Overview
What is Zoho Books?
Zoho 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. The vendor offers a 14…
Zoho Books - A Great Alternative to QuickBooks Online
Could be good but absence of decent support make it mostly a risk
Zoho Books is a great tool for small businesses
A Cloud Accounting Solution That Plays Well With Other Zoho Applications
Zoho Books: User friendly and affordable
Looking for an easy-to-use and complete accounting software, then try out Zoho Books!
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Zoho Books Review
Zoho Books is a complete small business accounting and payment solution.
Your best solution for Invoicing, etc.
Zoho Books, a Great option for SMB
Zoho Books, making your accounting easy
Great accounting application
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Popular Features
- Accounts receivable (22)9.191%
- Role-based user permissions (22)8.787%
- Dashboards (22)7.272%
- Standard reports (21)7.272%
Pricing
Free
$0
Standard
$15
Professional
$40
Entry-level set up fee?
- $15 Per Organization/Month, Billed AnnuallyOptional
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Features
Customization
This addresses a company’s ability to configure the software to fit its specific use case and workflow.
- 6API for custom integration(14) Ratings
An API (application programming interface) provides a standard programming interface for connecting third-party systems to the software for data creation, access, updating and/or deletion.
Security
This component helps a company minimize the security risks by controlling access to the software and its data, and encouraging best practices among users.
- 10Single sign-on capability(18) Ratings
The software system supports a centralized authentication mechanism allowing the user to access multiple systems with a single, centrally managed password.
- 8.7Role-based user permissions(22) Ratings
Permissions to perform actions or access or modify data are assigned to roles, which are then assigned to users, reducing complexity of administration.
Reporting & Analytics
Users can report on and analyze usage, performance, ROI, and/or other metrics of success.
- 7.2Dashboards(22) Ratings
Users can create, customize and share dashboards, which provide an overview of the most important metrics.
- 7.2Standard reports(21) Ratings
The software offers pre-built reports with metrics standard to the category.
- 9Custom reports(1) Ratings
Users can create custom reports.
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
Financial management solution, including capabilities for general ledger and configurable accounting
- 8.2Accounts payable(21) Ratings
This includes the automation and tracking of payment to vendors and suppliers, with features such as payment scheduling, check printing, open purchase order alerts, document management, direct ACH bill payment, and vendor records.
- 9.1Accounts receivable(22) Ratings
This includes the management and automation of invoices and collections, with features like statements, invoices, receipts, payment reminders, customer records, auto billing, and refund checks.
- 8Cash management(21) Ratings
The software provides a complete picture of a company’s cash flows, streamlines payment processing, and includes cash forecasting.
- 5.9Bank reconciliation(20) Ratings
The software connects to a company’s financial institutions in order to reconcile accounting records with checking, savings and credit card accounts. Often month and year closing capabilities are included.
- 7.4Expense management(21) Ratings
The software can log and track business expenses and reimbursements, including travel-related expenses, with the ability to tie them to particular projects.
- 6Time tracking(13) Ratings
The software can track billable and non-billable employee time by project.
- 10Multi-currency support(12) Ratings
The software supports transactions across multiple currencies.
- 10Regulations compliance(11) Ratings
The software helps users adhere to typical accounting standards and regulations such as IFRS, GASB, or GAAP.
- 10Self-service portal(15) Ratings
The software provides online portals for certain stakeholders to find information relevant to them, such as employees, vendors and customers.
Inventory Management
The ability to track and manage the flow of goods or materials into and out of an inventory.
- 6Inventory tracking(12) Ratings
The software syncs orders and stock to maintain a real-time picture of inventory and supports multiple methods such as LIFO and FIFO.
- 7Automatic reordering(7) Ratings
The software can be set up to automatically reorder a good when it falls below a certain threshold.
Order Management
The ability to process orders, and track them from quote to cash.
- 7Pricing(17) Ratings
Users can set up complex and unique pricing requirements.
- 9Order entry(16) Ratings
Users can enter an order once, and the data flows to all the necessary units such as fulfillment and billing.
- 9Credit card processing(17) Ratings
The software facilitates credit card processing.
- 8Cost of goods sold(16) Ratings
The software calculates the direct costs attributable to a finished product, such as materials and labor, and includes roll-up pricing.
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What is Zoho Books?
Zoho 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.
The vendor offers a 14 day free trial.
