Zoho Books is cloud accounting for invoicing, expenses, payments, and tax‑ready reports. Connecting Cognito Forms with Zoho Books turns submissions into customers, invoices, payments, and expenses—so your books stay current.
Automate bookkeeping from each submission. You can issue invoices, keep customer data accurate, and speed reconciliation.
- Create invoices directly from orders
- Sync new and existing customers
- Capture expenses with receipt uploads
Use this integration to:
- Create or update customers and invoices
- Record payments, credits, or expenses
- Attach uploaded files to records
How It Works
- Create a new Zap
- Log in to Zapier
- Click “Make a Zap” and choose Cognito Forms as the trigger app
- Define the trigger
- Select “New Entry” as the trigger event
- Authenticate your Cognito Forms account and choose your form
- Connect to Zoho Books
- Select Zoho Books as the action app
- Choose the desired action (e.g., Create Invoice, Create Contact)
- Authenticate and authorize your Zoho Books account
- Map form data
- Match Cognito Forms fields to Zoho Books fields for accurate data transfer
- Test and verify
- Submit a sample form entry
- Check the results in your Zoho Books account to confirm accuracy
- Activate automation
- Turn on your Zap to automatically sync future form submissions
Still need help? Check out our Zapier support article.
- Log in to Make
- Access your Make dashboard
- Create a new scenario
- Click “Create a new scenario” to start
- Set Cognito Forms as the trigger
- Add the “Watch New Entries” module for Cognito Forms
- Use the Create a Webhook/Choose a hook
- Connect your Cognito Forms account and select the form to monitor
- Add Zoho Books as the action
- Add the desired Zoho Books module (e.g., “Create an Invoice”)
- Connect your Zoho Books account
- Map form fields to Zoho Books fields
- Align Cognito Forms fields with corresponding Zoho Books fields
- Test the scenario
- Run the scenario once to test the setup
- Submit a test entry in Cognito Forms and verify the data appears correctly in Zoho Books.
- Activate the scenario
- Save and activate the scenario to enable continuous automation
Still need help? Check out our Make support article.