Zoho Books
Source-verified price, India list We read the page titled “Zoho Books Plans | Accounting Software Pricing in India”, reached from the global URL which redirected to the /in/ path by HTTP 302. Per organisation per month: Free at no charge, Standard INR 899 or INR 749 billed annually, Professional INR 1,799 or INR 1,499, Premium INR 3,599 or INR 2,999, Elite INR 5,999 or INR 4,999, Ultimate INR 9,599 or INR 7,999. The page states prices are exclusive of local taxes, so every figure here is a pre-GST number. Users included by default run from three on Standard to twenty-five on Ultimate, with extra users at INR 180 a month or INR 150 annually.
What it is genuinely good at
Being the obvious starting point for almost everyone on this page, and the free plan is the reason. It is not a trial and not a teaser: the page lists bank reconciliation, inventory tracking, online payment acceptance, automated payment reminders, a self-service customer portal, GST reports and filing, and P&L and Balance Sheet with fifty-plus reports, for one user plus one accountant, available while financial year revenue stays under a stated 25-lakh threshold. For a business that has outgrown a spreadsheet and an accountant’s spreadsheet template, that is a large amount of capability at no subscription cost. Custom user roles on Professional and the add-on repository for users, employees, locations, autoscans and SMS make it the most explicitly multi-user-shaped product here.
Real limitations
The free plan is for one user plus one accountant, so it does not answer the multi-user question at all, and add-ons are not supported on it except for document autoscans. The revenue threshold and the 1,000-invoice cap are real ceilings, not soft ones. Report scheduling is limited to five reports on the free plan, fifty on Standard and two hundred above that, which is a constraint if you intend to run a reporting routine rather than open a report. And this is a cloud browser product, so if your requirement is a counter that keeps working when the internet does not, it is the wrong shape.
Who should skip it
Skip it if you need to own your data on your own machine, because it is a cloud service. Skip it if you are buying for several people issuing invoices simultaneously, because the free tier cannot do that and the included user counts run out quickly enough to need the add-on. And skip the whole roundup if you want a product that does not need an accountant, because this is an accounting package and treats itself as one.
Busy
Source-verified price Two product lines, and the licence model differs between them. Desktop editions, one-time, each shown with a regular SQL key and one mobile app free for the first year: Basic at INR 11,000 for billing and accounting for non-GST business, Standard at INR 16,500 for billing, accounting and complete GST, marked most popular, and Enterprise at INR 22,000 for multi-branch operations. BUSY Magic subscriptions per 360 days, each with the mobile app Lite free for the first 360 days: START INR 5,000, SMART INR 8,000, POWER INR 12,000, and POWER+ INR 50,000 for large enterprises.
What it is genuinely good at
Statutory GST, and this is the entry’s strongest claim. Standard and above list GST e-returns in JSON, direct upload of GSTR-1 and IFF, and automatic e-invoice and e-way bill generation. It is also the cheapest verified figure on this page, with BUSY Magic START at INR 5,000 per 360 days, and it is a desktop product, so a counter keeps working when the network does not. Enterprise is the edition that states unlimited simultaneous users across multiple offices with no data size limits, which is the literal answer to a large multi-site team.
Real limitations
Read the licence model before you compare, because a one-time desktop purchase and a 360-day subscription are not comparable numbers and mixing them is the easiest way to get this decision wrong. The page states that Smart, Power and Power Plus allow additional users, which implies the entry Start plan does not, so check that against your team size. Role and permission detail was not stated on the pricing page we read, so if separating who can discount what is the requirement, ask rather than assume. And the mobile app is a time-limited inclusion, not a permanent part of the price.
Who should skip it
Skip it if you need a browser-based product your team opens on any device, because this is desktop and on-premise in shape. Skip it if you need fine grained role permissions and will not talk to sales, because we could not read them. And skip it if you are choosing between it and a cloud product purely on sticker price, because the two are different purchases rather than different prices.
Nox-Billings
Our own product, scoped not subscriptioned Nox-Billings is not a separate product with its own price list. It is the billing, POS and inventory deployment whose invoicing, tax, stock and day-end model now lives inside NoxOrigin as the Commerce and Finance areas. Our own content states it is a scoped dedicated deployment, with final pricing confirmed in writing after locations, billing volume, hardware, migration, branding and integrations are reviewed, on a stated two-to-four week rollout. The INR 800, INR 1,600 and INR 5,000 platform plans do not apply to it, and no deployment carries them.
What it is genuinely good at
Counter accountability, which is a narrower thing than this page’s title and worth being precise about. Employee logins, roles and discount approval thresholds are configured during rollout, day-end reports close the day, and direct implementation support is included rather than being something you buy afterwards. A live shift is run with the team on call before handover, which is the part a self-serve subscription will never do for you. It is the right shape for a physical counter where you need to know who did what.
Real limitations
Here are the specifics, because this is the section a vendor page usually gets vague on. Nox-Billings does not file GST returns, TDS or any other statutory return; it prepares GST-ready invoices and reports, and our own content lists accounting as out of scope. It has no payroll module, and no timesheet record, and payroll is stated as out of scope as well. Expense tracking is a Nox-Billings capability, but purchasing lives in a separate Commerce product, so this is not a procure-to-pay suite. Inventory visibility is in scope where enabled, which is a deployment-by-deployment judgement rather than a feature you can assume. And it is not comparable on price, which makes this entry awkward in a price roundup and is the honest reason it is here anyway.
Who should skip it
Skip it if statutory filing is the requirement, because Zoho Books and Busy both do it and we do not; that is not a gap we are closing. Skip it if you need a self-serve subscription you can start on today, because a scoped deployment is a conversation and a rollout. Skip it if you need payroll, purchasing or a general ledger. And skip it if procurement needs a number this month, because we will not invent one, and the honest answer is that Zoho Books Standard at INR 899 a month is a figure you can budget against today.
Tally, Vyapar and myBillBook
No figures published These three are not entries on this page. They are not entries because we could not read them, and we are not going to present a summary of a product built on a remembered number.
What happened, exactly
Tally: both tally.net.in and www.tally.net.in served a TLS certificate issued for an unrelated domain, so curl failed with “no alternative certificate subject name matches target hostname” and no content was returned. This is a handshake failure, not a paywall, so we cannot even confirm which pages exist. Vyapar: every URL we tried, including the bare domain and four path variants, failed to establish a connection and returned no response. myBillBook: the www host returned HTTP 525, a failed origin handshake at the CDN, and the one path that resolved was a client-rendered shell whose entire readable text was a request to enable JavaScript.
Why we still list them
Because a roundup that silently drops the products it failed to verify teaches the reader that nobody checked. Tally in particular is the product most Indian buyers will already have an opinion about, and a page about GST billing that pretended otherwise would be useless. So they appear here as named, dated failures.
What to do about it
Go to the vendors. All three are long-established products in this market and it would be a mistake to read our inability to load a page as evidence against any of them. If you want the longer argument on Tally specifically, including why we publish zero Tally figures anywhere on this site, we have written it as a dedicated comparison.