Zoho Inventory Pricing: Plans, Order Limits and Add-on Costs

Zoho Inventory pricing has four paid plans and a free tier. Billed annually, Standard is $29 a month (500 orders a month, 3 users, 2 locations), Premium is $79 (3,000 orders, 5 users, 4 locations), Plus is $129 (7,500 orders, 10 users, 6 locations) and Enterprise is $249 (15,000 orders, 10 users, 10 locations). Month to month, the same plans cost $39, $99, $159 and $299. The Free plan is capped at 50 orders a month, one user and one location. Add-ons are priced per organization per month: an extra user $7.50, 500 extra orders $7.50, an extra location $10, and Advanced Warehousing $124.17 (annual billing). Every number here comes from Zoho's US pricing page as of this writing; review sites still publish older figures, so treat this as the table to check against.

The thing that decides what Zoho Inventory actually costs you is not the sticker price. It is the order cap. A plan's monthly order limit is the wall most growing sellers hit first, and the only ways over it are the next plan or $7.50 per 500 extra orders. Below is each plan, what the add-ons do to the bill, three worked first-year budgets, and the one job Zoho Inventory does not do at any price: tell you how much to reorder.

Zoho Inventory pricing plans at a glance

Plan	Billed annually	Billed monthly	Orders / month	Users	Locations	What it adds
Free	$0	$0	50	1	1	Composite items, dropshipment, backordering
Standard	$29/mo	$39/mo	500	3	2	Customer portal, composite items, dropshipment, backordering
Premium	$79/mo	$99/mo	3,000	5	4	Barcode generation, stock counting, serial and batch tracking, UoM conversion, vendor portal, customization and automation, 500 bins per location
Plus	$129/mo	$159/mo	7,500	10	6	Everything in Premium plus the Zoho Commerce online store builder, WhatsApp commerce, marketing tools, abandoned cart recovery, loyalty and coupons
Enterprise	$249/mo	$299/mo	15,000	10	10	Zoho Analytics, multi-currency per contact, 5,000 bins per location

Prices are per organization, not per user, and exclude local taxes. Annual billing saves about 25 percent on Standard and 17 percent on Enterprise. Two details trip people up. First, the feature that most small warehouses want, barcode generation and stock counting, only starts on Premium, so the real entry price for a business that scans is $79 a month, not $29. Second, Plus is mostly an ecommerce bundle: if you already sell on Shopify or Amazon, the jump from Premium to Plus buys you order headroom and five more users, and the online store builder goes unused.

Zoho Inventory add-on pricing

Add-on	Billed annually	Billed monthly	When you need it
Additional user	$7.50/mo	$9/mo	Standard's 3 seats are gone after the owner, a bookkeeper and one warehouse login
500 additional orders	$7.50/mo	$9/mo	Cheaper than the next plan for an overage; once you also need scanning or more seats, Premium at $79 is the better buy
Additional location	$10/mo	$12/mo	A second store or a 3PL warehouse on Standard
50 advanced autoscans	$8/mo	$10/mo	Scanning supplier bills into purchase records
Advanced Warehousing	$124.17/mo	$149/mo	Bin-level picking and warehouse workflows; this add-on costs more than the Premium plan it sits on

The order add-on is the one to price carefully. A Standard customer doing 900 orders a month pays $29 plus one $7.50 block: $36.50. At 2,000 orders it is $29 plus three blocks, $51.50, and Premium at $79 starts to make sense because it also unlocks scanning and two more users. Past 3,000 orders you are on Premium plus blocks or on Plus, and the math flips again around 6,300 orders a month, sooner if you also need more than five users.

How much does Zoho Inventory cost? Three worked first-year budgets

Business	Plan and add-ons	First-year cost (annual billing)
Single-location online seller, 400 orders a month, 2 people	Standard, no add-ons	$348
Two-store retailer with a warehouse, 2,500 orders a month, 6 users, scanning	Premium, 1 extra user	$1,038 ($79 + $7.50 = $86.50 x 12)
Wholesaler, 5,000 orders a month, 8 users, bin-level warehouse	Premium + 4 order blocks + 3 users + Advanced Warehousing	$3,068 ($79 + $30 + $22.50 + $124.17 = $255.67 x 12); Plus + Advanced Warehousing is $3,038 and includes the users, so Plus wins here

The third row is the one to notice. Once a distributor needs bins and a few thousand orders, Zoho Inventory lands in the same $3,000 a year bracket as Cin7 Core and Fishbowl Essentials, and those two bring more warehouse depth for the money. Zoho stays the clear value pick for the first two rows.

Is Zoho Inventory free?

