# Box Zones Reviews **Vendor:** Box **Category:** [Other Privacy Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/other-privacy) **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 31 ## About Box Zones Box Zones enables organizations to address data residency obligations across multiple geographies, allowing them to raise the bar for privacy and control in the cloud. ## Box Zones Reviews ### 1. Can be a challenge to learn at firsst but now I like it! **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matthew L. | Sr People Business Partner, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 06, 2022 **What do you like best about Box Zones?** I like the connectivity for collaboration that it offers. The search function is superior to Google Drive, which we used previously. I also like that permissions attach to the folder tree and cascade down. **What do you dislike about Box Zones?** It is a complex system and takes considerable time to learn. I am now learning it's true value but at first, it was a bit challenging to understand the folder architecture. The UX isn't great, either. **What problems is Box Zones solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows for greater collaboration across all of our functions and is a more secure file management and storage solution. It integrates with all appropriate apps. ### 2. All your files in a virtual Box! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Azhar C. | Estates and Facilities Administrator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 10, 2019 **What do you like best about Box Zones?** Sharing files and folders has never been easier. Box also integrates with MS office and you can share at a click of a button. The best thing is that you can manage who can have access to your files and folders. You can allow user certain levels of access. such as viewer, contributor and/or editor. **What do you dislike about Box Zones?** Can't fault it as I have had no issues whatosever **Recommendations to others considering Box Zones:** If you are looking to implement a secure, virtual storage and file sharing space, Box is the future. Files and folder can be managed and share easily, and it is very easy to operate **What problems is Box Zones solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sharing meeting documents and minutes has become much easier, especially for large files which you can't always email over or takes a long time. You can also access things on the go simultaneously! ### 3. Very useful product **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Becky B. | Four Diamonds Mini-THON Admin, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 04, 2019 **What do you like best about Box Zones?** The storage and shareable aspect of the product. It allows me to store and share information to my colleagues across our many campuses. It will also then provide/create a history of all our information, which is very helpful. **What do you dislike about Box Zones?** I was a little worried I wouldn’t be able to figure out how to use it, but it is very easy to use. I was very hesitant to start, but very glad that I did. **Recommendations to others considering Box Zones:** I highly recommend this product, especially if you have employees working from different sites. **What problems is Box Zones solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use this for training and we also use it for storage for different groups across the university. It also allows multiple people to contribute, which is a very nice feature as well. ### 4. Easy to Navigate Cloud File **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lyn W. | Project Support, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 10, 2019 **What do you like best about Box Zones?** I like Box because you can access anywhere you have internet. Our business uses it all the time for our storage - eliminated file cabinets! We can share notes in the folders, notifications, easy to upload into. The other thing I like is that for personal use it has way more storage for a basic account than other cloud files. I also love the drag and drop feature. **What do you dislike about Box Zones?** There is nothing to dislike about box. :) **Recommendations to others considering Box Zones:** I think Box Zones can be used for big and small companies. It has the ability to be accessible all over. Once you get trained in how to use it, it is very simple and self explanatory, **What problems is Box Zones solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to collaborate. Ease of uploading, saving and accessing files. Creating folders right in Box. ### 5. Similar to Dropbox **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alessandra R. | Marketing Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2019 **What do you like best about Box Zones?** Box is easy to use to share files and assets that can't fit in e-mail.I like that I can upload files quickly and instantly have a share link to send to colleagues, or I can send via e-mail directly from box. **What do you dislike about Box Zones?** I like everything about box. It might be unfamiliar to some people so they might be wary to open. Unfortunately my company uses Dropbox because it is more approved by our IT department. I think if box had more awareness, especially in a business sphere, it could generate a lot more clientele. Right now I think Dropbox is beating them in brand awareness. **Recommendations to others considering Box Zones:** It's very similar to Dropbox so I would compare costs and see if your IT department approves either one for use as a company. **What problems is Box Zones solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sharing large assets in an easy manner. Videos, photos, and files are easily uploaded and sent between users and non users. I like that not everyone needs an account to use this product. I also like that it's very straightforward, so even those who are not tech savvy can use it with no problems. ### 6. Box Zones: Just another file service? **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jared H. | Graphics & Web Designer - Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2019 **What do you like best about Box Zones?