Akounto vs. Zoho Books

Akounto

Zoho Books

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Akounto	Score 0.0 out of 10	N/A	Akounto is an accounting and financing software that helps small businesses owners. Akounto features automated invoicing, pay bills, bookkeeping, and tax management. It enables users to manage finances with reports on cash flow and analytics for better decision-making.	N/A
Zoho Books	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	Zoho Books is an accounting solution that is designed to help small businesses manage their finances. This solution includes dashboards and a wide variety of reports. Business users can automate tasks and set up custom workflows. Zoho offers a 14 day free trial.	$0 For businesses with turnover <50K USD per annum

Pricing

Akounto

Zoho Books

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Free: $0
For businesses with turnover <50K USD per annum
Standard: $20
per month per org
Professional: $50
per month per org
Premium: $70
per month per org

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Akounto	Zoho Books
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Zoho Books is available for both monthly and yearly plans. Users who sign up for the annual plan get a discount.

More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Akounto	Zoho Books
Considered Both Products	Akounto No answer on this topic	Zoho Books MS Marcus Sorensen CEO Chose Zoho Books Affordability better, online access better, automations better, integration with our CRM and inventory better, customizability better Incentivized Helpful? Sanjay Singh Business Development Manager Chose Zoho Books Zoho Books has a much simpler GUI and the reason we selected Zoho is because of the integration of Zoho Books across other applications and especially into Zoho products. One of the other reasons is the time log feature we can easily pair up with a client service ticket to show … Incentivized Helpful? Trevor Gibbs Founder Chose Zoho Books equally comparable to other payment processing made online, the benefit of using Zoho is that it has so many other apps and tools that are easily integrated like Zoho Sign, e.g. for sending out quotes etc. but also can be connected via an API to many other commercial platforms … Incentivized Helpful? CS Casey Schuler CEO (Chief Executive Officer) Chose Zoho Books Much simpler than QuickBooks Desktop. For our needs, the pricing for Zoho Books when bought through a Zoho One subscription was a much better value. Our outside Audit firm was also able to follow Zoho Books much easier than our previous records. Incentivized Helpful? MM Melissa Meece Owner / GM Chose Zoho Books I found Zoho Books to be more intuitive and user friendly. I also appreciated that it is cloud based, unlike the versions of QB I had used in the past. So our team was able to work remotely when needed, which was especially helpful during a pandemic. Incentivized Helpful? Mike Koolwijk SEO Specialist \| MA consultant Chose Zoho Books We had a lot of problems with Exact Online, support-wise and price-wise. So Zoho Books wins on every point there. While Exact offers way more options, it tends to be really slow... and complex. Again Zoho Books wins. If you want an easy-to-use tool and not pay a lot of money, … Incentivized Helpful? MJ Mike James CEO (Chief Executive Officer) Chose Zoho Books Zoho Books is significantly inferior to the competition. The listings offered here would not allow me to choose QB or MYOB. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zoho Books I believe it is way easier to use, has more robust features, seamless integration with other Zoho apps like CRM, Projects, etc. is super useful and has saved a lot of time. Streamlining this process has been easy, and the end result is better reporting, improved decision making … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zoho Books QuickBooks Online is much harder to use than Zoho Books. We found that Zoho Books was easy to train staff, and the online help is excellent. Qickbooks Desktop is endlessly buggy, requiring frequent IT support calls and a dedicated server for multi-user access. Online payments for … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zoho Books Cloud vs. desktop, this and the fact that Zoho Books syncs with our other Zoho apps were the most pressing reasons for switching to Zoho Books. As mentioned previously, we consider our accounting software to be an integral part of doing business efficiently, and we can now do … Incentivized Helpful? Cedric Haynes Owner Chose Zoho Books Easier to integrate with other Zoho apps. It’s also customized for mobile use making it easy to use wherever I am. I can get real-time updates on payments while in the field via the mobile app. The software is customizable and adaptable so I can easily make it fit various … Incentivized Helpful? Daniel Coburn Sr. Product Manager Chose Zoho Books [QuickBooks and Zoho] are very comparable until you open your wallet. While they are both neck-and-neck with one another in features, QuickBooks does have the integration