How do add VAT to Shipping Charge?
Hi, I am currently trialing your program which has been asbolsutely excellent, However... I noticed when I finish my invoice there is no VAT added to the shipping charge? only the total of the items?.. VAT is always added to the shipping charge too with
Separate billing and shipping person name
Hi, I am aware that Zoho Books allow to input two different billing and shipping address; however, It seems I could only have one name for this? Is it possible to have the name of person be different for billing and shipping on the invoice? Thank you
Different Company Name for billing & shipping address
We are using Zoho Books & Inventory for our Logistics and started to realize soon, that Zoho is not offering a dedicated field for a shipping address company name .. when we are creating carrier shipping labels, the Billing Address company name gets always
ABA Files payment description
Hi, is there a way to automate the payment description on the ABA file creation. When you paying many vendors having to put this in each time is very time-consuming. I couldn't see if there was a way to workflow this to automate using deluge.
Invoice_Id as placeholder
Hi I am trying to create a URL on the invoice with the Invoice Id (not the Invoice Number) but when I use %InvoiceId% or ${invoice.invoice_id} the first doesn't return anything and the second is returned as is i.e. as text. Any suggestions?
Searching for Items
when creating a bill or invoice, when i click on a line item and start typing, the search is really bad. it only finds the items if i type it exactly how the item is named. it doesnt let me do partial searches where i just type a part of the item name.
Progressive Invoicing
Progressing invoicing is needed for many industries. It would be great to see it implemented into Zoho Books as well. Set up and send progress invoices in QuickBooks Desktop (intuit.com)
Credit Cards Rewards Cash Back
Hello, My credit card gives me 1% cash back. How can I record this income? Also, my credit card allows me to buy products with points. How can I record this payment? Thanks
Recording SEP IRA Contribution in books
I have an LLC that is electing to be taxed an S Corp this year. I am wondering how to records SEP IRA contributions. Are they categorized under an expense or are they considered equity or something else that I am not thinking of. Thank you!
Accounting on the Go Series-28: Effortless Automation- Converting Quotes to Invoices with Ease
Hello Zoho Books Users! At Zoho Books, we take automation seriously, striving to simplify your daily tasks and reduce manual work wherever possible. Today, let’s talk about one such nifty time saving feature: automatic conversion of Quotes to Invoices.
Negative Opening Balance
How can I add Negative Opening balance - meaning a credit balance to a Customer or a debit balance to a vendor? If I go thru Sales-->Customers, and if the opening balance is Rs. 1000 (credit balance), it does not allow me to enter a "minus" sign or mention
Handling Duplicate Invoices with Identical Reference Numbers in Zoho
I've recently encountered an unexpected behavior within Zoho that allows the creation of multiple invoices with identical reference numbers and order numbers. This situation is quite surprising, as it could potentially lead to significant confusion in
Function #36: Mail item list to customers using Custom button
Hello everyone, and welcome back to our series! In response to ever-changing market conditions, inflation, and cost fluctuations, businesses often find it necessary to revise item rates to sustain profitability. Following the changes, it also becomes
Need better way to tie Undeposited Funds to Invoice Payments to make it easy to reconcile Undeposited Funds account
Hello, Request to have Zoho create tighter integration between Undeposited Funds and Invoice Payments. Currently reconciling the undeposited funds account is a fairly tedious process for us. Since the deposits and payments are just thrown into a "bucket"
tracking inventory in item in zoho books
Hello, I follow the instructions to be able to enable inventory fot the items, but I dont see the check box (Image zohobooks3) in the item to activate "Track inventory for this item". Imagezohobooks4: Is the menu of the configuration of the item.
Zoho Books TimeSheet API Date Filter Format
I didn't see this documented anywhere and it took me an hour to figure out. In order to filter the time sheet list using: zohoapis.com/books/v3/projects/timeentries? You must also send the following parameters in this example: filter_by = Date.CustomDate
Zoho books auto deletion happened because of inactivity - any options to get it restored?
It was a shocker to see a mail with the subject like "your organization ---- has been deleted". We were in free plan for couple of years because of no business and Covid 19 pandemic. Even mail servers were down due to some issues. But after restoring
Reconciliation - Show Transactions After End Date
I did a quick search, and I've only seen this brought up indirectly. In the reconciliation interface, transactions dated up to a week after the end date should be available for being reconciled. The use case is pretty simple... many times, transactions
Manual categorisation of bank transactions
Good Day I am hoping someone here can assist me. I have a lot of catching up to do with some bank transactions. I imported all my bank statements manually. Where possible i created a rule to have the transactions auto categorised. However there are some
How to pull in custom fields in a Zoho Books Related List (invoice module)
I have custom fields for Zoho Invoices. How do I reference them into columns within my related list? I tried using their API name but it doesn't seem to work. I'm not sure if it matters but they are date fields.
sort customers and vendors custom fields
Hi, would be nice to add sort customers and vendors custom fields. Thanks :)
How to change the pdf title of invoice
Hi! When we generate an invoice in pdf format, the title of the document still appear in English, for example Invoice-XXX How we can customize the title of the invoice generated?
