Two Indian bookkeeping products, compared from source

Khatabook vs Zoho Books: a free digital khata, or a paid ledger with a price list

This is the buying question an Indian micro-business actually asks, and it is a harder comparison than it looks. Khatabook describes itself as a free digital ledger for small businesses and shop owners. Zoho Books publishes a rupee price list from a free accounting tier upwards. They overlap on invoices and they overlap on nothing else, and we found that we can verify one of the two price lists and cannot find the other at all. So this page is deliberately lopsided in its evidence, and labels where it is lopsided. Neither product is ours and this page does not pick a winner.

NoxOrigin makes none of the two products compared here, and that is the honest version of the disclosure. We publish this page and we are a vendor, so we are naming our interest anyway: NoxOrigin appears in this article only as a short, clearly-bounded note at the end, where we say plainly that it is not a general ledger, does not do bank reconciliation as a self-serve feature, and does not file GST returns. If you are here to compare two Indian bookkeeping products, our product is not a candidate and this page does not treat it as one. Everything we state about Khatabook and Zoho Books is read from their own published pages. We have not run a trial of either product, so neither statement is drawn from hands-on use. Last verified: 4 October 2026. On that date we could read Zoho Books’ own India pricing page in full, and every Zoho figure on this page comes from it. We could not find a Khatabook price list at all: /pricing returns a 404, and their 8,403-URL sitemap contains no pricing, plan, or product page. We therefore publish zero Khatabook figures, including no “free tier worth X” and no remembered price.

Evidence and method

What we verified, and what does not exist

What we verified

Zoho Books, from its own India pricing page at zoho.com/in/books/pricing/, titled “Zoho Books Plans | Accounting Software Pricing in India”. We read the plan prices, the tax-exclusion line, the user allowances, the paid add-on prices, the Free plan card, the Free plan eligibility threshold, the annual invoice and bill limits per plan, and the stated trial and commitment terms. Where the page says nothing, we say it says nothing.

Khatabook, from their own about page at khatabook.com/about/, which is the only page on their site that serves real server-rendered content. That gave us Khatabook’s own words about what the product is and who it is for, and their own scale claims, which we quote as their claims.

What we could not verify

Any Khatabook price, plan name, paid tier, or feature list. Their /pricing path returns HTTP 404 on both the www and the apex hostname, and it is not hiding behind a paywall. Their sitemap loads and lists 8,403 URLs, and the only non-blog pages in it are the home page, about, contact, hiring, privacy, terms, and calculator. There is no pricing page to read.

The consequence is that the Khatabook column below carries a description and a business model but no numbers, and we would rather hand you a visibly incomplete column than a balanced-looking table with a Khatabook figure we cannot stand behind. Confirm every Khatabook commercial detail with Khatabook on their own site.

Dimension by dimension

What each one actually is

These two products were built for different sizes and different ambitions, so most rows below are genuinely different rather than one product being better. The Zoho column is sourced from the India pricing page. The Khatabook column is sourced from Khatabook’s own about page and is deliberately blank wherever that page is silent.

