Zoho Workplace Review

Entire office on the cloud

Jobs generally involve similar activities – people write and store documents, create plans and presentations, collaborate and share work, and communicate with colleagues and customer. With Zoho Workplace, you have all of those and more in the cloud. What you do in a physically-limiting office you can perform paperless with the online platform – create, store, and access documents; build proposals and show stunning presentations; share files; and communicate instantly, among others.

Work on the go with mobile apps

Lots of mobile apps are available to let you create, collaborate, and communicate on the go. These include Zoho Mail, Zoho Mail Admin App, Streams, Cliq, Connect, WorkDrive, Writer, Sheet, and Inbox Insight. All of these are meant to help you perform your work without limitations of boundaries and time, and get you connected throughout with your people. This is especially convenient if you handle remote teams.

Built-in Zoho tools

With dozens of tools in the Zoho family, you literally don’t need any third party apps and integrations to get things done. And the beauty of it is that all Zoho apps work and integrate with one another. With Zoho Workplace, you get tools like document editor (Zoho Writer), spreadsheet editor (Zoho Sheet), presentation editor (Zoho Show), file storage and manager (Zoho WorkDrive), modern business email (Zoho Mail), and many others. You can drill down on specific work with the right tool for the job built into the platform.

Free forever plan

While there are paid plans for those that require more robust features, Zoho maintains a free version of the Workplace software which the company says will remain forever free to use by small teams. This should be enough to cover basic office functions, and the option is always open if you need to upgrade to any of its affordable paid plans. Moreover, all of Zoho’s products – free or premium – are still and will always be 100% ad free.

More improvements

A Zoho survey of customers on what they like to see improve the most in Zoho Mail pointed to the need for more storage. Zoho responded by now offering 30GB worth of storage per user from 10GB on the Standard plan, and 100GB from 15GB on the Pro plan. Under-the-hood improvements have also been done to the system infrastructure to make Zoho Mail faster, more secure, and reliable. Likewise, new Spam algorithms have been introduced to keep your inbox cleaner, and support teams have been bolstered to handle higher support traffic and reduce response times.