Comparison
Piatto Pro vs Zoho Books
Zoho Books is cloud accounting with a free plan and caps on invoices. Piatto Pro is offline-first POS and ERP with accounting inside. Prices checked October 2026.
| Feature | Piatto Pro | Zoho Books |
|---|---|---|
| Price in India | Restaurant POS ₹12,000 per outlet per year. General billing from ₹11,999 a year | Free plan. Standard ₹749 a month (3 users), Professional ₹1,499 (5), Premium ₹2,999 (10), billed yearly |
| Invoices a year | Plans are priced by outlets and users, not by number of bills | Free 1,000, Standard 5,000, Professional 10,000, Premium 25,000, Elite 1,00,000 |
| GST filing and reports | GSTR-1, GSTR-3B and GSTR-9 reports, e-invoice and e-way bill as an add-on | GST reports and filing on every plan including Free, e-invoices from Standard |
| Counter POS | Full POS, offline-first | Accounting product. No counter POS on its Books pricing page |
| Restaurant operations | Tables, KOT, kitchen display, scan-and-order, waiter app | Not covered by Zoho Books |
| Stock and warehouses | Multiple warehouses, transfers, batch and expiry, barcode | Inventory tracking from Free. Warehouses and batch tracking on Elite |
| Bank reconciliation, recurring invoices, multi-currency | Not offered yet | Offered (multi-currency from Professional) |
| Offline billing | Offline-first POS on every plan | Cloud-based |
Where Zoho Books is the better fit
If you need accounting only, Zoho Books is strong and its free plan is generous: invoices, bills, expenses, GST filing, inventory and a balance sheet for one user and one accountant. It also reconciles bank statements, repeats invoices on a schedule and handles several currencies, none of which Piatto Pro does today.
Where Piatto Pro is the better fit
Zoho caps the invoices you can raise: 1,000 a year on Free, 5,000 on Standard and 25,000 on Premium. A shop or restaurant doing 50 bills a day raises about 18,000 a year, which means Premium at ₹2,999 a month. Piatto Pro prices by outlet and users, not by bill count, and it adds what Zoho Books does not: an offline counter POS, kitchen display, scan-and-order, a waiter app and stock across warehouses.
What we checked
Zoho Books India pricing and plan comparison, read on 18 October 2026: zoho.com/in/books/pricing. Prices there exclude GST. Piatto Pro prices are on our India page.