Dimension	Zoho Books (verified 4 October 2026)	Khatabook (read 4 October 2026, no price list published)
What the vendor says the product is	A cloud accounting package. Its own India page is a price list for accounting software sold per organisation, and the feature cards are ledger features: bank reconciliation, sales and purchase orders, inventory, and financial reports.	Khatabook’s own meta description: “a free and easy to use digital ledger app for small businesses and shop owners”, for managing an “udhar bahi khata”, on a phone, “in your chosen language”. The about page describes the first offering as an Android app for digitally recording the credit a business extends to its customers. We read no more specific product description than this, because we could not reach a product page.
Who it is aimed at	Organisations with a ledger to keep, priced in six tiers from a free plan upwards, with published user allowances, invoice limits, and volume caps that grow with the plan.	“Small businesses and shop owners”, and a “6.3 crore-strong MSME sector” in Khatabook’s own framing. A phone-first, language-first, single-ledger audience rather than an accounts department.
Price list and currency	Published in Indian rupees on the India page, per organisation per month: Free at no charge; Standard INR 899 monthly 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.	No price list is published, so we publish no figure. Khatabook describes the product as free and publishes no page on which that claim is set out in tiers. Ask them what free includes, whether it is permanent, and what a paid tier would cost.
Free tier and its ceiling	A real free accounting plan. Zoho states the Free plan stays available indefinitely as long as financial year revenue does not exceed a threshold of INR 25 lakhs, for 1 user plus 1 accountant, capped at 1,000 invoices and 1,000 bills or expenses a year. The card lists receipt autoscans, accepting online payments, automated payment reminders, a self-service customer portal, credits and refunds, bank reconciliation, sales and purchase orders, inventory, GST reports and filing, and a P&L, Balance Sheet and 50+ reports.	Khatabook calls the product free. We could not read a terms page that explains the boundary, so we do not describe one, and we do not know whether a paid tier exists. Treat “free” as their description of the product, not as a verified unlimited plan.
How cost grows with the business	Three ways, all published: the plan tier itself, the user allowance, and paid add-ons. Default users are three on Standard, five on Professional, ten on Premium, fifteen on Elite, and twenty-five on Ultimate, with a user add-on at INR 180 per month or INR 150 annually, and an employee add-on from Premium at INR 75 per employee per month or INR 60 annually. Annual invoice limits rise from 1,000 on Free to 5,000, 10,000, 25,000, and 1,00,000 on Elite and Ultimate.	Nothing published to compare. This is the practical gap: you can model Zoho Books’ cost at three different team sizes from their page, and you cannot model Khatabook’s at all.
Double-entry ledger, balance sheet, bank reconciliation	Yes, and this is the product. The Free plan card alone lists bank reconciliation, a P&L, a Balance Sheet, and 50+ reports.	Not stated. Khatabook calls itself a digital ledger for recording credit owed to the business. Its about page makes no claim about double-entry bookkeeping, a trial balance, financial statements, or matching bank lines to entries, so we publish no claim either way. If you need statements an auditor would accept, put that question to Khatabook in writing.
Where it runs	A cloud-based service. Zoho states no installation is necessary because it is accessed through a computer browser and smartphone, and that you can try it for 14 days free before subscribing.	Khatabook’s own page describes an Android app on your phone, accessed in your chosen language. We read no statement about a browser version, a desktop client, or offline behaviour, so we publish none.
Language	Nothing on the India pricing page names a language count or an Indian-language interface, so we publish no claim.	Language is central to Khatabook’s own description, which says you manage the khata “in your chosen language” and states the product has reached merchants across 12 languages. For a shop owner who does not want to work in English, that is the single most consequential difference on this page, and it is Khatabook telling us, not us inferring it.
GST, as each vendor’s own page states it	The Free plan card lists “GST reports and filing” and the product navigation carries a GST Filing section, so Zoho makes a filing claim in public.	Khatabook’s about page says nothing about GST, GST invoicing, e-invoicing, or e-way bills. The only GST references on that page are links to free website tools, a GST Calculator and an HSN Code List and GST Rate Finder, which are marketing content rather than a product capability. We publish no GST claim for Khatabook.
Inventory, bills, and purchasing	Published on the Free plan card: track sales and purchase orders and track inventory, with bills and expenses counted against published annual limits.	Not stated on the page we could read. We publish no claim.
Getting paid	The Free plan card lists accepting online payments, automated payment reminders, and a self-service customer portal. The string “UPI” does not appear anywhere on the page, so we publish no UPI-specific claim for Zoho Books from this source. That is a statement about the page, not about the product.	Not stated. Khatabook’s about page describes recording credit owed to the business, which is the opposite direction of money from a debtor actually arriving, and we read no collections feature claim. We publish none.
Sales pipeline, quoting, and CRM	Not the job of this product. The India pricing page makes no CRM, lead, opportunity, or quoting claim, and we publish none.	Not the job of this product either, on the evidence we read. We publish no claim for it.
Commitment and cancellation	Zoho states it is pay-as-you-go, that you are not obligated to sign a contract or commit to continuing the subscription, and that the 14-day trial precedes any subscription.	Nothing published. Ask Khatabook about renewal terms and what happens to your khata data if you stop paying.
Maturity and scale	A large, long-established vendor with a six-tier published price list, published per-plan limits, and a support and add-on structure documented in public. We publish no customer count, revenue figure, or review score for Zoho, because we verified none.	Khatabook states on its own about page that the app “went viral”, has been “downloaded over 5 Crore+ times”, and has reached “5 Crore registered merchants across 12 languages in less than a year”, and frames itself around building for a “6.3 crore-strong MSME sector”. Those are Khatabook’s own claims, quoted as claims, and we did not verify any of them. They describe reach; they are not evidence of accounting depth, and the same company publishes no feature list we could read.

Where Khatabook is the better buy

A phone, a language, and a khata

If your business runs on a handwritten record of credit you have extended and you are not a trained bookkeeper, Khatabook is the better buy, and Zoho Books’s more powerful ledger is not what is stopping you. A double-entry general ledger is designed for someone who was trained to keep one, and adopting it badly is worse than not having it. Khatabook asks for less of you than that.

It is also the better buy on one dimension nothing else on this page can match, and that is language. Khatabook tells you, in their own words, that you work “in your chosen language” and that they have reached merchants across 12 languages. For a shop owner working in their first language, an English accounting interface is not a small inconvenience, it is the whole product being unusable.

And it is the better buy when the price is the deciding factor and nothing has been confirmed. Zoho Books has a published floor and a published ceiling. Khatabook publishes no price, so we cannot tell you their paid tiers, which means the honest recommendation is this: if the only reason you cannot choose Zoho Books is money, ask Khatabook what their paid tier costs before you assume they are the free option.

Where Zoho Books is the better buy

Real books, a real price list, real ceilings

If you need a balance sheet, a P&L, bank reconciliation, inventory, and statutory reports, Zoho Books is the better buy and Khatabook’s published surface does not reach there. We found no claim on Khatabook’s readable page about double entry, financial statements, or matching bank lines, and an absence of a claim is not a reason to buy. If your books have to survive an accountant, a lender, or a statutory filing conversation, that is the deciding requirement, and it points at a real accounting product.

It is also the better buy for planning, and this is the practical reason to prefer a published price list. You can model Zoho Books’ cost at three different team sizes today, because the tiers, the user allowances, the add-on prices, and the annual invoice limits are all published. You cannot model Khatabook’s cost at any size, because they publish no price. A vendor who will not publish a price is asking you to make a budget decision on trust.

And it is the better buy the moment the business grows past a single ledger. Zoho Books has published ceilings that tell you where each plan stops working, so you can see the wall before you hit it. It is also explicitly low-commitment: a 14-day trial, pay-as-you-go, no contract, and no obligation to continue, which makes trying it a cheap decision.

In India

The India-specific version of this decision

Strip away the feature lists and the India question is mostly about three things: whether the books are in a language your team actually reads, what the subscription costs in rupees after tax, and whether the thing you are being sold does the specific job you are hiring it for.

Language is the India question nobody puts in the feature grid

Zoho Books’ India pricing page names no language count and no Indian-language interface, so we publish no claim for it. Khatabook names language in its own product description and states 12 languages. If your staff are more comfortable in a regional language than in English, that difference decides this comparison before pricing does, and it is not a feature a western comparison page would have thought to list.

