Professional accounting for growing businesses
Streamline your financial operations with intelligent automation, real-time insights, and enterprise-grade security. Built for Indian businesses with complete GST compliance.
Who Is Zoho Books For?
Designed to support businesses at every stage — from early growth to complex, multi-location operations.
Startups & Small Businesses
Simple, structured accounting for businesses looking to move away from spreadsheets and manual bookkeeping.
Service-Based Companies
Ideal for agencies, consultants, and professionals managing recurring billing, expenses, and client payments.
Trading & Distribution Firms
Manage high-volume invoicing, purchases, vendors, and inventory movement with full visibility.
Manufacturing Businesses
Track raw materials, finished goods, inventory valuation, and production-linked accounting.
GST-Registered Companies
Built to handle GST-compliant invoicing, returns, e-invoicing, and statutory reporting with ease.
Multi-Location Businesses
Centralized accounting and inventory control across multiple branches, warehouses, and business units.
Complete Zoho Books Product Capabilities
A comprehensive suite of features designed to handle every aspect of your financial management, from invoicing to compliance.
Professional Invoicing & Billing
Create stunning, professional invoices with your brand colors and logo. Support for multiple currencies, languages, and tax configurations. Generate recurring invoices automatically for subscription-based businesses. Send invoices via email with PDF attachments and track when customers view them.
- •Multi-currency and multi-language support
- •Payment gateway integration for instant collection
Intelligent Expense Management
Capture expenses from anywhere using mobile apps. Scan receipts and let OCR technology automatically extract data. Categorize expenses by project, customer, or department. Set up approval workflows for employee expenses and track reimbursement status in real-time.
- •Mobile expense capture with receipt scanning
- •Automatic expense categorization and coding
- •Multi-level approval workflows
- •Mileage tracking with GPS integration
Seamless Banking Integration
Connect unlimited bank accounts and credit cards for automatic transaction import. Smart matching engine pairs bank transactions with invoices and bills. Reconcile accounts with a few clicks and maintain accurate cash flow visibility.
- •Automatic transaction import from banks
- •AI-powered transaction matching
- •One-click bank reconciliation
- •Real-time cash position monitoring
GST & Tax Compliance
Stay compliant with Indian GST regulations effortlessly. Generate GST-compliant invoices with proper HSN/SAC codes. File GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B returns directly from the platform. E-invoicing with automatic IRN generation.
- •GST-compliant invoicing with HSN/SAC codes
- •One-click GSTR filing
- •E-invoicing with IRN generation
- •TDS calculation and reporting
What Zoho Books Does & Problems It Solves
Transform your accounting challenges into streamlined workflows with intelligent automation and real-time insights.
Automation & Controls
Reduce Manual Accounting Work
- →Automates recurring transactions
- →Applies approval workflows
- →Locks transactions to prevent errors
- →Supports budgeting and fixed asset tracking
- ✕Repetitive accounting tasks
- ✕Data inconsistencies
- ✕Poor financial control
Sales, Invoicing & Customer Billing
Faster and Smarter Billing
- →Generates quotes, sales orders, and invoices
- →Automates recurring and subscription billing
- →Supports progress and milestone invoicing
- →Sends payment reminders and payment links
- →Offers customer portal access
- ✕Delayed invoicing
- ✕Missed payments
- ✕Manual follow-ups with customers
- ✕Inconsistent invoice formats
Financial Reports & Business Insights
Clear Financial Reporting
- →Provides real-time dashboards
- →Generates profit & loss, balance sheet, and cashflow reports
- →Allows custom and scheduled reports
- →Exports reports to Excel or PDF
- ✕Lack of financial clarity
- ✕Delayed decision-making
- ✕Dependence on manual reports
Integrations & Scalability
Works With Your Business Ecosystem
- →Integrates with Zoho apps and third-party tools
- →Supports payroll, inventory, CRM, and payment gateways
- →Scales from small businesses to enterprises
- ✕Tool fragmentation
- ✕Data silos
- ✕Re-implementation as business grows
Inventory Management – Problems & Solutions
Common inventory challenges businesses face and how Zoho Books Inventory eliminates them with real-time control and accuracy.
- Stock mismatch between physical and system records
- No real-time visibility across warehouses or locations
- Overstocking or frequent stock-outs
- Manual stock tracking using Excel or registers
- Mismatch between inventory and accounting data
- Real-time stock tracking with automatic updates
- Multi-warehouse and location-wise remindering
- Reorder levels with low-stock alerts
- Batch and serial number tracking for full traceability
- Seamless inventory and accounting synchronization