There is a Free plan, and it is real, but it is sized for a hobby: 50 orders a month, one user, one location. Fifty orders is under two a day. A business that has hired anyone passes that in the first week, and the Free plan has no barcode scanning, no stock counting and no customer portal. It works as an extended trial of the data model and the Zoho ecosystem. The 14-day free trial of the paid plans is a better test, because you see the features you would actually pay for.

What Zoho Inventory does not include: demand forecasting

Zoho Inventory reorders from a reorder point you set on each item. When quantity on hand reaches that number, Zoho notifies you, and you create the purchase order with the supplier. That is a static minimum: the software does not calculate the reorder point from the item's sales velocity, the supplier's lead time or seasonality, and it does not suggest an order quantity. Zoho's own academy articles describe demand forecasting in terms of the sales reports you can run and the third-party forecasting apps that integrate, StockTrim among them.

For a catalog of a few hundred SKUs, one person can maintain reorder points by hand. Past that, the numbers go stale, because nobody revisits 2,000 items every quarter, and the business either overstocks to be safe or runs out of the SKUs that grew. This is the gap demand forecasting software fills: Storekeeper reads the sales history, sets a reorder point per SKU from forecast demand and lead time, sizes the order, and on the Growth plan drafts the purchase order by supplier. It runs alongside Zoho Inventory, QuickBooks or Shopify rather than replacing them, from $49 a month. Our inventory replenishment software page explains the method step by step.

One more cost that is not on Zoho's price list: duties. Zoho Inventory records landed cost against a bill, but the rate you enter depends on the product's tariff classification, and importers routinely get that wrong on the first order. An HS code lookup before the purchase order is placed keeps the landed cost you type into Zoho honest, which in turn keeps the margins in your reports honest.

Zoho Inventory pricing compared with its competitors

Tool	Entry price	Order cap on entry plan	Demand forecasting	Best for
Zoho Inventory	$29/mo annual ($39 monthly)	500 a month	No; manual reorder point with notification	Small sellers under 3,000 orders a month, especially on Zoho Books
inFlow	$129/mo annual ($161 monthly)	100 sales orders a month on Entrepreneur, then per-order fees	Reorder points; no per-SKU forecast	Small warehouses that want desktop-style control and scanning
Sortly	$49/mo	Item-based, not order-based	No	Visual tracking of assets and supplies, not order-driven stock
Fishbowl	$229/mo annual (Essentials, 2 users)	No order cap; user-based	On the $729 Scale plan	QuickBooks distributors and light manufacturers
Cin7 Core	$349/mo (Standard, 5 users)	6,000 a year	ForesightAI priced on GMV	Multichannel brands with B2B and warehouse needs
Katana	From $299/mo plus usage	Usage-billed on delivered sales orders	Included on every plan	Makers with BOMs and production scheduling
Storekeeper	$49/mo ($39 annual)	No order cap; priced by location and channel	Per-SKU forecast, reorder point and quantity on every plan; draft POs on Growth $149	The forecasting and reorder layer on top of Zoho, QuickBooks or Shopify

If the reason you are pricing Zoho is that you are leaving it, our Zoho Inventory alternatives page compares inFlow, Cin7, Fishbowl, Katana and Sortly on the order caps and features that push people off each plan. Katana's usage billing is worth understanding before you compare it to a flat Zoho tier; the Katana pricing breakdown covers it.

Which Zoho Inventory plan should you pick?

Pick Standard if you have one warehouse, no scanner and fewer than 500 orders a month. It is the cheapest credible inventory system on the market for that profile, and the 2-location allowance covers a store plus a stockroom.

Pick Premium the moment you buy a barcode scanner, need serial or batch tracking, or pass about 1,500 orders a month. Most of Zoho's operational features live here, and at $79 it is still below the entry price of every competitor in the table except Sortly and Storekeeper, which do different jobs.

Skip Plus unless you want Zoho Commerce as your storefront. If you only need the order headroom, Premium plus order blocks is cheaper up to about 6,300 orders a month, as long as five users are enough. Pick Enterprise for the 10 locations and Zoho Analytics, and expect that at 15,000 orders a month you will also be evaluating Cin7 and NetSuite.

Questions to ask Zoho before you sign

• How are orders counted toward the monthly cap: sales orders only, or sales orders plus purchase orders and transfers?
• What happens in the month you exceed the cap: a hard stop on new orders, or an automatic add-on charge?
• Does the Advanced Warehousing add-on require Premium or higher, and does it count against the bin limits shown on each plan?
• If you pay annually and move up a plan mid-term, is the difference prorated?
• Which reports show sales velocity per item, and can they be scheduled and exported so a forecasting tool can read them?

The honest summary: Zoho Inventory is priced fairly and cheaply for what it does, which is record orders, stock and purchases with discipline. What it does not do is decide what to buy. If your Monday still starts with a spreadsheet of reorder points, keep Zoho for the ledger and put a forecasting layer for a small business on top. Plans are on our pricing page.