Piggles or Zoho One: more than forty apps, or sixteen that fit together?
Zoho One is one of the broadest suites a small business can buy, with real accounting, payroll in some countries and an app for almost every department. Piggles is smaller on purpose: sixteen apps that share one customer, one catalog and one screen. Here is which one suits you.
- Free for 14 days
- No card needed
- All sixteen apps included
Where Zoho One is the better choice
Zoho One is a suite of more than forty business apps under one sign-in. These are the things it does better than Piggles, said plainly, because the right answer for your business matters more than this page.
Real accounting
Zoho One includes Zoho Books, a full accounting app. Piggles Money is light bookkeeping: profit and loss, spending, bills and money owed. It is not a full ledger, so your accountant still needs their own tool.
HR and payroll
Zoho One includes HR, recruiting and, in some countries, payroll. Piggles records hours and hands them to whoever runs your payroll.
Sheer breadth
Projects, a help desk, team chat, company email, file storage and more. If a department exists, Zoho probably has an app for it.
Zoho One gives every department its own app. Piggles gives a small business one place where every app already knows the customer.
Where Piggles fits better
Built for an owner and a small team
More than forty apps is a lot of setup for a florist. Piggles arrives set up from two questions at signup, and each app opens on real screens rather than a configuration project.
One record, not one per app
In Piggles a customer’s orders, bookings, invoices, emails and requests are on one record, because they are one product. Across a suite of separate apps, that joining up is something you set up.
A price that does not count every employee
Zoho One is priced per employee, and you license every employee. Piggles includes three team members in one flat price; add a person only when they need to sign in.
A website and shop that feel like one thing
The site, the checkout, the stock and the customer list are the same product, so a sale on the site is already in Stock, Customers and Money.
Piggles and Zoho One, one need at a time
What each one offers for the things a small business looks for, read from Zoho One’s own website on September 30, 2026. Where we could not confirm a feature on their site, the table says so rather than guessing.
| What you need | Piggles | Zoho One |
|---|---|---|
| A website | Built in Finished sections you arrange, on your own domain. | Built in Zoho Sites. |
| An online shop | Built in Products, services, checkout and trade accounts. | Built in Zoho Commerce. |
| Selling in person | Partly A counter sale is recorded as an order. There is no card reader or till app. | Not confirmed Not found on the Zoho One page. |
| Appointments | Built in Services, staff calendars, email reminders and booking online. | Built in Zoho Bookings. |
| Quotes and invoices | Built in Quotes that become jobs, then invoices, with a payment link. | Built in Zoho Invoice and Zoho Books. |
| A customer list | Built in One record per customer with orders, bookings and messages. | Built in Zoho CRM and Bigin. |
| Customer requests | Built in Requests with an owner and a time to answer by. | Built in Zoho Desk. |
| Email to your customers | Built in Emails to a list, from your own address. | Built in Zoho Campaigns. |
| Text messages | No Piggles does not send text messages. | Not confirmed Not found on the Zoho One page. |
| Posting to social media | Built in Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Google, TikTok, YouTube and Threads. | Built in Zoho Social. |
| Stock in more than one place | Built in Counts per location, reorder points and transfers. One location included. | Built in Zoho Inventory. |
| Ordering from suppliers | Built in Write, approve, print and receive orders, with supplier prices and scorecards. | Built in Zoho Inventory. |
| Staff hours and shifts | Built in Clock in and out, timesheets, a published schedule and time off. | Built in Zoho People. |
| Payroll | No Approved hours download as a file for whoever runs your payroll. | Partly Zoho Payroll, in some countries only. |
| Automations | Built in Routine steps that run on their own when something happens. | Not confirmed Not confirmed on the Zoho One page. |
| An AI assistant | Partly Bring your own Anthropic or OpenAI account, or connect Claude or ChatGPT. | Not confirmed Not confirmed on the Zoho One page. |
| Bookkeeping and accounts | Partly Profit and loss, spending, bills and money owed, with a spreadsheet for your accountant. No ledger, bank matching or tax returns. | Built in Zoho Books. |
How each bill is put together
No Zoho One prices here: they are theirs to publish and they change. This is the shape of each bill, which decides what happens to it as your business grows.
Piggles
- One plan, $99 a month, with every app included.
- Three team members, one location, one website and 10,000 customer records included.
- More room costs a fixed amount: another location, another person, more storage.
- No fee on your sales. Your payment company charges its own card fee.
- Fourteen days free, with no card needed to start.
Zoho One
- Priced per employee.
- You license every employee in the business, not only the ones who sign in.
- Payroll is included only in some countries.
- Each app is set up separately, even though they share one sign-in.
Moving from Zoho One
Move in has no Zoho-specific reader, so this is the spreadsheet route. Export customers, products or orders from each Zoho app as a spreadsheet and drop it into “Move in from somewhere else”. Piggles guesses what each column means, lets you correct it, and counts the rows that will import before anything is written.
How moving to Piggles worksWhat comes across
- Customers and companies, from a spreadsheet
- Products and stock counts, from a spreadsheet
- Past orders, from a spreadsheet
What stays behind
- Your accounting: keep Zoho Books or move to another accounting tool with your accountant
- Payroll and HR records: Piggles does not keep them
- Anything in Projects, Desk or the other apps you do not export
So which one?
Choose Zoho One if
- You want accounting, payroll and HR from the same company as everything else.
- You have several departments, each needing its own specialist app.
- You have someone with time to set up and join together many apps.
Choose Piggles if
- You are a small business and want to be working the same day, not configuring.
- You want every app to share one customer record without setting that up.
- You would rather not pay for every employee, only for the people who sign in.
- You already have an accountant with their own software.
Questions about Piggles and Zoho One
Where these facts come from
Everything this page says about Zoho One was read from Zoho One’s own website and help pages on September 30, 2026. Products change; if something here is out of date, tell us and we will check it again.
Try Piggles beside Zoho One for fourteen days, for free.
No card needed. Nothing to cancel if you decide not to carry on.
