Zoho Books Free Alternative for India | HelloBooks Zoho Books Free stops at ₹25 lakh a financial year and 1,000 invoices a year. HelloBooks Free has no turnover or invoice cap and files GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B for one GSTIN.
Zoho Books Free is limited to ₹25 lakh a financial year, 1,000 invoices a year and 1,000 bills or expenses a year. HelloBooks Free caps none of them and files GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B for one GSTIN.
GST filing included, no card
Zoho's plan comparison, checked 28 September 2026, lists Free at ₹25 lakh a financial year, 1,000 invoices a year, 1,000 bills or expenses a year and 1 user + 1 accountant. Zoho's paid plans add users at ₹180 a user a month, or ₹150 billed annually. Prices exclude GST.
HelloBooks Free has no turnover or invoice cap, includes 2 users, and stays ₹0.
A growing shop or agency close to the ₹25 lakh line is the usual case: the business is still small, but the free tier it chose is about to end. Moving before the cap means the next financial year starts in books that will not ask for a subscription on turnover alone.
Move at a month or quarter end so returns line up. Export your chart of accounts, contacts and a trial balance from Zoho Books as CSV, import them into HelloBooks, then enter open invoices and bills. File the next GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B from HelloBooks.
The step-by-step guide is at /migrate/from-zoho.
Full details: see the Free Plan guide below.
“AI categorizes every transaction automatically and learns from your corrections, so a small team keeps clean books without spending evenings on manual data entry.”
“For a practice managing dozens of client books, automated reconciliation turns a full day of matching into a background task — review the AI matches, approve, and move on.”
“Snap a receipt on your phone and the AI reads, categorizes, and files it — bookkeeping stays current even for people who would rather not think about numbers.”
Illustrative scenarios describing what the product does for each business type — not attributed customer reviews.
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