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Zoho Books
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At a Glance
Overview
TaxCycle is a Canadian desktop tax-preparation suite for accountants, bookkeepers and tax professionals that covers personal (T1/TP1), corporate (T2/CO-17), trust (T3/TP-646), partnership (T5013/TP-600) returns and many slip types, plus document management (DoxCycle), a client portal/e-signatures... Learn more
Capabilities
- AI Enabled
- API Available
- Open Source
- CLI Available
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Capabilities
- AI Enabled
- API Available
- Open Source
- CLI Available
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Pricing
Free trial available
Free plan available
Billing type
Recurring Subscription
Québec TP1 add-on 2025 (site license)
$185.00
/ year
Data Mining site license 2025
$225.00
/ year
DoxCycle add-on 2025 (single user)
$260.00
/ year
TaxFolder add-on 2025 (single user)
$349.00
/ year
T1 module 2025 (single user)
$575.00
/ year
T2 module 2025 (single user)
$1025.00
/ year
Tax Basics (single user) 2025
$1488.00
/ year
Paperless Office (single user) 2025
$1775.00
/ year
Complete Tax Suite (single user) 2025
$2455.00
/ year
Complete Tax Suite + TaxFolder (single user) 2025
$2554.00
/ year
Other modules (examples) 2025
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Free trial available
Free plan available
Billing type
Recurring Subscription
Free
$0.00
/ month
Standard
$12.00
/ month
Professional
$24.00
/ month
Premiume
$36.00
/ month
Elite
$129.00
/ year
Pros and Cons
- Comprehensive coverage of Canadian taxes including personal, corporate, trusts and Québec forms.
- Strong document management and slips handling (DoxCycle, SlipSync).
- Multiple integrations (Xero, QuickBooks, Sage, Google, Microsoft, etc.).
- Powerful template editor and customization tools.
- Desktop solution with client manager options for single and multi-user offices.
- Primarily desktop-based (Windows); not a full cloud SaaS for core tax preparation.
- Windows dependency may be limiting for Mac-native firms unless using virtual environments.
- Pricing is per calendar-year license and can be costly for multiple users or many add-ons.
- Full bilingual coverage of all UI/documentation not fully verified.
- Zoho Books has one of the lowest startup costs on this list
- It offers multiple payment gateways
- There are a lot of customer support options
- It could be complicated for a small business owner
- The time-tracking feature needs to be tied to a project to work
Reviewer's Segments
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Small Business
50.0%
Mid Market
37.5%
Enterprise
12.5%
Deployment
- Cloud based
- Desktop based
- Mobile based
- On-premise
- Cloud based
- Desktop based
- Mobile based
- On-premise
Support
- Email/Help Desk
- Knowledge Base
- Phone Support
- Email/Help Desk
- Knowledge Base
- Phone Support
Training
- Documentation
- Videos
- Webinars
- Documentation
- Videos
- Webinars
Integrations
Total integrations:
2
- Bigin by Zoho CRM
- Brex
- CloudTalk
- DocuSign
- Dropbox Business
- Google Workspace
- Iridium Sales And Pos
- Melio
- Microsoft 365
- OneDrive
- PayPal Payments Pro
- QuickBooks Time
- Revolut Business
- Ring Central
- Shift4Shop
- Square Online
- Stripe
- SysTools IMAP Migration Tool
- Tax1099
- Wise
- Xero
- XeroHosts
- Zoho Cliq
- Zoho Expense
- Zoho Finance Plus
- Zoho Flow
- Zoho Inventory
- Zoho Invoice
- Zoho People
- Zoho Sign
- Zoho Subscriptions
Total integrations:
29
- Bigin by Zoho CRM
- Brex
- CloudTalk
- DocuSign
- Dropbox Business
- Google Workspace
- Iridium Sales And Pos
- Melio
- Microsoft 365
- OneDrive
- PayPal Payments Pro
- QuickBooks Time
- Revolut Business
- Ring Central
- Shift4Shop
- Square Online
- Stripe
- SysTools IMAP Migration Tool
- Tax1099
- Wise
- Xero
- XeroHosts
- Zoho Cliq
- Zoho Expense
- Zoho Finance Plus
- Zoho Flow
- Zoho Inventory
- Zoho Invoice
- Zoho People
- Zoho Sign
- Zoho Subscriptions
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Categories
Common categories include: Accounting Software.
Company Details
- By Xero Software (Canada) Ltd. (TaxCycle brand; originally Trilogy Software Inc.)
- Located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Founded in 2010
- By Zoho Corporation
- Located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu
- Founded in 2000