SAP Business One vs. Zoho One

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
SAP Business One
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
SAP Business One is an integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution for small and medium-sized businesses, The product encompasses functionality around sales, customer relationships, inventory, operations, financials and human resources.
$99
per month
Zoho One
Score 9.5 out of 10
N/A
Zoho One is a suite product from Zoho Corporation, that combines their sales and marketing application, and also gives organizations a comprehensive set of tools to organize finances, track payables, and manage bills and expenses.
$45
per month per employee
Pricing
SAP Business OneZoho One
Editions & Modules
Limited
$99.00
per month
Starter
$110.00
per month
Pro
$132.00
per month
All Employee Pricing
$444
per year per employee (Must purchase license for ALL employees)
Flexible User Pricing
$1080
per year Licenses for any no. of users
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
SAP Business OneZoho One
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsMonth-to-month plans available.
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Community Pulse
SAP Business OneZoho One
Features
SAP Business OneZoho One
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP Business One
9.9
12 Ratings
30% above category average
Zoho One
9.5
4 Ratings
26% above category average
Pay calculation10.011 Ratings9.73 Ratings
Benefit plan administration10.09 Ratings9.24 Ratings
Direct deposit files9.510 Ratings9.73 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
SAP Business One
9.7
40 Ratings
27% above category average
Zoho One
8.5
7 Ratings
14% above category average
API for custom integration9.738 Ratings8.67 Ratings
Plug-ins9.837 Ratings8.57 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
SAP Business One
9.7
44 Ratings
15% above category average
Zoho One
9.1
9 Ratings
9% above category average
Single sign-on capability9.636 Ratings9.49 Ratings
Role-based user permissions9.843 Ratings8.99 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
SAP Business One
8.8
45 Ratings
18% above category average
Zoho One
8.5
9 Ratings
15% above category average
Dashboards8.540 Ratings8.59 Ratings
Standard reports9.045 Ratings8.59 Ratings
Custom reports8.841 Ratings8.69 Ratings
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
Comparison of General Ledger and Configurable Accounting features of Product A and Product B
SAP Business One
5.9
46 Ratings
26% below category average
Zoho One
7.6
6 Ratings
1% below category average
Accounts payable9.746 Ratings8.06 Ratings
Accounts receivable9.945 Ratings8.26 Ratings
Global Financial Support9.328 Ratings7.34 Ratings
Primary and Secondary Ledgers8.831 Ratings6.03 Ratings
Journals and Reconciliations9.538 Ratings7.54 Ratings
Configurable Accounting9.436 Ratings8.04 Ratings
Standardized Processes9.541 Ratings8.06 Ratings
Inventory Management
Comparison of Inventory Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP Business One
9.3
45 Ratings
16% above category average
Zoho One
9.5
4 Ratings
18% above category average
Inventory tracking9.645 Ratings9.54 Ratings
Automatic reordering9.631 Ratings9.33 Ratings
Location management9.841 Ratings9.74 Ratings
Order Management
Comparison of Order Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP Business One
7.7
43 Ratings
1% below category average
Zoho One
9.0
7 Ratings
14% above category average
Pricing9.441 Ratings9.17 Ratings
Order entry9.743 Ratings9.26 Ratings
Credit card processing8.124 Ratings9.34 Ratings
Cost of goods sold9.442 Ratings9.24 Ratings
Order Orchestration9.833 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Subledger and Financial Process
Comparison of Subledger and Financial Process features of Product A and Product B
SAP Business One
7.3
39 Ratings
2% below category average
Zoho One
7.7
7 Ratings
3% above category average
Billing Management9.534 Ratings7.47 Ratings
Cash and Asset Management9.830 Ratings7.44 Ratings
Travel & Expense Management9.123 Ratings8.85 Ratings
Budgetary Control & Encumbrance Accounting9.428 Ratings8.25 Ratings
Period Close9.535 Ratings6.54 Ratings
Project Financial Management
Comparison of Project Financial Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP Business One
7.0
19 Ratings
8% below category average
Zoho One
-
Ratings
Budgeting and Forecasting7.017 Ratings00 Ratings
Project Costing7.016 Ratings00 Ratings
Cost Capture7.016 Ratings00 Ratings
Capital Project Management7.011 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer Contract Compliance7.014 Ratings00 Ratings
Project Revenue Recognition6.116 Ratings00 Ratings
Project Execution Management
Comparison of Project Execution Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP Business One
8.8
17 Ratings
22% above category average
Zoho One
8.0
6 Ratings
13% above category average
Project Planning and Scheduling9.516 Ratings9.56 Ratings
Task Insight for Project Managers9.313 Ratings8.66 Ratings
Project Mobile Functionality7.912 Ratings6.25 Ratings
Definable Resource Pools8.810 Ratings7.54 Ratings
Grants Management
Comparison of Grants Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP Business One
8.4
16 Ratings
13% above category average
Zoho One
9.5
2 Ratings
25% above category average
Award Lifecycle Management10.010 Ratings9.52 Ratings
Procurement
Comparison of Procurement features of Product A and Product B
SAP Business One
8.5
19 Ratings
19% above category average
Zoho One
8.0
3 Ratings
13% above category average
Bids Analyzed and Compared9.512 Ratings9.03 Ratings
Contract Authoring10.013 Ratings7.52 Ratings
Contract Repository9.011 Ratings7.52 Ratings
Requisitions-to-Purchase Orders Integrated9.515 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Supplier Management9.514 Ratings8.33 Ratings
Risk Management
