Zoho Books

Zoho Books is online accounting software for small and growing businesses that handles invoicing, expenses, banking, projects, inventory, vendor bills, reporting, and end-to-end GST/VAT compliance. It is part of the Zoho Finance suite and integrates with the rest of the Zoho One platform alongside payment gateways, banks, and tax authorities. The Zoho Books REST API exposes the full accounting data model — contacts, invoices, estimates, expenses, bills, banking, items, taxes, and reports — using OAuth 2.0 (Zoho-oauthtoken) for authentication and per-region data center base URLs.

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aid: zoho-books
name: Zoho Books
description: >-
  Zoho Books is online accounting software for small and growing businesses
  that handles invoicing, expenses, banking, projects, inventory, vendor
  bills, reporting, and end-to-end GST/VAT compliance. It is part of the
  Zoho Finance suite and integrates with the rest of the Zoho One platform
  alongside payment gateways, banks, and tax authorities. The Zoho Books
  REST API exposes the full accounting data model — contacts, invoices,
  estimates, expenses, bills, banking, items, taxes, and reports — using
  OAuth 2.0 (Zoho-oauthtoken) for authentication and per-region data
  center base URLs.
type: Index
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
  - Accounting
  - Bookkeeping
  - Invoicing
  - Expenses
  - Banking
  - Small Business
  - GST
  - VAT
  - Zoho
url: >-
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zoho-books/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-11'
modified: '2026-05-11'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: zoho-books:rest-api-v3
    name: Zoho Books REST API v3
    description: >-
      The Zoho Books REST API v3 provides full programmatic access to the
      Zoho Books accounting data model including contacts, invoices,
      estimates, sales orders, purchase orders, bills, expenses, banking,
      items, taxes, projects, and financial reports. Authentication uses
      OAuth 2.0 with the Zoho-oauthtoken header, and base URLs vary by
      regional data center (.com, .eu, .in, .com.au, .jp, .ca, .com.cn,
      .sa). Standard pagination, filtering, and rate limiting are
      supported with up to 100 requests per minute per organization.
    humanURL: https://www.zoho.com/books/api/v3/introduction/
    baseURL: https://www.zohoapis.com/books/v3
    tags:
      - Accounting
      - Invoicing
      - Expenses
      - Banking
      - OAuth 2.0
      - REST
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.zoho.com/books/api/v3/introduction/
      - type: Authentication
        url: https://www.zoho.com/books/api/v3/oauth/
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/zoho-books-openapi.yml
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.zoho.com/books/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.zoho.com/books/api/v3/introduction/
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://www.zoho.com/books/pricing/
  - type: SignUp
    url: https://www.zoho.com/books/signup/
  - type: Login
    url: https://books.zoho.com/app/login
  - type: Support
    url: https://www.zoho.com/books/support/
  - type: Blog
    url: https://www.zoho.com/books/blog/
  - type: Status
    url: https://status.zoho.com/
  - type: Privacy Policy
    url: https://www.zoho.com/privacy.html
  - type: Terms of Service
    url: https://www.zoho.com/terms.html
  - type: Developer Console
    url: https://api-console.zoho.com/
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]

Zoho Books

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Zoho Books REST API v3

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