advantage. There are many more platforms that integrate with QB than Zoho Books. But Zoho has so many … Incentivized Helpful? Mehdi Aherraki General Manager Chose Zoho Books The very easy to read dashboard, the clear categorization, the customization features, the easy learning curve and the seamless integration with other Zoho products (that we use a lot and frequently) are for our company the reasons why we favored Zoho books over other … Incentivized Helpful? Miguel Useche Wordpress developer Chose Zoho Books I love the price/quality ratio of Zoho Books, and it's an awesome application to handle all your accounting, inventory, and buying processes. It's simple to use so the company doesn't have to spend too much time and money on training new employees. Incentivized Helpful? Nathan Sichilongo Digital Marketing Manager Chose Zoho Books Zoho Books was an easy choice for us because of the features and smaller learning curve. Most of our staff have been able to come in and learn how to use it within hours versus the days it used to take to learn QuickBooks. Also being online, we are able to have real-time stats … Incentivized Helpful? Scott French Operations Manager Chose Zoho Books Quickbooks is the standard. ZOHO Books will give it a run for its money. Your accountant may not like the fact that you switch over to Zoho Books, but since it's completely web-based, you are able to give them access to your account easily. Incentivized Helpful? Wesley Johnson Director Chose Zoho Books The main difference here was the time tracking functionality that goes to a project specific nature. We do multiple projects with the same client and need to be able to split our time amongst those different projects for the purpose of reporting and invoicing. Incentivized Helpful? Marc Charette Commercial Photographer: Google Street View \| Trusted Chose Zoho Books Zoho Books is plain clunky. It does integrate with their CRM and other apps and that was why I had been attracted to it. But if you are in Australia, be very careful if you are moving from Zoho invoices. You won't get transferred data to the Australian platform and you will … Incentivized Helpful? Hazem Kassem Managing Director Chose Zoho Books Price and easier to use Other many applications that could be integrated with zoho Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zoho Books In comparison, Zoho is about the same price but comes with a lot more customizable fields. There are other solutions that feed right in and make it so there is only one place you need to go to get a full picture of your business and what you need to do to keep it running … Incentivized Helpful? Ramin Sultanov Digital Instructor Chose Zoho Books One of the best business decisions we have made in our company is getting Zoho Books. Customer service is really really fast. If you have a problem or questions they will get to you within minutes and they are constantly improving the application and listening to our feedback … Incentivized Helpful? Stephen Lalla CEO Chose Zoho Books It's cloud based and AccountEdge wasn't at the time we needed it, a cloud based app. Zoho Books updates come automatically which makes it real convenient. Pricing was comparable and with AccountEdge it seems we were having frequent networking issues when being used by … Incentivized Helpful? Brandy Perez Communications Specialist Chose Zoho Books We made the switch from Quickbooks to ZohoBooks because of the CRM integration. Though Zoho Books has proven to be less hectic and less of a search when it comes to finding the needed features. In other words, its very user friendly! Everything is set up in a very simple, easy … Incentivized Helpful? SN Seerapu Nehemiah Senior Accountant Chose Zoho Books I selected Zoho Books initially for the best price, it offered and thereafter I became a fan of using the software and It was a nice experience using it overall, I even recommended at times in the place of Tally ERP 9. The more once used, the more it can be recommended to … Incentivized Helpful? AK Anirudh Kaushik Operations Head Chose Zoho Books Would rank Zoho Books high up there among the options in the market. It has a wide feature base, smooth interface and comes highly trusted and reviewed. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Akounto

Zoho Books

Customization

Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
	Akounto - Ratings	Zoho Books 7.8 Ratings 2% above category average
API for custom integration	00 Ratings	7.80 Ratings

Security

Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
	Akounto - Ratings	Zoho Books 9.2 Ratings 10% above category average
Single sign-on capability	00 Ratings	8.40 Ratings
Role-based user permissions	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings

Reporting & Analytics

Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
	Akounto - Ratings	Zoho Books 8.7 Ratings 10% above category average
Dashboards	00 Ratings	8.20 Ratings
Standard reports	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Custom reports	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings

General Ledger and Configurable Accounting

Comparison of General Ledger and Configurable Accounting features of Product A and Product B
	Akounto - Ratings	Zoho Books 8.4 Ratings 8% above category average
Accounts payable	00 Ratings	8.20 Ratings
Accounts receivable	00 Ratings	8.20 Ratings
Cash management	00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Bank reconciliation	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Expense management	00 Ratings	8.80 Ratings
Time tracking	00 Ratings	8.80 Ratings
Multi-currency support	00 Ratings	9.20 Ratings
Regulations compliance	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Self-service portal	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings

Inventory Management

Comparison of Inventory Management features of Product A and Product B
	Akounto - Ratings	Zoho Books 7.0 Ratings 5% below category average
Inventory tracking	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Automatic reordering	00 Ratings	5.00 Ratings

Order Management

Comparison of Order Management features of Product A and Product B
	Akounto - Ratings	Zoho Books 8.7 Ratings 12% above category average
Pricing	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Order entry	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Credit card processing	00 Ratings	6.70 Ratings
Cost of goods sold	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Akounto	Zoho Books
Small Businesses	QuickBooks Self-Employed (discontinued) Score 8.9 out of 10	QuickBooks Self-Employed (discontinued) Score 8.9 out of 10
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Enterprises	Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management Score 10.0 out of 10	Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management Score 10.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Akounto	Zoho Books
Likelihood to Recommend	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	8.4 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	5.3 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Akounto	Zoho Books
Likelihood to Recommend	No answers on this topic	Zoho Books is good for a company or organization that wants to keep track of invoices, payments, and cash flow. If you do not have a full-time accountant in your organization, it can work well as whenever you hire one or have someone check your books, the information they need will be there, provided it has been entered into Zoho Books. It works as a one-man operation or a small team. For larger teams, it would depend on how much information needs to be input on a daily basis. Incentivized Nathan Sichilongo Digital Marketing Manager Read full review
Pros	No answers on this topic	The projects feature is what we use a lot it helps setting up projects as well as tracking expenses and bills for the whole project. The budgeting feature is very developed, allowing you to budget by total project cost, total project hours, hours per task, or hours per staff. Customer Estimates and Invoices are very easy to setup and send directly from the app (it also has a very nice and customizable reminder option). Stock and pricing listings is very intuitive and easy and makes it a very helpful and time saving feature. Bank reconciliation and Financial reporting are very developed and make it easy to share information with bookeepers and accounting specialists. Incentivized Mehdi Aherraki General Manager Read full review
Cons	No answers on this topic	Printing checks - they only offer one vendor and they are expensive compared to QuickBook alternatives. Their interface for bids - retainers and applying them against income could be improved, but once you know how it's easy. Their recurring fees don't seem to always work the way I'd want. But overall they work. Incentivized Daniel Coburn Sr. Product Manager Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	Customization is the biggest struggle for us and most of the time we need to involve a tech person. The chat support is a great feature and very helpful. It would be great to be able to customize and create invoices and correspondence (templates) such are reminders in multiple languages within one organization. The currency (USD) would be the same. We have clients in different countries that don't speak English but pay in USD. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	The support team feels very disjointed. We have filtered through a number of "lead" contacts and are frequently spammed by other Zoho members. Once getting an appropriate support contact on the phone - the team is very helpful, it just takes a lot of hoop jumping to get there. We actually unsubscribed from their support package as we were not getting the value we were looking for. Incentivized CS Casey Schuler CEO (Chief Executive Officer) Read full review
Alternatives Considered	No answers on this topic	Cloud vs. desktop, this and the fact that Zoho Books syncs with our other Zoho apps were the most pressing reasons for switching to Zoho Books. As mentioned previously, we consider our accounting software to be an integral part of doing business efficiently, and we can now do that considering our systems are all integrated. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	No answers on this topic	I was able to cut my costs for a more complete and easy to use tool. Many transactions, and accounting tasks on 1 platform, reduction in time by a lot. Clients can pay without leaving your website (less drop-off, better conversions). Incentivized Mike Koolwijk SEO Specialist \| MA consultant Read full review
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