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Zoho's step-by-step help for proving you own your domain by adding a TXT or CNAME record at your registrar, the first step of setting up email.

Zoho Mail: domain verification

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• Add the verification record at the registrar where you bought the domain.
• DNS changes can take a few hours to show.

How to add the SPF record that tells other mail servers Zoho is allowed to send for your domain, so your mail is not marked as spam.

Zoho Mail: SPF configuration

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• Keep a single SPF record per domain; merge entries rather than adding a second.
• Set up DKIM right after SPF.

Zoho, an Indian company, hosts business email on your domain. The page lists the Forever Free plan: one domain, up to 5 users, 5 GB per user, without IMAP, POP or ActiveSync, alongside paid Mail Lite and Mail Premium plans.

Zoho Mail pricing (India)

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• The free plan is enough for a founding team of up to five.
• Without IMAP you read mail in Zoho's own apps, not in Outlook or Apple Mail.

Accounting software made in India with GST invoicing; it produces the profit and loss statement from your entries. There is a free plan for solopreneurs and micro businesses, and Standard is Rs 749 a month billed annually (Rs 899 monthly).

Zoho Books plans and pricing (India)

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• Start on the free plan to invoice and keep books from the first sale.
• Standard at Rs 749 a month billed annually adds e-invoices and expense tracking.
• Once transactions are in, the P&L, balance sheet and cash flow reports are generated for you.

Zoho's mail and office suite from an Indian company. The Forever Free plan hosts email on one domain for up to 5 users; Workplace Standard is ₹99 a user a month billed yearly.

Zoho Workplace pricing (India)

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• Start free if you are 5 people or fewer.
• A full suite that undercuts both Google and Microsoft.

Zoho's invoicing app, which its own pricing page lists at ₹0 for Indian businesses, forever. It makes GST-compliant invoices, quotes and recurring invoices, sends them by email or WhatsApp, and collects payment by UPI, cards or net banking.

Zoho Invoice pricing: free for Indian businesses

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• Zoho Invoice costs nothing for an Indian business; there is no paid tier to outgrow inside it.
• Set up payment reminders and UPI collection so the invoice also chases the money.
• When you need subscriptions or more, Zoho points you to Zoho Billing.

Zoho Books' e-invoicing feature for Indian businesses: as a GST Suvidha Provider it uploads invoices to the IRP directly, with a 14-day free trial.

E-invoicing in Zoho Books

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• Uploads invoices to the IRP without a separate GSP.
• Validates invoice data before upload.
• Handles recurring e-invoices and multiple GSTINs.

Zoho Books' help page on building a budget inside your accounts: pick a financial year, a monthly, quarterly or yearly period, the income and expense accounts, and pre-fill from last year's actuals.

Budgets in Zoho Books

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• A budget can be monthly, quarterly, half-yearly or yearly.
• You can pre-fill a new budget from a previous year's actuals.
• Net profit and loss is calculated automatically as you enter figures.

Indian payroll software that calculates salaries, payslips and statutory deductions. It is free forever for up to 10 employees, which covers most first hires.

Zoho Payroll pricing (India)

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• Run your first payroll free for up to 10 employees.
• It handles TDS, PF and payslips so you are compliant from the first salary.
• Move to a paid plan only once you pass 10 employees.

Zoho's email marketing tool, priced in rupees from India: a Forever Free plan for up to 2,000 contacts and 6,000 emails a month, then Standard from ₹180 a month billed yearly (₹240 monthly) for 500 contacts.

Zoho Campaigns pricing

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• Forever Free covers 2,000 contacts and 6,000 emails a month.
• Standard starts at 500 contacts and is priced by contact tier; Professional adds unlimited emails.
• Fits best if you already run Zoho CRM or Zoho Books.

Zoho's social media scheduler, priced in rupees from India: a Free plan, Standard at ₹600 a month billed yearly (₹900 monthly) for one brand of 6 channels (X, Instagram, a Facebook Page, a LinkedIn page and profile, Google Business Profile), and Professional at ₹1,725 billed yearly.