** Box Zones ultimately allows you as a company to manage private and encrypted data, placed in the cloud, across country borders, fully adhering to data-protection and privacy laws in accordance to each country that is compatible. **What do you dislike about Box Zones?** It really just feels slightly outdated, even with the "collaborative" features that Box has put out recently. **Recommendations to others considering Box Zones:** Give yourself and your team ample time to "play" with the UI and the features before fully implementing Box Zones. **What problems is Box Zones solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data management across countries is definitely a huge benefit, especially seeing as how many of our clients do not reside in the United States. ### 7. Extraordinary experience with Box Zone **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2019 **What do you like best about Box Zones?** Box, guaranteed support for data storage. Guarantee data availability according to requirements from any location. Flexibility of use. Security, transparency, and implementation guarantee. **What do you dislike about Box Zones?** So far, there are no problems with the use of the program. **Recommendations to others considering Box Zones:** As a Box user, we are pleased to highly recommend it. Its user-friendly platform allows for quick, secure, and flexible data upload and download without any difficulty. Working with Box Zones for data management saves us time and simplifies work, allowing users to access storage easily in series or bulk; its implementation is simple and bold. **What problems is Box Zones solving and how is that benefiting you?** With the implementation of Box Zone, we have managed to satisfy data access from anywhere. Download or upload information almost instantly. Its use and implementation are safe, flexible, and fast. ### 8. It helps manage your data **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Beatrice M. | Sales Manager, Marketing and Advertising, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2019 **What do you like best about Box Zones?** I like how easy it is to integrate with any of your box cloud spaces! It protect your privacy and is one of the best cloud hosting services! The app also is great! **What do you dislike about Box Zones?** It is a little bit too expensive compared to other services, but here. you can get more features and it's very nice and clean **What problems is Box Zones solving and how is that benefiting you?** Storing data to of my companies to share all over the web with clients and employees! ### 9. One of the best cloud hosting platforms around! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Travis W. | VP of Investor Solutions, Real Estate, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2019 **What do you like best about Box Zones?** Box Zones is an extremely organized way to store your files and data in a secured way. **What do you dislike about Box Zones?** There are upsells, advertising and other forms of marketing embedded into the platform. Not a fan of these types of sales, especially in purchased software... **Recommendations to others considering Box Zones:** Great for the price! **What problems is Box Zones solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cloud Storage and the elimination of GoogleDrive and Microsoft/Apple cloud based systems. ### 10. Save Your Storage **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2019 **What do you like best about Box Zones?** I love how you can upload a lot of items and give certain restrictions to certain people and full access to other. It’s great, I love it. **What do you dislike about Box Zones?** There isn’t much to dislike. I like of wished it would load faster for certain things but nothing besides that. **Recommendations to others considering Box Zones:** I would definitely recommend it. It’ll def help with storage and sharing and it will improve everything by a lot. **What problems is Box Zones solving and how is that benefiting you?** It’s allowing me to store and share multiple files which I may not have space for on my hard drive. ### 11. The Best Software for Our Company **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Business Supplies and Equipment | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 01, 2019 **What do you like best about Box Zones?** We saw the most value from Box when we needed to collaborate files such as PowerPoints to external customers and partners. Box has a unique ability to allow to store files but also edit them in real time without having to download file, edit and repeat. **What do you dislike about Box Zones?** The pricing structure. My organization didn’t see the long term value of using Box according to their pricing model so we never adopted long term. We still suggest to our customers to use it so we can edit with them. **What problems is Box Zones solving and how is that benefiting you?** Obviously a big need for our customers is data protection and that’s what Box zones did for us. I can’t speak to more than that. It gave our customers ease to know we could share files safely. ### 12. The place to keep things **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Richard S. | Warehouse Supervisor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2019 **What do you like best about Box Zones?** What a great way to share and store files for you company or business. I love the fact that you can share folders with those who need access to. **What do you dislike about Box Zones?** There really isn't much to dislike about this program. You are able to use it how you need it to help your business with storage needs. **What problems is Box Zones solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are able to share documents and other files with easy. It help with having one place to go to find the files needed to complete a job. ### 13. Very easy and safest way to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2018 **What do you like best about Box Zones?** I like he Box Zones because you can manage the accounts easily, create fields and sort by different themes, which is easy to find then and create multiple files. Also Box Zones gives you huge number of place to save and what is very important is that this is very secured for your business. **What do you dislike about Box Zones?