Invoicify vs Zoho Books vs Vyapar: an honest comparison for Indian SMBs

For most Indian small businesses, the choice comes down to fit: Invoicify is a focused, easy GST-invoicing tool; Zoho Books is a broader cloud accounting suite; and Vyapar is a popular billing-and-inventory app with strong desktop and mobile options. None is "best" for everyone — here's how to tell which suits you.

The short version

• Invoicify — clean, fast GST invoicing with payments, reminders, quotations, and challans. Cloud + mobile. Great when you want billing done well without an accounting learning curve.
• Zoho Books — full cloud accounting (banking, ledgers, reports) and part of the wider Zoho ecosystem. Great when you want accounting and invoicing in one platform.
• Vyapar — well-known billing and inventory app, popular with retailers and traders, with offline-friendly desktop use and a mobile app.

Focus and scope

The most important question is how much you want the tool to do.

Invoicify deliberately concentrates on the invoice-to-payment journey: create a compliant invoice, send it, get paid, follow up. That focus keeps it simple.

Zoho Books goes wider into accounting — bank reconciliation, chart of accounts, financial statements — and connects with other Zoho apps (CRM, Inventory, Payroll). If you're standardising on Zoho, Books fits naturally.

Vyapar leans toward billing plus inventory management, and is especially popular with shops and distributors who need stock tracking alongside invoices.

Ease of use

All three are far friendlier than legacy accounting software.

• Invoicify is built for non-accountants — minimal setup, sensible defaults, and automatic GST tax splits.
• Zoho Books is approachable but, because it's a fuller accounting product, has more concepts to learn.
• Vyapar is straightforward for billing and stock, with a familiar desktop feel many traders like.

GST features

Each is designed around Indian GST.

• Invoicify generates GST-format tax invoices with correct CGST/SGST/IGST treatment and supports the documents Indian businesses issue day to day.
• Zoho Books handles GST invoicing plus accounting-side GST reports as part of its broader feature set.
• Vyapar supports GST invoices and is widely used for GST billing in retail and wholesale.

For e-invoicing (IRN) and e-way bills, remember these run through government systems (the IRP and the e-way bill portal). Tools integrate with those workflows; they don't replace the official process.

Cloud, desktop, and mobile

• Invoicify is cloud-first with mobile access — your data follows you across devices.
• Zoho Books is cloud-based with mobile apps.
• Vyapar is known for solid desktop use (including offline) plus a mobile app, which appeals to shops with unreliable internet.

Pricing philosophy

All three offer paid plans (Vyapar also has a free tier with limits). Rather than quote numbers that change, the better lens is value: pay for the scope you'll actually use. Paying for a full accounting suite you won't touch is as wasteful as outgrowing a billing-only tool.

How to choose

• Pick Invoicify if your priority is excellent, low-friction GST invoicing with payments and reminders, and you're happy to keep accounting with your CA.
• Pick Zoho Books if you want invoicing and real accounting together, especially within the Zoho ecosystem.
• Pick Vyapar if billing plus inventory (and offline desktop use) is central to your business.

A practical tip: list the five tasks you do most each week. Whichever tool makes those five tasks fastest is usually the right one — regardless of which has the longest feature list.