Zoho Social pricing

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• Standard covers one brand across 6 channels including Google Business Profile.
• Billed in rupees, monthly or yearly.
• Agency plans exist once you run several clients.

Zoho Forms' plans. The forever free plan gives 1 user, 3 forms and 500 submissions a month; Basic lifts that to unlimited forms and 10,000 submissions a month.

Zoho Forms pricing

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• Pick it if your CRM or books are already on Zoho.
• Three forms is the free plan's real limit, not the submissions.

Zoho Cliq's plans for team chat, from a free edition to Standard, Professional and Enterprise, the last two for at least 10 users.

Zoho Cliq pricing

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• Use it if the business already runs on Zoho apps.
• The free edition covers messaging, channels and meetings with screen share.

Zoho SalesIQ's plans for website chat. The free plan gives 3 operator licences and visitor insights for 10,000 visitors a month; paid plans add a chatbot handling up to 25,000 bot sessions a month and WhatsApp and social messaging channels; 15-day free trial.

Zoho SalesIQ pricing

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• Start on the free plan to see who is on your site and chat with them.
• Connect WhatsApp so a chat can continue where Indian customers reply.

Zoho Bookings is free for one user; Basic is US$6 per user a month billed yearly and Premium US$9. It takes payments and can send notifications and reminders through WhatsApp.

Zoho Bookings pricing

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• Turn on WhatsApp reminders to cut no-shows.
• Free for one person, so a solo practice pays nothing.

Zoho's own pricing for Zoho FSM, field service management priced by appointments a month: free for 30 appointments, and Standard from ₹1,000 a month billed yearly (₹1,200 monthly) for 60 appointments, with estimates, work orders, dispatch, service reports and invoicing.

Zoho FSM pricing

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• The free plan covers 30 appointments a month, enough to test it on a small team.
• Pricing is per appointment volume, so it grows with jobs rather than with headcount.
• The page shows rupee prices and a 15-day free trial with no card.

Zoho's own pricing for Zoho Sign, shown in rupees for India: a free plan for one user with 5 envelopes a month, Standard at ₹650 a user a month billed yearly (₹800 monthly) with 25 envelopes per user, and Professional at ₹1,000 billed yearly; it supports Aadhaar eSign.

Zoho Sign pricing

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• The free plan is enough to send a handful of contracts a month.
• Aadhaar eSign is one of its signing methods for Indian signers.
• There is a 14-day free trial of paid plans with no card.

Zoho's own pricing for Zoho Backstage, conference software with 0% commission ticketing: free for 100 attendees an event, and Professional at ₹6,583 a month billed yearly (₹7,900 monthly), with pay-per-event options.

Zoho Backstage pricing

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• 0% commission means ticket revenue is not cut by a platform fee.
• Built for conferences with sessions, speakers and agendas, not a single meetup.
• The free plan caps an event at 100 attendees and 3 speakers.

Zoho's HR software for employee records, leave, onboarding, attendance and performance. The page offers a free edition for very small teams and paid plans from US$1.25 a user a month billed annually (Essential HR) and US$2 (Professional, which adds attendance, timesheets and rosters); Indian visitors see rupee prices.

Zoho People pricing

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• Essential HR covers records, onboarding, leave and documents; Professional adds attendance and rosters.
• There is a 30-day trial, after which the account drops to the free plan rather than closing.
• It pairs with Zoho Payroll and Zoho Books if you already use them.

Zoho's applicant tracking system for companies and staffing agencies. The page lists a forever-free plan with one active job, Standard at US$25 a recruiter a month and Enterprise at US$50, billed annually, a 15-day trial and a 45-day money-back guarantee.

Zoho Recruit pricing

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• The free plan handles one active job, enough for a founder hiring one role at a time.
• Standard raises the limit to 10 active jobs per recruiter licence.
• Every plan carries a 15-day trial of Enterprise, after which the account drops to the free plan.

