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Zoho Inventory, set up to match how your stock really moves
The spreadsheet says you have 40 units. The shelf has 31.
The Amazon listing still shows 40, and an order for 35 came in an hour ago.
Zoho Inventory exists to close that gap, but only if it's set up around your real warehouses, units, suppliers and sales channels.
We're a Zoho Premium Partner and Zoho's CRM Solutions Partner of the Year 2026, and we've implemented Zoho for businesses worldwide from our offices in Chennai and Dubai.
Is Zoho Inventory right for your business?
Zoho Inventory is inventory management software for businesses that buy and sell physical products: wholesalers, distributors, retailers, online sellers and light manufacturers who assemble kits from parts.
It's a strong fit if you sell across several channels, hold stock in more than one location, need batch or serial numbers, or already use Zoho Books and want stock and accounts to agree without manual journals.
It's a weaker fit for full production planning with multi-level bills of materials, shop-floor scheduling and machine capacity. Zoho Inventory handles simple assemblies well, but deep manufacturing usually needs a dedicated system or a custom layer, and we'll say so in the first conversation.
What Zoho Inventory handles
Warehouses mapped down to the bin.
Each warehouse can be laid out as zones, areas, rows and bins, so staff know the exact shelf an item sits on. Dedicated putaway orders move stock from the receiving area into its bins, move orders shift it between bins, and transfer orders move it between warehouses.
Batch and serial traceability.
Batch numbers can now be generated automatically on every goods receipt, with item-level formats where a product needs its own numbering. When stock goes out, Zoho Inventory can pick the batch for you by first in first out, first expiry first out, or last in first out. Expiry alerts warn your team a set number of days ahead, so short-dated stock gets sold or moved before it becomes waste. And you can record extra details against each batch or serial number, such as the supplier's lot number, warranty or grade, and choose whether they print on documents.
Kits, variants and units.
Sell a gift box built from five items and stock drops on all five.
Group sizes and colours as variants. Buy in cartons and sell in pieces, with conversions defined per item.
Buying, selling and replenishment.
Purchase orders, sales orders, backorders and drop-shipments.
For each location you set a reorder level, maximum stock and order quantities, and Zoho Inventory raises a purchase order to your preferred supplier, or a transfer from another warehouse, before a fast mover runs out.
Stock counts without shutting the warehouse.
Schedule cycle counts, assign them to staff who count on their phones, and review matched and unmatched quantities with an accuracy figure before anything changes in the books.
Picking, packing and shipping.
Picklists for the warehouse, packages and shipments for dispatch, and tracking numbers sent back to the customer or marketplace automatically.
Barcodes that carry the whole line.
Generate and print labels, and scan with a phone or handheld.
New barcode templates can pack the SKU, quantity, batch or serial number into a single label, so one scan fills in the full line.
That includes weight-embedded labels from scales, which matters for anyone selling by the kilo.
Costing and reports.
FIFO or weighted average costing, stock ageing, sales by item and channel, and custom dashboards on the Enterprise plan.
Web, mobile and desktop.
Browser, iOS and Android apps, and a Windows app for counters and warehouse PCs.
Why work with Linz Technologies
We're a Zoho
Premium Partner,
named Zoho's CRM
Solutions Partner of the Year at
Zoholics India 2026,
with more than
1,500 implementations
since 2013.
Our consultants set up
Zoho Books as well as
Zoho Inventory,
so stock and accounts are designed together from day one, which is where most inventory projects either succeed or quietly fall apart.
How a Zoho Inventory project runs
Stock systems don't forgive guesswork. If the opening balance is wrong on day one, every report after it is wrong too, so most of our effort goes into the first three steps.
Walk the stock.
We map how goods actually arrive, where they're stored, how they're picked and how they leave, including the returns and damaged stock nobody mentions in the first meeting.
Design the item master.
SKU rules, units, variants, kits, batch or serial tracking, and which items need which. Getting this right is what makes everything else simple.
Clean and load the data.
Sell a gift box built from five items and stock drops on all five.
Group sizes and colours as variants. Buy in cartons and sell in pieces, with conversions defined per item.
Connect the channels.
Zoho Books, marketplaces, shipping carriers and anything custom, tested with real orders.
Train by role.
Warehouse staff learn picking, receiving and counting on the phone app; office staff learn purchasing, sales and reports.
Stay on after launch.
The first month-end and the first stock count are where questions arrive, and our Zoho support team stays on the account through them.
Moving from another system.
Typical starting points are spreadsheets, Tally or an older inventory tool. We move item history and open orders where they're useful, and start clean where they aren't. That decision is made together, item by item.
