The CFO says: "Zoho Books looks nice. Cloud. Mobile. API. Maybe we should move from Tally." The accounts head says: "But we have three years of ledgers in Tally. The CA knows Tally. The import works." The factory owner says: "Just fix the photocopy problem." Three people, three different problems. Nobody agrees on which one to solve first.
Zoho Books is a ledger. It keeps books, files GST returns, sends invoices. Its site is zoho.com/books. Check their pricing there. I will not invent their numbers. Zoho is a good product for many businesses. If you want to leave Tally and move to a cloud ledger, evaluate Zoho on its merits: pricing, GST modules, integrations, CA support.
EntryLedger does not export to Zoho. We export CSV, XLSX, and XML for Tally import. If you are on Zoho, we are the wrong SKU. If you are on Tally and want to move to Zoho, that is a migration project. We do not do that. If you are on Tally and want to fix photocopy entry, that is what we do.
Zoho Books and Tally are ledgers. EntryLedger is a capture gate that feeds Tally. If you want to change ledgers, evaluate Zoho vs Tally on their sites. If you want to change how photocopies enter Tally, compare us to nothing. We are the gate.
Tally / Zoho / Busy
Books. Filing. Import. Not EntryLedger.
EntryLedger
Photocopy in. Validated voucher out. Feeds Tally.
When Zoho makes sense
You are starting a new entity. You have no existing Tally company. Your CA is cloud-native. Your team wants mobile access. Your invoice volume is low enough that photocopy keying is not the bottleneck. Zoho Books is a good choice for that scenario.
If your existing Tally company has three years of ledgers, the CA already lives in Tally, and the import works, moving to Zoho is a migration project. Migrations touch every voucher, every GST return mapping, every auditor habit. That is a six-month project, not a fix for photocopy entry.
OCR in Zoho
Zoho Books has some OCR features. They are built for clean digital invoices, not 150 dpi photocopies. If your suppliers send e-invoice PDFs with IRN, Zoho may handle them. If your suppliers send photocopies, Zoho's OCR will struggle the same way any generalist OCR struggles. See Nanonets vs for why generalist OCR on Indian photocopies is hard.
Even if Zoho's OCR reads the GSTIN, it does not run Mod-36 checksum. It does not verify arithmetic within plus/minus 1 rupee. It does not know CGST vs IGST from the state codes. Those are EntryLedger's gates. Zoho is a ledger, not a validation gate.
The factory AP stack
See 1 vs 2B vs 3B. The stack is: books (Tally or Zoho), filing (CA or Clear), capture (us), and people (clerks). If you change the books, you change everything downstream. If you change only the capture, you change one layer. The conservative move is to change one layer at a time.
Buy Zoho if you want a new ledger. Buy EntryLedger if you want Tally to receive cleaner photocopies. Do not buy EntryLedger thinking it will make Zoho work. We do not export there.
- Zohozoho.com/books
Zoho Books. Their product, their page.
- EntryLedger
Do you export to Zoho?+
No. Tally CSV/XML. If you are on Zoho, we are the wrong SKU.
Should I move to Zoho?+
If you want a new ledger, evaluate Zoho on their site. If you want to fix photocopies, keep Tally and add a gate.
Does Zoho handle photocopies?+
Zoho OCR is built for clean digital invoices. Photocopies are a different job.