The Service
Zoho Spend facilitates businesses to streamline and manage their business spending, specifically in connection with three spend management areas, namely the: (i) employee travel and expense management; (ii) procurement and supplier-related payments; and (iii) payroll processing and the associated financial outflows.
Accessing Zoho Spend
Zoho Spend is a part of Zoho's suite of online collaboration, business, and productivity applications. You will be able to access Zoho Spend by using your common account for all Zoho Services (hereinafter "Zoho Account").
Accessing other Zoho Services
Many Zoho Services are integrated with Zoho Spend. Your Zoho Account will also allow you to access all Zoho Services even if such Zoho Services are not integrated with Zoho Spend. Use of some of these Zoho Services may require acceptance of terms of service specific to such Zoho Services (hereinafter "Service Specific Terms"). You must read, understand, and accept the Service Specific Terms before using the corresponding Zoho Service.
Human Data Verification
To ensure the accuracy of the data extracted from receipts that you submit using Zoho Spend, your receipts may be subjected to automated and/or human verification. The human verification is carried out by our personnel in India who are subject to strict background verification as well as confidentiality obligations to keep your data safe and secure.
Customer Responsibility for Payroll Compliance
If Zoho Spend offered in your country includes a payroll module, you understand and acknowledge that only the software product and no payroll services are offered to you and that: (i) you have the responsibility of uploading documents and providing information necessary for payroll calculations and processing, including relevant information and forms that were created prior to your use of Zoho Spend payroll module for your organization; (ii) you have the responsibility of ensuring that such documents and information provided are accurate, complete and reliable; and (iii) you have the responsibility of ensuring compliance with applicable employment laws, such as minimum wage, overtime, pay frequency, and the classification of workers.
You acknowledge and agree that (i) any information or materials provided, directly or indirectly, through the payroll module must not be construed as a legal, tax, accounting, or other professional advice; and (ii) your use of the Zoho Spend payroll module does not relieve you of any payroll, tax, reporting, or other compliance obligations under applicable laws and regulations.
Usage Limits for Zoho Spend
Zoho may prescribe usage limits based on the subscription plan chosen by you. You must make sure that your usage is within the usage limits prescribed by Zoho in order to avail uninterrupted service. You understand that Zoho may restrict an activity if you reach the usage limit corresponding to such activity.
Terms of Use for API
Integration of Zoho Spend with Third Party Applications using APIs provided by Zoho requires technical skill. You understand that errors or defects in the integration may cause loss and corruption of data. You must make sure that you use the services of technically skilled persons for the integration. You agree that Zoho is not liable for any loss and corruption of data caused due to errors or defects in the integration.
You must not try to access any functionality that is not exposed in the documentation for the API. You understand and agree that Zoho will not be liable for the consequences of accessing or using any unexposed functionality of the API.
API Usage Limits
Zoho may prescribe usage limits, including limits on the number of calls, number of records per call, bandwidth usage and frequency of calls. You are required to adhere to the usage limits prescribed by Zoho in order to avail uninterrupted service. You understand that Zoho may restrict an activity if you reach the usage limit corresponding to such activity and that an API call may either fail or be partially executed if the usage limits are reached before or during an API call.
API Deprecation
Zoho, in its discretion, may cease providing the current version of the API either as a result of discontinuation of the API or upgradation of the API to a newer version. In both cases, the current version of the API will stand deprecated and become the deprecated version of the API (hereinafter "Deprecated Version"). When Zoho decides to deprecate the current version of the API, you will be informed about such deprecation through a service announcement. For a period of six months following announcement of deprecation (hereinafter the "Deprecation Period"), Zoho will use commercially reasonable efforts to support the Deprecated Version. You understand that Zoho is not obliged to provide the features of the newer version in the Deprecated Version.
Zoho in its discretion may cease supporting the Deprecated Version during the Deprecation Period if i) Zoho is required to do so by law; ii) you have breached any provision of these Terms or the General Terms of Service; or iii) Zoho determines that supporting the API is likely to result in a security risk to Zoho.
Modification of Terms of Use
Zoho reserves the right to modify Zoho Spend Terms of Use. Modifications to the Terms of Use are effective upon your use of Zoho Spend subsequent to publication of such modification.