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Zoho Billing

FINANCE
Velocity6.3

Zoho Billing is growing a checkout surface for one-off items, not just subscriptions.

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◆Current state
The July window is split between reporting and payment collection. On reporting: Active Subscriptions by Country and by Product, plus a Payment Method Summary that surfaces cards nearing expiry. On collection: hosted payment pages for individual items, shareable as a URL, QR code, iframe or HTML button, and a redesigned single-page checkout template in early access with abandoned-cart recovery and saved checkout progress. Role-based access on the SKU field and bulk TDS import round it out.
◆Where it's heading
Two directions are visible. Reporting is being cut by dimensions a subscription business actually plans against — country, product, payment-method expiry — which is groundwork for retention and dunning work rather than accounting output. More significant is that Zoho Billing now collects money for a single item outside any subscription, records it, and raises the invoice, which puts it in reach of transactions it previously had no surface for.
◆Prediction
Expect the redesigned checkout to leave early access for all organizations, and the item payment pages to gain the recovery and portal features the subscription checkout just received.

◆Recent moves

  1. 14d ago

    Active subscriptions can now be broken out by product and country

    Two new reports break active subscriptions out by country and by product, comparable across time periods. Straight reporting work, but along the dimensions a subscription business plans retention and expansion against.

  2. 19d ago

    Redesigned single-page hosted checkout enters early access

    The single-page checkout template was redesigned to show order summary, coupons and pricing together, and now supports portal sign-in, abandoned-cart recovery and saved checkout progress. In early access, and limited to organizations created before 24 July 2026.

  3. 21d ago

    Items get shareable hosted payment pages, in early access

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    Hosted payment pages for individual items give Zoho Billing a way to take money outside a subscription entirely — the clearest instance of the collection-surface expansion in this arc.

  4. 26d ago

    SKU field gains per-role read, write and hidden permissions

    Role-based permissions can now be set on an item's SKU field — read and write, read only, or hidden. Narrow, but the kind of field-level control that shows up once larger teams share the same catalog.

  5. 1mo ago

    Payment Method Summary report flags cards nearing expiry

    A Payment Method Summary report tracks saved payment methods by active, inactive and expiring status. Expiring-card visibility is the dunning-adjacent half of the reporting push described above.

  6. 1mo ago

    TDS rates and tax groups gain bulk import and export

    TDS rates and tax groups can be imported and exported in bulk, aimed at migrations and mass configuration updates. India-specific tax plumbing rather than a change of direction.