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• Function #46: Auto-Calculate Sales Margin on a Quote

  Welcome back everyone! Last week's function was about displaying the discount amount in words. This week, it's going to be about automatically calculating the sales margin for a particular quote, sales order or an invoice. Business scenario Where there is sales, there's also evaluation and competition between sales reps. A healthy rivalry helps to better motivate your employees to do smart work and close deals faster and more efficiently. But how does a sales rep get evaluated? 90% of the time, it's

• Zoho CRM Functions 53: Automatically name your Deals during lead conversion.

  Welcome back everyone! Last week's function was about automatically updating the recent Event date in the Accounts module. This week, it's going to be about automatically giving a custom Deal name whenever a lead is converted. Business scenario Deals are the most important records in CRM. After successful prospecting, the sales cycle is followed by deal creation, follow-up, and its subsequent closure. Being a critical function of your sales cycle, it's good to follow certain best practices. One such

• User Tips: Auto-Create Opportunity/Deal upon Quote Save (PART 1)

  Problem: We use quotes which convert to sales orders but Users / Sales Reps do not create opportunities / deals and go straight to creating a quote. This leads to poor reporting. Implementing this solution improves reporting and makes it easier for users.

• Custom Function : Automatically send the Quote to the related contact

  Scenario: Automatically send the Quote to the related contact.  We create Quotes for customers regularly and when we want to send the quote to the customer, we have to send it manually. We can automate this, using Custom Functions. Based on a criteria, you can trigger a workflow rule and the custom function associated to the rule and automatically send the quote to customer through an email. Please note that the quote will be sent as an inline email content and not as a PDF attachment. Please follow

• Function #50: Schedule Calls to records

  Welcome back everyone! Last week's function was about changing ownership of multiple records concurrently. This week, it's going to be about scheduling calls for records in various modules. Business scenario Calls are an integral part of most sales routines.. Sales, Management, Support, all the branches of the business structure would work in cohesion only through calls. You could say they are akin to engine oil, which is required by the engine to make all of it's components function perfectly. CRM

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• CRM Address Field - States with Countries in brackets

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• 👍 Zoho CRM's Notes now gets Reactions and a new look

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• Different Report sharing filters within same Dashboard

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• Make Your Workflows Smarter with Zia Agents

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• How can I add a Custom Field (or Customer_name) to a picklist?

  Our workflow is Shopify-->SO -->Picklist-->Package-->Shipment. We would like to have the Picklist template to include a custom field "Customer_Notes" (we have created this field already). This way we get alerted when a customer has notes on their account.

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• Other languages in Schedulers (Zoho Books)

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• New in Office Integrator: Extract data from images into your spreadsheet

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• Edit PDFs using Zoho PDF Editor

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• Multiple subscription plan line items in Zoho Billing quotes

  I run an IT company and sell a lot of licences. A client might have multiple subscription plans including software licences in different categories. A client might have Microsoft licences, antivirus licences, web hosting and maintenance package services.

• Mail Merge templates in Sandbox

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• Dashboard Table of “My New Work Orders” Changes View

  Hi FSM Team, We noticed an inconsistency with the Dashboard Table of “My New Work Orders.” Initially, the table is configured to use the “My New Work Orders” view. When we go to the Home page, the table displays a different set of records. When we return

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• Inquiry Regarding Customer Hierarchy & Sub-Customer Creation via Zoho API

  Dear Zoho Support Team, Our mutual client has requested support for implementing the Customer Hierarchy (Parent/Sub-Customer structure) within our existing workflow. At the moment, all invoices are being created in Zoho under the main (parent) customer

• Which Zoho CRM tasks would you want an AI assistant to handle?

  I’ve started delegating my Zoho CRM work to AI – and many tasks now take me half the time. It has been so useful that we’re now working to make it available to everyone. Instead of clicking through records and tabs, I simply describe what needs to be

• Introducing MCP for Zoho CommunitySpaces

  Hello everyone, Your AI assistant can now share the community workload with you. Zoho CommunitySpaces supports MCP (Model Context Protocol), so you can link an AI assistant like Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor to your community and run it through plain language

• CV-Library: The Newest Source Booster in Zoho Recruit!

  We’ve expanded your sourcing toolkit — CV-Library, one of the UK’s largest and most trusted online job boards, is now available as a Source Booster in Zoho Recruit. This gives recruiters instant access to millions of UK-based candidate profiles, all without

• Tip 52#: Ways to improve data flexibility using related list

  A related list offers an ideal solution to string related data across entities together. It enables you to pull records from any module or external source and float them as a tab within your project, sprint, epic, work item, or release detail view layout.

• Email Blast

  Hi, How do we send an email blast to thousands of customers? The email addresses are not yet saved in Zoho Desk.

• Zoho ERP | Product updates | September 2026

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• Introducing Zoho POS for Restaurants

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• WhatsApp Business Message Pricing Update: Effective October 1, 2026

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• Zoho Calendar integration for Bigin

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• Does Updating Employee Names and Profile Pictures in Zoho One Automatically Sync Across All Zoho Applications?

  Hi Zoho Team, We are currently using Zoho One in our organization and want to centrally manage employee profile information. As a Zoho One Super Admin, if I update the employee name and profile picture for all users from the Zoho One Admin Panel, will

• Enhanced shared mailboxes: Dedicated Sent folders, Run-through filters & fresh UI

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• 10/22 15時〜 オンラインもくもく会のお知らせ | Zoho ワークアウト

  ユーザーの皆さま、こんにちは。コミュニティグループの中野です。 10月22日（木）開催の「Zoho ワークアウト」をご案内します。 Zoho ワークアウトは、参加者それぞれが取り組みたいテーマを持ち寄り、ユーザー同士で交流しながら、 設定・検証・運用改善を進めるオンラインの「もくもく会」です。 「試してみたい設定があるけれど、なかなか時間を取れない」 「一人で進めていると、途中で手が止まってしまう」 「他のユーザーの活用方法や工夫を聞いてみたい」 そんな方は、Zoho ワークアウトで一緒に取り組んでみませんか？

• Reporting tags associated to Project in Zoho books?

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• Reporting Tags in Profit and Loss Reports Analysis

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• What is the difference between "Reply" and "Public Comment" in a ticket?

  Hey, my company is thinking about switching to Zoho Desk but we do not understand the difference between the "Reply" and the "Public Comment" feature. When should we use which? And why? What is the difference between them? Thank you for your help! Kindest

• Comments Vs. Replies

  I'm curious as to the difference between a "Reply" and a "Comment" on a ticket. It appears that "Replies" are what's used to determine response time SLA's and there are also used to automatically re-open tickets. I'm just trying to understand the key differences so I can educate both our clientele and our back-end users on which function/feature to use to better improve the ticket lifecycle. If anyone has any insight it would be appreciated. Thanks!

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• Forms data export bug

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• Fax and email questions

  Does Zoho offer faxing capability? If so, how to do it? And, why is has my email inbox stopped in 2019? There are no more emails since then. Also if I delete all of those emails, will they delete it from my gmail account (I'm linked to a gmail email address).

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