Rupees, tax, and the difference between a price and a budget

Zoho states its prices are exclusive of local taxes, so every figure on this page is a pre-tax number and your invoice will be higher. Their annual figures are lower than their monthly ones, so a 12-month commitment is where the saving is, and the ceiling of each tier is a published number rather than a sales conversation. Khatabook publishes no price at all, so there is nothing to model. For a business deciding on a subscription to keep for years, an unpriceable subscription is a real cost, and we would rather name that than assume free means costless forever.

GST: what the pages say, and the advice we will not give

Zoho Books’ Free plan card lists “GST reports and filing”, which is a filing claim published in public, and you should put it to them in writing for your own filing frequency and entity type. Khatabook’s about page is silent on GST, so we publish nothing for them. We are deliberately not telling you what GST law requires of your business, what return deadlines apply, or what format any of this must take. That is a question for your chartered accountant, and it is the one person whose fee you should not try to save by choosing a bookkeeping app on feature count.

The small-team reality nobody puts in a pricing table

Most of the businesses reading this are one or two people. Zoho Books counts a bookkeeper as a user, and publishes an accountant allowance alongside the user count on the Free plan, which tells you they have thought about a one-person business with outside help. Khatabook’s model, a phone ledger for a shop owner, assumes exactly that person. A two-person business with a part-time accountant has a genuinely different requirement from a single shop owner, and the honest advice is to name which one you are before you compare anything. Read the GST billing software versus ERP comparison if the question is really about which category of tool you need.

Who should choose which

Match the product to the buyer situation

A single shop owner with a paper khata of credit owed

Khatabook, and this is the clearest case on the page. You are not running accounts, you are running a memory book on paper. Moving it to a phone in your own language is the whole job, and a general ledger would ask for expertise you do not have and do not need. Skip Zoho Books here, and do not let anyone talk you into it because it has more features.

A business whose books must survive an accountant or a lender

Zoho Books, without much argument. Balance sheet, P&L, bank reconciliation, and 50+ reports are on the Free plan card itself, and Khatabook publishes no claim on any of it. A person who needs their books to be defensible needs a real accounting product, and should pay for one rather than hope a khata app grows into it.

A buyer whose deciding question is price

Neither, until you have the Khatabook answer. Zoho Books has a published floor at zero and a published paid entry point at INR 899 per month before tax. Khatabook describes itself as free and publishes no price page, so you cannot know whether you are looking at a genuinely free product or a free tier with paid add-ons you have not been told about. The responsible move is to ask, and we would rather tell you to ask than fill the gap with a guess.

A business that needs a ledger and a sales pipeline

Both of these, and neither. Neither Khatabook nor Zoho Books is a CRM: we read no lead, opportunity, or quoting claim on either vendor’s page. A ledger knows what was recorded and what was paid. It does not know who you are chasing next Tuesday. If you need both, that is two products, and the useful thing to do is buy the ledger first because it is the part with the compliance consequences.

A business that is not in India at all

Khatabook is not the product. Its entire published positioning is an Android app, an Indian MSME sector, a udhar bahi khata, and 12 Indian languages. Nothing about it is addressed to a business outside India, and we publish no claim that it works well for one. Zoho Books sells globally and publishes a separate India price list precisely because it has multiple markets.

A business already settled on one of these

Stay, unless a specific wall is in the way, and name the wall in writing before you shop. A settled Zoho Books customer has published plan ceilings to plan against, a 14-day trial, and no contract. A Khatabook customer should ask one question first: can I get my data out, and in what format, if I ever want to leave? Neither page we read answers it, so treat it as an open question rather than an assumption.

Full disclosure

Where NoxOrigin fits, which is: barely, and not here

We publish this page and we do make one of the three products mentioned on it, so we would rather tell you exactly how little room we have here than let the disclosure sit in a callout and imply more than it earns. NoxOrigin is not an alternative to Khatabook or to Zoho Books, and it is not cheaper accounting. It is a different category of tool.

NoxOrigin has no general ledger. It does not do double-entry bookkeeping, a chart of accounts, a trial balance, or a balance sheet. Bank reconciliation and day-end close are assisted-setup maturity rather than something you switch on. It does not file GST returns, TDS, or any return for you. Expense tracking is Nox-Billings only and purchasing is in Commerce, both of which are scoped custom deployments. There is no timesheet record, no payroll, no contract editor, no e-signature, and no change-request or milestone record. If your requirement is books, none of that is a near miss.

What NoxOrigin’s platform plans do cost, from our own pricing page, is Starter at INR 800 per month for three users in one workspace, Growth at INR 1,600 for ten users, and Agency at INR 5,000 for twenty-five users across three workspaces, and that is the platform only. We publish those figures here only so you can see that we are not pretending to be a third candidate in this comparison. See the NoxOrigin plans in INR if you are curious what the platform is, but for the buying question on this page it is the wrong category.

If somebody has shown you an operating platform as the answer to a bookkeeping problem, the correct response is to keep your accounting package and your chartered accountant, and to name the real problem in those words before you compare anything. Read the Tally vs Zoho Books comparison for the accounting head-to-head, and the NoxOrigin vs myBillBook comparison for an India-first billing product compared on published INR plans.

FAQ

Questions buyers ask us first

What does Khatabook cost?

This page publishes no Khatabook figure at all, because Khatabook does not publish one that we could read. We requested https://www.khatabook.com/pricing on 4 October 2026 and it returned an HTTP 404 on both the www and the apex hostname. Khatabook's own sitemap, which we did load, contains 8,403 URLs and not one of them is a pricing, plan, or product page: the only non-blog pages it lists are the home page, about, contact, hiring, privacy, terms, and calculator. The home page is a client-rendered static export whose HTML body is empty, so there is no price in the markup either. We will not quote a remembered Khatabook price, and we will not derive one. Every Khatabook commercial detail has to be confirmed with Khatabook on their own site or inside the app.

Khatabook's own website calls the app free. Why is that not a price on this page?

Because we read that sentence and could not corroborate it against any price list. The wording is Khatabook's own, from the meta description on their about page: 'Khatabook is a free and easy to use digital ledger app for small businesses and shop owners. Manage your udhar bahi khata on your phone in your chosen language.' What we could not establish is what 'free' covers. There is no pricing page, so we cannot tell you whether the core ledger is free indefinitely, whether 'free' is a trial, whether features sit behind paid add-ons, or what a paid tier would cost. Khatabook publishes no price, so this page publishes no Khatabook price. Ask them directly and get the answer in writing before you plan around it.

What does Zoho Books actually cost in India?

From Zoho's own India pricing page, per organisation per month: Free at no charge, then Standard at INR 899 monthly or INR 749 billed annually, Professional at INR 1,799 or INR 1,499, Premium at INR 3,599 or INR 2,999, Elite at INR 5,999 or INR 4,999, and Ultimate at INR 9,599 or INR 7,999. Zoho states on that page that prices are exclusive of local taxes, so every figure is a pre-tax number. Default user allowances are three on Standard, five on Professional, ten on Premium, fifteen on Elite, and twenty-five on Ultimate, and extra users are a paid add-on.

Which one should an Indian shopkeeper or micro-business buy?

We cannot answer that for you, and the two products are not even competing for the same job on the evidence we could read. Buy Khatabook if your business runs on a handwritten khata of credit owed to you and you want that ledger on a phone in your own language, because that is exactly and self-describedly what Khatabook says it is. Buy Zoho Books if you need a double-entry ledger, bank reconciliation, a balance sheet, inventory, and a published INR price list with a plan that grows. And skip both if your problem is tracking leads, quoting, and getting paid, because a ledger is not a sales pipeline and buying accounting to solve a collections problem means paying twice for it. If the reason you are reading a comparison at all is that someone is trying to sell you an operating platform to fix a bookkeeping problem, the honest answer is that neither of these two needs to change.

