Zoho CRM's Email Insights feature provides valuable tools to address these challenges by offering the following capabilities:

1. Monitor Email Responses in Context: This allows you to see how recipients interact with your emails within the broader context of their customer journey. For example, if you notice that emails sent after a customer service call have higher engagement rates, you might decide to integrate follow-up emails into your post-call process.
   
2. Utilize Email Statuses to Filter Records: You can segment your customer database based on their interactions with your emails. For example, you might create a list of contacts who have not opened recent emails to target them with a re-engagement campaign.
   
3. Collect Detailed Email Analytics: Gather comprehensive data on open rates, click-through rates, and conversion metrics. This data helps refine your email content and timing. For example, if analytics show that emails sent on Wednesday mornings have the highest open rate, you can schedule important communications for that time.
   
4. Track the Performance of Your Email Templates: Analyze which templates are most effective in achieving your goals. If a particular template consistently underperforms, it might need revising or replacing. This ensures your emails remain fresh and relevant to your audience.
   

Enable Email Insights   

Availability

Note:

1. In the Standard edition, only contextual email response is available.
   
2. This feature is not available in the Free edition of Zoho CRM.
3. Advanced filters will have limited options under Email Status for Standard edition.
   

To enable email insights 

1. In your Zoho CRM account, navigate to Setup > Channels > Email > Email Intelligence.
   
2. In the Email Insights page, turn the Email Insights feature ON.

Note:

1. Email Insights are enabled in a CRM account by default.
   
2. The email insight results will be captured only for a period of 100 days.
   
3. Insights will not be tracked for emails that are sent to multiple recipients, for "to", "cc", and/or "bcc" fields.
   

Monitor Email Response Contextually   

To view details of a customer's activity on your email

1. Go to the desired module.
   
2. Click the record for which you wish to view the email status.
   
3. In the Record's Details page, scroll down to the Emails section.
   
4. After an email is sent, the status bar will display one of the following status messages:
   
1. Delivered: The email has reached the recipient.
   
2. Bounced: The email has failed to reach the recipient.
   
3. Opened: The email has been seen and opened.
   When you hover over the Opened status, the following details about the opens will be displayed in an information box:
1. Total number of times the mail has been opened.
   
2. The first time the mail was opened.
   
3. The last time the mail was opened.
   
4. Clicked: Links in the email have been clicked. When you hover over the Clicked status, the following details about the clicks will be displayed in an information box:
   
1. Total number of opens.
   
2. The first time and the last time the mail was opened.
   
3. Total number of clicks recorded in the mail.
   
4. The first time a click was recorded.
   
5. The last time a click was recorded.

To access a customer's email activity details:

1. Navigate to the desired module.
   
2. Select the record whose email status you want to check.
   
3. On the Record's Details Page, scroll down to the Emails section.

Note:

1. The term "Delivered" technically refers to that the email has not bounced and was successfully delivered to the recipient.
   
2. If a sent email is clicked by the sender, then the "opened email" stats will consider the email as opened.

How does Zoho CRM track email activity?   

Note:

1. Since this is an image, it can only be embedded in HTML emails. As a result, plain text mails cannot be tracked by Zoho CRM.
   
2. An 'Open' is only recorded when the recipient has chosen to display images in the email. Otherwise the email will not be tracked.
   

Filter records by email status   

Note: If an email is sent to the customer on Day 1 and the customer sends an email on Day 2 (not in response to the Day 1's email), then the status will be considered as "Received", it will NOT be considered "Sent." This is because the latest status of the record is receipt of an email, therefore, the previously sent email status will be overridden with the latest email.

Take a look at a few scenarios in which Email Status is used as one of the search criteria in the advanced filters:

• Emails that have been sent to contacts in the last two days but not been opened.
  

  
• Emails that have been sent to leads in the last two days and have bounced.
  
  
• Emails that have been clicked by the leads.
  
• Emails that have been responded to by the recipient and the ones that have been opened but not replied.
  

Filter deals

1. That are closing this month
   
2. For which emails have been responded to.
   

You can apply instant actions on the records filtered using the advanced filters such as Mass Update, Mass Email, Macros, and so on.

View Email Reports   

1. Email Analytics
   
2. Email and Call Analytics Report
   
3. Sent Email Status
   
4. Top 10 Templates by Open Rate
   
5. Top 10 Templates by Click Rate
   
6. Top 10 Users

Email Analytics   

To check email analytics:

1. Click the Reports module.
   
2. Select the Email Reports folder.
   
3. In the Email Reports folder, click Email Analytics.
4. In the Email Analytics page, you will be able to choose the parameters by which the email statistics are to be filtered. For example, Date Range, Groups, Columns, Advanced filters, and so on.
   
