Zoho CRM Plus Features

Allows administrators to customize to accommodate their unique processes. Includes ability to create custom objects, fields, rules, calculations, and views.

Automates a process that requires a series of steps that typically require intervention by a several different users. Administrators can write rules to determine who and when a user needs to complete a step. Also includes notification of users when they need to take action.

Grant access to select data, features, objects, etc. based on the users, user role, groups, etc.

Enables users to view and transact business with the same content in multiple languages and currencies.

Allows administrators to easily develop and test changes to the CRM deployment. After changes are made admins can easily migrate the changes into the "live" or "production" environment.

Allows consuming, publishing and editing content from a central interface. Content management for CRM systems might include presentations, documents, images and other related electronic files.

Software is consistently available (uptime) and allows users to complete tasks quickly because they are not waiting for the software to respond to an action they took.

Allows administrators to create templates that enable users to quickly generate dynamic documents in various formats based on the data stored in the application.

Store and retrieve information associated to customer contacts and accounts. Track company-wide communication and information about contacts and accounts.

Manage partners by tracking channel partner leads and sales opportunities. Provide a partner portal to collaborate with channels on sales opportunities and to share product, pricing, quoting, ordering, and training information

Manage sales opportunities through their lifecycle from lead to order. Track stages, values, and probabilities of close. Manage sales pipelines by individual sales rep, team, region, and company-wide.

Manage and track tasks and activities. Assign due dates and integrate to calendars to manage daily schedules and priorities.

Assign and manage sales quotas and territories. Track progress against quotas. Change as needed.

Allows users to sync their Email, Calendar and Contact tools with their CRM system. Includes Microsoft Outlook and Google integration.

Enter product/part numbers and manage the prices associated with them. Typically functionality allows users to add products and prices to opportunities and quotes if these modules are provided within the same system.

Allows users to create a quote to be provided to a customer that contain at least products, prices and associated discounts. Order management allows users to process orders that contain products, prices and associated discounts.

Management of contracts made with customers. Contract management includes negotiating the terms and conditions in contracts and ensuring compliance with the terms and conditions, as well as documenting and agreeing on any changes or amendments that may arise during its implementation or execution.

Allows users to send email to contacts in bulk. Common features include: Built in Email templates, social media integration, Subscriber list management, sign up forms, success rate reports, AB testing and auto-responders.

Optimizes the process for organizations to develop and deploy multiple-channel marketing campaigns to target groups or individuals and track the effect of those campaigns, by customer segment, over time.

Allows users to manage and track leads though a process. The lead process typically involves steps such as: 1. Lead Generation, 2. Customer Inquiry, Inquiry Capture, Lead Filtering, Lead Grading, Lead Distribution and Lead Qualification.

Enables analysis of effectiveness of an organizations various marketing activities

Tracks issues/help requests reported by customers through the resolution process.

Provides a convenient way for customers to get answers to inquiries, post service issues, place orders, view order histories, and gain access to other information contained in the knowledge base.

Information repository that provides a means for information to be collected, organized, shared, searched and utilized. Allows customers to get answers to common questions.

Allows customer support professionals access to all information required to support the customer including customer information, case history and related customer social activity. Common features include: call recording, analytics, workforce management, call script management, and compliance management.

Enables analysis of customer support activities to optimize customer support professionals, processes and tools.

Ability to input, modify and extract data from the application in bulk through a structured file.

Application Programming Interface - Specification for how the application communicates with other software. API's typically enable integration of data, logic, objects, etc with other software applications.

To what extent are there partner applications readily available for integrating into this product? Partner applications typically provide complementary, best of breed functionality not offered natively in this product.

Enables multiple users to interact by sharing information to achieve a common goal. Social collaboration focus's on the identification of groups and collaboration spaces in which messages are explicitly directed at the group and the group activity feed is seen the same way by everyone

Use public social networks to listen and engage with customers. Allows users to filter what’s important and respond quickly. Often this functionality allows questions and requests from customers on social networks to case management.

Allows software to be easily used on multiple mobile devices include phone and tablet devices.

Enables reporting of all data contained within the system. Typically contains standard reports as well as the ability to create ad-hoc reports.

An easy to read, often single page, real-time user interface, showing a graphical presentation of the current status and historical trends of an organization’s Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to enable instantaneous and informed decisions to be made at a glance

Enables projection of sales revenue, based on historical sales data, analysis of market surveys and trends, and salespersons' estimates.

Assigns achievement badges to high-performing employees based on pre-determined standards.

Automatically recognizes achievements that should be added to the leaderboard.

Helps users determine sales goals by calculating potential commission rates.

Highlights top-performing employees to publicly reward their achievements.

Creates user profiles similar to social media pages that display private or public statuses and updates.

Generates reports with customizable fields to further understand employee performance.

Visualizes individual and team insights such as new leads and outbound calls.

Allows teams to set trackable goals within the tool.

Integrates with CRM and financial systems to help determine goals

Organizes team members by roles, activities and objectives and weighs tasks by importance.

Allows managers and administrators to peruse profiles and monitor employee behavior and performance.

Offers a chatbot to initiate and carryout inital conversations with prospects and leads.

Automatically calculates which leads are the most likely to become a customer.

Automatically contacts all leads.

Utilizes natural language processing to set up meetings.

Manage sales opportunities through their lifecycle from lead to order. Track stages, values, and probabilities of close. Manage sales pipelines by individual sales rep, team, region, and company-wide.

Automates the entry of collected data.

Application Programming Interface - Specification for how the application communicates with other software. API's typically enable integration of data, logic, objects, etc. with other software applications.

Provides real-time coaching to sales representatives.

Tracks and analyzes sales representative performance.

Measure return on investment and leverage data to predict profitability of future projects.

Enables projection of sales revenue, based on historical sales data, analysis of market surveys and trends, and salespersons' estimates.

Provides users the ability to dynamically segment their users based on varying criteria (i.e. email opens, product features, etc.).

Automates the testing and optimization of customer-facing messaging and campaigns.

Ability to uncover and visualize how users move through your website, marketing campaigns, and product(s).

Ability to measure product usage by feature, campaign performance by source, and other trending metrics.

Provides dashboards to combine and visualize quantitative and qualitive customer journey data.

Provides advanced data filtering capabilities to help users drill down, sort, filter, aggregate, and group customer journey data.

Ability to create visualizations or maps of past, current, or future customer journeys based on behavioral data.

Integrates with additional marketing analytics and other marketing, sales, and e-commerce-related software to provide one source of truth for customer journey analytics.

Provides the ability to setup automated alerts to drive targeted actions and customer experience improvements.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives