Title: Fundamental features of a Zoho Books extension | Community | Zoho Finance

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• Building extensions #5: Creating custom connections for extensions

  In our previous post, we discussed the significance of connections, identified their types, developed a predefined connection, and demonstrated how it can be integrated with Zoho Books using an example. In this post, we'll walk through the process of

• Building extensions #4: Integrating Zoho Books with applications using connections

  In our last post, we looked at an overview of the key features available for creating a Zoho Books extension, including connections. In this post, we'll go over connections in depth, including their types and applications. What are connections? "Connections"

• Building extensions #3: Fundamental features of a Zoho Books extension

  In our earlier posts, we covered how to create, test, and publish an extension for Zoho Finance suite applications. Moving forward, we'll look specifically at instances relating to one of the products from the Zoho Finance suite: Zoho Books. In this post,

• Building extensions #2: Publishing an extension

  Hello developers, Welcome to our next post about building extensions for Zoho Finance Suite applications. In our previous post, we looked at extensions, their purpose, and how to create and test them. To recap, extensions are installable plugins or add-ons

• Building extensions #1: Creating and testing extensions for Zoho Finance Suite applications

  Hello developers! We're excited to announce a new series called "Building extensions" to assist developers in creating efficient extensions for Zoho Finance Suite products. We'll support and guide you through the process of creating an extension and using

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• Zoho Books Idea - Bank Details Button on Banking

  Hi Books team, Sometimes I'm asked to share bank details with a customer or a colleague. So I go to the Banking Module, find the correct bank account, click Setting > Edit, then copy and paste the bank details. Wouldn't it be great if there was a button

• JS SDK 8.0 – TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'getCacheStore') with sample code

  Hello Zoho Support Team, I’m integrating the Zoho CRM JavaScript SDK v8.0 and I’m getting the error below when running your official sample. I tested directly from: https://github.com/zoho/zohocrm-javascript-sdk-8.0/blob/main/samples/create_records_sample/create_records.js

• Function #55: Convert multiple quotes to single SO using Custom Button

  Hello everyone, and welcome back to our series! In Zoho Books, after a quote is accepted by your customer, it can be converted into a sales order or an invoice. Often, a customer might have multiple quotes, and for easier billing or upon the customer's

• Zoho One - Syncing Merchants and Vendors Between Zoho Expense and Zoho Books

  Hi, I'm exploring the features of Zoho One under the trial subscription and have encountered an issue with syncing Merchant information between Zoho Expense and Zoho Books. While utilizing Zoho Expense to capture receipts, I noticed that when I submit

• More controls for User Fields in CRM

  Dear All, We are here with a minor but crucial enhancement to the user fields—now set accessibility permissions to the records for user field. User field allows you to extend co-ownership of records to your peers. You can collaborate with them for certain

• Rich Text For Notes in Zoho CRM

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• Time based workflow without edit/action

  Hello I need help solving this problem if possible. We have Deals come into the CRM via Live Transfer which have the field properties: Stage = New Channel = Inbound Some of them don't get answered so we want these to automatically go into our Outbound

• What's New - August 2025 | Zoho Backstage

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• Introducing notifications in the vendor portal

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• prevent selling expired items

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• ZOHO BOOKS - EXCESSIVELY SLOW TODAY

  Dear Zoho Books This is not the first time but it seems to be 3 times per week now that the system is extremely slow. I work on Zoho Books 95% of my day so this is very frustrating. Zoho you need to do something about this. I have had my IT guy check

• Product details removed during update from other system

  We maintain our product details in an other system. These details are synchronized with Zoho at the end of each day, through an API. This has worked perfectly sofar. But last Monday, all product codes and some other product data have been wiped during

• Client Customer

  I purchased a customer user license, but we cannot see the project I added in the customer account. I would like to ask for support on what we should do.

• Add Ability to Use Zoho Finance Tags

  For Zoho Finance (Books and Inventory), the current actions do not allow us to affect the tags associated with the entities in question (customers, vendors, items, etc.). Please consider adding this functionality into the actions.

• Embeded Signing doesn't work on Safari Browser

  We have implemented Zoho Sign in our website by using embeded signing, It works perfectly on Chrome. But it fails on Safari, We get stuck on Zoho Sign Page during redirection from Zoho Sign to our website after signing the document, Please let us know

• Dataprep Webhook Limits and Cannot update column with Dataprep

  I have two problems : 1 - I am using Airflow to trigger my pipeline, and when I tested it, it worked fine a couple of times. However, after that, I received an error: {"code":429,"message":"Request rate limited"}. I didn’t send too many requests — maybe

• Power of Automation :: Automatic removal of project users once the project status is changed.

