If you are choosing a CA dashboard for a small Indian practice in 2026, the cheapest published price belongs to Jamku: ₹6,500 per year, flat, for a team of up to five users (Jamku pricing). Zoho Practice starts at ₹2,950 per organisation per month billed annually for the same five-user ceiling, and is free for Zoho Finance partners (Zoho Practice pricing). CADashboard, the older name here, publishes no price.
Verdict: Jamku wins on published price for firms up to five users. Zoho Practice wins if you are already a Zoho Finance partner, because the licence cost drops to zero. Turia wins if you want per-user pricing you can forecast, starting at ₹100 per user per month on a five-user minimum (Turia comparison). CADashboard remains a credible task and document register for larger firms with Tally in the stack, but you cannot compare it on price without asking for a quote.
TL;DR
- Jamku Startup: ₹6,500/year flat for 5 users; Growing ₹1,300/user/year to 30 users (Jamku).
- Zoho Standard: ₹2,950/org/month annually (Premium ₹8,950); extra users ₹400/user/month (Zoho).
- Zoho is free for Zoho Finance partners — a different decision entirely for existing Zoho firms (Zoho).
- Turia: ₹100-₹200/user/month, or flat annual tiers from ₹6,999/year (Turia).
- CADashboard's pricing page is a quote form; third-party listings disagree.
- Prices last checked 23 September 2026; vendors change them without notice.
What is a CA dashboard, and why does the category exist?
A CA dashboard is a single screen that holds an Indian practice together: the client master, statutory GST, TDS and income-tax deadlines, task assignment across articles and staff, document collection, and billing against time recorded. Without one, most firms run on a shared spreadsheet, a WhatsApp group per client, and one partner's memory.
The demand is not small. The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India describes itself as the largest professional accountancy body in the world, with over 15 lakh members and students (ICAI). That base sustains a dozen serious practice-management products, most built in India for Indian compliance cycles. If your interest is the bookkeeping layer underneath, the QuickBooks vs Xero comparison covers that separately.
Why does Jamku win on price for a five-person firm?
Because it charges a flat annual fee instead of a per-seat one at the bottom of its range. Jamku's Startup plan is ₹6,500 per year for teams up to five users. Above that, the Growing plan is ₹1,300 per user per year up to 30 users, and Enterprise is ₹1,500 per user per year beyond 30 (Jamku pricing). Jamku states it has worked with CA practices since 2013 and has served more than 1,700 firms (same source).
The tradeoff: a flat ₹6,500 is excellent at five users and unremarkable at 40, where you pay per seat like everyone else. Jamku is also a focused practice tool, not a suite — ledger, CRM and email do not live in the same account.
When is Zoho Practice the better choice?
When you are already inside Zoho. Zoho Practice is free for Zoho Finance partners, with Authorized and Advanced partners getting Standard features and Premium partners getting Premium features (Zoho Practice pricing). For a firm that already advises clients on Zoho Books, that is a licence cost of nothing and a shared login with the client's ledger.
Priced normally, Standard is ₹2,950 per org/month billed annually (₹3,540 monthly) and Premium ₹8,950 (₹10,740 monthly), both for five users, with extra users at ₹400 per user/month (Zoho Practice pricing). Standard covers tasks, timesheets, billing, workpapers and WhatsApp; Premium adds a client self-service portal and up to ten custom modules. A 14-day trial is available.
So this is not ₹6,500 against ₹2,950 — it is one annual figure against a monthly one, and the Zoho annual commitment is the larger by a wide margin unless partner status zeroes it out.
Why can you not compare CADashboard on price?
Because CADashboard does not publish one. Its site markets task and document management, a client portal and a mobile app, and it has served Indian CA firms for over a decade with Tally integration — but the pricing page is a quote-request form.
Third-party listings fill the gap inconsistently. Techjockey lists an SME Silver plan at ₹15,000 per year (Techjockey listing). A competitor's comparison page lists Silver at ₹40,000 per year for 10 users, Gold at ₹70,000 for 20 users and Platinum at ₹150,000 for 50 users (Turia comparison page). Those two accounts cannot both be current; treat any CADashboard figure online as unverified until the vendor quotes you, and ask what year-two renewal looks like.
What does Turia add that the others do not?
Turia publishes ₹100 per user per month for Starter and ₹200 per user per month for Growth, both with a five-user minimum, alongside flat annual tiers from ₹6,999 per year for up to five users to ₹34,999 per year for up to 60 (Turia).
Its differentiators are WhatsApp-to-task automation, an encrypted role-based password vault, compliance sync with GST, TDS and income-tax portals, and unified notice management spanning GST, income tax and TRACES. The vault matters more than it sounds: credential sprawl is a real liability for practices, as our piece on digital signature misuse covers.
Newer India-built entrants are worth a shortlist look without being obvious picks yet: CAtrak pitches WhatsApp reminders with data hosted in a Mumbai region (CAtrak), Hidesc markets GST and ITR trackers (Hidesc), and ClarityCA focuses on GST, bank and TDS reconciliation in one view (ClarityCA).
How should a firm actually run this decision?
- Count real seats, including articles and part-timers — every price break sits at five users.
- Check Zoho partner status first; if you qualify, Zoho is free and the rest is a features comparison, not cost.
- Trial one compliance cycle — Zoho offers 14 days; ask the others for the same and load ten real clients, not test data.
- Get CADashboard's quote in writing, year-two renewal included — no public number exists to check it against.
Automation on top of the dashboard is a separate decision and can wait until the core register is stable; our guides to AI accounting tools, AI meeting assistants and the 2026 UPI rules for AI agents cover that layer. That shortlist discipline matters: we priced 656 keywords in the AI and developer-tooling space using DataForSEO volume and difficulty data and only 72 cleared a winnable bar of 150-6,000 monthly searches, difficulty 20 or below, a genuine technical term, and at least three words (n=656, measured 2026-09-21).
FAQ
Q: What is a CA dashboard?
A: A single-screen cockpit for an Indian CA practice: client master, GST, TDS and ITR deadlines, task allocation, document collection and billing.
Q: Is Zoho Practice free?
A: For Zoho Finance partners, yes. Otherwise ₹2,950 per org/month billed annually, up to five users (Zoho).
Q: How much does CADashboard cost?
A: It publishes none; the site is a quote form. Listings conflict: ₹15,000/year SME Silver on Techjockey vs ₹40,000/year Silver for 10 users (Turia).
Q: Which CA dashboard is cheapest?
A: Jamku Startup: ₹6,500/year flat, up to five users (Jamku).
Q: Does a CA dashboard replace Tally or Zoho Books?
A: No. It manages work, deadlines and documents; your ledger stays in Tally or Zoho Books, which is why those integrations matter.
Q: When were these prices last checked?
A: 23 September 2026, against each vendor's own pricing page. Annual plans lock you in for a year, so confirm before committing.
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