Single-Item Composite Items
TL;DR: Zoho Inventory appears to not allow for composite items that are made up of a single unit of one other item. There's no reason for this artificial restriction, and it should be removed. Background / Use Case I'm working to transition our manufacturing
Composite Item Bundling - Use Default Recipe in API and Import
Right now, when composite item bundles are to be entered via API or import, it is required to also list the associate items consumed as part of this process, even if we just want to follow the recipe / BOM / list of associate items and labor that are
Zoho Inventory Community Digest February 2021 - a monthly rundown
Hello all! Hope you are all doing well as we get close to finishing the first quarter of 2021. This month, we have some cool feature updates and an amazing webinar to help you learn more about using artificial intelligence for managing transactions.
EXPORT AND IMPORT Composite Item
I NEED TO EXPORT COMPOSITE ITEMS, WHAT SOLUTION DO WE HAVE AVAILABLE, ALSO WANT TO AS IF WE CAN IMPORT COMPOSITE ITEMS
What's New in Zoho Inventory - March 2021
We've made some nitty-gritty enhancements to improve your overall user experience. Let's check out what's new in Zoho Inventory this March. Default Customer Type Based on the customers you mostly do business with, you can now choose the default customer
Quotes
Hi Zoho Inventory seems to do everything that I require at this stage for my business however there does not seem to be an option for creating sales quotes in Zoho Inventory, only sales orders. Is there a way to do this or do I need to use Zoho Invoice or Zoho CRM for this? Thanks Keith
Shopify Payments and Zoho Inventory
I am looking at integrating Shopify and Zoho Inventory. As online sales and payments are processed through Shopify, how is the payment information bought across and matched to the invoice. I understand the process of creating packages, shipping them and
maintaining Bills of Material using Composite Item
The Composite item feature in Zoho Inventory is a very useful feature. However, I realised during the course that I cannot edit an item once there are transactions. As a workaround, I had asked if I could create a new composite item and ask you to get the transaction history for the old item copied to it. STILL WAITING. I hope whoever from Zoho Support answers quickly after having understood the problem, as I had raised a ticket a few days back and haven't had a response yet Unless there is more
Help with Shopify to Zoho Inventory product/item pricing updates needed
We are researching an issue for a client where they need to switch all of their Shopify products as Include all Taxes. But, when this switched over they want to increase the prices in Shopify to adjust for the tax that will be taken off each product
Sales Order shows completed/fulfilled but no package/shipment ever created
I have 2 examples of this happening now, and it's very worrying as our back office now has to comb over every single order and cannot trust the dashboard for order status. The Sales order shows nothing in the history that the status was changed by the
Show sales without shipping cost
How to see the sales report without the shipping cost getting added to the total sales amount. ??? This is an issue when calculating sales for each sales person as the shipping cost gets added when clicked on reports.
Inventory in Books- our problem with pallets
We buy pallets full of products let us say 100 items on a pallet. We then sell these items various ways- Example customer pickup we batch them into 5,10, 15, 20 etc delivered and each quantity has a fixed price. We would like to use the selling side to effect the inventory off the pallet. I cannot think of a way of doing? Is it possible even?
Bulk / Volume cost & price for Zoho Inventory
Hi, I am looking to manage bulk / volume prices for Zoho Inventory. I receive QTY based costing from my suppliers and also offer this method of QTY based pricing to my customers. EG QTY 1-49 = $55 QTY 50-200 = $47 QTY 200+ =
Introducing Serial Number tracking in Zoho Inventory
Hey everyone, Hope you're all doing great! As your business grows, you'll need more and more control over the flow of your inventory. For example, you'll need to be able to uniquely identify every single unit that comes in and goes out of your warehouse. This pin-point precision is very much important for handling many day-to-day business scenarios. With that in mind, we're happy and excited in bringing Serial Number tracking to Zoho Inventory. Why do I need serial number tracking? "Hey, the
Shipping Options . Available Shipping Locations
Is there a possibility of adding available shipping options per product for suppliers/dropshippers? e.g I have a supplier who only ships to UK & Eu countries. Is there somewhere I can save this information? Many Thanks Danny
No Purchase Receive in Response API List All Purchase Order
Hello, i use API List All Purchase Order and i want get reveive_id, but when i run API on postman column receives is null. maybe this a bug or API is not finish. and the consultant can't answer becouse not understand this problem thank
Item fields not showing or mapping on sales orders
I have uploaded my purchases using CSV file as previous. All items show up on the PO with all fields including SKU, brand, description etc. but when I mark the PO as received all items appear in inventory but only the item name field - no SKU, description
Inventory: Price lists with date range
Hi all, It would be great to have time based price lists. A lot of suppliers are changing prices regularly and send new price lists ahead of the change. It would be great to have an option to automatically apply a price list based on specific dates. For
Regarding Raw material Inventory and adding into Invoice
Hi All, Hope everyone good !!! I am new to Zoho as well as business. I am running small manufacturing unit by making return gift bag. We procure raw materials and assemble it and making bags. The raw materials includes some of trackable items such as
What's New in Zoho Inventory - February 2021
As the new year dawns upon us, we at Zoho Inventory are back with a fresh set of enhancements and features. We can't wait for you to use them and let us know your thoughts. Let’s take a look at what’s new this February in Zoho Inventory. Assign default
call orders: order confirmation by shipment?
