Zoho CRM 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.

CRM integration is flexible and easy to maintain

System provides API's that can be used to easily integrate to financial and other 3rd party systems

System support multiple currencies and languages to enable business in multiple countries

Provides ability for very large quotes, number of products, users, rules, required by enterprise level customers

Easily generate desired reports and dashboard on configurations, pricing, and quoting

ERP integration is flexible and easy to maintain

Displays standard reports at the end of each competition showing overall employee performance.

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

Provides features to allow scaling for large organizations.

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

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

Syncs lead data within the sales database for consistency and accuracy

Provides analysis on lead scores, funnel insights, and both open and closed opportunities

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.

Rules ensure that users select only compatible options and that all required items are included

Pricing is displayed during configuration process so that users can quickly see how configuration changes impact the price

Images can be displayed of options to enable users to visualize product options as it is being configured

Ability to support multiple pricing models for one-time, recurring, and other items

Ability to manage discounts at quote and line level; ability manage discounts based on volume and customer agreements

Allows rules to be written in commercial process so that users don't make errors in pricing, terms, and other commercial considerations

Ensure that users automatically include the right terms based on items being quoted

Users can submit quotes, contracts, etc for approval and obtain appropriate approvals quickly

Allows users to renew existing contracts based on contracted pricing and existing assets already owned

Ability to easily group items on quotes; apply and manage discounts and pricing by group

Provides abilty for versions to expire, allows users to create new versions, revert to old versions and track changes from version to version

Generate professional proposals with desired branding, product descriptions, pricing, terms, and visuals in desired format (pdf, xls, word)

Enables users to seemlessly convert quotes to orders with appropriate validations, workflow, and integration

Ability to convert accepted quotes into contracts; set up of required assets and contracts

Easily build and maintain configurator; flexibility to easily embed all desired business logic

Can easily build and maintain pricing logic required by business

Easily build and maintain workflows, misc commercial fields, commercial rules

Ability to easily build, update, customize, and maintain quotes, contracts, and other document outputs

Supports users working on a mobile devide (phone and/or tablet)

Provides functionality for channel partners to configure, price, quote and buy products in a self service environment

End customer users can configure, price, and buy products in a self service environment online

Offers templates or examples of commonly used competition structures.

Allows administrator to create custom competitions based on KPIs specific to the team to which the competition is assigned.

Set up competitions between groups of employees as opposed to competitions between individuals.

Able to have multiple leaderboards and metrics running simultaneously for different groups of users.

Easily modify leaderboards and goal metrics to support adjustments on how to motivate users.

Provides sales teams with a list of rewards they can choose from based on high performance

Provides each employee with a user profile for personal statistics and progress.

Alerts employees with competition-related news such as launches, leaderboard updates, reports, etc.

Mobile app or mobile optimized website allows participants to easily view scores on the go.

Integration with CRM software to access necessary metrics for the competition.

Integration with social collaboration tools to allow employees to communicate about the competition and earn recognition.

Streams leaderboards and other competition-related news on company's TV.

Compiles data from a breadth of either internal or external sources.

Enables user to communicate data by securely exporting and sharing it.

Allows users to view data visualizations on several devices.

Dashboards which are customizable and interactive so that the user can view sales information in a way that fits his or her needs.

Enables user to segment customer or prospect data in meaningful ways such as by industry or region.

Provides scores or rankings of each prospect based on the data provided.

Provides insights to determine which deals already in the pipeline have the best chance of closing.

Warns sales teams of accounts that may be at risk of being lost.

Provides live customer data so that sales organizations forecasts stay current.

Updates every time a change is made enabling users to trace a deal through the pipeline.

Enables competition between a sales team by providing things like challenges and scoreboards.

Provides insightful data at the account level to arm salespeople with the most relevant information possible.

Enables sales managers to stay on top of their team activities by providing visibility into customer communication.

Ability to import sales and marketing collateral built outside of the solution

Provides capabilities for building unique sales and marketing content within the product.

Provides pre-built templates for fast and simple content creation.

Able to easily search, locate, and retrieve relevant content.

Provides the ability to store and organize content.

Provides real-time reporting and analytics that track metrics and engagement data on sales enablement content, resources, activities, learning, etc.l

Sends a notification when a prospect engages or interacts with content.

Tracks the level of engagement for a specific account based on the presented content.

Tracks how frequently a particular piece of content is being used and monitors its effectiveness.

Records the rate at which emails are opened.

Records the rate at which links in emails are followed.

Records the rate at which email attachments are opened or downloaded.

Exports and imports lead data to and from various formats like plain text, spreadsheets, etc.

Supports basic data reporting which includes user engagement analysis, entry and exit statistics, referrer information, etc.

Aligns lead scores with predefined lead distribution criteria

Matches and assigns leads to the correct sales representative

Determines which leads should be prioritized and then accelerates them up the pipeline

Integrates with lead capture and lead intelligence tools to discover leads

Creates and assigns scoring system to rank the viability of leads

Integrates with CRM or marketing automation tools to contextualize lead data

Reports on and analyzes lead scores to determine the conversion rate of lead opportunities

Aligns lead scores and strategy with existing sales operations

Syncs information from other software such as contacts, emails and calls to reduce manual data entry.

Allows administrators to schedule out emails in advance.

