Zoho Books, a Great option for SMB
December 20, 2018
Zoho Books, a Great option for SMB
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Zoho Books
As a small business owner, I have kept books many ways. From spreadsheets to QuickBooks and now with Zoho Books I'm pretty happy. It offers almost as much functionality as QuickBooks but is less costly, and if you bundle it with Zoho One, it becomes a no-brainer. I use it to manage my accounts payable, invoices, bids, and printing checks. I'm a small shop doing consulting, but we are growing and will roll Books out to everyone that needs it in our company!
- 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.
- For a small business, it allowed me to operate much larger than I was.
- With any software, when you need support, you're at their mercy. While they are in India they are generally pretty responsive, but sometimes it takes longer than I'd like.
- Their software products are great, but I especially like how fully-featured Books was and how it is priced.
[QuickBooks and Zoho] are very comparable until you open your wallet. While they are both neck-and-neck with one another in features, QuickBooks does have the integration advantage. There are many more platforms that integrate with QB than Zoho Books. But Zoho has so many other software tools that they do integrate with, it really becomes a non-issue if you are fully on the Zoho platform.