Join us in welcoming tax groups to Zoho Books and Zoho Invoice. Tax groups will revive the way you work with your taxes. When there’s a need to use more than a single tax to your line items, you have the option to group those taxes into a tax group and associate that tax group... The post Just in: Tax Groups in Zoho Invoice & Zoho Books appeared first on Zoho Blog ..read more

As your business scales, you might branch out to various business locations spread across multiple states or diverge into new business verticals. In such cases, Indian law requires you to register for GST in each state where you open a branch. In order to make good decisions for your whole business, it’s very important to have complete visibility on the transactions happening across all of your branches and GSTINs. That’s why we’ve introduced support for multiple branches in Zoho Books. You can now add more GSTINs to your existing organisation, associate them with branches, get financial insig ..read more

With GST inching closer to becoming a reality, we’ve removed one worry for you by making Zoho Books GST-ready. Wouldn’t it be great to have all your GST-related questions answered? And what better way than a live session with GST experts? We are conducting workshops in five cities: Chennai, Bengaluru, Coimbatore, Mumbai, and New Delhi. We’ve roped in a few experts to explain everything there is to know about the new tax regime. We’ll also tell you how to file your GST returns from within Zoho Books. Towards the end, there will be an interactive session where you can ask questions specific to ..read more

At Zoho, we’re strong believers in India’s growth story. The recent events — Make in India, the move to digital payments, and the biggest of all tax reforms, GST — are setting up Indian businesses for growth and success. Ever since the Rajya Sabha passed the GST bill in August 2016, we’ve been very busy. We set up a team of GST experts, who have analysed and understood the changes that businesses are going to experience in the new GST regime. When every invoice generated in the country has to pass through the GST Network (and that’s close to 260-300 crore invoices per month), you know that it ..read more

The Goods and Services Tax reform, or GST, was given the nod by both houses of the Parliament, after a 16-year talkathon came to a conclusion on August 8th. Many believe this is a major reform which, if implemented correctly, could tip the scales in favor of India’s growing economy. Following the decision, in order to put the registration and reporting processes online, the government has proposed a massive upgrade in the IT infrastructure.  In order to help businesses comply with the new GST laws, the first and most important step is to make it easy to follow those rules. The GST was pr ..read more

It’s been over eight months since the pandemic began, and many of us have transitioned to remote recruitment in order to keep ourselves and those around us safe. While work slowed down initially for agencies, the gig economy was becoming stronger than ever. Demand for temps skyrocketed, and companies started massive hiring initiatives. Temp workers can save you time and money — From delivery agents to medical experts, certain workers became all the more essential for companies to keep up with demand, keep their businesses afloat and adhere to the appropriate safety protocol. During a time whe ..read more

Imagine: you’re almost done writing your book. You sit down and try to finish the last couple of pages and polish your work, but suddenly your dog starts barking, you lose focus, and you end up with pages of spelling errors, margin misalignment, and more. While we can’t take your dog out for a walk, we can give you a list of features to help you polish that manuscript with perfection. Here are all the Writer tools you can use to perfect your book before publishing: Let Zia be your second eye Even great writers overlook small errors when they’re in the flow of writing, but not Zia. More than ju ..read more

There is no doubt in the fact that Zoho has to comply with the GDPR not just because we have set up our Data Center and office there, but even because we provide goods, services to European businesses and because our customers process personal data of European data subjects. And yes, we comply!  We’ve worked hard to ensure that our compliance project is expansive and inclusive of all aspects of data processing by Zoho. You can find more information about our GDPR compliance efforts here.  This blog is an attempt to showcase the interwoven aspects of the ISO 27701 (Privacy Information ..read more

At month end, you and your employees may be experiencing contrasting emotions. For the employees, payday is a great day. For the employer though, if the process of completing payroll isn’t streamlined, it’s not an easy time. Running payroll manually can mean sleepless nights and repeated verification routines up to the last minute. Can payroll software help? It can, but many business owners aren’t sure when they need to start using it. It may not be a priority during their growth phase, or they may be so used to outdated processes that they think the process is already functioning at maximum e ..read more

Now share, view and create new documents while comfortably having a conversation on Cliq.  Don’t we all love it when we can reap the benefits of two products in one? Like reversible jackets, laptops that also work as tablets, and bottle opener key chains. Similarly, wouldn’t it be convenient if you could access Writer from your Cliq window? With this new update, we’re bringing you the power of Writer to your everyday business chat platform. Here’s everything you can do with Writer in Cliq: Share documents You can now view your recent and favorite documents, share documents with colleagues ..read more