Your
business
at
a
glance
with
the
Dashboard
in
the
Singapore
edition
of
Zoho
Books
“The
launch
of
the
Singapore
edition
of
Zoho
Books
represents
a
significant
step
forward
in
enabling
businesses
and
accountants
to
embrace
digital
transformation
in
financial
compliance.
With
built-in
AI
capabilities
and
automation,
Zoho
Books
simplifies
GST
calculations,
ensures
adherence
to
IRAS
regulations,
and
helps
mitigate
compliance
risks.
As
part
of
our
16+
country-specific
editions,
this
launch
empowers
organisations
to
improve
accuracy,
reduce
manual
effort,
and
navigate
an
increasingly
complex
regulatory
environment,”
says
Gibu
Mathew,
VP
and
GM,
Zoho
APAC
According to a recent survey by Zoho, a majority of businesses in Singapore report managing GST compliance efficiently, with 82% finding IRAS guidance easy to follow. However, challenges remain, 32% of businesses still file manually through the IRAS portal, and 71% spend up to five days preparing GST returns. The most common difficulties cited were: staying updated with regulatory changes, accurately calculating input/output tax, and ensuring timely filing.
These insights point to a growing need for automation in tax compliance. Zoho Books addresses this by providing real-time updates on GST regulations, automating tax calculations, and generating IRAS-ready F5 returns. By reducing manual processes, the solution helps businesses improve accuracy, save time, and minimise compliance risks. This is particularly relevant in light of recent enforcement trends. In FY23/24, the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) recovered $162 million, including penalties, through over 2,500 audits across industries. A significant portion of these penalties stemmed from compliance lapses, highlighting the importance of adopting reliable, audit-ready systems like Zoho Books.
Zoho Books offers e-invoicing compliance which provides B2B businesses the ability to send invoices electronically directly into their accounting systems according to the PEPPOL standards. Zoho Books will soon offer integration with InvoiceNow to push invoices to the IRAS. With this accounting solution, businesses can also manage their finance end-to-end, perform core accounting functions, track stocks, reconcile bank accounts, and manage projects. The software offers PayNow payment method to streamline payment collections. With AI-driven receipt capture, businesses can automatically record expenses and bills within the application. Zoho Books also comes with other advanced capabilities like audit trail, order management, budgeting and workflow automation. With the application’s built-in Zoho Analytics integration, businesses can leverage Zia, Zoho’s AI-based analytics assistant to track financial trends with smart visualizations, perform predictive analysis and make data-driven decisions.
The
Singapore
edition
of
other
solutions
in
Zoho’s
finance
and
operations
suite
offers
the
following
capabilities:
- Zoho Inventory, a comprehensive solution to manage inventory, track stock levels, and generate GST and e-invoicing compliant invoices, ensuring seamless integration with shipping carriers and aggregators like Singapore Post, and Easyship for efficient order fulfilment. The solution offers advanced warehouse management capabilities and provides faster order processing. Businesses can leverage location tracking and labelling, stock counting, stock out alerts, and role-based access to the warehouse operations for better inventory control.
- Zoho Billing is a versatile billing platform, offering one-time billing, subscription management, with GST and e-invoicing compliance, along with AR automation capabilities. The solution offers project billing, Quote-to-Cash (Q2C) and revenue reporting functionalities. Additionally, Zoho Billing offers subscription management capabilities like trial management, prorated billing, usage billing, customer lifecycle management, and retention.
- Zoho Invoice is a free invoicing solution built for small businesses that helps manage receivables. Businesses can send quotes and create customised, GST compliant invoices.
- Zoho Expense, end-to-end travel and expense (T&E) management software, that provides businesses with capabilities to manage all stages of employee travel, and automate expense reporting. With self-booking capabilities, employees can book flights, hotels, taxis, and trains according to company policy, reducing administration. Per diem rates and rules can be auto-imported, compliant with government regulations, automating business travel allowances.
- Zoho Commerce, a complete e-commerce platform that helps businesses create and manage online stores, accept orders, send GST-compliant invoices, process payments, manage shipping and track inventory. With Zoho Commerce, businesses can easily set up an online presence without needing any coding expertise.
- Zoho Practice is built for accounting professionals, helping them deliver client services efficiently. Workpapers simplifies audit and compliance workflows by automatically fetching client financial statements from Zoho Books, enabling easy comparison, adjustments, document management, and collaboration for seamless review and approval. The self-service portal enables accountants to collaborate with clients that use third-party services, facilitating document requests, digital signatures, and communication.
Powerful Platform
Zoho’s finance suite of applications is built on the same platform, enabling instant interoperability and contextual data flow between applications, resulting in improved data accuracy and saved productive hours in manually re-entering data. Bringing 15+ years of experience and innovation, the finance and operations suite provides 16 country-specific editions tailored for local tax and compliance needs, including Singapore, UK, India, and the UAE. The platform offers advanced capabilities, using which businesses can easily customize, scale, and extend the applications according to their requirements. This significantly reduces the need to invest in IT resources and quickly go to market with any change.
Pricing
and
Availability
All
products
are
available
for
immediate
use.
The
pricing
of
Zoho
Books
starts
at
S$18
per
month,
per
organization.
The
application
also
offers
a
free
plan.
For
more
details
on
pricing,
please
visit
the
following
pages
for
each
product:
Zoho
Books,
Zoho
Inventory,
Zoho
Billing,
Zoho
Expense,
Zoho
Commerce,
and
Zoho
Practice.
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