Single monthly invoice for subscriptions and Recurring services.
How can I create a single invoice for monthly subscriptions and support contracts using Zoho Billing and Book's Recurring invoices? Customers expect to receive and pay once per month for any services they have with us and also have them consolidated.
Creating an invoice to be paid in two installments?
Hi there, I own a small Photographic Services business and have not been able to find a way to fit my billing system into Zoho, or any other Accounting software. The way my payments work is: 1. Customer pays 50% of total price of service to secure their
Generate Payment Link - ZOHO Books by an API
Hello Team, is there any way we can Generate a Payment Link - ZOHO Books by an API, if anyone has any idea about this please do comment? Thanks & Regards Piyush Goyal
How to identify automatic and manual journal entries
I am confused by unintended automatic journal entries and want to know exactly what is happening in connection with other modules, such as inventory, invoice, etc. I have two questions: How an I check all the entries including those generated automatically?
How and where should I log an insurance payout in books?
Hi, I have a little question. So I have bank feeds set up and am trying to categorize a payment. DHL damaged one of my parcels and issued me a credit note for the damage done. This has then been paid into our bank account by them rather than using it
Consolidation of same items in the Salesorder.
Hi; I am a Lighting vendor and i give my quotations for Lights on a room wise basis. I have created a extra column for the rooms. In the quotation, the same light fixtures would be given in different rooms. When i convert the quote to sales order, i want
Get more records from Zoho Books
Hello There, I have 200 above records in Zoho Books.I want to get those records and push to Creator .we need sample syntax for this.
Resolving Automatic Double Entry of Cost of Goods Sold by Switching to Periodic Inventory System Settings
I found automatic journal entries are generated as follows according to inventry purchases and sales. 1. Inventory purchase (Dr.) Cost of Goods Sold / (Cr.) Cash 2. Inventory sales (Dr.) Cost of Goods Sold / (Cr.) Inventory Asset The journal entry 1 follows
Payoneer for Zoho
I have set up a gateway to my Zoho Books i.e. Payoneer for Zoho and connected it successfully with my Payoneer account. Then I created an invoice and sent it foward. But when my customer tries to make a payment, the error screen appears So what can I
Function #1: Convert an accepted Estimate to Sales Order automatically in Zoho Books
As you’re aware, Zoho Books provides a default option to have the estimates automatically converted to invoices once your customer accepts them. Many of you wanted a similar option for sales orders, so here’s a workflow that converts accepted estimates
Function #6: Calculate Commissions for paid invoices
Zoho Books helps you automate the process of calculating and recording commissions paid to sales persons using custom functions. We've written a script that computes the commission amount based on the percentage of commission you enter and creates an
I cant add a contact with gst_no getting error {"code":8,"message":"Invalid Element gst_no"}
am trying to add a contact into zoho books but when i add the key "gst_no" into the post data am getting error {"code":8,"message":"Invalid Element gst_no"} ,but if i remove the key contact will be added, am adding my postdata for reference to see if
Expenses
Hi, I sell jewelry online and I'm new to business and accounting. So please use simple words as I'm still learning the terms. My main product is earrings. To sell the earrings, depending upon each order, I'd need one or more earring cards, cardboard boxes,
Make an Invoice out of an Recurring-Invoice via the API?
Hello, i need to activate the Books intergrated Function to make an Invoice out of an Recurring-Invoice via the API. I have several Recurring-Invoices in Books and i am building a function, that read Zoho Desk Tickets and they Timeentrys to generate Books Item in Invoices, but if i only have an Recurring-Invoice i must generate the Invoice of it. Here is the Button in Books on an Recurring-Invoice, upper right corner, the button in the Middle (Create Invoice) :D Thanks for every help.
Announcement - Custom Function Series
Hi folks! One of the key attributes of Zoho Books that we're really proud of is the ability to automate your routine accounting tasks in an efficient manner. For most businesses, accounting would involve a set of repetitive tasks that consume a good chunk
withholding tax automation
hello, we do withold tax and currently do it manually on the payment's page. is there away to automate the computation?
Function #19: Associate invoice templates automatically based on branch
Much like the custom function we shared last week, today's function also aims to facilitate the automatic association of invoice templates. When you're managing business operations across various branches, there may be a need to create and send invoices
How to exclude amount completely from reports?
Hi there, I have been paid from a part-time job but this has inadvertently gone into my business bank account. As the part-time job is for an employer, I already pay tax via PAYE in the UK and do not want that amount to be counted into my business income
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