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Owwel and Zoho
Zoho sells accounting, inventory and the point of sale as separate apps, each with its own plans. Owwel keeps the books, the till, the stock and the team in one system at one yearly price. Here is how the two compare for a business that runs a counter, stock and a team.
Owwel and Zoho, point by point
| Feature | Owwel | Zoho |
|---|---|---|
| Point of sale | OwwelBuilt in, on every plan | ZohoZoho POS, a separate product priced per location[2] |
| Selling offline | OwwelEvery plan, each sale sent once when the connection returns | ZohoOffline billing from the Standard POS plan[2] |
| Accounting | OwwelBuilt from the same records as the till | ZohoZoho Books, a separate product with its own plans[3] |
Where Zoho falls short for a shop
Accounting, inventory and the point of sale are separate products (Zoho Books, Zoho Inventory and Zoho POS), each with its own plan, connected by integrations.
One system and one price: the till, stock, expenses, the team and the reports share the same records from the first sale.
Staff attendance and HR live in yet another app.
A badge kiosk for attendance, shifts per weekday, a staff portal and service ratings are part of Owwel's Professional plan.
It is built for general business, not for a branch closing its till each evening.
The daily close, stock checks with the whole team counting from their phones, and a minimum price per product are built for the shop floor.
Built into Owwel, not added on
Twelve things that come with Owwel at one yearly price.
Offline sales, each recorded once
The till keeps selling when the internet drops, and each sale is sent by itself when the connection returns, recorded exactly once even if it is sent twice.
Team stock counts by QR code
Teammates join a stock count by scanning a QR code and count from their own phones, with no account and no user licence.
Excel round trip with every change shown
Download stock, edit it in Excel, upload it back and review every change product by product before it is applied, with nothing created twice.
Profit, margin and cost hidden from staff
Two restrictions hide profit, margin and cost of goods, and what you paid for stock, inside pages a person can otherwise open, so a cashier runs the till without seeing your margins.
A minimum price, with discounts flagged
Each product has a minimum price the till will not go under, and a discount that takes a sale below it flags the invoice and alerts the owner.
Backbar costed into each service
Salon product opened for use on clients is spread across the services that used it, so service margins are real.
Attendance, staff portal, consultations and ratings
Professional planA badge kiosk with shifts per weekday, each person's own portal, consultations with priced plans and customer ratings of their work, in the same system as the till.
An owner portal across every branch
Professional planOwners sign in with a phone number and a five digit PIN to see every branch's sales, money, reports and alerts from their phone.
Ayuuto across branches
A group savings pot where each branch pays a set amount daily, with any shortfall covered by another branch and tracked as a debt.
Livestock mode and fabric by the metre
Animals with their own IDs, weights, purchases and sales, each animal's cost in every profit figure, and fabric counted roll by roll and cut against an order.
Files vault, SMS marketing and an API
A PIN protected vault for licences and contracts, SMS campaigns with delivery tracked per recipient, and a developer API for your own software, on every plan.
One yearly price, and never deleted
Plans from Ksh 20,599 a year with team members included rather than charged per user. If a subscription lapses the account goes read-only, and nothing is deleted.
See every accounting feature, or how to bring your products across.
Sources
Checked 19 October 2026. Products change, so check Zoho's own site for the latest.
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