** There is very little number of what I dislike in Box Zones, I would add more colors and visual sides in it. Also is would be grate is download system is going to easy somehow. **Recommendations to others considering Box Zones:** I recommend Box Zones Business to have more easy interface, be more secured, btw you guys have very grateful support an backups! **What problems is Box Zones solving and how is that benefiting you?** We support customers with their data and documentation via payments, so this is very important for us to be secured their documentation and information. ### 14. Great service for storage **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Real Estate | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2019 **What do you like best about Box Zones?** I work in real estate and box allows me to upload really large files that my company really relies on. There are many architectural drawings that we review in Box. **What do you dislike about Box Zones?** The only thing I really disliked was the speed of it sometimes, although I understand sometimes it could have to do with the bandwidth and the file might be too large **Recommendations to others considering Box Zones:** Definitely recommend for companies that need to store large files or share large files **What problems is Box Zones solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allows me to review and store very large files. Also allows me to share it with people I'm working with that I wouldn't be able to do over email. ### 15. Excellent data management tool for global datasets **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Management Consulting | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2019 **What do you like best about Box Zones?** Box Zones is incredibly useful if you are managing data across many different countries. It will enable you to remain compliant with data rules **What do you dislike about Box Zones?** Not much is negative about Box Zones as the support is very good. **What problems is Box Zones solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have been able to use Boz Zones to manage my client’s data internationally, while ensuring we do not fall foul of data rules in the different legal regimes. ### 16. BOX, work from any place, anywhere! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Erica T. | Clinical Trial Associate, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2019 **What do you like best about Box Zones?** That you can locate your files at any place or time, there are no "borders" to where you can work and locate your files. Makes it easy to share files among co-workers etc. **What do you dislike about Box Zones?** Nothing! I find it easy to use, and easy to locate. **What problems is Box Zones solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to locate files when I am working for home or traveling. ### 17. The best application to save files in the cloud **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Luis A. | Director del CISE, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2018 **What do you like best about Box Zones?** I like the great ability of the application to have files in the cloud so that they can be viewed quickly and securely, as well as keep companies in contact and store information in a private and organized way. **What do you dislike about Box Zones?** I would like it to have more global expansion, since it does not cover all countries and also that there are not so many options for companies that are outside of these countries. **What problems is Box Zones solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have solved security and privacy issues in my shared files and those I upload in the cloud. Improve my productivity and my contribution thanks to this application. ### 18. Review for Box Zones **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Public Relations and Communications | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2019 **What do you like best about Box Zones?** It was fairly easy it is to integrate your existing box account and had privacy protection and security. **What do you dislike about Box Zones?** Nothing really, but it was definitely designed for larger scale projects so it was expensive for what we needed. **Recommendations to others considering Box Zones:** If you already use Box for storage and you have large scale clients, projects, or need large storage capacity then this integration is good for you. **What problems is Box Zones solving and how is that benefiting you?** No problems just the cost to use ratio. It was beneficial for cloud sharing. ### 19. Very Useful **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2019 **What do you like best about Box Zones?** Using Box really made collaborating with my colleagues very simple. Everyone has access to everything and there is a place and a system. **What do you dislike about Box Zones?** I don't have much that I dislike about it. There were moments when two people attempted to access things at the same time and it got weird. **What problems is Box Zones solving and how is that benefiting you?** We had a lot of documents that everyone needed access to and having them all on everyone's computer in a system really helped organize. ### 20. My Review of Box Zones **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Real Estate | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2019 **What do you like best about Box Zones?** I love that you can access Box Zones any place you have internet, and that you aren't hindered by being away from your desk. This makes working remotely much easier than using a typical share drive. **What do you dislike about Box Zones?** Nothing that I can think of, other than a more visual cue of a file being locked. **What problems is Box Zones solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to access files with ease while keeping our information secure. ### 21. Box does it all **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2019 **What do you like best about Box Zones?** Box does a great job at having one hub in order to access all the documentation our org shares across all teams/BUs. **What do you dislike about Box Zones?** Can sometimes be tough to navigate and locate specific items, but I think that's more on our end how we have documentation stored. **What problems is Box Zones solving and how is that benefiting you?** Single source folder to find all documentation needed across all teams to find needed resources. ### 22. Similar to Dropbox **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2019 **What do you like best about Box Zones?** Box is easy to use to share files that are too big too e-mail.I like that I can upload files quickly and instantly have a share link to send to coworkers, or I can send via e-mail directly from box. **What do you dislike about Box Zones?** Not much to dislike. It is more expensive compared to other services. But it’s clean. **What problems is Box Zones solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sending large attachments ### 23. Box review **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2019 **What do you like best about Box Zones?** I like the user friendly interface and easy installation process. Very easy to use and navigate **What do you dislike about Box Zones?** I dislike the slow upload times and some of the features for client data are hard to find **What problems is Box Zones solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are looking to streamline client intake data and move towards a more consolidated approach to organizing company information. ### 24. Box Zones for Business **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Pharmaceuticals | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2019 **What do you like best about Box Zones?** I like how it solves the data residency issue for companies **What do you dislike about Box Zones?** It was a bit confusing to use at first, but not a major deal **Recommendations to others considering Box Zones:** Give this a thorough try to get over the learning curve. **What problems is Box Zones solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am solving data residency problem. Sometimes I need the data stored in a specific region. ### 25. Great collaborative tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Box Zones?** Easy to manage folders and files. Quick uploads. Easy to see and track iterations and maintain document control. **What do you dislike about Box Zones?** Too easy to forget to lock a file and have duplicates when there are multiple collaborators. **Recommendations to others considering Box Zones:** Take care to lock files prior to editing / opening. **What problems is Box Zones solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy location for remote employees to save work. ### 26. Box Zone for Regional Data sharing **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Online Media | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2019 **What do you like best about Box Zones?** Secured cloud for sharing in-region data storage with Box. **What do you dislike about Box Zones?** Difficult to get others to adopt as it is very early in the roll out phase. **Recommendations to others considering Box Zones:** Longer free trials **What problems is Box Zones solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy of sharing regional data via the box cloud with teams in Germany and across the states. ### 27. Box Zones **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mining & Metals | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2019 **What do you like best about Box Zones?** Great concept and product to have your items in specific regions of this could service. **What do you dislike about Box Zones?** Just didn't make business sense to go with the upgraded product. Just kept the standard business addition of Box. **What problems is Box Zones solving and how is that benefiting you?** None at the moment. ### 28. Review to help users navigate box zones **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2019 **What do you like best about Box Zones?** Very easy to use and has massive storage space. Can be used for most types of files. **What do you dislike about Box Zones?** Not very popular and relatively unknown. Not great for collaboration. **What problems is Box Zones solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are trying to access more storage and improve collaboration. ### 29. The Best Software for Our Company **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Writing and Editing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 01, 2019 **What do you like best about Box Zones?** I like how easy it is to use and upload files **What do you dislike about Box Zones?** There’s nothing that I dislike about it. **What problems is Box Zones solving and how is that benefiting you?** File storage ### 30. Satisfy International content writers need **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Publishing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2018 **What do you like best about Box Zones?** The best data storage with box Gives strong data protection.Allowing to companies to storage content around the world. **What do you dislike about Box Zones?** Advertising must be there .Didn't know about it . **Recommendations to others considering Box Zones:** Nice product for the good content writers. Giving full protection to your valuable data. So purchase this softwere & be relax for protection. **What problems is Box Zones solving and how is that benefiting you?** Some content writing along with some some new technical articles. I have got good resultd from it. ### 31. Box works great **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food & Beverages | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2018 **What do you like best about Box Zones?** Box works great to share files with a large team. Works with net suite **What do you dislike about Box Zones?** That your cannot share the file easily. The user has to have an account to acesss. **What problems is Box Zones solving and how is that benefiting you?** That you can have a live stream of data with files stored. 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