   
   
5. By selecting the edit button to add or remove columns and apply filters, you will be able to view the entire email statistics that have been filtered based on the conditions you specified for the reports, using the same edit button.

The Email Stats presented in the following columns under Reports are:

1. Sent: Only emails that are sent from Zoho CRM and SalesInbox will be tracked.
   However, Emails that are sent via IMAP configuration (Zoho Mail or Gmail etc) will not be tracked.
2. Bounced: Total emails that could not be delivered.
   
3. Tracked: Emails that are being tracked by Zoho CRM to measure performance. Zoho CRM will be able to ascertain if tracked emails have been opened or clicked.
   Usually, all emails sent from Zoho CRM are tracked. When this is not the case, the number of emails under "Tracked" tells you how many out of the Total Sent mails are actually being tracked. The number will be less than or equal to the Total Sent emails.
4. Bounced among tracked: The number of "tracked emails" that have bounced. This number is less than or equal to the Total Bounced emails. An addition exclamatory icon gives you additional details regarding the type of bounce (hard bounce or soft bounce).
   See also >> Understanding email bounces
   
5. Opened: Emails that have been seen and opened by the recipients.
   
6. Clicked: Emails in which the recipients have clicked links.
   
7. Received: Emails that have been received by sales reps from the recipients.
   
8. Responded: Emails that recipients have responded to.
   
9. Replied: Emails the sales reps have replied to.

Note:

1. An email will not be tracked if Email Insights has been disabled in Zoho CRM.
   
2. Email analytics will track only those emails that are sent from Zoho CRM and SalesInbox. Any email sent from platforms like Gmail or Zoho Mail will not be shown in the sent email status because these emails cannot be tracked by Zoho CRM.
   
3. Replied is a stat that is only available for organizations with the new reports enabled.
   

Email and Call Analytics   

To view email and call analytics:

1. Click the Reports module.
   
2. Select the Email Reports folder.
   
3. In the Email Reports folder, click Email & Call Analytics Report.
4. In the Email and Call Analytics Report page, enter your criteria for filtering the reports.
   
   You can summarize this report based on the Date, Day, Week, or Month, or specify a Date Range.
5. Upon applying the filter options, you will be able to view the complete email statistics filtered according to the conditions applied.

The Email & Call Analytics are presented in the following columns under both the Summary Report and Detailed Report.

1. Email Sent: Total emails sent on the chosen date/ by the chosen CRM user.
   
2. Email Received: Total emails received on the chosen date/to the chosen CRM user.
   
3. Email Replied: Total emails replied responded to the customer on the chosen date/by the chosen CRM user.
   
4. Dialled Attended: Total calls made to customers and attended by them on the chosen date/by the chosen CRM user.
   
5. Dialled Unattended: Total calls made to customers and unattended by them on the chosen date/by the chosen CRM user.
   
6. Call Received: Total calls received (and attended) from customers on the chosen date/ by the chosen user.
   
7. Call Missed: Total calls missed from customers on the chosen date/by the chosen user.
   
8. Total Call Duration (in mins): Total call duration of incoming as well as outgoing calls.
   

Sent Email Status   

Note: This report will not list those emails that are sent from Gmail, Zoho Mail, and so on, as these emails cannot be tracked by Zoho CRM.

To access the Sent Email Status report:

1. Click the Reports module.
   
2. Select the Email Reports folder.
   
3. In the Email Reports folder, click Sent Email Status report.
   
4. In the Sent Email Status page, you will see a report like the following:
5. You can get the report for a specific date range by using the report Filters.
   

The following are some of the other reports presented in the Email Reports folder:

1. The Top 10 Users report, which is determined based on the number of emails sent by users.
   
2. The Top 10 Templates by Click Rate are determined based on the click rates of templates.
   
3. The Top 10 Templates by Open Rate are determined based on the open rates of templates.

Track Email Template Performance   

To track email template performance:

1. Go to Setup in your CRM account
   
2. Under Customization, click Templates > Mail Templates.
   
3. On the Mail Template page, you can see the complete list of email templates in various folders.
   
4. Click one of the following icons from the column named Stats.
5. Alternatively, you can switch between the Tabular view and the Chart view in the Stats window, to see both template stats and version history.

The Chart View shows you the email open stats in three different formats:

• Percentage-wise
  
• Count-wise
  
• Version-wise
  

Hovering over each bar will open a tooltip displaying more details.

Note:

1. The template stats can also be accessed when you choose an email template to be sent in the following areas across Zoho CRM:
   
1. Mass mail
   
2. Mail compose window
   
3. Send Email workflow action