Do Khatabook or Zoho Books file my GST returns?

We are not going to tell you what the law requires of your business, because that is a conversation with your chartered accountant, not with a marketing page. Here is only what the two vendors' own pages say. Zoho Books' India pricing page lists 'GST reports and filing' as a feature of its Free plan card and carries a GST Filing section in the product navigation, so Zoho makes a filing claim in public and you should put that claim to them in writing for your filing frequency and entity type. Khatabook's about page says nothing about GST, GST invoicing, e-invoicing, or e-way bills; the only GST references on that page are links to free marketing-site tools, a GST Calculator and an HSN Code List and GST Rate Finder, which are website content and not a product capability. We publish no filing claim for Khatabook because the source page makes none.

Is NoxOrigin a cheaper alternative to either of these?

No, and it is not in the same category, which is why we put it in a short note at the end of this page rather than in the comparison. NoxOrigin does not make a general ledger. It has no double-entry bookkeeping, no chart of accounts, no bank reconciliation as a self-serve feature, no balance sheet, and it does not file GST returns. Expense tracking lives in Nox-Billings and purchasing lives in Commerce, both of which are scoped custom deployments. Our platform pricing is Starter INR 800 per month for three users, Growth INR 1,600 for ten, and Agency INR 5,000 for twenty-five users across three workspaces, and that is the platform only. If you are choosing between Khatabook and Zoho Books for your books, that decision does not involve us at all.

Sources checked

What we read, and what we could not

Read on 4 October 2026. One deliberate imbalance runs through this page: every Zoho figure here comes from Zoho’s own India pricing page, while Khatabook publishes no price list we could reach, so this page publishes no Khatabook figure at all. Khatabook’s own words about their product and their own scale claims are quoted as their claims and were not independently verified. We publish no customer count, market share, or review score for any product, and we give no tax or compliance advice anywhere on this page.

Khatabook

Their own description of the product, read 4 October 2026

The about page at khatabook.com/about/ is server-rendered and we read it in full. The page title is 'About Us | What is Khatabook | Know about ADJ Utility Apps Pvt Ltd' and its meta description reads: 'Khatabook is a free and easy to use digital ledger app for small businesses and shop owners. Manage your udhar bahi khata on your phone in your chosen language.' The page heading is 'Simplify business, empower merchants'. The body describes the first offering as 'an Android App enabling businesses to digitally record the credit they extend to customers' and describes a digital-first approach for 'the merchants of Bharat' across 12 languages. The page contains no price, no plan name, no feature list, and no mention of GST, GST invoicing, e-invoicing, or e-way bills. The only GST references on the page are navigation links to free website tools, a GST Calculator and an HSN Code List and GST Rate Finder.

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Khatabook

Scale figures as Khatabook states them, read 4 October 2026

Khatabook's own about page states: 'we're building utility solutions for the nation's 6.3 crore-strong MSME sector', that the first offering 'went viral and so far Khatabook has been downloaded over 5 Crore+ times', and that the approach 'has helped Khatabook reach 5 Crore registered merchants across 12 languages in less than a year'. These are Khatabook's claims about themselves, quoted as their claims. We did not verify any of them independently and we publish no user count, download count, or market-share figure for any other product on this page. The company address given on the page is 1203, 22nd Cross Rd, Sector 3, HSR Layout, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560102, with support contact +91-9606800800.

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Khatabook pricing, attempted 4 October 2026

Khatabook publishes no price list we could reach, so this page publishes no Khatabook figure. https://www.khatabook.com/pricing returned an HTTP 404, and so did https://khatabook.com/pricing and the paths /plans, /pricing-plans, /business-software, /features, /accounting-software, /free-accounting-software, /billing-software. Their sitemap at khatabook.com/sitemap.xml did load and lists 8,403 URLs, and not one is a pricing, plan, or product page; the only non-blog entries are the home page, about, contact-us, hiring, privacy, terms, and calculator, alongside several thousand blog posts and per-city gold-rate pages. Their home page is a Next.js static export served with an empty __NEXT_DATA__ payload and a body containing only an empty div, so the page ships no price text in its HTML and the pricing content would only exist after client-side JavaScript runs. Their help centre at /help is a Gatsby shell that returns an empty page-data payload. https://app.khatabook.com/ did not complete a connection from our network, and /contact-us/ returned an HTTP 403. This is an absence of published pricing, not a paywall, and it is why the Khatabook column on this page carries capabilities and model but no numbers.