Reminds administrators to follow-up on emails based on pre-set reminders.

Allows for the categorization of emails.

Allows for the creation of templates for frequently-sent emails.

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.

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.

Automates in-system tasks and provides reminders and details for manual tasks for sales team members to complete.

Integrates tightly with email inbox and allows the scheduling and tracking of email outreach and correspondence.

Provides sales dialer functionality or integrates tightly with dialer software, with useful automation and high-quality calls.

Provides relevant automation in sales channels outside of email and calls, like social media posts, SMS text messages and more.

Provides two-way integration with sales CRM: (1) Tracking sales team actions and prospect responses and (2) Pulling CRM data to populate and personalize sales outreach.

Integrates with calendar software so users can seamlessly schedule calls.

Automatically assign strategic leads and accounts to individual reps in a shared bucket for anyone to work on.

Retains and incorporates company-approved messaging and presentations into emails, calls, meetings, etc.

Orchestrates automated sales tasks and outreach across a number of channels (email, calls, social media, etc.) and/or integrated systems.

Reports on the effectiveness of an entire outreach workflow as well as the effectiveness of specific marketing materials, messaging, outreach tactics, and team members.

Surfaces relevant insights about how a team member can perform better, either with improved sales techniques or prospect-specific hints.

Provides gamifaction features to rank sales reps on performance

Ability to create custom quotes based on customer requirements.

Allows users to configure products and revise quotes accordingly.

Provide standard pricing options that can be customized by customer.

Deliver standard contract templates that can be modified by users.

Track contract changes made by all parties during negotiation.

Implement the final version of the contract, including SLAs.

Monitor invoices and payments per product, customer, or contract.

Match invoices with sales orders, quotes, and contracts.

Perform revenue recognition to ensure that pricing or payment terms are accurate.

Provide templates for customer journey mapping to jumpstart the process.

Ability to export customer journey maps in a variety of formats to present and analyze.

Allow team members to invite others to collaborate on journey maps and make direct changes.

Provide the ability to compare the experiences of multiple personas in one journey map.

Ability to integrate with cross-channel, real-time data analytics to power customer journey map creation.

Allows users to simultaneously collaborate on a document within the application.

Stores different versions of a document.

Allows users to provide an e-signature within the platform.

Allows businesses to request files from clients.

Allows businesses to solicit feedback on projects or documents from clients.

Provides billing and invoicing within the application.

Provides internal and/or external instant messaging capability.

Offer project management features like task creation and tracking within the application.

Offer analytics concerning productivity or client engagement.

Allows businesses to track time spent on projects within the application.

Provides a mobile application.

Provides features to create and manage lists of potential customers

Monitors form’s performance and contribution to the sales pipeline

Identifies the visitor, tracks the pages that they are visiting, and the time they are spending on each page

Records leads using different types of devices

Captures form submissions from existing forms on websites or landing pages

Captures leads across social media channels

Captures measurable, real customer data gathered directly from a website

Creates custom lead capture forms for specific uses, such as an e-book download or email newsletter

Changes colors, calls to action, or form length to personalize lead capture

Provides pre-configured templates that can be customized by users

Integrates with sales and marketing software solutions to transfer lead data between them

Allows users to create lead prioritization rules to prioritize the msot important bueyrs and customers.

Provides lead scoring features that allow user to target leads that are the most qualified and likely to engage

Provides features that allow users to identify and automate the best time to send out emails or other sales engagement communcations

Provides features that allow users to have insight into buyer profiles such as likelihood to respond to emails and calls.

Provides AI and machine learning features that offer predictive recommendations no how to engage with buyers based on historical buyer behavior.

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.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Generate personalized quotes and proposals that corresponds with each customer's tailored preferences and buying behavior

Analyzes data to suggest price adjustments instantly based on competitor pricing, demand, market prices, production costs, and other factors

Enhances guided selling by learning customer preferences and suggesting the most suitable products and services based on their individual needs

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

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

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

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

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

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

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

Provides interactive learning to improve skill gaps through role-playing, practicing pitches, scenario-based simulations, etc.

Offers real-time feedback and actionable insights from structured, customized sales coaching assessments and templates.

Provides personalized, interactive training to onboard new hires successfully while monitoring their progress and readiness.

Provides the tools and resources for alignment of all revenue-generating teams to engage customers in a consistent and personalized way

Uses AI for predictive insights, recommendations for content, or automating workflows for onboarding and learning assignments

Delivers a holistic view of interaction data and behavioral patterns across the entire customer journey to improve the buying experience and drive revenue growth

Connects clients to their policies, monitors renewal dates and automates reminders.

Enables automated communication through email, calls or messages.

Manages leads from initial inquiry through the sales pipeline to conversion.

Stores and organizes client and prospect details.

Recycles unconverted leads and opportunities for you to win back the next renewal cycle.

Keeps a centralized record of emails, calls, and notes for every client.

Schedules and tracks calls, meetings and follow-ups.

Collects and manages client reviews and feedback.

Triggers reminders and personalized communications for renewals, quotes and client check-ins.

Sends targeted, scheduled messages to nurture prospects and retain clients.

Stores documents linked to customers, policies, and related records.

Connects seamlessly with third-party tools like Office 365, Google Workspace, AMS and carrier portals.

Delivers insights into sales performance, agent productivity and client retention.