FundZola · a product by EdZola

Money in, money out. Every rupee traceable to a donor and a grant.

FundZola streamlines nonprofit finance, from the donation that arrives to the utilisation report that goes back to the funder. It takes the shape your organisation needs.

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Money inDonations, grants, CSRKetto, Milaap, Razorpay, bank transfers, your own sheets

FundZolaChecked, tagged and approvedPAN and duplicate checks · 80G and FCRA · grant and programme tags · approvals

Money outProgramme spend and vendorsRequests, bills and payments, each against a grant

Accounted forFund utilisation, ready to sendActual against approved budget, per donor and grant

Sound familiar?

The money is tracked. The trail between donor and spend isn’t.

Most finance teams we meet keep good books. What breaks is everything around them: the imports, receipts, tags and reports that get rebuilt by hand every month.

01Donations arrive from five places.
Each platform exports a different file, and someone retypes them into the books.
02Receipts wait for a free afternoon.
80G receipts and FCRA tagging are done in batches, by hand, with names checked against PAN one by one.
03Nobody can say which grant paid for what.
Expenses are recorded, but not against the grant and programme head a funder will ask about.
04Every utilisation report is a project.
Actuals are pulled into spreadsheets and matched to budgets again each quarter.

What FundZola does

One job, whatever shape it takes.

The same money-in, money-out flow sits at the core of every FundZola. A person approves before anything is written to the books.

Money in

Every donation, recorded once and receipted.

Import donation files from Ketto, Milaap, Razorpay, BillDesk or your own sheets
Duplicate, name and PAN checks before anything is saved
FCRA and local funds separated automatically
Serialised 80G receipts, emailed in bulk
Gateway settlements reconciled, with fees and GST netted out

Money out

Every expense, tied to the grant that paid for it.

Spend requests and approvals with a clear owner
Expenses tagged to grant, programme head and cost centre
Admin overhead checked against each funder’s ceiling
Vendor bills and payments with their supporting records

Accounted for

Every report, built from the same records.

Fund utilisation per donor and grant, actual against approved budget
Programme-head breakdowns for boards and funders
Plain-English questions about your finance data
A full audit trail behind every number

Three shapes

Built where your finance work already lives.

Not every organisation needs the same thing. FundZola can sit on top of your existing books, run as a finance app on Zoho Creator, or be built as a custom application. We help you choose on the first call.

Shape 01

On Zoho Books

For teams already keeping their accounts in Zoho Books.

FundZola connects to your Books account and adds what nonprofit finance needs on top: donation imports, 80G receipts, FCRA tagging, grant-wise expense tagging, utilisation reports and plain-English questions. Your data stays in Books.

Best when: Books is already your system of record and the gaps are around it.

Shape 02

As a Zoho Creator app

For organisations whose finance work is mostly grants, approvals and budgets.

A finance management app built on Zoho Creator around your grants: budgets by programme head, spend requests and approvals, fund allocation and utilisation. It can connect to Zoho Books for the ledger.

Best when: Approvals and grant budgets are the hard part, and the workflow needs to fit how your programmes run.

Shape 03

As a custom finance app

For when Zoho isn’t the right home.

A custom finance application built around your processes and the systems you already run, including on open-source stacks you can host yourself.

Best when: You need it outside Zoho, self-hosted, or tightly connected to tools you can’t replace.

How the three shapes compare
	On Zoho Books	Zoho Creator app	Custom app
Your ledger	Zoho Books	Zoho Books, connected	Your choice
Approvals and budgets	Books’ own, plus grant tagging	Built around your grants	Built around your process
Where it runs	Zoho	Zoho	Cloud or self-hosted
A good first step	Import one month of donations	Map one grant from budget to utilisation	Map your money flow end to end

How it behaves

AI prepares. Your finance team decides.

Finance is where a confident wrong answer does the most damage. FundZola is built so nothing reaches the books, a donor or a funder without a person checking it.

Nothing posts on its ownEvery import, tag and receipt batch waits for review.
Your data stays where it isIn your Zoho account or on your own servers.
Policy comes from your advisers80G, FCRA and CSR rules reflect what your finance and legal advisers set.
Traceable by defaultEvery number links back to the record it came from.

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Bring one month of donations, or one grant report.

We’ll show you what FundZola would do with it, and which shape fits how your finance team works.

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