Zoho Inventory

Zoho Inventory is cloud-based software for tracking stock, managing purchases, processing sales orders, and coordinating fulfillment. It supports multiple warehouses, sales channels, shipping providers, accounting systems, and customer relationship tools.

The product serves retail, ecommerce, manufacturing, and dropshipping workflows. Its core functions include item grouping, composite products, serial and batch tracking, barcode operations, reorder points, invoicing, returns, and inventory reporting.

Inventory features include item groups, composite items, price lists, inventory adjustments, serial tracking, batch tracking, reorder points, stock counting, and multi-warehouse transfers. Warehouse tools include bin locations, picklists, putaways, and move orders on supported plans.

Order workflows cover sales orders, invoices, purchase orders, bills, packages, shipping labels, returns, backorders, and dropshipments. Zoho Inventory also supports webhooks, custom functions, custom fields, workflow automation, reporting, and Zoho Analytics integration.

Zoho offers mobile applications for Android and iOS. The service also provides a REST API that exposes product operations through resource-based endpoints. Current AI features include Ask Zia, invoice insights, workflow assistance, and integrations for building inventory agents through Model Context Protocol.

Zoho Inventory provides a free plan with one user, one location, 50 orders per month, 50 invoices per month, 20 purchase orders per month, and 20 bills per month. The United States pricing page lists paid plans at $39, $99, $159, and $299 per organization monthly, or $29, $79, $129, and $249 when billed annually.

The annual plans are Standard, Premium, Plus, and Enterprise. Listed order limits are 500, 3,000, 7,500, and 15,000 orders per month. Paid plans include different user, location, warehouse, automation, tracking, and analytics allowances.

Zoho offers a 14-day trial for paid plans. After the trial, an account can continue on the free plan or move to a paid subscription. Prices exclude applicable local taxes.

Pros:

• Broad inventory, purchasing, order, and fulfillment coverage.
• Integrations for marketplaces, shopping carts, accounting, shipping, payments, CRM, and analytics.
• Free plan and 14-day paid-plan trial support small-scale evaluation.
• REST API, webhooks, custom functions, and mobile applications support connected workflows.
• Multi-warehouse, serial-number, batch, barcode, and composite-item features support varied stock models.

Cons:

• Order, user, location, and automation limits vary considerably by plan.
• Advanced inventory controls and analytics require higher subscription tiers.
• Businesses may need several Zoho products for accounting, CRM, and advanced analytics.
• Organizations needing deep warehouse-management functionality should compare specialist WMS products.

Comparable alternatives include inFlow Inventory for inventory-focused small businesses, Cin7 Core for broader multichannel and operational workflows, Odoo Inventory for modular ERP deployments, Unleashed for inventory and reporting, and Katana for manufacturing-oriented inventory operations.

Product selection should consider order volume, warehouse depth, manufacturing requirements, accounting integration, automation needs, and the number of sales channels.

Does Zoho Inventory have a free plan? Yes. The free plan supports one user, one location, and 50 orders per month, with additional transaction limits.

Is there a free trial? Yes. Zoho offers a 14-day trial for its paid plans.

Does Zoho Inventory provide an API? Yes. Its REST API supports operations available through the web client. API quotas vary by subscription plan.

What does Zoho Inventory integrate with? Official integrations include Amazon, eBay, Walmart, Etsy, Shopify, WooCommerce, Zoho Books, Zoho CRM, Zoho Analytics, Slack, Google Workspace, Twilio, shipping carriers, payment services, and EDI tools.

Does it have mobile apps? Yes. Zoho provides Android and iOS applications for stock, order, payment, fulfillment, barcode, and warehouse tasks.

Does Zoho Inventory support AI? Yes. Current AI functions include Ask Zia, invoice insights, workflow assistance, and tools for creating inventory agents through MCP.