Overview
What is Zoho Projects?
Zoho Project is online project management and planning software that provides project teams with a web-based collaborative environment. Zoho Projects can also include a bug tracking module specifically design to support software development project. It is integrated with other Zoho…
Mind Blowing Platform for Management
Zoho Projects
Would not purchase again
My whole project experience in words
Excellent online collaborative project management tools with feature you have always wanted
Great Market Competitive Cloud Based Solution
Zoho needs more time in development phase
Zoho Projects - Medium scale to enterprise project management
Zoho Projects, though not instinctively-enticing, is efficient and feels very promising
A simple straightforward project tool
Easy to use good project management
Very Similar Features to the Competition, but Much Easier to Use
Best FREE project management solution available for startups and small companies
The Best Project Management Tool
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Popular Features
- Team Collaboration (18)9.999%
- Task Management (18)8.787%
- Resource Management (17)8.686%
- Mobile Access (17)8.585%
Pricing
Premium
$4
Enterprise
$9
Entry-level set up fee?
- Setup fee optional
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Product Demos
Webinar: Getting Started with Zoho Projects
Features
Project Management
Project management software provides capabilities to streamline management of complex projects through task management, team collaboration and workflow automation
- 8.7Task Management(18) Ratings
This includes the ability to plan, track, collaborate and report on tasks.
- 8.6Resource Management(17) Ratings
Resource management is workload planning to maximize resources.
- 9.7Gantt Charts(15) Ratings
Gantt charts are charts that show tasks or events along the y-axis displayed against time along the x-axis.
- 8.6Scheduling(16) Ratings
Scheduling capabilities allow users to set schedules on tasks, and create timelines and milestones.
- 8Workflow Automation(13) Ratings
Workflow automation is the ability to route work requests along an approval process automatically.
- 9.9Team Collaboration(18) Ratings
Team collaboration capabilities let team members work directly with each other and provide team updates.
- 6.3Support for Agile Methodology(5) Ratings
Agile is a time boxed, iterative approach to development that builds software incrementally instead of trying to deliver it all at once near the end.
- 8.6Support for Waterfall Methodology(10) Ratings
Waterfall methodology is a tradition development method that is linear and sequential.
- 9.7Document Management(14) Ratings
Document management provides for centralized management of all project documents.
- 9.9Email integration(14) Ratings
Email integration allows work requests to be made directly from email.
- 8.5Mobile Access(17) Ratings
Mobile access is the ability to access the software from a smartphone or tablet.
- 8.9Timesheet Tracking(17) Ratings
Timesheet tracking is the ability to track all billable and non-billable hours for each project.
- 6.9Change request and Case Management(6) Ratings
Change request and change management enables tracking of all customer requests including priority and timeframe.
- 8.7Budget and Expense Management(13) Ratings
Budget and expense management provides the capability to track all expenses by employee or department and link them back to department. It also enables hourly rates to be set.
Professional Services Automation
Features that support professional services organizations
- 5.5Quotes/estimates(5) Ratings
Ability to create, manage and send project fee proposals to customers
- 8.6Invoicing(11) Ratings
Ability to create, manage and send invoices to clients during or after completion of a project
- 6.5Project & financial reporting(5) Ratings
Ability to analyze project and financial data based on custom criteria to gather insights and improve business performance
- 8.7Integration with accounting software(11) Ratings
Real-time, two-way sync with accounting or financial software to facilitate project and financial reporting
Product Details
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What is Zoho Projects?
Presently it is free to manage two projects in Zoho Projects. The vendor says relatively low cost paid versions, on three tiers, allow management of increasing numbers of projects (up to infinite with the top tiered Enterprise level) and increased storage space. Live customer support is accessible via email and chat.
Zoho Projects Features
Project Management Features
- Supported: Task Management
- Supported: Resource Management
- Supported: Gantt Charts
- Supported: Scheduling
- Supported: Workflow Automation
- Supported: Team Collaboration
- Supported: Support for Waterfall Methodology
- Supported: Document Management
- Supported: Email integration
- Supported: Mobile Access
- Supported: Timesheet Tracking
- Supported: Budget and Expense Management
Professional Services Automation Features
- Supported: Invoicing
- Supported: Integration with accounting software
Zoho Projects Screenshots
Zoho Projects Videos
Zoho Projects Integrations
- Zoho Books
- Zoho CRM
- Zoho Desk
- Zoho People
- Zoho Analytics
- Zoho Invoice
- Zoho Assist
- Zoho Meeting
- Google Drive
- OneDrive
- Microsoft 365
- Microsoft Teams
- Dropbox
- Box
- GitHub
- Bitbucket
- Slack
- Zapier
- Zoho Mail
- Google Tasks
- Zoho Docs
- Zoho Cliq
- Google Calendar
- Google Spreadsheets
- Google Apps Marketplace
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Projects
- MS Outlook Calendar
- Crashlytics
Zoho Projects Competitors
Zoho Projects Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android |
Supported Languages | Czech, Danish, Dutch, English(US), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Chinese, Polish, Turkish, Korean |
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(1-22 of 22)Zoho Projects / Focus on your project tasks anywhere
- Collaboration
- Cloud integration
- Reporting and task tracking
- Translation
- Online support
Mind Blowing Platform for Management
- It's generally simple to set up and use.
