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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Hubstaff

    Score9.4 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Hubstaff is a workforce analytics software tailored to boost productivity in remote, hybrid, and in-house teams while fostering a positive employee experience. Integrating with over 30 apps, Hubstaff's key features include time tracking, screenshots, activity tracking, URL and app monitoring, workforce analytics, automatic payroll and invoicing, scheduling, GPS and location monitoring, and timesheets. Hubstaff is compatible with Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome, iOS, and…

    $14

    per month 2 seats (minimum)

    Zoho Books

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AZoho Books is an accounting solution that is designed to help small businesses manage their finances. This solution includes dashboards and a wide variety of reports. Business users can automate tasks and set up custom workflows. Zoho offers a 14 day free trial.

    $20

    per month

    Pricing
    HubstaffZoho Books
    Editions & Modules
    Starter
    $7
    per month per user (2 seat minimum)
    Grow
    $9
    per month per user (2 seat minimum)
    Team
    $12
    per month per user (2 seat minimum)
    Enterprise
    $300
    per year per seat
    Free
    $0
    For businesses with turnover <50K USD per annum
    Standard
    $20
    per month per org
    Professional
    $50
    per month per org
    Premium
    $70
    per month per org
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    HubstaffZoho Books
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual pricing.Zoho Books is available for both monthly and yearly plans. Users who sign up for the annual plan get a discount.
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    Features
    HubstaffZoho Books
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of Hubstaff and Zoho Books
    Feature
    Hubstaff
    -
    Ratings
    Zoho Books
    8.2
    18 Ratings
    8% above category average
    API for custom integration00 Ratings8.218 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Hubstaff and Zoho Books
    Feature
    Hubstaff
    -
    Ratings
    Zoho Books
    8.6
    28 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Single sign-on capability00 Ratings8.622 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.626 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Hubstaff and Zoho Books
    Feature
    Hubstaff
    -
    Ratings
    Zoho Books
    9.0
    27 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings8.727 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings9.225 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
    Comparison of General Ledger and Configurable Accounting features of Hubstaff and Zoho Books
    Feature
    Hubstaff
    -
    Ratings
    Zoho Books
    8.3
    28 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Accounts payable00 Ratings8.426 Ratings
    Accounts receivable00 Ratings9.227 Ratings
    Cash management00 Ratings7.925 Ratings
    Bank reconciliation00 Ratings7.825 Ratings
    Expense management00 Ratings8.126 Ratings
    Time tracking00 Ratings8.518 Ratings
    Multi-currency support00 Ratings8.117 Ratings
    Regulations compliance00 Ratings8.015 Ratings
    Self-service portal00 Ratings8.819 Ratings
    Inventory Management
    Comparison of Inventory Management features of Hubstaff and Zoho Books
    Feature
    Hubstaff
    -
    Ratings
    Zoho Books
    8.0
    16 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Inventory tracking00 Ratings8.216 Ratings
    Automatic reordering00 Ratings7.810 Ratings
    Order Management
    Comparison of Order Management features of Hubstaff and Zoho Books
    Feature
    Hubstaff
    -
    Ratings
    Zoho Books
    8.7
    25 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Pricing00 Ratings8.421 Ratings
    Order entry00 Ratings9.420 Ratings
    Credit card processing00 Ratings8.020 Ratings
    Cost of goods sold00 Ratings8.820 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    HubstaffZoho Books
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.6
    (24 ratings)
    8.9
    (29 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.7
    (3 ratings)
    8.9
    (11 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    5.3
    (5 ratings)
    Configurability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    HubstaffZoho Books
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Hubstaff
    It enables you to monitor workers' time on every project. It monitors productivity even if an internet connection is not available. It provides a customizable interface. Every task is customizable to suit project requirements. It allows you to track time from anywhere in the world. In this way, it provides powerful insights to determine how many hours are required to do a project.
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    Zoho
    If using other cloud applications and you wish to create Zoho Books transactions via APIs, Zoho Books is great. The overall UI and flow of the application are great. If you need a detailed job cost accounting solution and robust reporting there is some room for improvement here.
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    Pros
    Hubstaff
    • Its interface is also quite easy to handle and is designed in a user friendly way.
    • Overall, I feel that Hubstaff is a very useful invention that has the ability to attract and fascinate users.
    • Hubstaff offers a customizable and easily tailored according to your requirements user interface where with the help of just one click you can start or even stop tracking your daily project activities.
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    Zoho
    • Zoho Books invoicing and receipting features are second to none. We find it easy to quickly invoice clients and add items to their bills and also for our own receipting internally.
    • The accounting features are great for our accounting team to be able to see where we are financially and how the business is doing.
    • The ability to add contacts and run a mini CRM channel with clients within Zoho is invaluable. Since we use this in conjunction with our other CRM channels, it helps to have a centralized place to follow up and see through a sales funnel.
    • Zoho Books allows us to take payments from clients around the globe a feature we didn't have when we used another accounting system.
    • The pricing for Zoho Books is fairly reasonable for an SME organization which is a great for us as it pays itself back many times over every month.
