Zoho CRM Reviews

I use Zoho CRM primarily for customer management, lead management, and deals management.

Zoho CRM provides excellent value for money. It offers substantial features for its price point. Specifically, the leads and deals modules, as well as integrations, are very effective.

The analytics and AI suggestion features need improvement.

I have been using Zoho CRM for five years.

I find the solution to be stable without any glitches.

Zoho CRM is fully scalable.

I believe the technical support is very good, and I rate it a nine out of ten.

Positive

Since Zoho CRM is a SaaS solution, there was no installation needed.

I rate the pricing as a five out of ten, as it offers good value for money.

Regarding improvements, the analytics part and AI suggestions are the two main areas that need improvement. Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten. It would be better if the review remains anonymous. The email will be used solely for internal use, and my name can be on the review, but my company name and email ID should remain hidden.

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The solution easily links one form to another or sends one module to another.

They should provide an option to customize modules and fields for the solution, similar to Zoho Creator.

We have been using the solution for more than one year.

The solution's stability is better than other applications.

The solution's technical support service could be better.

Neutral

Zoho CRM has a default field that cannot be changed. Thus, we prefer using Zoho Creator for customized functionality. 

The solution's initial setup process for the cloud-based version is straightforward. It takes around a week to a month to complete depending on the client's requirements. It requires one executive to carry out the deployment.

The solution has standard pricing plans. It costs $14 per month. Also, its enterprise version costs $40. At the same time, its unlimited version costs $52.

The solution is easy to use for end users. I rate it a ten out of ten.

We use the solution for different projects. We use it to patch lead details from clients' sources. 

I have issues with the tool's scalability. 

I have been working with the product since 2018. 

I would rate the solution's stability between seven to six out of ten. 

I would rate the product's scalability between eight to seven out of ten. We have a lot of users for the product in our organization. 

The solution's setup is easy.

I would rate the product a seven out of ten. 

The solution helps us to identify how customers expect to work with us. It helps us to know the funnel process where the prospect is through. It also serves as a database of information on customers, costs, prospects, and proposals. 

I am impressed with the product's information on customers. 

It is hard to modify information around a customer. You need to pay for the features and the tool needs to improve it. 

I have been using the solution for five to six years. 

I would rate the solution's stability a seven out of ten.

I would rate the solution's scalability a seven out of ten. 

The solution's setup is complex. 

I would rate the product an eight out of ten. You need to first think about the version that you need for the company. You need to seek out a person who knows the product very well to help you modify the charts, it could be an associate of Zoho. Think about what information you need to receive from the CRM since you can receive something that you don't need. 

It is used as a database for customers, contacts, and prospects for sales and marketing.

It is a SaaS product. I am using the most recent version of it. 

It is a central place to store information to use for marketing, tracking activity, and developing sales pipelines and stuff.

I like that it is easy to get data in and out of it. We can export and import CSV files.

I also like that the database is hierarchical, which allows me to be able to look at a parent and multiple children.

There are at least two big pieces. One is just the ability to reorganize the data and clean it up to eliminate duplicates and things like that. It is very manual at the moment. It only gives us certain fields that we can check on. Because of our particular database, it creates a problem. We deal with hospitals, and there are 50 hospitals. It is tough to figure out which one is which. Is it this one or the other one? So, trying to clean things up is very difficult.

I'd like to have more ability to share data fields. The data is structured into different buckets, and I frequently have to create the same field in two different buckets. It would be nice if I could just do a view-only field in another bucket. In my contact bucket, I would like to be able to have just a view-only of the account information so that I don't need to enter it again, which is what I have to do currently.

I have been using this solution for probably six years.

It is stable. It is fine in terms of stability.

It scales well. We have about a dozen users, and it is being used extensively. Any increase in usage would just come naturally with time.

They are medium in terms of wait time and the response itself. From one to five, I would rate them a three.

I can't remember the name, but we had been using a CRM for a long time. We made the switch because of the ability to do more. The old system was too customized. We were looking for something that was more accessible and easy to maintain and that had more standard features.

It was straightforward but nonetheless difficult. It took weeks.

It is lightweight in terms of maintenance. Its maintenance is taken care of pretty much by me. I also have a consultant.

We used an external consultant.

It is around $1000 a month.

I would rate it a seven out of 10.

The solution's most valuable feature is the ease of navigation.

The solution's feature for forecast has limitations. It could be better. Also, there need to be more features similar to its on-premise version.

I have been using the solution for nine months.

The solution is always stable. I rate its stability a nine out of ten.

I rate the solution's scalability an eight or nine.

The solution's technical team is very helpful.

Positive

The solution's setup process is simple and cost-effective.

The solution's technical team helped us implement it.

The solution is cost-effective. I rate its pricing a four out of ten.

