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Gain complete visibility into your finances, automate routine accounting tasks, and stay compliant with HMRC, all with one platform
built for educational institutions.

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Why UK educational institutions choose Zoho Books

Invoice faster. Get paid sooner.

Create and send invoices for tuition fees, course fees and activity charges. Set up recurring invoices for ongoing billing, accept online payments and automate payment reminders to avoid manual follow-ups.

Invoice faster. Get paid sooner.

Track expenses with ease

Manage staff expenses and mileage with receipt capture and automated reimbursement calculations, making it easier to process claims across your institution.

Track expenses with ease

See exactly where every pound is allocated

Set up budget headings that mirror your institution - term budgets, departmental cost centres, restricted grant allocations. Track actuals in real time and generate variance reports for governors or trustees in minutes.

See exactly where every pound is allocated

Simplify banking and reconciliation

Import bank transactions automatically through secure bank feeds and reconcile them with your books. Create rules to categorise recurring transactions, identify discrepancies, and maintain accurate financial records throughout the year.

Simplify banking and reconciliation

Compliance without the effort

Zoho Books is HMRC recognised for Making Tax Digital. Submit MTD VAT returns directly to HMRC, maintain digital records, and prepare for MTD for Income Tax, all from within Zoho Books. No bridging software. No spreadsheet exports.

Compliance without the effort
Invoice faster. Get paid sooner.Track expenses with easeSee exactly where every pound is allocatedSimplify banking and reconciliationCompliance without the effort

WHAT MORE CAN ZOHO BOOKS OFFER?

One platform for day-to-day education finance

Track projects and timesheets

Manage multiple programmes with ease by tracking time, project costs, and budgets. Log billable and non-billable hours with timesheets, monitor project profitability, and make informed decisions with real-time project insights.

Track projects and timesheets

Multi-currency for international activity

Enrolling international students, paying overseas suppliers, or running study-abroad programmes - Zoho Books handles multi-currency transactions with automatic exchange rates and clear gain/loss tracking.

Multi-currency for international activity

Connect the tools your finance team already uses

Extend Zoho Books with integrations across payments, CRM, and the wider Zoho ecosystem. Browse the marketplace of add-ons built to fit how your institution already works, instead of forcing your processes to fit the software.

Connect the tools your finance team already uses

Give governors the numbers they need

P&L statements, balance sheets, budget vs actuals, cash flow — all in real time, all exportable. Share directly with your board, finance committee, or external auditors as they are. No data exports, no separate reporting tool.

Give governors the numbers they need

Collaborate with your accountant

Invite your accountant or filing agent to access your organisation at no additional cost. They can review accounts, prepare reports, and file VAT returns directly from Zoho Books without requiring manual exports or file sharing.

Collaborate with your accountant
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Here's what our customers are saying about us

I was a Sage user, and I migrated to Zoho Books completely. I am onboard with every aspect like expenses, payments, and timesheets.

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Piers Foster

Director, Xist Group, UK

Filing my VAT returns has never been easier, thanks to Zoho Books and the new HMRC MTD pilot. Two clicks and my VAT returns were submitted to HMRC.

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James Howard

Director, Kyte IT Ltd, UK

Working with Zoho, as a partner, has been great. We, and our clients, use Zoho Books everyday, so to be recognised as a partner and expert feels amazing.

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Aimee Hargreaves FCCA

Director, Ultra Accountancy Limited, UK

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