What category is Zoom in bookkeeping?

What Zoom is for

Inside Online Software, Even Margin also tags Zoom by what it is for: Collaboration & Office. It does the same for the 1,300+ tools on its list, so Analytics can show what your software is for: your spend on each kind of tool, side by side in one chart, with Zoom counted under Collaboration & Office.

What Zoom charges are

Zoom bills a monthly or yearly subscription for video meetings, plus add-ons such as webinars and cloud recording.

How Even Margin categorizes Zoom

Online Software. Applied automatically, at high confidence.

• Even Margin recognizes Zoom on your bank transaction, using the merchant list its team curates.
• It categorizes the charge as Online Software with high confidence, so it is applied without asking you.
• Change it whenever you like, and Even Margin keeps your choice.

When a different category fits

Whatever you choose, a rule keeps every Zoom charge in the same place, including the ones already in your books.

• Zoom Phone is a business phone line, which is Telephone, SMS & Communications rather than software.
• If your books group all communication costs together, a Zoom plan can sit there instead. Pick one home and keep it.

Is a Zoom subscription Online Software or Telephone?

Online Software for the meetings subscription. Zoom Phone, the calling product, is Telephone, SMS & Communications, and Even Margin categorizes the two separately.

What if I pay for Zoom through Apple?

Then your statement names Apple rather than Zoom: a plan bought in the iPhone app arrives as Apple.com/Bill, which Even Margin suggests as Online Software and puts on your review list.

About this page

Reviewed 2026-10-08 by the Even Margin team.

These are categories for your books; for how a cost is treated on your tax return, ask your accountant. Merchant names are trademarks of their owners, and Even Margin is not affiliated with them.