#12 Never Leave a Billable Hour Behind
A client approves a website redesign project. The estimated effort? 40 hours. The project is going well. A few additional review meetings are scheduled. Several rounds of content changes are requested. A few "quick fixes" get added along the way. The
#11 Stop Absorbing Cost That Client Should Pay
One of the easiest ways of losing profit in a business isn't losing a customer. It's forgetting to include the expenses that are incurred for half of your customers. A taxi ride to a client location A software subscription purchased for a project. Domain
#10 Bill While You Sleep
A consultant is reviewing last month's work. Client meetings? Done. Deliverables? Sent. Support requests? Resolved. Then they realize something. "I have completed the work... but I haven't billed the client yet." The work was completed. The client was
#9 Win the Job First
For many businesses, the first document that goes out isn't an invoice. It's a document that creates ample space to negotiate, discuss requirements, align expectations, and ultimately win the deal. The whole of the business world calls it a Quote or,
#8 Your First Invoice for Real This Time
Imagine standing at the edge of a journey you have carefully prepared for. Every setting configured, every detail arranged, every piece of your invoicing workflow thoughtfully put into place. What began as less than 30 minutes of setup has now transformed
#Pit Stop1: Configure Zoho Invoice
Over the last 7 posts, we covered the essential Zoho Invoice setup steps that help businesses to invoice more quickly from day one. It's time for a pit stop. Let's take a moment to recap everything we've covered so far in this section. This post provides
#7 Set It Once Benefit Forever
Every successful process begins with a strong foundation. Think about building a house. When the groundwork is stable, everything else stays firm. The same goes for invoicing. When your invoicing system is set up properly from the start, you don't waste
Add Date Filters for Timesheet Export
Currently, there are no date filters when exporting Timesheets. Can you please add Start Date and End Date options when exporting Timesheets? Similar to exporting Invoices. Thanks.
#6 Your Invoice Is a Branding Document
It's always important for a business to think about how it showcases its brand, regardless of its size. Customers remember experiences, and when every touchpoint reflects your brand consistently, it builds familiarity and trust, increasing the chance
#5 The Pay Now Button That Changes Everything
Collecting payments is all about convenience, right? Most customers don't intentionally delay payments. Often, invoices remain unpaid simply because the payment process feels inconvenient, unclear or time-consuming. When paying becomes quick and effortless,
#4 Setting Up Your Client the Right Way
Creating invoices without properly setting up the customer can quickly lead to several inconsistencies, such as duplicate records, missing billing details, and poor customer management. This becomes even more important for businesses that use a connected
#3 Stop Retyping the Same Things
Imagine a store where customers keep walking in and placing different orders throughout the day. The store owner manually enters every product name, price, tax and description while creating invoices. During a busy day at work, the store owner had to
#2 The Tax Talk Nobody Wants to Have
"We are also able to manage our GST invoices without worrying about compliance issues. With Zoho Invoice, we are happy, our tax consultant is happy, and so are our customers," rejoices Shivprateek Habib, Partner, Flutterboots Services LLP. That's usually
#1 New to Zoho Invoice? Do this First!
"Zoho Invoice has made our company's tax invoices look more elegant and professional. It is effortless to raise an invoice and track payments with it", says Arunkumar Balakrishnan, Director GA Technologies. Generating professional invoices usually begins
It Really Can Be This Simple
Let's be honest.... Running a business already comes with enough moving parts. Invoices, payments, follow-ups, reminders, tracking who paid and who disappeared. It can slowly turn into a full-time admin job on its own, especially when you are a Sole Proprietor,
Please add Zelle as an online payment option
Hello, I would like to request Zelle be added to the online payment service providers for Zoho Invoice. Considering how ubiquitous Zelle has become as a way to pay people via the major banking institutions, I feel like many freelancers would benefit from
Estimates with options and sub-totals
Hi It seems it would be great to be able to show multiple options in an estimate. For instance I have a core product to which I can add options, and maybe sub-options... It would be great to have subtotals and isolate the core from the not compulsory items. Thanks
Versioning of Quotes and Invoices
Would be nice if Zoho Invoice would offer the feature of saving all versions of a quote or invoice during the process - so if quotes or invoices get changed over time - a version of the old ones exist and can be reviewed and reactivated if necessary ... ;)
Hide/Show Certain Fields When Creating/Editing Invoices, Estimates, Etc.