Comparison of Risk Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP Business One
8.5
11 Ratings
25% above category average
Zoho One
9.1
4 Ratings
31% above category average
Risk Repository9.29 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Control Management8.910 Ratings9.33 Ratings
Control Efficiency Assessments8.99 Ratings8.03 Ratings
Issue Detection8.910 Ratings9.52 Ratings
Remediation and Certification10.07 Ratings9.52 Ratings
Logistics
Comparison of Logistics features of Product A and Product B
SAP Business One
7.8
25 Ratings
13% above category average
Zoho One
8.4
2 Ratings
20% above category average
Transportation Planning and Optimization9.317 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Transportation Execution Management8.815 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Trade and Customs Management9.215 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Fulfillment Management8.418 Ratings8.92 Ratings
Warehouse Workforce Management8.916 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Manufacturing
Comparison of Manufacturing features of Product A and Product B
SAP Business One
8.6
21 Ratings
14% above category average
Zoho One
8.4
1 Ratings
12% above category average
Production Process Design8.119 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Production Management10.019 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Configuration Management8.115 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Work Execution8.617 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Manufacturing Costs8.817 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Supply Chain
Comparison of Supply Chain features of Product A and Product B
SAP Business One
7.8
27 Ratings
8% above category average
Zoho One
8.5
3 Ratings
17% above category average
Forecasting8.325 Ratings7.12 Ratings
Inventory Planning8.127 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Performance Monitoring7.821 Ratings9.52 Ratings
Product Lifecycle Management
Comparison of Product Lifecycle Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP Business One
9.5
19 Ratings
27% above category average
Zoho One
8.5
1 Ratings
16% above category average
Proposal Management7.415 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Product Master Data Management9.117 Ratings8.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
SAP Business OneZoho One
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
(50 ratings)
9.4
(12 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
4.6
(9 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.7
(14 ratings)
9.0
(10 ratings)
Availability
9.0
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(11 ratings)
5.5
(1 ratings)
In-Person Training
7.7
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
4.5
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
2.8
(24 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
SAP Business OneZoho One
Likelihood to Recommend
SAP
SAP Business One would be more useful if it contained tools to acommodate the growing need of online sales. A more complete shipping module which handles tracking numbers with the common couriers would be great. A built in warehouse management system would be great designed to be used with barcode scanners
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Zoho
Zoho One helps me to create and document each of my closures by creating deals. Zoho One helps me to generate reports, which helps me to track my contact. Zoho One helps me on creating tasks and reminds me to get it done on time. Zoho One keeps each steps and actions I took from lead to a deal.
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Pros
SAP
  • SAP Business One is more suitable for small and medium scale enterprises
  • SAP Business One is : analytics, mobile technologies, cloud technologies
  • SAP Business One has exceptional performance in handling business functions such as purchasing and operations and customer relationship management
  • An important key features of SAP Business One is Reporting and Analytics.
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Zoho
  • Customized dashboards
  • Easy to see the kpis for different aspects of my business
  • And offers a consolidation of CRM campaign and other applications without having to use other technologies from other companies so it's great to consulate consolidated
  • The analytics is great what else
  • Collaboration tools are excellent
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Cons
SAP
  • Following a bench mark process - this seems contradicting to flexibility however we have wished we could follow more of an industry benchmark. Our challenge as a small company has been knowing how to properly use the system. We have discovered that we have set up the system wrong based and are using it improperly which has cause a lot work to correct.
  • Better live reporting options - current we are on prem SQL. Yes SAP is moving to HANA however smaller companies like ourselves are not ready for that. We need to be able to maintain our existing SQL DB. We also have a demand for live BI Reporting. It has been difficult to do this with our current set up.
  • Error handling - have found it very difficult to troubleshoot. Errors are not always clear and answers are hard to find.
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Zoho
  • In my opinion, SUPPORT IS AWFUL!!!
  • If you want to get in touch with a support representative, your best bet is to call the sales number and demand to speak with an agent.
  • Each of the tools operates in a silo, from a support perspective. Some applications, like books, have chat-based support and others require an e-mail.
  • In my experience, expect any e-mail to the main support e-mail to go unanswered.
  • The first year of support was great, but after we renewed for the second year, it has become terrible.
