How Zoho Inventory reports inventory turnover.
A short reference for the finance team reconciling the number on this calculator with the number Zoho Inventory returns. Report name, the menu path, the costing assumptions, and the one caveat that bites most often.
What this page is, and what it is not
This is not a buy/don’t-buy review of Zoho Inventory, and it is not a pricing comparison. Inventory turnover is a formula, not a software market: any general ledger that posts COGS and tracks inventory value can produce the ratio. This page exists for the moment a CFO runs our calculator on the trial balance, runs the Zoho Inventory report, and gets two different numbers. Below is why.
Where the turnover report lives
Zoho Inventory’s report is called Inventory Summary plus Sales by Item. The path is Reports > Inventory > Inventory Summary.
What the report counts as COGS
FIFO-costed sale lines from packaged-and-shipped orders.
What the report counts as inventory
Zoho Inventory uses the ending inventory basis by default. Our calculator defaults to average inventory (beginning plus ending, divided by two). If you want the two numbers to agree, set both to the same basis before reconciling. See average vs ending inventory for the trade-off.
How Zoho Inventory annualises
Manual. Inventory Summary returns ending value; pair with a Profit & Loss export from Zoho Books for the COGS numerator.
The one caveat that bites
Zoho Inventory and Zoho Books are separate products; turnover pulled from Inventory alone will miss landed-cost adjustments that only post in Books.
Reconciling the Zoho Inventory number with this calculator
- In Zoho Inventory, run Inventory Summary plus Sales by Item for the same window you used in our calculator (calendar year, fiscal year, or trailing twelve months).
- Set inventory basis to match: our calculator uses average by default; Zoho Inventory uses ending. Either change ours via the toggle, or pull the second balance point from Zoho Inventory and average it yourself.
- Confirm the COGS number matches your P&L. If Zoho Inventory is upstream of your GL (for example Cin7 or Fishbowl feeding QuickBooks), wait for the sync to clear before comparing.
- Apply the caveat above. For mixed-method costing or multi-entity roll-ups, the single-number turnover is rarely defensible without a per-segment breakdown.
Pricing context (for completeness, not the point)
Zoho Inventory publishes list pricing. Free for up to 50 orders/mo; Standard $39/mo, Professional $79/mo, Premium $159/mo, Enterprise $299/mo (annual billing). See the vendor page for current tiers. Recent change: Order volume caps tightened in 2026 plan refresh; Premium tier added late 2025 to bridge Professional and Enterprise.
Related
- Our methodology - what this calculator does, and the auditor-preferred defaults.
- Average vs ending inventory - the basis choice that determines whether your number and Zoho Inventory’s number agree.
- Vendor compare pages - head-to-heads framed around the turnover-reporting workflow.