Zoho Books Features
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting Features
- Supported: Accounts payable
- Supported: Accounts receivable
- Supported: Cash management
- Supported: Bank reconciliation
- Supported: Expense management
- Supported: Time tracking
- Supported: Multi-currency support
- Supported: Regulations compliance
- Supported: Self-service portal
Inventory Management Features
- Supported: Inventory tracking
- Supported: Automatic reordering
Order Management Features
- Supported: Pricing
- Supported: Order entry
- Supported: Credit card processing
- Supported: Cost of goods sold
Reporting & Analytics Features
- Supported: Dashboards
- Supported: Standard reports
Customization Features
- Supported: API for custom integration
Security Features
- Supported: Role-based user permissions
- Supported: Single sign-on capability
- Supported: Multi-factor authentication
Additional Features
- Supported: Mobile Apps - iOS, Android, Windows and also iPad and Windows Surface app
- Supported: Recurring transactions like invoices, estimates and bills
- Supported: Automated workflows - Setup triggers for instant mail notification and field updates in the invoice, estimates, sales order and credit note modules
- Supported: Zoho CRM Integration - A combination of accounting and crm information is available to users to manage end-to-end customer relationship
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Zoho Books Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android, Windows Phone |
Supported Countries | United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, India, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, South Africa & Global edition |
Supported Languages | English, Hindi, Dutch, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, Netherlands, Chinese, Japanese, Swedish |
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(1-24 of 24)Zoho Books - Try it out, it will make your life easier!
- Invoicing
- Reminder emails
- Product creation
- Invoice customization
- Language selection with clients in different countries for one organization
- Workflow
Zoho Books - A Great Alternative to QuickBooks Online
- Simple lay out
- Invoice creation and tracking
- Mass customization
- Parent / Child relationship
- Setting up payment portals for customers & general portal management
- Integration with rest of Zoho One module is still clunky
- SImple online solution for billing
- Non existant support
- weak documentation
- unreliable partners for bank links
Zoho Books is a great tool for small businesses
- Reporting
- Creation of a chart of account
- Bill management
- Closing of certain accounts like owner's drawing
- The link between our items and the inventory module is a great feature for our purchasing department.
- When converting to Zoho Books from another accounting software, this seemed a bit difficult but this process is never easy.
- There are certain restrictions within modules (estimates/sales orders/invoices/payments) that make it difficult to edit transactions. In many ways this is good, but different from what we have experienced with other accounting software solutions.
Zoho Books: User friendly and affordable
- Basic Bookkeeping features
- Reporting
- User friendly
- Unsure - everything works great for me
- Price, for a tool with all these options they offer a great price.
- Access for clients, so you can manage and view multiple clients.
- Good mobile app, easy to use many options.
- Great for entry level, it's so easy.
- While it's great for small business, zzp, it's not that great for bigger companies.
- Many say this, and it's still not there. No payroll module...
Sadly when you have a bigger company and you want to integrate third party applications they miss a lot, in addition to the no payroll module. And some other features bigger companies would like to have.
Zoho Books Review
- Invoice is very seamless if using Zoho CRM
- 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.
Zoho Books Review
- Ease of use.
- Great for services (not production of goods).
- Limitations for raw materials/finished product if transformation in the transformation.
- Complexity in advanced custom reporting.
- Online payment gateways make it easy for our clients to pay all their invoices online.
- Mobile apps allow us to do time-tracking and send invoices instantly while on service calls.
- We would like better customization of forms, logos, and fonts.
- More outreach to CPAs that are sometimes resistant to using Zoho.
Your best solution for Invoicing, etc.
- Set up automatic invoices for clients.
- Integrates with Zoho CRM very well.
- Some banks are not listed.
- Storage is limited. 1GB per org and 1 additional GB per employee..
Zoho Books, a Great option for SMB
- Bids.
- Invoicing.
- Connecting with banks for expenses.
- Printing checks - they only offer one vendor and they are expensive compared to QuickBook alternatives.
- Their interface for bids - retainers and applying them against income could be improved, but once you know how it's easy.
- Their recurring fees don't seem to always work the way I'd want. But overall they work.
Zoho Books, making your accounting easy
- The projects feature is what we use a lot it helps setting up projects as well as tracking expenses and bills for the whole project. The budgeting feature is very developed, allowing you to budget by total project cost, total project hours, hours per task, or hours per staff.
- Customer Estimates and Invoices are very easy to setup and send directly from the app (it also has a very nice and customizable reminder option).
- Stock and pricing listings is very intuitive and easy and makes it a very helpful and time saving feature.
- Bank reconciliation and Financial reporting are very developed and make it easy to share information with bookeepers and accounting specialists.
- Bank synchronisation is not available for Moroccan banks (our company operates mainly with Moroccan banks) but i'm sure it will come soon the software is updated very frequently.
