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Zoho Books Overview

What is Zoho Books?

Zoho Books is a robust accounting platform designed for growing businesses, offering a comprehensive suite of features to streamline your financial management. With Zoho Books, you can efficiently track payables and receivables, customise invoices, and set up automated payment reminders for your clients. The platform allows you to connect and reconcile bank accounts, fetching and matching transactions seamlessly. Zoho Books also includes customer and vendor portals, making it easy for all parties to keep track of their transactions with you. Payment gateways integrated within the platform provide your customers with multiple reliable payment methods, ensuring hassle-free payments. The user-friendly interface simplifies navigation for you and your team, enhancing productivity. With over 70 detailed reports, Zoho Books offers valuable insights into your financial health. Security is a top priority, and Zoho Books safeguards your data and privacy with stringent access controls, ensuring only authorized users can access your information. The free mobile app keeps you updated with your financial transactions on the go, providing flexibility and convenience. Zoho Books is an all-in-one platform equipped with every feature a business needs to manage its accounting tasks and organise transactions effectively.

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Zoho Books is a simple, easy-to-use accounting app that tracks the money coming in and going out of your business. With Zoho Books, you can always stay up-to-date on your business finance and make decisions instantly.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Businesses can truly customize Zoho Books according to their needs and set up workflow processes unique to their business. Alerts and notifications can be triggered upon specific action in modules like invoices, estimates, sales orders. Invoices templates can be customized to reflect a brand's identity.

The integration between Zoho Books and Zoho CRM breaks departmental silos where salesforce of a company can view payment and credit related information about customers within their CRM tool. Similarly the finance team can track the sales of products and forecast sales better.

Zoho Books is available in multiple languages and businesses can generate invoices in their customer's currency. It is the only cloud accounting software available on all mobile platforms including Apple iWatch.


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Zoho Corporation is a software development company, privately held and profitable. It offers beautifully smart software to help you grow your business. With over 50 million users worldwide, Zoho's 45+ products aid your sales and marketing, support and collaboration, finance and recruitment needs, with the long term vision to transform the way you work. Our Global HQ is in Chennai, India, and the US HQ is in Austin, Texas.

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Recent Zoho Books Reviews

Himanshu G.
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Himanshu G.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"A Game Changer for Small Businesses and Accountants"
What I like best about Zoho Books is how effortlessly it simplifies complex accounting tasks. From automated invoicing and payment reminders to rea...
David L.
DL
David L.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Using ZOHO Books for an international moving company"
excellent accounting software that fully integrates with all ZOHO products
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Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Powerful and easy to use Accounting Software"
Features like : 1) Document Management : so one does not have to search for related documents 2) Audit Trail

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Zoho Books Demo - Zoho Books Dashboard
Get a detailed picture of the overall financial health of your business
Zoho Books Demo - Invoice Overview
Send customized statements to your clients and receive payment in multiple currencies with our accounting software.
Zoho Books Demo - Review Transactions
Eliminate the risk of processing incorrect transactions by validating and approving them before invoicing your customers
Zoho Books Demo - Project Tracking
Zoho Books makes it possible for you to control and manage multiple projects by letting you create new projects, add tasks for each project, and assign specific tasks to your employees.
Zoho Books Demo - Reports
Turn data into information with Zoho Books. View dashboards, reports and charts covering all your receivables, payables, inventory and more.
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Himanshu G.
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What do you like best about Zoho Books?

What I like best about Zoho Books is how effortlessly it simplifies complex accounting tasks. From automated invoicing and payment reminders to real-time GST filing and clean financial reports—everything just flows smoothly. The interface is intuitive, so even non-accountants can use it without feeling lost. Plus, the automation features save me hours every week, which lets me focus more on strategy and less on manual work. It truly feels like Zoho Books was designed with the user in mind. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zoho Books?

While Zoho Books is overall a fantastic platform, there are a few areas that could be improved. The biggest one for me is the limited customization in certain reports and templates—sometimes I wish I could tweak layouts or add specific fields more freely. Also, the learning curve can be a bit steep for beginners, especially when exploring advanced features like workflows or integrations. Lastly, while support is generally helpful, response times can be slower during peak hours. But none of these are deal-breakers, and the regular updates show that Zoho is actively listening to feedback. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zoho Books solving and how is that benefiting you?

Zoho Books is helping me solve the biggest pain points in day-to-day accounting—manual data entry, delayed invoicing, and GST compliance headaches. Before using it, I had to juggle multiple tools to manage billing, track payments, file returns, and generate reports. Now, everything is in one place and flows automatically.

It’s especially valuable for managing accounts receivable and payable, real-time financial tracking, and tax filing—all without spending hours each week. The automation (like recurring invoices, bank feeds, and payment reminders) has freed up a lot of time, which means I can focus more on analysis, decision-making, and supporting clients rather than just recording transactions.

In short, it’s made accounting not just faster, but smarter. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jörg Dennis K.
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Marketing and Advertising
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What do you like best about Zoho One?

I switched von Google Workdrive to Zoho One. The offer is just amazing. It was very easy to switch due to the migration tools, Zoho offers. And now we replaced much of our tool stack with tools from Zoho (like Bigin replaces Pipedrive, Books replaces our old accounting, Campaign replacing ActiveCampaign etc.) So Zoho is our daily driver for everything and with the Zoho One offer, it's really affordable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zoho One?

