What is Zoho Books?
Cloud accounting software from Zoho: invoicing, expense tracking, bank reconciliation, and basic inventory, with a client portal built in. It's part of the wider Zoho suite (CRM, Inventory, Expense, Payroll), and works best when the rest of your stack is also Zoho. We build the bridge when it isn't.
Is Zoho Books free?
There's a free plan, but it's limited to a small number of invoices per month and one user, which is fine for a very early-stage business and tight the moment you're sending invoices regularly or have more than one person touching the books.
How much does Zoho Books cost?
Paid plans scale with the number of users and features you need, from a basic Standard tier up through Professional and Premium with more automation, project tracking, and advanced reporting. Pricing is published on Zoho's site and changes periodically, so check there for current numbers rather than treating any figure here as current.
Zoho Books vs Xero: which is better?
Xero has a larger third-party app ecosystem and a slight edge in bank integrations in some regions; Zoho Books is usually cheaper at the lower tiers and a stronger fit if you're already running other Zoho apps. Neither answer matters much once you've picked one. What matters is whether it connects to the rest of what you run, and if it doesn't out of the box, that's what we build.
Does Zoho Books have an API?
Yes, a full REST API that covers invoices, contacts, items, and most of what you can do in the UI. That's exactly what we use to build the integrations above, pulling and pushing data between Zoho Books and whatever else your business runs.