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Zoho Books vs M1 ERP: Which is a better fit?

Updated on February 9th, 2025
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Summary
Key features rated by users
Features selected based on 1,552 reviews from Purchasing users.
% Fit
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Feature ratings
Inventory Management
3.9
Purchase Order Management
4.6
Order Management
NA
Invoice Processing
4.6
Activity Dashboard
NA
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Feature ratings
Inventory Management
4.1
Purchase Order Management
4.5
Order Management
3.7
Invoice Processing
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Activity Dashboard
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User satisfaction
4.4
User reviews654
Ease of use
4.4
Functionality
4.3
Value for money
4.4
Customer support
4.2
3.8
User reviews103
Ease of use
3.7
Functionality
3.8
Value for money
3.7
Customer support
3.9
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Best for

Zoho Books caters to businesses of all sizes across multiple industries, such as legal, real estate, retail, wholesale, education, maritime, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing and more.

Make-to-Order, Make-to-Stock, Engineer-to-Order, Discrete, Assemble-to-Order

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pros & cons
1 / 4
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1 / 4
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Patrick S
Owner/Broker
5.0

Patrick S.: Hi, I'm Patrick. I'm the owner of this business. I've been using Zoho Books for about five years, and I give it five out of five stars. It's a fantastic product and I highly recommend it. For more reviews, click here. I use Zoho Books to help me run my business and monitor the day-to-day financials of money coming in and money going out. Helps me be more productive. What I like most about Zoho Books is its ease of use and it seamlessly integrates with my other Zoho products, like my Zoho CRM. What I dislike, there's not really much to dislike, other than doing your financials is not the most fun thing about running a business. But I guess everybody else can say the same thing.

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Daniel K
IT Director
5.0

Daniel K.: Hi, I'm Daniel and I'm the IT director for a manufacturing company. And I give M1 ERP a five out of five stars. The main problems that we're solving is we were able to eliminate a lot of the paper trails that we had in the office. Prior to using M1, we had a traveler that was printed out and went from station to station in the assembly process of the products that we make. And we were able to eliminate that, and it just goes workstation to workstation and everything flows much smoother. Our records get updated immediately instead of the stuff having to be filed and attached to the customer records. And then, a lot of that transfer back and forth running from the computer to a filing cabinet to get stuff because everything's stored within the program itself. Pretty much the problem that it's solving for us, the fact that it does a great job of attaching our documents to the different projects that we're working from. There's not a lot of going back and looking stuff up. If we have to go back to a previous project, all of the documents, drawings and worksheets that we use for that are all stored right there with the order. We can go and see everything that it took to go and make the previous order, and any adjustments that we make in a new order gets added to. And just does a fantastic job of keeping that record for us of what we do for our clients and how we build the different products that we make. Probably the one thing that I would change about it is that some of the screens are a little slow to go and load, but I know it's due to the complexity of the queries that it's drawing from. It's like it's drawing a lot of data out of the database to go and populate the information on the screen. Some of them take a little bit more time than what I'd like. If there was a way to magically do that, that would be fantastic. But I know we're just at the limits of what the program's capable of doing with the hardware resources we've got in place.

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Zoho Books

24/39
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Accounting Integration
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Activity Tracking
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Customizable Reports
  • Multi-Location
  • Order Management
  • Purchasing Reports
  • Search/Filter
  • Shipping Management
  • Sourcing Management
  • Spend Analysis
  • User Management
  • Warehouse Management
  • API
  • Approval Process Control
  • Audit Trail
  • Budgeting/Forecasting
  • Catalog Management
  • Compliance Management
  • Contract/License Management
  • Customizable Templates
  • Data Import/Export
  • Expense Tracking
  • Inventory Management
  • Invoice Processing
  • Multi-Currency
  • Purchase Order Management
  • Quotes/Estimates
  • Real-Time Data
  • Receipt Management
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Requisition Management
  • Spend Management
  • Supplier Management
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Vendor Management
  • Workflow Management
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M1 ERP

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32/39
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Zoho Books
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
M1 ERP
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
Zoho Books
  • By Zoho
  • Located in United States
  • Founded in 1996
M1 ERP
  • By ECI Software Solutions
  • Located in United States
  • Founded in 1999
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