Exploring Zoho Billing

Zoho Billing is an easy to use invoicing platform where you can send invoices to your customers and collect payments. We’ve focussed on keeping things simple yet packed with everything you would need to stay focussed on growing your business. We give you carefully designed invoices, remind you to collect payments, track the time you spend on projects and help you keep a record of expenses. You don’t have to worry about crunching numbers to figure your sales is doing, we do it for you. Let’s get started and see how you can make the most of Zoho Billing, shall we?

Before You Get Started

There are a few things that you need before you get started with Zoho Billing. If you’re reading this, you probably have it all. Anyway, you would need:

Browser Support

Zoho Billing supports the latest version of the following browsers:

Signing Up

Since you have all that you need to start using Zoho Billing, let’s go to www.zoho.com/invoice. Signing up in Zoho Billing is as simple as creating an email account. To sign up:

Signup Page

Insight: You can also sign up into Zoho Billing using your Google Plus, Yahoo, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter or Outlook accounts.

Setting Up your Organization

In this page, you need to enter the basic information about your business to set up your organization in Zoho Billing.

Setting up Organization Page

Now, you’ll be redirected to the Getting Started page of Zoho Billing.

Signing In

If you’ve already signed up in Zoho Billing, you can directly sign in to Zoho Billing using your email address. To sign in:

Insight: You can also sign in to Zoho Billing using your email accounts such as Google, Yahoo, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter or Microsoft Outlook.

Pro Tip: If you’re migrating from an already existing system to Zoho Billing, you can import your data from your previous system into Zoho Billing. Learn more.

Get to know Zoho Billing

Let’s take a look at where we’ve placed things in Zoho Billing home so that you can navigate without a fuss.

ZI Dashboard

Dashboard - Gives you an overview of your company’s sales and expenses; top projects; due receivables, and a lot more. To know more about various sections of the dashboard, click here.

Sidebar - Allows you to switch between different modules of the product easily. You can raise estimates, invoices, record expenses directly from these modules.

Quick Create - Enables you to instantly create any transaction from any page with a single click.

Gear Icon - Lets you access the application settings to configure and customize it for your business.

Help Icon - Gives you quick access to help documentation or our Support team.

Notifications - Notifies you on what’s happening in the application, your customer portal and also updates you on the new features that has been added to the product.

Organization - Allows you to manage/switch between multiple Zoho Billing organizations.

Recent History - View and go to the recently visited transactions or contacts.

We’ve designed the module home page to make it very easy for you to create transactions, filter them, navigate to module settings and perform other functions.

Module Home Page Image

Page Filters - Enables you to filter the list in the module based on a certain criteria, even based on your own criteria.

Creation Button - Helps you to create a transaction or contact or item depending on the module you’re in.

Hamburger Icon - Contains the options to sort the module based on created time, last modified time, date, invoice number etc., and options to import and export the data of the respective module. It also contains the option to go to the preferences and a link to the frequently asked questions of the respective module.

Action Buttons - Allows you to perform various actions on a transaction in the respective module.

Collapse Button - Allows you to collapse the sidebar providing more space to navigate within modules.

With this introduction, you’re ready to hop into each module and understand them in depth. Let’s go!

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