Zoho Books
VerifiedCloud accounting software with invoicing, expense tracking, banking, and inventory for growing businesses
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- Starting price Free
- Free trial Available
- Best for Freelancers, Startups, SMEs
What is Zoho Books?
Zoho Books is cloud-based accounting software built for small and mid-sized businesses. It handles invoicing, expense and bill tracking, bank reconciliation, sales and purchase orders, inventory, and tax compliance, with over 50 built-in reports. Higher tiers add multi-currency support, project time tracking, fixed assets, budgeting, cashflow forecasting, and advanced inventory with warehouse management. It integrates with the wider Zoho suite (CRM, Inventory, Payroll) as well as payment gateways and banks.
While positioned primarily as accounting software, Zoho Books includes project and timesheet features that let teams log billable and non-billable hours against projects and convert tracked time directly into client invoices, which makes it relevant to time-tracking workflows for service businesses. It is available as a web app with iOS and Android mobile apps, offers a free plan for very small businesses under a revenue threshold, and a 14-day free trial on paid plans. Pricing is tiered by organization, with limits on users, invoices, and bills that increase at each level.
Key Features of Zoho Books
Zoho Books lists 10 documented features, including Professional invoicing with online payment links and automated payment reminders, Bank feed integration and automated transaction reconciliation and Expense and bill tracking with receipt autoscan. The list below covers what the product does rather than how it is marketed.
- Professional invoicing with online payment links and automated payment reminders
- Bank feed integration and automated transaction reconciliation
- Expense and bill tracking with receipt autoscan
- Project and timesheet tracking with billable/non-billable hours converted to invoices
- Sales and purchase order management
- Inventory management with reorder alerts and warehouse tracking (higher tiers)
- Multi-currency and multi-language invoicing
- Sales tax and VAT tracking with automated tax computation
- Custom workflows and automation via Deluge scripting
- 50+ built-in financial reports and dashboards
Zoho Books Pricing
Zoho Books lists 6 plans, starting free and running to $275.
Free
Free
1 user + 1 accountant, up to 1,000 invoices/year, businesses under $50K annual revenue
Professional
$50/month ($40/month billed annually)
5 users, up to 10,000 invoices/year
Elite
$150/month ($120/month billed annually)
10 users, up to 100,000 invoices/year, advanced inventory
Ultimate
$275/month ($240/month billed annually)
15 users, up to 100,000 invoices/year, advanced analytics
Zoho Books Specifications
Zoho Books is available on web app and has iOS and Android apps. It offers an API, has a free trial and has a free plan.
- Deployment
- Cloud Based
- Billing cycle
- Monthly
- Desktop
- Web App
- Mobile
- iOS
- Android
- Languages
- English
- Built for
- Freelancers
- Startups
- SMEs
- Agencies
- Support
- Phone
- Live Support
- Integrations
- Integrates with Zoho ecosystem apps (Zoho CRM, Zoho Inventory, Zoho Payroll, Zoho Expense), payment gateways (Stripe, PayPal, Square), banks for feed import, Shopify, and G Suite/Microsoft 365
- Public API
- Yes
- Free trial
- Yes
- Free plan
- Yes
- Runs in browser
- Yes
- Customisable
- Yes
- Website
- zoho.com
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