Hello there, I would like the ability to hide or show certain fields for different employees/roles in my company when they are creating or editing invoices, estimates, etc.. Most of the time, we don't use half of the fields shown on the create/edit invoice
Apply Credit Note Automatically
We need the ability to apply open Credit Notes toward invoices generated by recurring invoice as the first, priority payment. This should be an option that we can enable/disable in the recurring profile and/or the Credit Note. Other invoicing systems can do this. I'm not sure why Zoho Invoice doesn't have it. Here's an example for a Recurring Invoice... If a customer has open Credit Notes, and a saved credit card set for auto-pay, once an invoice goes out, the credit balance gets automatically applied
TIPS AND TRICKS #10 - Displaying timesheet details on invoices
Businesses that log time for projects, and invoice customers for the logged hours will need to display Timesheet Notes and Timesheet Start & End Time on invoices. By following this tip, you will be able to display the timesheet notes and timesheet history
[Invoice] Project billing by percent completion of tasks
Hello, I appreciate the various options for Project billing types and budgeting found in Zoho Invoice, but I would like to either propose a new method or find out if it' s currently possible. It would be very helpful to have project tasks that have a budget item (lump sum), against which the client is billed according to a percent completion of the task. This percent completion would not be tied to time logged or task billing rates. Here's an example: Project X total budget = $10,000 Task A total
Zoho invoice report needed: Sales by country
Nowadays is vital analyze sales by country. This report on sales by country need to be based on a country code table. Very simple and a great tool. Thanks a lot Zoho Team. Keep up the good work¡
"CUSTOMER HAS VIEWED THIS INVOICE" - PLEASE SPECIFY *WHICH EMAIL ADDRESS* IT WAS VIEWED BY
Please allow us to see when a specific email recipient views an invoice/estimate/etc. Sometimes, I like to CC myself when I send invoices to customers. If I open the email, Zoho Invoice then tells me "Customer has viewed invoice", which is not technically
Default attachments emailing invoice
I would love to be to define default attachments (files) that are included with every invoice emailing. For example every time I email I need to attach my pdf with sales conditions manually. It would be nice if this would be included by default.
New Invoice to Include Aging Summary
I would like to click New Invoice and have the Aging Summary included (if I haven't a recorded payment to that customer). This should be included with Recurring Invoices as well. I have attached a .gif image showing an example of what I mean.
TIPS AND TRICKS #11 - Domain authentication
Emails sent can sometimes land in your recipient’s spam folder or bounce. This happens when the email address in the From field of an email belongs to a domain that does not have SPF and DKIM records. In order to prevent this in Zoho Invoice, you should
Add a "Customize Report" option to not display costs in Timesheet Details report
I would like the option to choose whether or not to display the dollar amounts in Timesheet Details reports. It appears that when customizing the report, if no Customer Name is selected, then only the hours are shown in the report. But when a Customer
TIPS AND TRICKS #9 - Displaying different bank details on invoices
Most businesses will have customers from foreign countries. In that case, you might need to display different bank account details in their invoices. With a few simple steps, you can easily create a new template with the necessary bank details and associate
Invoice API Feature: method for "updated since date"
In my application and, I would think, in those of most other developers, I the developer have no use for getting all of the invoices (or customers or items or payments made, etc.) after the first time. Too much data exchange. Just give me what has changed since I last checked. I suggest creating a GET method something like https://invoice.zoho.com/api/[invoices]/modified-after/ where one of the parameters is a time stamp string (i.e. yyyy-mm-dd hh:ii:ss). The response would list all [invoiced] modified
TIPS AND TRICKS #8 - Collecting online payments for multiple invoices at once
Sometimes your clients will have multiple invoices due and it will be a hassle for them to get all the invoices in order to pay online. With the tips mentioned below your clients will be able to pay for multiple invoices at once online. How does it work?
TIPS AND TRICKS #7 - Currency formats
Currencies displayed in transactions in Zoho Invoice will have a specific format. This format can be changed as per the user preference in a few simple steps. How does it work? ♦ Navigate to Settings >> Currencies. ♦ Select the currency for which you
TIPS AND TRICKS #5 - Recording Multiple Invoice Payments and Storing Credits
There might be situations when your customer pays for all their due invoices using any offline payment method. In addition to that, they might also pay an advance amount for their future invoice(s). It will be a hassle to open each invoice and record
TIPS AND TRICKS #4 - Dashboard Tips
The importance of a comprehensive Account Receivables dashboard can’t be overstated. Zoho Invoice offers an insightful dashboard that gives you a clear picture of your company’s finances, key performance indicators and real-time summarized AR data. Let’s
Logging time within Time Tracking
At the moment I use the call logging feature of CRM to log time spent on clients work. Its nice to be able to start, stop and pause the timer and record how many hours I need to bill the client. Any chance of implementing this in Zoho Invoice's time tracking feature The same interface as CRM would be great or a simple start/stop/pause/restart timer.
TIPS AND TRICKS #3- Item Header and Bulk Add
When creating a sales invoice, you may want to divide the line items into several groups or categories and send it as a PDF file to customers. By including headers while adding the items to your invoice, you can separate the list of items into as many
TIPS AND TRICKS #2: Report with details on invoices created from Recurring invoices.
If you are a business who bills customers recurrently, you might want to see all the child invoices that are generated for all recurring profiles over a specific period. This simple trick in the Invoice Details Report can help you with that. Here's
Online invoice payments via ACH bank transfer!
This is a great feature available in Quickbooks Online. The best thing about it is that they only charge $.50 per transfer! That's inexpensive convenience for you and your customers. How about it?
Invoice API create customer - response on duplicate
When trying to create an already existing customer (customer name), the API returns a Code = 1001 and Message = The customer "xxxxx" already exists. Please specify a different name. I think it would be very interesting for the API to send out also the customerID of the already existing customer, with no further need to make a new 'find a customer' API search call based on the customer name to retieve the customerID.
Add Payment Status to Expenses
Hello developers, I would like to request an important feature: Add the expense payment status. - Paid - Not Paid For example. It's possible?
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