Compared with invoicing apps
Invoicing apps and Arrowmics: keep Zoho, keep Tally.
Zoho Books, Vyapar, myBillBook, and Tally invoice well and keep the books. They do not know what a sheet of 25 by 36 at 130 GSM costs at 2,000 pieces with lamination. Arrowmics works that out and hands the invoice the same numbers.
These tools are good at GST invoicing, payments, WhatsApp sharing, and accounts, and many print businesses will keep one of them for the books. Nothing here suggests otherwise; the export exists for exactly that.
Side by side
The one thing that is different, row by row.
The middle column is what the tool does; the right column is a rule Arrowmics keeps, and the link is where it is kept.
- The price of a print job
- Invoicing appsTyped in. The estimate is worked out somewhere else first.
- ArrowmicsCalculated from your rate card: paper by the sheet, printing by the tier, finishes, margin, and a per-piece price for every quantity, worked out the same way every time and stored with the quotation.How we calculate
- Rates with a history
- Invoicing appsAn item price, edited in place.
- ArrowmicsDated, append-only prices on every paper, printing, and finish, so a quotation keeps the rates it was priced with.How prices work
- Quote to order to invoice
- Invoicing appsAn estimate converts to an invoice; the estimate itself was a typed number.
- ArrowmicsThe order copies the quoted per-piece price, the invoice opens with the ordered lines, and a change to the quotation reaches its orders until they are invoiced.The chain and its locks
- The GST invoice
- Invoicing appsDone well: CGST and SGST or IGST, HSN, e-invoicing above the turnover limit.
- ArrowmicsCGST and SGST or IGST from the two states, HSN per line, a rate-wise summary, round-off, and the amount in words, on a PDF and a share link. A correction is a credit note with a number of its own. No e-invoicing yet: export to the app you use for it.GST on invoices
- Getting paid
- Invoicing appsPayment links and reminders, in the app’s own way.
- ArrowmicsPart payments on every plan. On the paid plans, reminders at three steps past the due date, a morning digest, adjustments for TDS and write-offs, and a client statement PDF.Payments and reminders
- The books
- Invoicing appsLedgers, bank feeds, returns.
- ArrowmicsNone. Every list exports as CSV and the whole organization as one file, for the accounts app you already pay for.Exporting your data
- What it costs
- Invoicing appsZoho Books Standard ₹899 a month, Professional ₹1,499 a month, plus GST, for one organization; Vyapar from about ₹300 a month on a yearly desktop licence.
- ArrowmicsFree for one person; Team ₹2,499 a month plus GST, or $59 outside India, with 5 people included and ₹399 or $9 a month for each one more.
Sources
Where the facts about the other tools come from.
Prices and limits are what these pages said in the year noted. They change; the links are there so you can check.
- Zovett, “Zoho Books pricing India 2026”Read 2026
- ITforSME, Vyapar pricingRead 2026
- Swipe, the ₹5 crore e-invoicing thresholdRead 2026
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