  A custom function is a software code that can be used to automate a process and this allows you to automate a notification, call a webhook, or perform logic immediately after a workflow rule is triggered. This feature helps to automate complex tasks and

• New in Zoho Forms: Google reCAPTCHA v3 for smarter spam protection

  Hello form builders, Spam submissions are one of the biggest challenges when you share your forms online. They not only clutter your data but can also waste valuable time. To help you combat this without making life harder for genuine respondents, we’re

• Project Management Bulletin: August, 2025

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• Zoho Sign and Zoho Workdrive Integration

  Hello, there. I want to know if it's possible to save a signed document from Zoho Sign in an specific folder for each signer in Zoho Workdrive.  For example: If John Doe signs the document in Zoho Sign I want to save it automatically in a folder named

• Office 365 and CRM mail integration: permission required

  Has anyone run into this weird problem? My email server is Office 365. When I try to configure Zoho CRM to use this server, a Microsoft popup window opens requesting user and password. After entering that, I get a message in the Microsoft window saying

• Empowered Custom Views: Cross-Module Criteria Now Supported in Zoho CRM

  Hello everyone, We’re excited to introduce cross-module criteria support in custom views! Custom views provide personalized perspectives on your data and that you can save for future use. You can share these views with all users or specific individuals

• How do you list multiple contacts for a lead?

  My sales team wants to be able to add additional contacts for leads, how do we do that? Is there a different way we should be using the lead / contact functionality? Moderation update (9th September 2025): Our developers have built an extension to achieve

• Modifying Three Dot Menu Options

  Is there a way to modify the three dot menu options that display in a Report header? They currently display: Show As (List, Calendar, Timeline), Print, Import, Export. I'd like to remove the Show As and Print options, since they aren't applicable for

• Elevate your CX delivery using CommandCenter 2.0: Simplified builder; seamless orchestration

  Most businesses want to create memorable customer experiences—but they often find it hard to keep them smooth, especially as they grow. To achieve a state of flow across their processes, teams often stitch together a series of automations using Workflow

• Field Not Updating in FSM Script - Service and Parts module.

  Dear Team, I am reaching out regarding a script I have implemented in Zoho FSM to automate the calculation of the End of Service date based on the End of Sale date in the Service and Parts module. Overview of the script: Fetches the End_of_Sale__C and

• Zadarma + Zoho CRM Integration – Missed Calls Saved as Contacts Instead of Leads

  Hello everyone, I’m looking for input from anyone with experience using the Zadarma + Zoho CRM integration. Currently, I’m seeing that missed calls are automatically being created as Contacts instead of Leads. From a CRM perspective, this doesn’t make

• Zoho Books | Product updates | September 2025

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• How to update Multiple Users field in Quote Module from Deal Module

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• Auto-sync field of lookup value

  This feature has been requested many times in the discussion Field of Lookup Announcement and this post aims to track it separately. At the moment the value of a 'field of lookup' is a snapshot but once the parent lookup field is updated the values diverge.

• Clone a Module??

  I am giong to repurpose the Vendors module but would like to have a separate but very similar module for another group of contacts called Buyers. I have already repurposed Contacts to Sellers. Is it possible to clone (make a duplicate) module of Vendors

• Advance PDF creation from CRM data

  I'm trying to create a PDF export of data in the CRM. My problem is I want a pretty complicated format for the data. I'm trying to export multiple modules worth of data, with nested one-to-many relationships between the modules. Along with that, I want

• how to disable staff selection Zoho Booking integrated to SalesIQ?

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• How to change the text in WhatsApp Zobot integrated to Zoho Booking?

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• how to differentiate if whatsapp comes from certain landing page?

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• Updating Subform Record from other Form

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• when I email a invoice how can i see it was sent and also were i can go to see all emails sent

  when I email a invoice how can i see it was sent and also were i can go to see all emails sent?

• Problem with Email an invoice with multiple attachments using API

  I have an invoice with 3 attachments. When I send an email manually using the UI, everything works correctly. I receive an email with three attachments. The problem occurs when I try to initiate sending an email using the API. The email comes with only

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