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    Cons
    Hubstaff
    • I am having a problem with its customer support. [I feel it is] one of the worst customer service I have gone through for the longest time. They did not even know about their own platform, response time is late and there is no such name of help from their side what so ever which makes it a very difficult platform to use.
    • [I believe it] needs a lot of upgrades in customer support system.
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    Zoho
    • Zoho Books is only available in Texas and California. There is no integration allowed for paying employee expenses. The absolute worst aspect is the fact that if you make even the slightest error in data input there is no backing up. You cannot undo an error.
    • The system does not allow change once implemented, so you must get every one of your beginning balances perfect. The practice of Journal Entries is cumbersome. When reconciling, Zoho Books has adopted a number of required steps that significantly overcomplicate reconciliation using practices that are not consistent with general accounting principles in the US.
    • On the customer side, you must look in two places to see the beginning balance and the current receivables that might exist for current invoicing.
    • The way the system works, you must avoid having much trust with the balances depicted. So far, it appears that Zoho Books uses what we called in school "that new math."
    • It would be terrifying to rely on this bookkeeping system to support an IRS Audit. The system violates too many fundamental accounting principles.
    • The software is used by so few people that there is concern that we might never find a skilled bookkeeper.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Hubstaff
    Because it's easy to implement and use. It does not disrupt your work.
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    Zoho
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    Usability
    Hubstaff
    I give it 9 because it is really good for time tracking and managing remote teams. It helps me to manage my team very efficiently. Still, prices are high, so don't give 10. I need more discounts to add more team. Also need more accuracy as users are now fooling the tools with various cheats. Overall it is good and helfull
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    Zoho
    Customization is the biggest struggle for us and most of the time we need to involve a tech person. The chat support is a great feature and very helpful. It would be great to be able to customize and create invoices and correspondence (templates) such are reminders in multiple languages within one organization. The currency (USD) would be the same. We have clients in different countries that don't speak English but pay in USD.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Hubstaff
    I've never had any issues and always received proper support. They let you know in advance when they'll be in maintenance and it's always in odd hours, so it's good. You still can use it when they are maintaining it.
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    Zoho
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Hubstaff
    I've never had any issues. It loads correctly and works like a charm.
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    Zoho
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Hubstaff
    Hubstaff has always responded to support requests in a timely manner and has kept me in the loop of changes. When contacting them about future changes/features they've always been upfront on whether that is a change they are looking to make and when that change may occur. Finally, if the person I have communicated with was unable to resolve, they always escalated to the next best person who can answer/resolve.
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    Zoho
    The support team feels very disjointed. We have filtered through a number of "lead" contacts and are frequently spammed by other Zoho members. Once getting an appropriate support contact on the phone - the team is very helpful, it just takes a lot of hoop jumping to get there. We actually unsubscribed from their support package as we were not getting the value we were looking for.
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    Implementation Rating
    Hubstaff
    None, everything went smoothly.
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    Zoho
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Hubstaff
    Hubstaff keeps interesting and smart features and functions. The most interesting feature is the reporting feature that has brought much convenience
    to me. It is no doubt a great tool for planning budgets, managing workflows,
    tracking time, and best supervision capabilities.
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    Zoho
    We had a lot of problems with Exact Online, support-wise and price-wise. So Zoho Books wins on every point there. While Exact offers way more options, it tends to be really slow... and complex. Again Zoho Books wins. If you want an easy-to-use tool and not pay a lot of money, or if you are a small administration office with a few clients, this tool will be perfect for you.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Hubstaff
    I didn't help purchase this product. We just implement it.
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    Zoho
    No answers on this topic
    Professional Services
    Hubstaff
    Not sure we used the professional service.
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    Zoho
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    Return on Investment
    Hubstaff
    • Hubstaff has enabled us to identify the most productive workers which enables us to maximize profitability.
    • Hubstaff has enabled us to quickly identify drops in engagement or output, or just poor performance due to not caring so we can move on instead of trying to fit a square peg into a round hole.
    • HubStaff lets us actively measure retainers vs delivered hours and adjust contracts to what we really need based on our time expenditures.
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    Zoho
    • Integration: Zoho Books offers out of the box integrations to extend the functionality and connect with the applications you love like MailChimp, Microsoft Outlook, PandaDoc, and Quickbooks, etc.
    • Flexibility makes Zoho Books great!
    • Since I can use forecast reports, I can create customizable sales forecast data from the dashboard to accurately measure revenue forecasts and establish sales quotas.
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