Are you starting a new business ? Confused about where to start ? Feeling Lost among the numerous solutions available for collaboration, finance, sales & Marketing? How about integrating the data between all the softwares? Will there be  a signficant capital expediture on the on the infrastructure for the essentials?

I have one answer for all these questions Zoho.

 Zoho is a software company with 50+ Million users in 2019, builds software to solve almost all the business problems that I have known; be it collaboration, finance, sales & martketing, people & HR, IT & helpdesk, building applications,  monitoring, identity management, business workflows, support, Analytics and project management. Zoho has applications built for all these problems as SaaS and the pricing is very competitive.

The great thing about all the applications is that you can get a subscription to each of them individualy or in bundles or all in one bundle. All Zoho applications are intergrated out of the box and you can integrate external applications to Zoho using their API’s.  

 

If you are just starting your business and you may need a simple solution for  book keeping,  invoicing, online checkouts, subscriptions, email & collaboration, social media campaigns, surveys, forms, webinars and events. I picked a few solutions and I believe these are essential for a new business.

Sales & Marketing

Zoho Social is  for managing your brands in social media.  You will be able to schedule unlimited posts, monitor and create customized reports and analyze your brands performance in social media.

Zoho SalesIQ is a live chat embedded on your website, helping your visitors to get in touch with you in realtime.

Zoho Survey is for creating your own surveys. View result graphically in realtime.

Zoho Forms is for collection of data with online forms. You can manage the data with the integrated apps. 

Finance

Zoho Invoice is online invoicing software for small businesses with automatic payment reminders and receive online payments faster.

 Zoho Subscriptions is a subscription billing software with billing life cycle , automated recurring billing, manage subsciptions, send tax compliant invoices and recieve payments on time.

Zoho Checkout is for collecting payments online, comes with a customizable branded payment page and start accepting payments.

Zoho Books is a book keeping / accounting software for managing your finances , automate business workflows, and manage finances across departments.

Collaboration

 Similar to popular collaboration suites there are solutions for email with Zoho Mail, meeting with Zoho Meeting, chat with Zoho Cliq and files management with Zoho Docs. It doesn’t end here, there are few more solutions that are attractive.

Zoho Showtime is a complete training solution to deliver trainings, with polls, questions, slides, screenshare, fileshare, etc.

Zoho Backstage is a super event management solution to run conferences , meetups and product launches for unllimited users.

It’s fascinating to find end to end solutions for all business needs under the same hood. The good thing about Zoho is you can start free forever with the limited users and essential features. But still you will be able to tick off a lot of your requirements with the limited features and you can choose the subscription that meets your requirement and surprisingly all the products are not costlier like the popular ones. Please hover over the products and click to navigate to the landing page of the respective products to understand more about them and check on the pricing page for the comparison of free plans and paid per user subscriptions available monthly and yearly.

Zoho One is an All in one bundle that has about 40+ solutions in a per user subscription model.

I will try to blog about every product of zoho in detail in the coming days. Let me know which Zoho product you like the most and why?.