How Zoho Inventory connects to everything else
Zoho Books.
Inventory and Books share the same items, contacts and transactions, so every invoice, bill and stock movement lands in your accounts without double entry. For most of our clients this is the main reason to choose Zoho Inventory.
Zoho CRM.
Sales reps see live stock while quoting, and confirmed deals become sales orders without retyping.
Marketplaces and online stores.
Zoho has added its own native connections for Amazon.ae and noon, so UAE sellers can now keep both marketplaces in sync without third-party connectors.
The Amazon.ae connection syncs products, orders, stock, packages and shipments on a schedule you choose, can bring in cancelled orders, and can keep Amazon's own order numbers. The noon connection keeps stock and orders in continuous two-way sync. Alongside them sit Amazon in other regions, eBay, Etsy, Shopify, WooCommerce and Zoho Commerce: orders and new customers flow in, stock levels push out to every channel, and tracking numbers go back once you ship. One count, every channel.
Shipping.
Through AfterShip, EasyPost and Easyship you can reach carriers including DHL Express, FedEx, UPS, USPS, Shiprocket and XpressBees: validate addresses, compare rates, print labels and track deliveries without leaving Zoho Inventory.
Payments, analytics and Al.
Zoho Inventory also works natively with Zoho Payments and Zoho Analytics, and Zoho's assistant, Zia, can create customers, quotes and invoices from a plain-language request.
When the native options run out.
Some ERPs, warehouse systems and regional sales channels still aren't on Zoho's list. We build those links ourselves, using Zoho's APls, webhooks and custom widgets, and where a project needs it, Zoho Creator or Zoho Catalyst. Before we quote, we'll tell you which of your channels connect out of the box and which need building.
Set up for your country's tax rules
We implement Zoho Inventory for businesses worldwide, and the tax setup is where a generic install usually goes wrong. A few examples of what that means in practice:
India:
GST on every document, HSN codes on items, and e-way bills for goods in transit.
UAE and the Gulf:
VAT-ready invoices, Arabic where customers need it, native Amazon.ae and noon connections, and documents ready for the UAE's e-invoicing requirements as they roll out.
United States:
sales tax handled through Zoho's Avalara integration, including exemption certificates for wholesale customers.
UK and Europe:
VAT on sales and purchases, and multi-currency for cross-border trade.
One detail catches online sellers out: Zoho's marketplace connections expect the marketplace currency to match your organisation's base currency. If you sell in several currencies on several marketplaces, the structure has to be designed before the first sync, not fixed after.
Two cheaper routes are worth checking first. If you already use Zoho Books, its inventory add-on may cover what you need.
If you'll use several Zoho apps, Zoho Inventory is included in Zoho One, which is often cheaper than buying apps separately.
We'll compare the options with you before you buy anything.
How Zoho Inventory is priced
Zoho Inventory is a monthly subscription, with plans that step up by the number of orders, warehouses and users you need. Higher plans add features such as automatic batch assignment and custom dashboards. Prices differ by country and change from time to time, so we'll confirm the current figure for your region rather than print one here.
Implementation is quoted separately, as a fixed price after we've walked through your stock and channels.
Let's look at how your stock moves
A 30-minute call is enough to tell whether Zoho Inventory fits your business, which plan you'd need, and which of your channels connect out of the box.
+91 9159045198 sales@linztechnologies.com
Questions about Zoho Inventory FAQ
Zoho Inventory is cloud inventory management software from Zoho. It tracks stock across warehouses, manages purchase and sales orders, and syncs with online marketplaces and Zoho Books.
For simple assembly, such as kits and bundles built from components, yes. For full production planning with multi-level bills of materials and shop-floor scheduling, it usually needs a custom layer or a dedicated system alongside it.
Yes. Amazon, eBay, Etsy, Shopify and WooCommerce connect natively, syncing orders, stock levels and shipment tracking. Channels outside Zoho's list can be connected through its APIs.
Yes. Zoho now offers its own native integrations for both. Amazon.ae syncs products, orders, stock and shipments on a schedule you set, and noon keeps stock and orders in two-way sync, so UAE sellers can manage both marketplaces from one stock count.
Yes. Batches can carry expiry dates, outgoing stock can be picked first-expiry-first-out automatically, and your team can be alerted a set number of days before a batch expires.
We clean your item list, load opening stock per warehouse, and match it against a physical count before go-live, so the numbers start correct.
Yes, with separate stock per warehouse, transfer orders between them, and bin locations inside each one.
Zoho Books is accounting software with basic item tracking. Zoho Inventory adds warehouses, batches, serial numbers, kits, picking and shipping. They share data, so most growing product businesses run both.