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Zoho Books India plan prices, per organisation per month

From the page titled 'Zoho Books Plans | Accounting Software Pricing in India': Free at no charge; Standard INR 899 monthly and INR 749 billed annually; Professional INR 1,799 and INR 1,499; Premium INR 3,599 and INR 2,999; Elite INR 5,999 and INR 4,999; Ultimate INR 9,599 and INR 7,999. The page carries the line '*Prices are exclusive of local taxes', so every figure is a pre-tax number. We requested the global URL https://www.zoho.com/books/pricing/ first, as the Tally comparison on this site did, and it resolved to this /in/ path.

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Zoho Books user allowances and paid add-on prices

The page's own FAQ states: 'By default, Zoho Books allows you to add three users to the Standard Plan, five users to the Professional Plan, 10 users to the Premium Plan, 15 users to the Elite Plan, and 25 users to the Ultimate Plan. If you need more users, you can add them with the Zoho Books user add-on for INR 180 per month or INR 150 per month, billed annually.' A second FAQ states that starting from the Premium plan employees can be added with the employee add-on at INR 75 per employee per month or INR 60 per employee per month billed annually.

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Zoho Books Free plan card, eligibility, and volume limits

The Free plan card lists: Receipt autoscans; Accept online payments; Automate payment reminders; Enable self-service customer portal; Manage credits and refunds; Bank reconciliation; Track sales and purchase orders; Track inventory; GST reports and filing; P&L, Balance Sheet and 50+ Reports; Invoice Management System; and 1 User + 1 Accountant. The FAQ states the Free plan is available indefinitely as long as revenue for the financial year does not exceed a threshold of 25 lakhs. Annual invoice limits by plan are published as: Free up to 1,000, Standard up to 5,000, Professional up to 10,000, Premium up to 25,000, and Elite and Ultimate up to 1,00,000; annual bills and expenses on Free are capped at 1,000.

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How Zoho Books access, trial, and commitment work, and what the page does not mention

The page states that Zoho Books is a cloud-based service so no installation is necessary and it is accessed through a computer browser and smartphone, that you can try the product for 14 days free before subscribing, and that it is a pay-as-you-go service so you are not obligated to sign a contract or commit to continuing the subscription. Separately, the string 'UPI' does not appear anywhere in the page. We therefore publish no UPI-specific claim for Zoho Books from this page, which is a statement about what this page says and not proof that the product cannot handle UPI. Confirm collection methods with Zoho directly.

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NoxOrigin

Our own published platform pricing, for the disclosure at the end of this page

Platform only, and deliberately not comparable to a ledger: Starter INR 800 per month and INR 8,000 annually for three users in one workspace, Growth INR 1,600 per month and INR 15,000 annually for ten users, and Agency INR 5,000 per month and INR 48,000 annually for twenty-five users across three workspaces. NoxOrigin does not publish a general ledger and does not file GST returns. NoxCRM, Nox-Billings, and Nox-Tickets are scoped custom deployments with no list price.

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Tally vs Zoho BooksThe other Zoho Books comparison on this site, read from the same India price list.NoxOrigin vs myBillBookAn India-first billing product compared on published INR plans, e-invoicing, and included CA access.GST Billing Software vs ERPWhen dedicated GST billing software is the right category rather than an accounting suite.All comparisonsEvery vendor we have compared, and what we could verify about each.