manufacture category.
- You are a single freelancer working alone within one of AFZ's listed freelancer categories; AFZ runs a separate Sole Professional/Freelancer package for that case.
- You need a confirmed figure today for fees, visa allocation, or processing time before AFZ's own activity check has run; none of that is fixed by the activity list alone.
About this listing
Questions
Frequently asked
- What is Ajman Free Zone's Services licence family?
- It is the group of 609 activities, out of the zone's 1,689-activity register, that AFZ classes as services rather than commercial or industrial. It covers advisory and professional work such as accounting, bookkeeping, and auditing, rather than the storage, import, export, or distribution of goods.
- How does a Services licence differ from a Commercial licence at AFZ?
- AFZ's Commercial family runs to 536 activities built around trading and the buying and selling of goods, while the Services family covers consultancy and professional work. The Government of Ajman's own licence summary describes the service licence as covering activities such as consultation, management studies, and information technology consultation.
- How does a Services licence differ from AFZ's Industrial licence?
- AFZ's own licence-types page describes the Industrial Licence as providing manufacturing facilities within the free zone, covering the import of raw materials, the manufacture of listed goods, and the export of the finished product. The Services family sits apart from that altogether: it is built around advisory and professional work, such as accounting, bookkeeping, or consultancy, with no manufacturing or production step involved.
- Which company structures can hold a Services licence?
- AFZ's own guide to business structures confirms that a Free Zone Establishment (FZE), a Free Zone Company (FZC), or a branch of a foreign company can each be registered for services activities, alongside commercial or industrial/manufacture activities. The same guide covers the branch of a local company as a separate option.
- Can a Services licence also cover Commercial activities?
- AFZ's own pages set out Services and Commercial as separate categories in its activity register, but neither page states on its own whether a single licence can combine activities drawn from both. Which named activities, from which family, can sit together on one licence is decided by AFZ's own activity check, case by case; this page does not assume an answer either way ahead of that check.
- What ongoing obligations come with an AFZ Services licence?
- The same ones that apply across AFZ: annual licence renewal through the authority, an immigration file covering any visas issued against the company, and federal corporate tax registration and filing through the Federal Tax Authority.
Check where this activity can be licensed
Velarozone can work through which named activities in AFZ's Services family match what you actually do, and carry the application through AFZ's own process from there.
This page is general information about UAE business setup, not legal, tax, immigration, or banking advice. Rules, fees, permitted activities, and bank policies can change. Final eligibility depends on your facts and the applicable rules at the time of application.