A group’s companies often keep their books in different systems: Zoho Books, Xero, QuickBooks or a spreadsheet. Consolidation does not need them to match. Each company’s accounts are mapped once to a group chart of accounts, and balances come in directly or as a trial balance from any system.
Ten questions to settle before quoting: companies and ownership, currencies and rates, systems, intercompany, the deliverable. What each missed question costs, and three promises to avoid.
A seven-step workflow for a firm preparing group accounts for clients whose companies sit in separate Zoho Books organizations: scope, group chart, rates, onboarding, monthly cycle, review, delivery.
Plans are priced per organization. A dated table of the features a group cares about, from Zoho's UK pages opened on 29 Oct 2026, and a worked cost for two companies.
A legal entity gets an organization. Locations and tags work inside one. A decision table, what goes wrong when tags stand in for companies, and a setup picker.
The pages we read on 29 Oct 2026, what they say about a combined report, and what goes wrong when two organizations' reports are simply added together.
What Zoho Books gives a group, what its help pages say about combining organizations, and the four jobs between the organizations and one set of group accounts.
Yes. Zoho Books connects directly. Xero and QuickBooks compa
The period, the currency, the account codes and names, and b
No. Each company keeps its own chart. The accounts are mappe
Thirty minutes, on a group shaped like yours.
