Loading…Loading…Loading…Zoho Books is well-built SME bookkeeping software. Sevastack is built for Indian non-profits, where the accounts have to satisfy an auditor, a funder and the Income Tax Department.
Zoho Books is strong at what it was designed for: invoicing, GST and bookkeeping for a small business. An NGO needs something different — corpus, restricted and FCRA funds tracked separately, 80G receipts with your URN and the donor's PAN, Form 10BD and 10BE compiled from the donation records, and the Receipts & Payments and Income & Expenditure statements Indian auditors expect. None of that is business accounting, and none of it is Zoho Books's job. Sevastack does fund accounting and the statutory filings in one system, alongside a donor CRM and a branded donation page. If your organisation also runs GST-registered commercial activity, keeping Zoho Books for that side while Sevastack runs the non-profit is a reasonable split.
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True fund accounting (corpus, FCRA, restricted)
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Auto 80G receipts (URN, PAN, QR)
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Form 10BD / 10BE automation
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FCRA compliance tracking
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Receipts & Payments Account
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Income & Expenditure Account
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Balance Sheet (fund-wise)
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Donor CRM with PAN validation
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Branded donation page (UPI/Razorpay)
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GST invoicing / business bookkeeping
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Read-only CA portal
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Free forever plan for NGOs
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Comparison based on publicly available information as of 3 Jul 2026. Zoho Books's features and pricing may have changed since — verify directly with them before deciding. Sevastack details reflect the current product.
Zoho Books is general-purpose business accounting software with a non-profit configuration. Sevastack is built specifically for Indian NGOs: it does true fund accounting, auto-generates 80G receipts and Form 10BD/10BE, tracks FCRA compliance, and produces the statutory statements (Receipts & Payments, Income & Expenditure, Balance Sheet) auditors and the Income Tax Department expect — features a general accounting tool does not provide out of the box.
Zoho Books is business accounting software and does not generate Indian 80G donation receipts or Form 10BD/10BE statements natively. Sevastack automates both — 80G receipts are issued on every donation, and Form 10BD/10BE are compiled from your donation data each financial year.
For NGOs that need fund accounting plus 80G, Form 10BD/10BE, FCRA, and donor management in one place, Sevastack is a purpose-built alternative. NGOs that primarily need GST invoicing and general business bookkeeping may still prefer a business accounting tool, or use both.
No. Sevastack gives your chartered accountant a read-only portal with audit-ready statements and sign-ready PDF exports, so your CA works faster with cleaner data — it complements your accountant rather than replacing them.
Yes. Sevastack supports bulk CSV import for donors and donation history, with automatic PAN validation and duplicate detection. Most NGOs complete migration in under an hour.
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