Zoho Books says ‘Don’t fret while paying multiple bills’

February 9, 2012 | By Reshma Roy

Recently in Zoho Books you could record payment for multiple invoices issued to your customers. Now we got more good news for you!

After some careful analysis on the feature requests and our forums, we identified another pain point for our users. Multiple Bill payment for a vendor.

Imagine this. It’s a bright sunny day, you reach office and get a frantic call from your vendor to clear your several outstanding bills. Not a result of your poor time management skill but just one of those days when everything on your to-do list goes awry. You want to resolve this as soon as possible so that you can go back to your planned activities. You pay your dues and click open your accounting software to do the tedious task of recording the payment ONE by ONE

Well that was ‘before’.…

Record advance or multiple invoice payments at one go!

January 25, 2012 | By Reshma Roy

As the new year unfolds, Zoho Invoice and Zoho Books brings glad news to one and all especially those weary folks troubled by monotonous work.

Our developers had been elbow deep in some amazing coding this past few weeks and now we bring to you a revised and revamped customer payment feature. You can now record advance payment and record payment for multiple invoices all from a single screen.

Let’s say your customer makes a one-time payment for three different invoices. How would you show this in your Zoho Invoice account? Click on the video below to unravel the secret.

Whoa…was it that simple? Yes it is. Not just in Zoho Invoice, but it is possible even in Zoho Books along with some crucial accounting principles taken care of in the background.…

Zoho Invoice simplifies a law firm’s billing process

January 24, 2012 | By Naren

We are aware of the fact that Zoho Invoice has helped a lot of small businesses, freelancers and service providers to streamline their invoicing process. Here is an example of a full service law firm, HMLC that is based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The law firm that has a multi-lingual team of attorneys and consultants has benefited by using Zoho Invoice. HMLC has several branches across three continents. The firm efficiently and accurately sends numerous estimates and invoices every month using our invoice software. A few weeks back we had a discussion with Eric Alksibati, a senior lawyer with HMLC and a specialist in commercial and corporate law.

HMLC was previously using a local invoice software in Dubai.…

Come 2012 – Make The Switch To Zoho Books

December 22, 2011 | By Naren

Ever since we launched Zoho Books in the first quarter of 2011, there have
been numerous requests from our customers to help them move their accounting data from their existing system to Zoho Books. We are on the threshold of a brand new year and there is no better time to leave your old accounting software behind and move to Zoho Books. We have worked hard to make the switch over as simple as possible regardless of your current accounting system – be it QuickBooks or even Microsoft Excel.

To switch to Zoho Books all that is to be done is to choose an appropriate
migration date, note the account balances in your current system as of the migration date( i.e. run a trial balance report in accountant speak) and enter the balances in Zoho Books.…

VMom Pte Ltd: A Zoho Books Success Story

October 14, 2011 | By Naren

I spoke with Keng Swee recently, a Zoho Books user and founder of VMom Pte Ltd., a print media company based in Singapore. His company serves clients ranging from banks to integrated resorts. Keng manages a small yet passionate team of seven. Zoho Books helps him to stay up-to-date on his bookkeeping tasks. And he cleverly makes use of Zoho Books’s unique invoice custom template feature to send delivery orders.

Keng’s familiarity with Zoho Invoice prompted him to migrate to our accounting software. He has a necessity to create numerous invoices and quotes for his day-to-day business. He happily said:

I make use of Zoho Books custom templates to send quotations to my clients. The templates are easy to customize and are extremely user-friendly.

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Is Double-Entry Accounting here for eternity?

September 13, 2011 | By Prashant

Take any popular

accounting software today, be it a SAAS player like us or our desktop counterparts or even the entreprisey ERP solutions, and I bet they all are based on double-entry accounting. For the uninitiated, double-entry accounting is a system of bookkeeping that enforces recording two aspects of a financial transaction – one that indicates the source of amount involved and another to indicate how it is put to use. It is said that this method was first codified by Luca Pacioli, an Italian monk in the fifteenth century (and I’ll leave it to The Almighty

Wikipedia to explain the rest).

It is fascinating to see that a system devised to catch financial inaccuracies six centuries back still finds its place in the world of accounting software and remains largely untouched.…

Looking for more than invoicing? Accounting is here!

July 4, 2011 | By Deepa

The much awaited Zoho Invoice to Zoho Books migration is here. We are
very glad now that our Zoho Invoice users can graduate from invoicing to
accounting with ease. Ever since we launched Zoho Books, we have been
bombarded with requests for a simple migration option. We were forced to
break ground on this due to the volume of requests we were getting by
the day.

We’ve created a step by step guide to help you with the migration, which is available here.

If
you haven’t tried Zoho Books yet, this is a good time to try it; considering
that you can move your data over at the click of a button. We’ll
curiously wait for your feedback on this migration option. If we win your approval on this one, we’ll make way
for some more easy migration tools in times to come. …

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