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• Elevate your CX delivery using CommandCenter 2.0: Simplified builder; seamless orchestration

  Most businesses want to create memorable customer experiences—but they often find it hard to keep them smooth, especially as they grow. To achieve a state of flow across their processes, teams often stitch together a series of automations using Workflow

• Presenting ABM for Zoho CRM: Expand and retain your customers with precision

  Picture this scenario: You're a growing SaaS company ready to launch a powerful business suite, and are looking to gain traction and momentum. But as a business with a tight budget, you know acquiring new customers is slow, expensive, and often delivers

• Nimble enhancements to WhatsApp for Business integration in Zoho CRM: Enjoy context and clarity in business messaging

  Dear Customers, We hope you're well! WhatsApp for business is a renowned business messaging platform that takes your business closer to your customers; it gives your business the power of personalized outreach. Using the WhatsApp for Business integration

• Zoho CRM: Sales Rep Professional Certification Program on Coursera

  We are happy to share that we have published the Zoho Sales Representative Professional Certificate in partnership with Coursera, a leading platform for online learning and career development that offers access to courses and degrees from leading universities

• Enhancements to the formula field in Zoho CRM: Auto-refresh formulas with the "Now" function, stop formula executions based on criteria, and include formulas within formulas

  Dear Customers, We hope you're well! By their nature, modern businesses rely every day on computations, whether it's to calculate the price of a product, assess ROI, evaluate the lifetime value of a customer, or even determine the age of a record. With

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• Notice: Revise OpenAI model permissions to continue Using Zia Writing Assistant

  Dear Users, We’re upgrading the Zia Writing Assistant to use the GPT-4o-mini model for improved performance and accuracy. To continue using the Writing Assistant, please revise your OpenAI model settings by May 27, 2025. After this date, older models

• Managing manual users

  Why are there two seemingly-identical lines in the manual user management? How can someone in the space be both Disabled and Admin? What is the difference between the two groups?

• We need customizable sub-form layouts

  Currently, we can arrange sub-form fields only in a single row. The single row layout means salespeople must horizontally scroll to uncover information. As a result, salespeople cannot see all of the relevant information simultaneously.  The administrator

• How can i connect the zoho people to n8n.io

  Hello, I hope you are doing well Iam working on an automation in which I will be fetching the data from Zoho People of my employees to arrange, modify, and upload on Google Sheets to maintain their attendance data. I tried through the Zoho Developer Console

• Staff Tracking in

  Hi , I would like to see what activity my staff does over Zoho CRM and over Zoho Mail . I need to know which deals in CRM haven't been touched or had an activity on by a particular staff member . Basically need to establish what work.gets done by WFH

• How do you make sure the same person doesn't answer the survey twice?

  Preventing multiple responses to a survey is really important because letting people answer more than once can seriously ruin the data. It skews results, making it seem like certain opinions are more popular than they are. This can lead to misleading

• Support is dismal!

  Decided to use Zoho Books and Inventory for our company; went from Trial versions to paid subscriptions last week. Am having issues integrating these products, and my experience with Zoho Support for both products has been abysmal. 3 chats with Inventory

• Group Emails

  I have synced Zoho CRM to Campaigns but there are certain email not synced. showing it is Group Emails, but this email ids belongs to different individuals. please provide a solution as i nedd to sync the same.

• Is there a way to force a page refresh after changing a Subform via Workflow / Function?

  I have a workflow which triggers a function, and in this function i am changing the values of a certain subform. The changed are only visibile when i manually refresh the page and this is a no-no for my use-case. When other workflows, that change certain

• Enable Full Theme Editor for Help Center (Disable Express Builder)

  Dear Zoho Support, We are currently using the Elegant theme in Zoho Desk Help Center, but we only have access to the limited Express Builder. We would like to switch to the full Theme Editor to be able to: Access Language Strings Edit all pages (HTML/CSS/JS)

• Zoho Desk - account and contact lookup by phone

  Hi team, Does Zoho Desk allow to lookup Accounts and Contacts by phone or not? I am using this endpoint- GET https://desk.zoho.eu/api/v1/accounts/search?phone=987-654-3210 But I am getting this error- { "errorCode": "UNPROCESSABLE_ENTITY", "message":

• Way to export / import a Flow between different accounts?

  Hi, I developped some flows in my account and see that for some other organisation I'm working with, they would need the same or similar flows. Is there a way for me to export one flow from one account and import it to another ? This would be handy, as

• Setting admin only field values in widget

  Hello If I'm using a Widget addRecord function invoked by a user input (the user has write permission not developer) can he set values to a field that is set to be visible to Admin only?

• Option to Delete Chats in IM

  Currently, there is no option to delete any chats in IM, regardless of their source.

• Stop completed task lists from disappearing?

  Is there any way to stop projects from making tasks lists disappear when all the tasks in the list are completed? That's one of those little things where we're constantly fighting the product. For instance we have some projects which are ongoing - no start and end date. We use Kanban view to show the various task lists. We don't want the kanban list to disappear every time the items on it happen to be closed out. Thanks

• Adding Coloured Picklist Based On Email Body Text

  Hey All, So i am having this problem, Im currently trying to automate a coloured picklist so that when the body of an email contains a specific word it will assign one of my coloured picklist i have created automatically, But it appears this only works

• Zoho Desk is extremely slow

  Hi Team, We are facing extreme latency issue with Zoho Desk. It is currently unusable. I have submitted a ticket already could you please look into this asap. Regards, Priya Sharna

• Zoho Desk is extremeley Slow

  Hi, Zoho Desk seems to be extremely slow for the last 15 mins for everyone in our team (5 people). https://status.zohocloud.ca/ didn't show any status in this regard. Would it be possible to have an idea what is happening and when this should be resolved?

