Zoho Procurement Premium
USD35
list price
- Licence: Per user per month, billed annually
Zoho, Microsoft and Google partner · serving the Middle East since 2007
Zoho Authorized Partner · E-procurement
We design your purchasing rules once (who requests, who approves at which amount, which suppliers may bid) and build them into Zoho, from the first request to the matched bill.
Zoho Authorized Partnerwith offices in Dubai, Muscat (head office) and Doha.
Since 2007with 1,500+ active cloud customers across the Middle East.
A large team of Zoho-certified engineerspart of a wider team certified across Google, Microsoft, cloud and security.
Finance and purchasing togetherwe also deploy Zoho Books, so approvals, bills and accounts are designed as one process.
Zoho e-procurement means running purchasing in Zoho: Zoho Procurement for the full source-to-pay cycle (requests, RFQs, supplier portal, purchase orders, receipts and invoice matching), or the purchasing features of Zoho Books for lighter needs. Gulf Infotech, a Zoho Authorized Partner serving businesses across the Middle East since 2007, architects and deploys both.
Both are Zoho, and both handle purchase orders and approvals. The difference is how far upstream you go.
Zoho Books covers the finance end: purchase orders sent to suppliers, approvals on orders, receipts, bills and payments, then conversion of an order into a bill. For a single company with a known supplier list and no tenders, that is often enough.
Zoho Procurement starts earlier and goes wider: staff raise requests from a catalogue, requests climb an approval chain against a budget, buyers run RFQs and compare bids, suppliers onboard themselves and follow their orders and payments in a portal, and invoices are matched to orders and goods receipts before payment.
Takeaway: if your pain is "who approved this bill?", start with Zoho Books. If it is "why did we buy from this supplier, at this price?", you need Zoho Procurement.
employees request ad hoc or catalogue items through a self-service portal; each user licence includes 50 requester licences.
simple, hierarchical, multi-level or custom approval chains, matched to your delegation of authority, with budgets checked in real time.
RFQs and RFx events, bid comparison and scoring, and award to the chosen supplier. We set up the comparison so buyers see the L1, L2 and L3 bids (lowest, second and third) before the award.
suppliers are invited by email, upload their details and documents, bid on RFQs, see their purchase orders and track invoice payments.
orders generated from approved requests and RFQs, blanket orders for recurring buys, goods receipts including partial deliveries.
an invoice inbox with AI extraction, and 2-way or 3-way matching against orders and receipts before payment.
a contract repository with renewal alerts, spend analytics and budget-versus-actual reports.
Zoho list prices as of October 2026 · exclude VAT (Oman and UAE 5%, Saudi Arabia 15%, Bahrain 10%, Qatar and Kuwait none). Each Zoho Procurement user licence includes 50 requester licences, so staff who only raise requests do not need a full licence. Enterprise adds 3-way matching, custom approval workflows, advanced audit trails, single sign-on and custom ERP integrations. Zoho offers a 14-day free trial.
USD35
list price
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Licences are one part of the cost. Deployment and configuration, migration of supplier and item data, training and support are separate, paid components that we scope and quote with you.
A deployment runs in six steps: a process review, design (Zoho Procurement, Zoho Books or both), supplier and item data, configuration and testing on real examples, training for requesters, approvers, buyers and finance, then go-live with one department first. Durations are indicative estimates that depend on entities, approvers, supplier data and how quickly decisions are made.
Not sure which route fits? We recommend one after a process review.
It covers the purchasing cycle from request to payment. In Zoho Procurement: purchase requests, approvals against budgets, RFQs and bid comparison, a supplier self-service portal, purchase orders, goods receipts, invoice matching, contracts and spend analytics. In Zoho Books: purchase orders, approvals, receipts, bills and payments. We recommend one or both after reviewing how your company buys today.
Zoho Books has its own purchasing features: purchase orders, approvals on orders, receipts, bills and payments, and converting an order into a bill. Many smaller companies need nothing more. Zoho Procurement is a separate Zoho product with its own payables. Where you run both, we design which system holds suppliers, orders and bills.
It depends on how many entities, approval levels, budgets and suppliers you have, and how clean your supplier and item data is. A single company with a clear delegation of authority is a short project; a group with several entities and RFQ rules takes longer. We agree the plan after the process review and usually start with one department.
Tell us how purchasing works today and who signs off, and we will recommend the Zoho setup that gives you control.