Expense reports, receipt scanning and approvals from Zoho, priced in rupees. The page lists a Free plan for up to 3 users with 20 receipt scans a user a month, Standard at ₹79 a user a month billed annually (₹99 monthly, minimum 5 users) with 200 scans, and Premium at ₹149 (₹199 monthly).

Zoho Expense pricing (India)

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• Free covers 3 users and 20 AI receipt scans each a month.
• Standard has a 5-user minimum, so it starts at about ₹395 a month on annual billing.
• Premium raises the AI scan limit to 1,000 receipts a user a month.

Zoho's low-code platform for building your own forms, workflows, reports and customer portals over your data, priced in rupees for India: Standard at ₹480 a user a month billed annually (₹720 monthly) and Professional at ₹1,200 (₹1,800 monthly), with a free edition and a 15-day trial.

Zoho Creator pricing

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• Standard is ₹480 a user a month billed annually, ₹720 monthly.
• Professional is ₹1,200 a user a month billed annually, ₹1,800 monthly.
• Fits a business already on Zoho Books or Zoho CRM, since it connects to every Zoho app.

Zoho's rupee price list for its cloud inventory app. A free plan covers 50 orders a month for one user and one location; Standard is Rs 999 a month billed yearly for 500 orders, Premium Rs 2,299 and Plus Rs 4,999.

Zoho Inventory pricing (India)

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• Start on the free plan to test: 50 orders, 1 user, 1 location.
• Plans are capped by orders a month, so price your busiest month, not an average one.
• Composite items, backorders and dropshipping are in every plan, which covers light assembly.

Zoho's shared team drive with team folders, granular access and the Zoho office apps. In rupees, Starter is ₹140 a user a month billed yearly (₹170 monthly) with 1 TB of team storage for 3 to 10 users, Team ₹275 with 3 TB and Business ₹550, for at least 3 users.

Zoho WorkDrive pricing

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• Starter at ₹140 a user a month gives a small team 1 TB to share, cheaper than most rivals.
• Plans start at 3 users, so a solo founder is better off with Google One.
• Team folders keep files owned by the company, not by whoever left.

Zoho Projects' own plan page. It is the project tool for teams already on Zoho's apps, with a free plan for up to 5 users and paid Premium, Enterprise and Ultimate tiers after a 15-day free trial with no credit card.

Zoho Projects pricing

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Zoho's India page for the timer inside Zoho Invoice, its free GST invoicing software. Log hours against projects and tasks from phone or desktop, then add the unbilled hours and expenses to an invoice in one click.

Time tracking in Zoho Invoice

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• For an Indian freelancer, tracking time where you raise the GST invoice saves a step.
• Staff can be given restricted access to log only their own hours.

Zoho's India page for Zoho Invoice, free GST invoicing software for small businesses. It makes quotes and GST invoices, collects payments online, sends reminders, tracks expenses and time, and files GSTR-1 directly.

Zoho Invoice: free GST invoicing software

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• Free, and built for GST invoices from the first one.
• Payment reminders chase clients so you do not have to.

Zoho's own integration tool, with a free plan of 100 tasks a month and Standard and Professional plans sized by tasks. The obvious choice for a business already running Zoho Books, CRM or Desk.

Zoho Flow pricing

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• The free plan covers 100 tasks a month.
• Yearly billing saves over 15%.
• It connects Zoho apps to each other and to outside apps without code.

Zoho's contract lifecycle software in Standard, Professional and Premium plans, with Zoho Sign included at no extra cost and a 15-day free trial with no card. Yearly billing saves 20%.

Zoho Contracts pricing

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• Zoho Sign e-signatures are included in every plan.
• Try it for 15 days without a card.
• Lite users let colleagues view and approve without a full licence.

Zoho Meeting, from the Indian software company Zoho. Its free plan allows up to 100 participants for up to 60 minutes per meeting, and the page can show prices in INR.

Zoho Meeting pricing

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• A fit if your team already runs on Zoho Mail or Zoho One.
• Webinars are a separate product on the same page.