Campfire vs Zoho Books

Campfire is a cloud AI-native ERP for finance teams, available through web and API access. It combines a general ledger, revenue automation, reporting, and close management in one platform. Its AI categorizes transactions and supports continuous reconciliation and transaction review, while the Ember accounting assistant answers questions about company finances. Revenue Automation handles subscription, usage-based, milestone, and transaction models with ASC 606 compliant recognition. Campfire lists revenue recognition, deferred revenue, subscription metrics, multi-entity accounting, and close workflows. The service supports 180+ currencies and unlimited entities, with configurable policies, roles, approval workflows, and more than 1,200 granular permissions. Integrations span banking, payroll, revenue, tax, FP&A, CRM, and other categories, including Stripe, Rippling, and Salesforce. An API supports custom connections. Campfire says implementation and onboarding are included in every plan, with dedicated in-house support from accountants. Pricing is on request.

Zoho Books is an accounting service for invoices, bills, banking, inventory, expenses, projects, reporting, and online payments. It includes bank feeds, automated reconciliation, receipt capture, and accountant access, with dedicated iOS and Android apps. Inventory tools cover stock tracking, reorder alerts, warehouses, serial numbers, batch tracking, and bin locations. It supports foreign transactions with exchange rates applied in real time, and changes sync across devices with automatic cloud backup. Transactions use two-factor authentication and SSL encryption; Zoho Books does not store credit card information. The free plan includes one user and one accountant, allows five scheduled reports, and remains available indefinitely while annual revenue is at or below $50K. Standard costs $15 a month with annual billing. A 14-day free trial is available. Subscriptions are pay-as-you-go without a contract commitment and can be cancelled. Support hours are Monday to Friday, 9 am to 9 pm ET, with channels varying by plan.