In previous accounting software we've used, you can search items by any part of the name. I've noticed in Zoho you must type out the name exactly as written for it to appear as a choice. This is really difficult for companies with many sales items and services. In other software, the word you type will pull up any and all items with that word within the item name, even if it's not the first word. This would be a huge help for those invoicing all day long.

you can contact customer support and they will enable "contains search" feature for your organization. I was almost decided not to buy zoho due to this and tried asking them why it's not there and they enabled it for me. such a basic feature they still not giving by default! :(

finding items during billing is difficult due to poor search features... software like tally ignores -, space, etc and shows more results... please solve this search issues...we have more than 1200+ items to search and showing results based on any keyword from item name or description would be a great feature to have..

Its really difficult to find an item when creating a transaction.

When trying to reconcile many transactions (such as when you have imported a bank statement) you may have many transactions from or to the same place i.e. suppliers or customers.

A very simple, but vital requirement would be to just be able to search the transaction 'Description'. Currently, (using the advanced search) you can only search the 'Reference', but in the UK (for example) they do not provide a reference, only a description, therefore you have to manual go through each of the entries and locate the same ones which takes forever.

Strangely, using the search option at the top seems to search the description but only for categorised entries, even if this was updated to search uncategorised as well it would help enormously!

Seriously guys, this is such a basic feature!!! Please implement ASAP! What has happened since the request was made on June 1, 2015... more than 3 years later?

These needs to occur asap, and can you advise when this will be resolved?
I would have thought it would have been factored in from day 1

This is basic but essential feature
Our sales manager pushing not to move from Quickbooks because of this limitation!

this is important. it's also on a lot of other threads. this seems quite high on 140. ZOHO MODERATORS AND DEVELOPMENT / FEEDBACK PEOPLE should be trawling these forums to combine such things. I am tempted to start a campaign to bring the threads under one, but not really my job...!! :)

Just to let you guys know, this IS already possible.

Pls call up Zoho Support (locally wherever you are), and ask them to enable CONTAINS search feature in your organisation. I have gotten that done in India and it works great.

So basically, if I want to search for the item "Sony LED TV 55X7002E", I can type 7002 in the items text box and the filtering will be done considering the CONTAINS 7002 logic, so the desired item would be filtered and given as a selection option.

Here is one more I have found:
https://zohofinance.uservoice.com/forums/283818-zoho-books/suggestions/20221834-the-option-for-selecting-any-item-by-typing-a-word

Here is one more I have found:
https://zohofinance.uservoice.com/forums/283818-zoho-books/suggestions/20221834-the-option-for-selecting-any-item-by-typing-a-word

Here is one more I have found:
https://zohofinance.uservoice.com/forums/283818-zoho-books/suggestions/20221834-the-option-for-selecting-any-item-by-typing-a-word

There are similar feature requests due to which the votes are scattered. Can any moderator please merge these request so that the votes are in one unified place.

Below are the similar requests I have found:
https://zohofinance.uservoice.com/forums/283818-zoho-books/suggestions/15804373-better-query-capability-when-selecting-an-item-s

https://zohofinance.uservoice.com/forums/283818-zoho-books/suggestions/7250004-make-the-text-box-where-we-type-the-item-number

https://zohofinance.uservoice.com/forums/283818-zoho-books/suggestions/10084248-searchable-item-textbox

There are similar feature requests due to which the votes are scattered. Can any moderator please merge these request so that the votes are in one unified place.

Below are the similar requests I have found:
https://zohofinance.uservoice.com/forums/283818-zoho-books/suggestions/15804373-better-query-capability-when-selecting-an-item-s

https://zohofinance.uservoice.com/forums/283818-zoho-books/suggestions/7250004-make-the-text-box-where-we-type-the-item-number

https://zohofinance.uservoice.com/forums/283818-zoho-books/suggestions/10084248-searchable-item-textbox

There are similar feature requests due to which the votes are scattered. Can any moderator please merge these request so that the votes are in one unified place.

Below are the similar requests I have found:
https://zohofinance.uservoice.com/forums/283818-zoho-books/suggestions/15804373-better-query-capability-when-selecting-an-item-s

https://zohofinance.uservoice.com/forums/283818-zoho-books/suggestions/7250004-make-the-text-box-where-we-type-the-item-number

https://zohofinance.uservoice.com/forums/283818-zoho-books/suggestions/10084248-searchable-item-textbox

It seem like Zoho doesn't really care to spend time developing these operation critical "fixes" as it has been 2 + years sicne it was first mentioned and I am not sure if I want to jump in the Zoho boat anymore....

This is critical functionality for us - makes finding products a challenge when creating an invoice

agree with all, in our case from this problem depends our choose to use or not the product with so many goods to manage

Absolutely! There is another thread about searching for transactions via description - cannot do this - an absolute weakness that seems easy to fix!