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Likelihood to Renew
SAP
As I said before, it is a first level tool, well developed, and with very strong development support, although the learning curve, its implementation, the cost-benefit ratio, the price and the user experience is not the most suitable for small and medium-sized companies. It is a company with extensive experience, market positioning, technical support and expanded use
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Zoho
No answers on this topic
Usability
SAP
I would like to give 8 out of 10 rating for SAP Business One because SAP Business One is a good choice for the mostly used business management solutions for the small and medium-sized companies. SAP Business One can help in optimizing the existing business process and enables streamline business processes for the daily activities for all users across the entire organization. The importance realization of SAP Business One implementation is based on the selection of the good reputation partner and its approach for the entire implementation. SAP Business One is a user-friendly and easy to use Enterprise system that the organization can benefit its features and functionalities by utilizing it.
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Zoho
We've been a long time user and are always tweaking our automation to gain efficiencies while improving our service levels. It's pretty easy to come up with what you want to do and then do it yourself. Though, if you're looking to do some really tricked out automations, use of a Zoho Consultant would be a better idea as you'll get exactly what you need much quicker.
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Reliability and Availability
SAP
The SAP Business One software is up and running every time
you need it as it was planned. In more than 6 years that we have been
using the product, it has never been unavailable and if it ever was, it was because of a planned maintenance window scheduled in the company.
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Zoho
No answers on this topic
Performance
SAP
SAP Business One performance depends mostly on the speed of your internal servers, should you have the solution on premise as we do. Sometimes the system tends to be a little slower for some users when others are executing really big reports of performing some batch loads, but generally, the performance is acceptable to all the users.
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Zoho
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
SAP
I rate my experience with SAP Business One's support team as excellent (10). They are easy to contact and effortless to work with on any issue or concern. I like the support SAP provides for any of their products. SAP has a great backing and I would recommend them to any of my colleagues.
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Zoho
Support is great as a customer, as a partner I get moved to that team more often and find issues in the support being provided. It also appears that the support agents do not take into account all the information provided and default back to the "step 1 of the playbook" instead of taking into account the business reason the support is being requested and understanding the steps already taken.
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In-Person Training
SAP
The training I get was a consultant level training, so it's basically a 6 weeks training covering every aspect and every module of the system. It covered most common use cases and exercise training so you can get along with the software, as well as examples so there culd be a better understanding.
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Zoho
No answers on this topic
Online Training
SAP
Over the past two years SAP has added a great deal of new SAP Business One on-line training for version 9.0 and 9.1. Most of the training is very strong, but some is difficult to understand and follow. Additionally, SAP still has a few holes in their on-line training around Production, Bill-of-Materials, MRP and Service.
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Zoho
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
SAP
These implementations are not easy. Even a standard implementation can be difficult. With a never-been-done-before implementation, the implementation team and the user team need to be thorough with planning, make a decision on key points, and stick to them before any design happens. Our biggest challenge was not from StellarOne, rather it was from the mid-implementation decisions from our internal team. StellarOne did a great job warning us, implementing our decision, and then helping us adjust our SAP to handle the new direction we took.
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Zoho
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
SAP
SAP provides the most robust solution, with modules available for all department managers and even options for customization according to the company's special needs. We especially used the Crystal reports options to provide reports for each module. Overall, even if it's not the least expensive option, it has the best value for money.
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Zoho
There is nothing quite close to what Zoho offers with Zoho One in terms of breadth and depth of applications integrated together as a single product. Also, you get to manage a single license and user management on Zoho One, whereas you would need to work with multiple vendors and also simultaneously take care of billing and contract management with all of them. It is much easier with Zoho One
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Scalability
SAP
For most small businesses, the only way you outgrow SAP Business One is if the nature of your business changes radically. Going from 1 to 50 users is quite easy with SAP B1. Going beyond 50 may require moving to the Hana SAP B1 platform to maintain or improve performance, but the path is there.
Add-ons to SAP B1 can also be added as specific needs are encountered that are not closely met by the standard product. These may be required early in the product life because of the nature of your business, or as you expand the use of SAP B1.
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Zoho
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
SAP
  • Employee efficiency has definitely increased with SAP Business One. This is attributed in a lot of ways to information visibility. Our employees are able to gather the data they need, quickly, and effectively.
  • Identifying inconsistencies in pricing has also been accomplished through use of reporting off individual tables. Previously, we weren't able to access our data in such a way as to enable us to write custom reports in-house.
  • We have also benefited greatly from having a single source of all business information. We utilize SAP Business One exclusively in-house. All documentation is attached to specific orders and Business Partners, as well as serialized equipment that has been sold.
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Zoho
  • It is hassle-free to access, which saves you a lot of time and manual effort to get the data accessible.
  • Lead status and follow-ups in one place- what you require is a paradise for the Sales team.
  • Reduces the work of HR a lot.
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