If you do not get support from India, e.g. when you are in LATAM and have support by a local partner, the quality of support is/can be much lower, as the partners are lacking the experience and direct contact to the development teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zoho One solving and how is that benefiting you?

It has become the operating system of our company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Seth B.
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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Zoho One?

Zoho One provides an unmatched suite of integrated apps that allow us to run every part of our company—from CRM and billing to live chat, subscription management, and project tracking—under one roof. The ecosystem is robust, the apps talk to each other seamlessly, and the cost-to-value ratio is excellent. We particularly value the flexibility to customize modules, automate workflows, and access real-time insights that help us serve our customers better and scale efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zoho One?

While Zoho One is powerful, the learning curve can be steep, especially when integrating multiple apps or creating complex automations. Some modules lack consistent UI/UX across the suite, and the occasional delay in support response times can slow down urgent implementations. More intuitive setup guides and faster live support would go a long way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zoho One solving and how is that benefiting you?

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JW
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What do you like best about Zoho Books?

Zoho Books has an easy to use interface, across web and mobile apps. Transactions are easy to create, edit and send to customers, suppliers and other users. Portals are super helpful for our customers and suppliers to view their transactions with us, as well as add or update their details and add credit cards and/or direct debits. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zoho Books?

Bank feeds are through Yodlee for Australian users - this can take up to a week to fetch new transactions, or, have to be manually refreshed with accounts protected by 2FA. This is an issue I have raised with our bank and Zoho, but seems to be taking longer than expected to resolve. This issue isn't the wort to have, just inconvenient at times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zoho Books solving and how is that benefiting you?

Zoho Books helped us move away from Xero, which as helped us integrate with a solid suite of apps to help us deliver products directly to our customers. Books is easy to grasp, highly secure and reliable. We have never had an issue accessing it, even outside of normal business hours. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kiran Kumar M.
KM
Project Lead
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Products used within Zoho Finance Plus: Zoho Invoice, Zoho Expense, Zoho Billing, Zoho Books, Zoho Inventory, Zoho Checkout
What do you like best about Zoho Finance Plus?

Zoho Finance Plus is appreciated by many businesses—especially small to mid-sized ones—for how it integrates various financial functions into a single platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zoho Finance Plus?

While Zoho Finance Plus is a strong, integrated financial suite, it's not without its drawbacks. Here are some common pain points and limitations that users (especially growing or complex businesses) often report. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zoho Finance Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?

Zoho Finance Plus is designed to solve several common problems that small to mid-sized businesses face when managing finances, operations, and compliance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mehul P.
MP
Finance Manager
Accounting
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What do you like best about Zoho Books?

one of best in ZOHO Books is Cloud Based Software and automatic Bank Entries show as well as bank reconciliation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zoho Books?

Most of the features is okay but only use on Internet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zoho Books solving and how is that benefiting you?

ZOHO books is best of accounting but In this invoice process, the export invoice is not organized. If possible, it will automatic show proper rate for banking rate Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Steven T.
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What do you like best about Zoho Books?

Zoho books offers a very straightforward approach with a friendly UI. They have excellent customer service and offer competitive pricing and a feature-rich platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zoho Books?

Zoho does not have a direct way to migrate from some platforms such as Intuit QuickBooks but you can still accomplish such migrations due to their thorough guides (and if you get stuck they have a team willing to assist). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zoho Books solving and how is that benefiting you?

Zoho Books offers powerful professional invoicing with great templates, customer portal options, and the ability to even enable recurring invoicing for clients/customers with subscription-related services that renew on a regular basis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

David L.
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What do you like best about Zoho Books?

excellent accounting software that fully integrates with all ZOHO products Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zoho Books?

nothing i can say bad about ZOHO Books

works excellent Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zoho Books solving and how is that benefiting you?

fully integrated program that handles all of our accounting needs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aniket V.
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Business Development Head
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Products used within Zoho Finance Plus: Zoho Invoice, Zoho Expense, Zoho Billing, Zoho Books, Zoho Inventory
What do you like best about Zoho Finance Plus?

This software is easy to use with, integration option and Gives all the required reports to ease the use and business efficiency Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zoho Finance Plus?

Nothing Major as of now, but just needed some more features and the inferface is quite complex and also the response time is a little long from costumer support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zoho Finance Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?

Its a all in one solution for our business, which helps us keeping all our accounts in a one place, and keeping track of everything and best part is the reports which gives you clear picture of everything Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Peter S.
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What do you like best about Zoho One?

Zoho One offers a comprehensive suite of tools that integrate well with each other, which is great for streamlining multiple business functions in one place. The level of customisation available in some modules is useful for adapting the system to different business needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zoho One?

The lead management process is frustrating for B2B companies. Zoho’s requirement to map a “Last Name” for all leads, even when only working with companies, leads to inefficient workarounds. As a B2B business, I source company details, not individual contacts, and Zoho's CRM doesn't provide a proper solution for mapping company information efficiently. The support process was also slow, and the workaround offered added more manual work, which defeats the purpose of using a CRM to streamline operations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zoho One solving and how is that benefiting you?

Zoho One helps centralise multiple business processes, offering an all-in-one solution for managing operations, marketing, sales, and accounting. Its integration with other tools in the suite, such as Zoho Books, helps streamline invoicing and accounting, which saves time and improves operational efficiency. However, its lead management system for B2B businesses is far from ideal, creating inefficiencies rather than solving them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.