ERP & Business Apps
Zoho Inventory for UAE Traders
Part of Zoho Partner in Dubai
For a UAE trading business the question is rarely whether the stock count is right. It is whether the cost attached to that stock is right — because almost everything is imported, and freight, duty and clearing are what separate a real margin from a reported one.
Landed costs, which is where reported margin goes wrong
An item bought at one price arrives having cost considerably more once sea or air freight, customs duty, clearing and inland delivery are counted. A business recording only the supplier invoice carries stock below its true cost and reports a margin it does not have.
Allocating those charges across a shipment — by value, weight or volume, whichever fits the cost — puts the real number on the item. It changes pricing decisions, and it reveals which products are barely worth selling.
Freight allocation
Sea, air and courier charges spread across the shipment on a basis that matches the cost.
Duty and clearing
Customs duty and agent charges inside item cost rather than expensed separately.
Per-shipment view
What a consignment actually cost to land, against what was quoted.
Margin by product
Real margin after landed cost, which is frequently not the margin people assumed.
Warehouses across free zone and mainland
Many UAE traders hold stock in more than one place and often in more than one customs position — goods in a designated zone are not in the same position as goods on the mainland, and moving between them is a transaction rather than a shuffle.
Recording those movements as movements keeps the stock position honest and the VAT treatment defensible, which is the part that matters when the position is examined rather than merely reported.
Selling channels, and stock that agrees to the accounts
Where stock sells through a shop, a website and a sales team at once, the failure is overselling the same unit twice. One stock record behind every channel is the only reliable fix — nightly synchronisation between two systems is not.
The other half is accounting. Stock value in the warehouse and stock value in the ledger should be the same number without a monthly reconciliation, and with Zoho Books alongside it they are.
Single stock record
One quantity behind every channel, so the same unit cannot be sold twice.
Books integration
Warehouse value and ledger value the same number, without reconciliation.
Batch and expiry
Traceability enabled before go-live rather than retrofitted after a recall question.
Reorder levels
Set against real lead times, which for imported stock are longer than people plan for.
What’s included
- Landed cost allocation on imports
- Multi-warehouse including free zone sites
- Batch, serial and expiry tracking
- Reorder levels against real lead times
- Multi-channel stock control
- Zoho Books integration
- Purchase and sales order workflow
- Stock valuation reporting
Platforms we support
How we deliver
- 01
Discover
We map your current setup, constraints and priorities before proposing anything.
- 02
Architect
A written design with fixed deliverables, so scope is agreed before work starts.
- 03
Implement
Phased rollout with rollback points — production is never left in an unknown state.
- 04
Support
A named engineer, agreed response times and a handover your team can actually run.
Common questions
Other Zoho Solutions
Zoho Desk
Customer support ticketing for UAE teams — WhatsApp and email in one queue, with SLAs you can evidence.
See more →Zoho Books
VAT-ready accounting for UAE businesses — TRN, tax treatments, reverse charge and FTA return preparation.
See more →Zoho CRM
Sales pipeline, quoting and follow-up for UAE teams — built around a long, multi-contact GCC sales cycle.
See more →