Hi all, we deal with plenty frame orders, which we have to ship in lots as per request of our customers. Our customers want for each call order an order confirmation. As far as we can see, we can only create an order confirmation for the whole order,
Managing Inventory with offered products
Dear all, I have a problem with the correct way to manage my inventory. I use Zoho ONE and Inventory is linked to Zoho Books. Let's say I bough 100 items of one specific product. I intend to send for free most of the inventory to customers, and sell
Introducing Workflow Automation in Zoho Inventory.
We have been receiving a lot of requests for creating custom workflows in Zoho Inventory. Today, we are excited to announce that this feature is finally live! 'Workflow Automaton' feature in Zoho Inventory opens up numerous possibilities for automating your business workflows and speeding up your communications across teams. You can create email alerts, notifications and even set up default functions for specific events and transactions. Here's how it works. Custom workflows can be set up
Zoho Inventory Community Digest January 2021 - a monthly rundown
Hello all! We hope you all had a good start to 2021. Our team is looking forward to supporting you through a wonderful year. Let's start by walking you through some important updates that we made this January. 1. Feature spotlight As you move to expand
MRP Application
Hi, anyone using an MRP system that integrates with Zoho? Looking for something with a forecast, BoM, and multiple location based ordering.
Ability to Add Serial Numbers when Receiving Items
In Quickbooks when we receive items we enter the serial numbers there and then. Currently in zoho Inventory I can only add serial numbers when I have a bill... but 90% of times we receive a bill a few weeks after we receive the goods. So how can we add
Export Inventory Items Does Not Include Batches
When you export items from Zoho Inventory, there is a check box to include batches, but no batch information is exported. As well, using Zoho Creator, retrieving Items from Zoho Inventory results in an empty array for batches. Why is this not workin
Ebay Integration Shipping Incorrectly Importing
Hello, In the eBay integration the shipping charge is being added as a line item and not as shipping. This is causing Zoho books to have shipping charges in the wrong account (sales.) To make matters worse, Zoho Inventory will not allow the shipping charge
How to partially pay a bill on a purchase order
I am looking to start listing my purchase orders placed to my suppliers. Our current arrangement is to pay a 50% deposit then the other 50% on a net 45 day after delivery. The issue I am running into is that when I convert to a bill, it then marks the
Inventory asset created with cost of $0.00 and sale price of $0.00 incorrectly having value in reports
Hello, We have several items that we warehouse and track inventory on that are billed through a vender. In order to track these items in Zoho Inventory I created items with $0.00 for both COG and sale price. That way I could send sales orders to the vender
Creating Sales
I want to be able to add a different company name and specification in the groups of items I am creating. When preparing an invoice i want to be able to search the product by the group and also not only with the first name it has been saved with but with
Polish language in Invertory?
Hello When will the Polish language be available for the Inventory module? Best regards. Grzegorz
Shipment Tracking for Purchase Orders
Good Evening, We are a returns processing company, we love using Zoho! We love the feature of Package Tracking for outbound sales, however, could something similar be organised for purchase orders inbound. This way it would help with our goods receiving
Package Slips Templates - Margins-Bottom on Item Table is too large
Hi, Can you reduce the Margins-Button on Item Table ? From the exemple bellow, with 3-5 items take 1 or 2 pages. because the marge between the labels "Item" and "Serial Number" is too large Can we have a logic system like this ?
Zoho books - Amazon Integration -Amazon sales data not syncing
Hi, I integrated Zoho books and Amazon last week. On checking the logs, I figured out that the amazon orders are not updated on zoho books. Error as seen above. When I checked the items, most are updated but some have failed. following is the item whose
CRM integration, Price lists not working
Hi we cannot get price lists to work in CRM as they show product not in pricelist. Works fine in Books Associated Price Lists
Authtoken Deprecation for Zoho Inventory APIs
UPDATE (7 July 2021): We've extended the deadline to 30 August 2021 for converting Authtokens to OAuth. Hello everyone, The usage of Authtokens to authenticate API calls is being deprecated on 30 August 2021 across Zoho's Finance suite of products,
Tip #5 Applying preset discounts to sales orders items based on total quantity sold per item group
Greetings everyone! Hope you all are having a good week so far. Last time, we talked about automating package and shipment creation for your sales orders. Today, we will discuss how we can automate the process of applying discounts to your sales orders based on the total number of items from an item group sold. How does this work? E.g.: Let's suppose your condition is something like this: If total qty of items from a group is (>/= 100 but < 200), then discount given = 5%, and, if total qty of
Option to print and email packing slips, transfer orders
Good day, Can you please update the system so that it is possible to print and email both packing slips and transfer orders? Given that we have employees at our warehouse who handle the packing and shipping of our orders (both normal orders and transfer orders), it's necessary for us to send them the appropriate information. Currently, we send the Sales Order--but this is less than ideal because it includes prices. Ideally, we want to send just the packing slip or the transfer order which does not
What's New in Zoho Inventory - March & April 2020
Hello, everyone! Hope you're all safe and well. The past few weeks have been challenging not just for businesses, but for the entire world as we fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Even during these testing times, our team has been working remotely to provide you with maximum assistance. Here's a myriad of updates that were rolled out in Zoho Inventory in the past couple of months. Reporting Tags Reporting tags allow you to create customized tags and associate them with items, contacts, and transactions.
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