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Exporting Expenses from Pemo to Zohobooks

Updated over a week ago

Once your Pemo–Zoho Books integration is connected, you can push expenses into Zoho with one click. Pemo sends full detail, including receipts, VAT, and exchange rate, so reconciliation stays simple.

This guide covers:

  • Purchase transactions without fees

  • Purchase transactions with fees

1. What’s required for export

One-time setup:

In Zoho:

  • Set default Payment Account = Pemo Wallet in accounting settings.

  • Enable VAT and confirm your tax codes.

  • Create vendors (e.g. Slack) so Pemo vendors map cleanly.

In Pemo:

  • To export a card transaction expense, make sure you’ve added:

    • A Chart of Account

    • A Vendor / Contact

    Without these, the expense will remain incomplete in your export to-do list.)

2. How to export purchase transactions without fees

Steps to export:

  1. Go to Accounting Export → Transactions in Pemo.

  2. Select the expenses you want to export, mark it as ready.

  3. Click Export

Where it appears in Zoho:

  • Under Expenses, or

  • Under Banking → Paid Through (Pemo Wallet).

What Pemo sends:

  • Amount, currency, and exchange rate

  • Date = authorization date of the transaction

  • Paid Through = Pemo Wallet

  • Vendor

  • Memo → appears as Notes in Zoho

  • Reference ID

  • VAT / tax code (based on your settings)

  • Customer / Project / Tags / Custom fields, when set in Pemo

Zoho then applies its own VAT and reporting logic using the tax codes you’ve configured.

3. How to export purchase transactions with fees

When there are transaction or processing fees, Pemo exports them as separate expenses in Zoho.

Before exporting:

  • Make sure Fee Settings in Pemo are correctly configured:

    • Fee account

    • Fee vendor

    • Fee VAT

Steps to export:

  1. From Accounting Export → Transactions, select the fee-bearing transactions.

  2. Mark as ready and click Export.

How it works:

  • Pemo exports:

    • 1 expense for the main purchase, and

    • 1 additional expense for the fee.

Fee expense details:

  • Reference = main reference + -fees

  • Vendor, account, VAT → taken from Fee Settings

  • Amount in local currency (AED/SAR)

  • Paid Through = Pemo Wallet

Reconciliation tips:

  • Use the Reference ID to find the same record in both Pemo and Zoho.

  • Make sure the Pemo Wallet balance in Pemo matches Zoho’s Paid Through balance.

  • Open receipts directly from Zoho and confirm they’re properly attached after export.

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