Zoho Inventory Pricing and Zoho Inventory Cost per Month

Zoho Inventory pricing starts at $29 a month per organization, billed annually, for the Standard plan with 500 orders a month and 2 users. Professional is $79, Premium is $129 and Enterprise is $249 a month on annual billing. Billed month to month, the same four plans cost $39, $99, $159 and $299. A free plan covers 50 orders a month and 1 user, and extra users, orders and locations are sold as add-ons.

Every price on this page comes from Zoho's own US pricing and plan comparison pages. Zoho prices per organization, not per seat, and every plan has an order allowance, so the number that decides your bill is usually orders a month rather than headcount. Below are the plans, the annual cost of each, the add-ons, two worked examples for a growing US distributor, and the cost that no Zoho plan covers: getting customer purchase orders into the system in the first place.

How much does Zoho Inventory cost?

Zoho Inventory costs $348 a year on the Standard plan, $948 a year on Professional, $1,548 a year on Premium and $2,988 a year on Enterprise, all billed annually and before local sales tax. Paying monthly instead raises the yearly total to $468, $1,188, $1,908 and $3,588. The plans differ mostly in order allowance, locations and advanced features like batch tracking and automation.

Two things stand out in that table. First, Standard, Professional and Premium all include just 2 users. Moving up a plan buys you orders, locations and features, not people. Second, the jump from annual to monthly billing is between 20 and 35 percent depending on the plan, so a team that is confident it will stay a year saves real money committing up front.

What each Zoho Inventory plan adds

The Standard plan already covers the basics a small seller needs: composite items, dropshipment, backordering and a customer portal. Professional adds serial number tracking, batch tracking and a vendor portal, which is where most food, supplement and electronics businesses land because lot or serial traceability is not optional for them. Premium adds unit of measure conversion, customization and automation, barcode generation, stock counting, profit margin reporting and 2,000 bins per location. Enterprise adds Zoho Analytics, multi-currency transactions per contact and 5,000 bins per location, along with 7 users and a 15,000 order allowance.

Zoho Inventory add-ons and what they cost

Add-ons are how most real bills end up higher than the sticker price. Zoho lists them per organization per month on annual billing.

The extra user price is low, which matters because three of the four paid plans stop at 2 users. A five person team on Professional pays $79 plus three extra users at $7.50, so $101.50 a month, or $1,218 a year. That is still far below most inventory systems that price per seat, and it is the main reason Zoho Inventory shows up on shortlists next to tools like Fishbowl, which you can compare on our Fishbowl pricing breakdown.

Zoho Inventory pricing for a growing distributor

Here are two worked examples using only the published prices, both on annual billing.

Example 1, a small wholesale brand. 4 users, 2,400 orders a month, 2 warehouses, needs batch tracking. Standard is out on both the order allowance and the missing batch tracking, so this team needs Professional at $79 plus 2 extra users at $15. That is $94 a month, or $1,128 a year.

Example 2, a distributor that has outgrown spreadsheets. 6 users, 8,000 orders a month, 5 locations, wants automation rules and barcode generation. Premium covers the features and 6 locations, but includes 7,500 orders and 2 users. Add one 500 order block at $7.50 and 4 users at $30. That is $166.50 a month, or $1,998 a year. Enterprise would cost $249 a month and include 7 users and 15,000 orders, so it only becomes the cheaper choice if order volume or headcount keeps climbing.

Is Zoho Inventory free?

Zoho Inventory has a free plan, but it is sized for testing or a very small seller. It allows 50 orders a month, 1 user and 2 locations, with composite items, dropshipment and backordering included. Any business processing more than a couple of orders a day will need a paid plan within the first month.

Does Zoho Inventory have a free trial?

Yes. Zoho offers a 14-day free trial of the paid plans, and the pricing page says you can email Zoho support to ask for more time. Use the trial to load a real week of orders, not sample data, because the order allowance is the limit you are most likely to hit.

Is Zoho Inventory worth the cost?

For a US business doing a few hundred to a few thousand orders a month, Zoho Inventory is one of the cheapest credible inventory systems you can buy, and the per organization pricing keeps it cheap as the team grows. It is worth less if you manufacture, since it has no bill of materials driven production planning at the level a manufacturer needs, and if your sales run through many channels you will also want a separate view of ad spend against store revenue, which a unified marketing dashboard handles better than any inventory tool. Zoho Inventory pairs naturally with Zoho Books for accounting, and if your books are already there, supplier purchase orders can go straight in with purchase order to Zoho Books.

The cost no Zoho Inventory plan covers

None of the plans read a purchase order. If your customers are retailers, contractors or other businesses, they send their orders as PDF attachments printed by their own systems, and someone on your team retypes each one into a Zoho sales order. Zoho Inventory can import sales orders from a CSV or TSV file of up to 1 MB, but the file still has to exist, and building it from a PDF is the slow part.

That step has a cost you can measure. At 25 customer orders a day and 10 lines each, an order desk keys 250 lines a day by hand. At a couple of minutes per order to read, type and check, that is close to an hour a day of a paid employee, and every transposed quantity is a short shipment. Our Zoho Inventory sales order import reads the customer PO, returns every line as a CSV in the shape Zoho's importer expects, and starts at $49 a month. Teams with a morning backlog clear it in one pass with bulk purchase order upload, and the broader workflow is laid out on sales order entry automation.

Questions to ask before you buy

• Which documents count toward the monthly order allowance on your plan, and what happens on the day you go over it.
• Whether the integrations you need, such as Shopify, Amazon, UPS or FedEx, are included on your plan or cost extra.
• The renewal price after the first year, which the pricing page does not state.
• Whether advanced warehousing is needed at your volume, since it costs more than Premium itself.

Zoho Inventory pricing questions

Is Zoho Inventory priced per user?

No. Zoho Inventory is priced per organization per month, with a set number of users included in each plan, 2 on Standard, Professional and Premium and 7 on Enterprise. Extra users cost $7.50 a month each on annual billing.

What happens if you go over the Zoho Inventory order limit?

You buy more orders as an add-on, at $7.50 a month for each extra block of 500 orders on annual billing, or move to the next plan. Upgrading is cheaper once the add-on blocks cost more than the price difference between plans.

Is Zoho Inventory cheaper than Fishbowl?

On published prices, yes, by a wide margin. Zoho Inventory Professional with 5 users costs about $1,218 a year on annual billing, while Fishbowl's Growth plan with 5 users is $5,148 a year before its required implementation package. Fishbowl goes deeper on manufacturing and warehouse control.

Can Zoho Inventory import sales orders?

Yes. Zoho Inventory imports sales orders from a CSV or TSV file of up to 1 MB under Sales Orders, Import Sales Orders, with saved field mapping and a preview of skipped rows. It does not read PDF purchase orders, so customer orders have to be converted to rows first.