- More customizations features.
- A more developed mobile app.
Great accounting application
- It has a great UI, application is easy to use, lightweight and fast
- Their customization is great, you can edit purchase/invoice/bill templates, add new custom data, and other things.
- It offers features for every process you'll need inside an organization, plus multiple features to add custom things so you can adapt Zoho Books to your internal workflow.
- Their support is not good, sometimes they only reply with documentation pages and most of them don't know how to do advanced things.
- Their API is great but when you want to do advanced stuff there's no way to do some things.
Overall, it is what we swear by and use on a daily basis.
- 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.
- Invoicing can be a problem if you make a mistake on an invoice, only an administrator can correct this. While it is a good feature overall, we feel that it hinders us especially since a huge part of our business is invoicing.
- Zoho Books doesn't connect automatically to our banking accounts which makes for a lot of manual work when applying for payments. It works well with online payments but not with offline payments.
- While great for accountants, Banking and Reports does not give a full view or offer the best overview of company cash flow for administrators and managers.
- The mobile Android app needs a design overhaul. Compared to its iOS counterpart, it lacks good design and functionality
It works as a one-man operation or a small team. For larger teams, it would depend on how much information needs to be input on a daily basis.
Zoho Books - Great, 2 Thumbs up
Zoho has allowed us to have one system to work out of, and not have to constantly go back and forth between different systems that don't talk to each other.
- The ZOHO System does a great job of utilizing one system for everything.
- Zoho Books has a great auto billing feature that will charge your customer on a recurring schedule.
- Tech Support is always the greatest
- Zoho does a lot and can seem to be a little overwhelming
Zoho - mobile & efficient
- Tracking project timesheets
- Allowing clients to view past and current invoices
- Review our financial performance through the use of dashboards & reports
- Complexity of reporting can make it difficult to find the report you need
- Entering mileage can be a bit complicated
- Attaching receipts to keep track of expenses would be easier if it could connect to our bank account more readily
Zoho Books is zoNo to me
- Simple set up
- Good integration with third-party apps
- Sales and support team seem to be very well trained and dedicated to truly helping you make the right choices for your business
- Currently no direct importing from Zoho Books. I'd recommend they do this as Zoho is likely to lose as many customers as they get if they continue to offer such inconsistent support
Accounting firm review
- Implementation time
- Price
- Suitable for small and medium businesses
- Fixed assets module
- Payroll module
- Integration with HR
- Lets you get what you want done, easy to find what you are looking for.
- Intuitive, the program gets to know you!
- People can be trained on it in your office.
- This software brings everything to one place, it can get overwhelming.
- Program has a lot of required fields if you don't have a piece of the puzzle it is hard to save what you do have.
- You really have to know how to get what you want out of the program or else you will be missing out on a lot.
Ideal for financial assistance
- Design is perfect
- Cloud and web-based
- Support is good
- Cheap
- Sometimes I cannot use it or login to Zoho books
- Tax sales is so difficult
- Users should have more control over the snail mail fields
Small Business Accounting On-The-Go
- Excellent performance with low bandwidth requirement.
- Easy to use and learn - we did not have to spent hours figuring it out. It is very intuitive.
- Sync bank accounts! Excellent feature which saved us a lot of time.
- One fee, unlimited access. Better than some "cheaper" competition with hidden costs.
- The cost is still on the high-side. If you just want to track your expenses and do not have a large turn-over an Excel spreadsheet might do.
- Occasionally had problems logging in, but that seems to have improved.
- Does not integrated with many third party applications.
A truly user friendly cloud based accounting app you'll enjoy using.
- Automated a/p payment reminders.
- Remote access by my accountant.
- Integrated electronic client payment without having to post those payments as paid as it's done automatically.
- Ease of set up and use.
- No budgeting.
- Additional banking integration for accepting client payments.
- Better integration with CRM so that Quotes/Estimates, Sales Orders, and Purchase Orders could be entered in either module and appear in the other without having to be input twice.
Zoho Hooks
- The dashboard gives a lovely overview of all things finance. Its a great at-a-glace way to track your financial health and waves.
- Recurring invoices. 'Nuff said. Before discovering this feature, I dreaded the monthly invoices. This feature has cut my invoicing time in half. Maybe even more. Fantastic!
- Timesheets from Zoho Projects can also be integrated into the invoicing process. Which cuts back on the website switching and transering of information. Its all in one place here!
- A faster, cleaner interface would be great. The ability to quickly edit client info without being taken to a new page would speed up the process.