• Help Centre - Widget or Tab for Customer Downloads

  USE CASE: We are a software vendor, using Zoho Desk (as part of a Zoho One subscription) to help mange support issues from our customer base. Customers can log tickets via email or Help Centre portal. QUESTION: I need to provide the capability for our

• Markdown for Desk?

  Hi, my company wants to use markdown for formatting text in Desk (in all modules there, especially Tickets and Helpcenter). Zoho already offers use of markdown in several products (see https://help.zoho.com/portal/en/kb/backstage/microsite-guide/formatting-with-markdown/articles/formatting-with-markdo)

• Limits on workflow never disclosed, not documents and now being applied. I feel scammed and there is no reply for support.

  Hello everyone, I’m facing a critical issue with Zoho Recruit and would appreciate any insights from fellow users or someone from Zoho. For months, I’ve been receiving daily emails stating that I have reached the maximum workflow custom functions limit.

• report on lead status history in zoho crm

  I have enabled the lead status history. I want to understand how many days a lead is waiting in which stage and the number of leads vs. stage history, like 0 days, 1-4 days, 5 days above, and 10 days above.

• Cannot send a Campaign. No Send or Proceed button

  I have built a Campaign. I had to drop Leads and only use Contacts because only one group can sync. But now I do not see any errors but I do not see anyway to proceed with sending the campaign?

• Accounts module not displaying in Campaigns sync

  When syncing CRM to Campaigns, I can only sync Leads and Contacts. Accounts module is setup and not sure why I can't select it. I won't be able to make segments for all our email campaigns. What is the resolution?

• Missing Date Field Type Blocking VAT Calculations in Custom Zoho CRM Module

  I'm working on a custom VAT calculator within Zoho CRM where I need to store the purchase date of a product and calculate VAT based on that date, since VAT rates can vary over time. However, while creating custom fields, the only available data type is

• Auto End Chats After Customer Inactivity

  Hello Everyone, I may be missing something, but is there a way to auto-end chats when a customer has been inactive for an amount of time? I have several operators (we use a shared set of account with schedules for people... that's another story) but at

• Real-Time Screen Annotation During Zoho Cliq Screen Sharing

  Hi Zoho Support Team, Hope you're doing well. We’d like to request the addition of real-time screen annotation tools during screen sharing sessions in Zoho Cliq video calls. 🔍 What We're Looking For: The ability for the presenter—and optionally, other

• Simplify ticket replies with intelligent writing and content analysis tools

  Introducing a smarter, faster way to handle ticket responses with generative AI-powered capabilities, now available in the ticket detail view. These enhancements are designed to reduce agent effort, improve clarity, and elevate the overall support experience.

• Zoho Books - Feature Request - Show Custom Template Preview

  When using a custom template is would be a great user experience if the custom template could be previewed when viewing the record. I have found that it's very confusing for users, when they see an invoice preview but the out put file is different. Additional

• run a macro on a contact that bounced from crm email merge

  how would one run a macro on a contact that bounced from crm email merge? how would i tell zoho to run a macro that SIGNALS said bounced?

• Search handwriting using sketch card and OCR

  Hi It's possible using Sketch Card for handwriting and search them using AI and OCR in Pro edition? Thanks

• Autoresponders in Zoho CRM will be discontinued—transition to Cadences for enhanced engagement

  Update (June 30, 2025): As of June 30, 2025, users will no longer be able to create or edit Autoresponders in Zoho CRM. This restriction has been put in place to ensure a smooth and guided transition to Zoho Cadences—a more powerful and flexible tool

• Recovering a note

  Hi, I accidentally deleted an important academic not from my notebook. Can I recover it? Thanks

• Unable to schedule posts!

  Hi everyone, I'm on the free account. I just realised it doesn't give me the options to schedule posts anymore, I can only 'post now'. I don't understand why I can't even see what I scheduled before. Can anyone help? Thanks, Benedetta

• SPF, Zoho Books, Send from my domain

  I am unable to verify my domain through Zoho Books: this is the text record: v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:zohomail.com -all I waited 24 hours already with error: SPF record not found. Contact your domain provider.

• How do I record timesheet invoices generated in Zoho Workerly against a Sales Order?

  We have customers who issue us a Purchase Order for an aggregate amount of hourly services, which we invoice against on a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly basis (contract dependent). For simplicity, let's say the customer PO is for $50,000 (1,000 hours at

• One Place for All Your Automation Needs

  All automation settings are grouped under Settings ()> Automation. This helps you find everything related to automation from one place. Under Workflow Rules, Email Alerts, Email Templates, and Webhooks: Use the Projects tab for project-specific settings.

• header and footer for templates

  Hi,   I created many templates for my activity. Nevertheless I have a big problem, the HTML is varies from a quote to another, there is sometime less or more text. In order to have a nice layout I require Header and Footer. I looked for into the CRM tool, couldn't find it. Can someone explain to me if it's possible ??   It's very urgent, thanks very much,   Eric Marois

• Onboarding Zoho sign documents?

  I was wondering something about using the Zoho sign integration with the candidate onboarding process. We set up the entire onboarding process and we have added documents that the candidate needs to review and sign digitally using Zoho Sign. This part

• Automate Pricebook per Customer

  Example Scenario: I want to create a customer package (Silver Package, Gold Package, Platinum Package) and associated it with a Price Book that contains discounted prices for certain products. When a customer assigned to this Silver Package places an

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