I have evaluated SAP and Salesforce solutions. In comparison, Zoho meets all our business requirements and provides simple navigation.

I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

We use Zoho CRM for pipeline follow-ups. Our customer database is on the tool, so we use Zoho CRM to record customer data, the dates of client meetings, and when we did the POCs. All data we have on Zoho CRM are also shared with our customers. We also use Zoho CRM to predict how many sales we can do per quarter and year. These are our use cases for the tool.

The most valuable feature of Zoho CRM is emailing. You can send emails to customers directly from Zoho CRM. The marketing team in my company uses this feature, and it's effective.

What needs improvement in Zoho CRM is the UI. It needs to be more user-friendly. I like Salesforce better than Zoho CRM in terms of the UI, so if Zoho CRM can make some UI changes, that would make the tool better.

I've been using Zoho CRM for a long time, more than five years.

I didn't have issues with Zoho CRM stability-wise. It has good stability.

Zoho CRM is a scalable tool.

As we never had any problems with Zoho CRM, we never had the chance to open a ticket with the technical support team.

We only used Zoho CRM within our company.

I'm unsure of how straightforward or complex the setup of Zoho CRM is because I'm just a user. It's the technical team who deployed the tool within my company.

Zoho CRM was deployed in-house by the technical team.

I have no information about the pricing for Zoho CRM because the finance department handles that.

I'm using Salesforce at times. Some of my customers use Salesforce as well.

My company uses Zoho CRM internally.

My company is a customer rather than a seller or distributor of Zoho CRM.

I'm using the latest version of Zoho CRM because the tool has regular updates, so my company has the newest version.

Around forty-five to fifty people use Zoho CRM within the company. My company has a team that handles the maintenance of the tool.

I'm rating Zoho CRM as seven out of ten because its UI needs improvement.

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We are using Zoho CRM to book appointments with the sales team. The leads come directly on the website, they schedule a meeting, and then it comes to Zoho CRM. There is another way leads come from, such as online social media channels or sales team engages with them. Once a deal is closed, it goes to the accounting software and creates invoices directly. Additionally, the solution can give estimates or quotations.

Zoho CRM has a location-based feature where if I'm visiting certain customers in a day, it can indicate to me the most efficient route. However, this is if the location of all the offices or places is updated, it saves my time. The calendar in Zoho CRM is synchronized with Google Calander which is very useful for me.

The solution has all the features I want, and it is quite simple. The process to use it is easy.

Zoho CRM has a rule engine or a place where you can set certain rules. That's not evolved very much. They could improve this within the platform.

There are automation or workflow features that could be improved or evolved. In the solution, I can do a lot of operations, but it has certain limitations in its flexibility.

I have been using Zoho CRM for approximately three years.

Zoho CRM sometimes can be slow, but it is not a hindrance for us because it's not a critical requirement for us that it has to load within certain milliseconds. The speed could improve in the future. 

It is overall a reliable solution.

The scalability of Zoho CRM is good, you can add more people and upgrade the solution regularly.

We have approximately 10 salespeople using the solution.

I was in contact with the Zoho CRM support and I needed some help with the integration with Zoho CRM and other solutions. The support was good, they were able to answer all my questions.

I have used other solutions previously, such as ERPNext and Matrix.

The reason why we are using Zoho CRM is that it's straightforward. It's easy to consider. Matrix has many features, similar to Zoho CRM or even more. However, my team found some complexity to work with it. The Matrix may have project management, task management, and other complex modules, but they are not needed or critically required for the sales roles that we are doing in our business.

The staff preferred what is simple and sufficient that caters to our requirements, and this was Zoho CRM.

The initial setup was easy once you understand the system and its purpose of it. Deploying and doing the configuration can be done in approximately one or two weeks. There was not a traditional installation because the solution is on the cloud, you subscribe and then configure it for your needs.

We did the implementation of the solution ourselves. Zoho CRM has features of taking backups regularly. We do not do it on our own, we only have to do configuration. We don't do any maintenance, there is not any external maintenance required.

The subscription plan that I have doesn't have certain features that I would like. If I had more flexible features to add certain types of data or modify existing data points, I can use the solution more effectively in certain ways. For example,  it has a task productivity model where I can create all the tasks for myself, but certain tools are open text, and it's very difficult to group items when you have open text or unstructured data. If I could define this type of task I do in a day, then it can help a lot to understand how my workload is or what kind of work I'm doing. I could plan better for the future days.

The price of  Zoho CRM is already competitive, but we would always like to have a better discount. Most of the features are included in the price but if we want the extra features then we have to purchase them.

My advice to those wanting to use the solution is to first understand conceptually how CRM systems work. It becomes much easy to if you go with the flow. If someone knows how the sales process works, then it's very easy to configure Zoho CRM.

I rate Zoho CRM an eight out of ten.

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