Project Management Bulletin: December, 2025
The holiday cheer is in the air and it’s time to reflect on the year that was. At Zoho PM Suite, we've been working behind the scenes on something huge and exciting all year and now we are almost ready—with just a bit of confetti—for our grand release in the new year. Stay tuned for the big reveal!
Right now, we’ve curated some interesting updates, a whole new pricing plan, and a refreshing course to master your technical knowledge this holiday season. Read on!
New learning space for Zoho Projects
We know that you are secretly drafting witty OOO emails for the holidays, but, are you planning to hone your technical skills as well?
We’ve launched a course just in time for you to learn from the comfort of your couch-- Zoho Projects for Beginners.
This course aims to equip learners with the basics concepts, navigation flow, and help them get started with the different modules of Zoho Projects. Whether you are onboarding new users, revisiting basic concepts, or gaining a fresh perspective, this course is a valuable addition.
Latest pricing plan: Ultimate
We’ve introduced a new pricing plan, the Ultimate plan, to accommodate higher limits on automation actions & customizations. It will also support an increased limit for business calendars, holiday lists, sandboxes, etc. We’ve included the most-requested Lite users in this plan too. The pricing goes as follows:
- Billed Annually - $14 / user/month
- Billed Monthly - $15 / user/month
PM recommendations
With Christmas ho-ho-ho-ing around the corner, be sure to mark your holidays in Zoho Projects’s business calendar. Business calendar helps mark the working days of a week, planned holidays, and the business hours of users across geographies.
Project management meetups
Community Meetups- November, 2025
We hosted a series of Zoho User Group meetups across 8 locations in India discussing ‘The essential pillars of effective project management’. The engagement was energetic with productive insights as takeaways. We got to educate, ideate, and solve the business requirements of users and partners across industries.
Check out this space for our upcoming meetups, and be sure to join us!
The PMI Global Summit 2025
The annual PMI Global Summit was held in Arizona, USA, bringing together over 4,000 thought leaders from various sectors to communicate, connect, and explore emerging technology trends. We hosted an interactive booth representing Zoho Projects and Zoho Sprints with our AI capabilities gaining a lot of momentum.
Evolve 2025 - PMI Singapore Chapter
The lion city had a lot of exciting opportunities in store for us at the 20th Annual Hybrid Symposium, Evolve 2025. As an official sponsor, we had the opportunity to connect with PMO leaders, tech founders, and enterprise teams to discuss state-of-the-art PM techniques as well as the future trends in project management.
Key releases
Zoho Projects has rolled out user-centric features like:
Sign documents or send them for signatures directly from your tasks and issues with the Zoho Sign extension for Zoho Projects.
We’ve introduced a new version of timesheets where users can group time logs or create a timesheet spanning up to 31 days, add time logs to it, and submit it for approval.
User workflow rules are automation rules laid out to be executed around actions related to the users of the portal. It is configured with a trigger that executes the rule and an action that is carried out automatically.
View the complete list of updates in our What’s new page.
Zoho Sprints has introduced a bunch of sought-after features like:
Reuse checklists in multiple work items by creating templates in workspace settings. This can be used as a base template to create new checklist groups for work items in a project.
Calculate the progress of key results based on linked entities like items, projects, releases, or epics.
View the complete list of updates in our What’s new page.
Productivity Tips
We post periodic tips and tricks to use our features efficiently. Here's a compilation of the latest tips:
- Accessibility Spotlight Series - 1 for Zoho Projects
- Automate Timesheet Approvals with Multi-level Approval Rules for Zoho Projects
- User Automation: User based workflow rules & webhooks for Zoho Projects
- Zoho Sign for Zoho Projects
- Tip#46: Capture accurate log hours for Zoho Sprints
- Tip#47: Estimation planner for Zoho Sprints
- Onboard new users easily with native screen recording in Zoho Projects Plus
Solution Corner
Our solution expert team creates custom functions on demand to meet your unique requirements. Here's a list of recent requests:
Spot task duplication
One of our customers reached out to us with the requirement to notify the project owner and task owner whenever a duplicate task gets created. We implemented this using task custom functions and workflow rules where an email alert is triggered when tasks with the same name are traced. Refer to this post for the script.
Preset prefix formats for tasks and issues
Zoho Projects creates task and issue prefixes based on the name given to the task or issue. However, we received an interesting request where a predefined prefix must be set for each new task or issue created. Here’s the custom function code we suggested.
First Response and Resolution with SLA
A customer approached us with a requirement to automatically update SLAs based on the severity of the issue. We worked along with them to create a SLA policy matrix and automatically calculate deadlines based on severity. Get to know the custom function we created in this post.
Auto-update phase status
Do you require your milestones/phases to reflect the status of tasks associated with them? We’ve drafted a step-by-step guide to execute custom functions that can automatically update the phase status. Check it out.
We build custom solutions to solve unique customer requirements and accommodate personalized requests. If you are looking for customized solutions in Zoho Projects, leave a comment below and we will reach out to you!
We hope all our new additions and enhancements help you manage your projects better. Keep tabs on this space for more such round-ups and updates on our suite of project management tools.
Happy holidays,
Zoho Projects Suite