Hyderabad migrations split cleanly into two types with almost nothing in common. Pharma, nutraceutical and formulation businesses bring batch and expiry tracking that Zoho Books does not replicate well. IT and consulting firms bring project-based billing, time tracking and multi-currency, which Zoho Books handles better than Tally does. The right answer is opposite for the two, and the assessment exists to work out which one you are.
For pharma and nutraceuticals: batch numbers, expiry-driven valuation, write-offs and licence-linked item attributes. For IT and services: project ledgers, milestone billing, foreign currency receipts and TDS credits spread across many customers.
A high proportion of private limited companies in both segments, so audit trail compliance and Rule 11(g) reporting apply. Several are subsidiaries of foreign parents, which brings consolidation and multi-currency requirements into the chart of accounts design.
For a Hyderabad services or IT business, migration is usually straightforwardly worth doing, and the feature that justifies it is project accounting rather than cloud access. Billing by project or milestone, tracking time against it and seeing profitability per engagement is available from Zoho's Professional tier and has no clean equivalent in a standard Tally setup. For a formulation or nutraceutical business the calculation runs the other way, because expiry-driven batch valuation is exactly what does not migrate.
Telangana levies professional tax, with nil below the state threshold and a modest monthly deduction above it, plus a separate entity-level enrolment.
One point decides more about cost than anything else on this page, and it is a compliance argument rather than a convenience one. Migrate on 1 April and the whole financial year sits in one system, so your auditor reaches a single Rule 11(g) conclusion. Cut over in December and the year is split across two systems, and the auditor has to form and report a conclusion on both, including the one you have stopped using. Assessment and clean-up typically take two to three weeks before anything can move, so a 1 April cutover is a January or February decision rather than a March one. None of this binds a proprietorship, a partnership firm or an LLP, which sit outside the audit trail regime entirely.
| Item | Position as at August 2026 |
|---|---|
| Audit trail requirement | Rule 3(1) proviso, Companies (Accounts) Rules 2014. Software must record an edit log that cannot be disabled |
| In force from | Financial years commencing on or after 1 April 2023 |
| Who it binds | Every company, including small, OPC and Section 8. Not proprietorships, partnership firms or LLPs |
| Auditor reporting | Rule 11(g). Used, operated throughout the year, not tampered with, and preserved |
| Retention | Eight financial years under section 128(5), so the Tally data cannot simply be disposed of |
| Daily backup | Rule 3(5). Servers physically located in India |
| Registrar intimation | Rule 3(6). Service provider name, IP address and location, annually with the financials |
| Zoho plan driver | GSTIN count, not turnover. Standard one, Professional two, Premium three |
| Zoho free plan | Turnover under Rs 25 lakh, one user plus an accountant, 1,000 invoices a year |
| Best cutover date | 1 April, so the financial year sits in one system |
| Package | Fee | Scope |
|---|---|---|
| Opening Balance | Rs 24,999 | Balances only, tied back to your last audited figures |
| Full Year | Rs 49,999 | One financial year of transactions, multi-GSTIN |
| Historical | Rs 99,999 | Up to three years, multi-GSTIN, inventory and parallel run |
| Additional GSTIN | Rs 2,999 each | Beyond those included in your scope |
| Additional financial year | Rs 7,999 each | Where comparative reporting needs more history |
Project fees rather than retainers, because this is a one-time engagement. For company clients the Rule 11(g) audit trail documentation, the retention position and the Rule 3(6) Registrar particulars are prepared as part of the engagement rather than charged separately. Your Zoho Books subscription is paid by you directly to Zoho.
Every price above is a professional fee, excluding GST and government charges. 50% on delivery.
All fees and charges listed are indicative only and do not constitute a binding offer. Final amounts may vary depending on the volume of work and the complexity involved.
Yes, and it is one of the better reasons to migrate. Project accounting, time tracking and billable expenses are available from the Professional tier, as is multi-currency. Foreign currency receipts should be set up so the exchange difference is captured at invoice date, receipt date and reporting date rather than converted at a single rate, which is where most manually maintained files go wrong.
Not cleanly. Tracked inventory cannot be carried across in a bulk historical import, and expiry-driven batch valuation has no direct equivalent to map into. For a formulation or nutraceutical business we would usually recommend keeping inventory where it works and migrating the financial side only, or treating inventory as a separate project with its own scope and price.
Chart of accounts design, mainly. If the parent consolidates, the mapping should line up with the group's reporting structure from day one rather than being reconciled through a spreadsheet each quarter. Multi-currency needs configuring properly, and if the parent reports under a different framework, the Indian Schedule III presentation still has to come out of the same file.
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Reviewed by the CA and CS Team, CorporateWalla · Last updated 17 August 2026 · · Sources: Ministry of Corporate Affairs, ICAI, Zoho Books India pricing
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