- Options for advanced setup.
- Tools for keeping track of time are essential.
- Does not include premade templates.
- Slightly unusual resource management view.
- Increase support from customer team.
Zoho Projects
- Reports.
- Time tracking.
- Templates.
- Customizable reports.
- Better customization of dashboards.
- Not very intuitive.
Would not purchase again
- Swiss Army Knife: The suite of Zoho projects can be tailored to fit the needs of any business. It's great to have a bunch of different software offerings that will work together seamlessly.
- Task Customization: Zoho allows you to customize your tasks more than other platforms (add start dates, due dates, dependencies, subtasks...)
- UI: I wouldn't say Zoho was ever pleasant to use. Having used Asana for many projects in the past (and believe it's one of the prettiest, most intuitive options), I found Zoho extremely clunky. It's also missing basic functionality like recurring tasks.
- Too Complex: We are a technically-minded team, but project management novices. Zoho offers too much customization and due to the poor UI, it was tough to make it our own without the help of our CTO.
- Teams with advanced technical expertise that can get the most out of the customization.
- Newer teams that need an inexpensive, Swiss-army knife solution while they build their tech stack.
- Teams that are used to working with the UI of legacy software.
My whole project experience in words
- Can create many projects at the same time and its very easy to switch between projects
- Very cheap and useful
- Give full control of the activity by their manager.
- User-friendly interface
- I often have login issue, and it has some minor bugs
- Invoice function seems useless sometimes
Excellent online collaborative project management tools with feature you have always wanted
- No restrictions on number of projects you can create. Easy to switch between projects in the same online interface vs managing multiple files.
- Ability to create workflow automations that trigger on event based activities, which enables standardization of processes.
- Ability to share projects with outside vendors/project participants and improve the collaborative nature of Project management.
- More flexibility on making the user interface more compact (like Excel or MSP). Current interface is well spaced, but some users may like a more compact view.
- More simplified Gantt Charts that help us understand progress and dependencies.
- Ability to export projects to Excel for sharing with others we can't/don't want to bring on to Zoho projects
Great Market Competitive Cloud Based Solution
- Simplistic User Interface
- Ability to track projects forward or backward
- Comprehensive & Robust functionality
- Task & Time Tracking could use some additional refining
- Need for a larger knowledge base and help sections - Have to figure out a lot on my own or calling their help desk
- UI could use some improvements
Zoho needs more time in development phase
- It's easy to enter data.
- Sends out daily reminders (to my inbox).
- It had a nice calendar feature.
- It needs to have more customization.
- Features were too basic.
- It's hard to reach support and training features.
- Reporting and exporting funtionallity
- Time Sheet and Dashboards
- Project Dashboard
- Portablity across all machine and tabs
- Integration with leave management system and attendance system
- Calendar integration
HR activities like events management. It's easy to manage the approvals and leave approvals.
Zoho Projects, though not instinctively-enticing, is efficient and feels very promising
- Multiple views are available which allow me to choose which is easiest for me to review my projects and tasks.
- The ability to see others' tasks and responsibilities helps me to see where a project is in its timeline and estimate or know exactly when my tasks will be available and need to be completed.
- The dashboard view offers customizable widgets so I can truly make my dashboard work for me by only displaying the pieces that are relevant to my work and not be bombarded with illustrated graphs of data that have no relevance to my responsibilities.
- Onboard training seemed a bit lackluster as far as my feeling excited and/or prepared to dive right into using Zoho. (In fairness, as our organization is early in the adoption phase, few projects have been implemented into Zoho and so there is not a lot to explore just yet).
- No initial drive or motivation to get started. Generally I am excited to use and explore new software or SAAS but, for reasons I have not yet identified, I did did not feel this with Zoho. Instead I quickly adopted a procrastination mindset of "I'll take a look at this later."
A simple straightforward project tool
- Easy to define templates for task lists and projects
- Easy to see tasks by day and by project to always know what's ready or missing
- Easy to assign tasks to team members ad-hoc to ensure tracking is complete
- Google Docs integration would simplify our workflow immensely
- More customizable data storage
Easy to use good project management
- The software allows for the inclusion of multiple users.
- It has multiple report options to generate result data .
- It lets you organize and process task lists with more structure.
- It could offer better integration with other software like Google Docs and Gmail, etc.
- The document storage component doesn't work great with a wide variety of documents. It looks good, but in functionality we find it lacking and prefer to use more traditional cloud storage.
- Ease of customization, without introducing a level of complexity that makes it difficult to manage.
- Simple workflows for common tasks like adding and assigning issues.
- Integration with other Zoho tools for organization-wide collaboration and information sharing.
- The user interface design tends to lag behind other similar products.
- Reporting tools are limited.
- Requires customization to be suited for a real agile workflow.
- It's particularly easy to get started for development projects. You can easily set it up with milestones for your projects and keep the activities on track.
- Bug reporting and tracking is good, although there are better tools in the market now. However, for a small startup, the free package of zoho projects adds huge value
- The best thing I liked about Zoho Projects was the ability to switch between kanban and list mode. This helps me give a clear picture of where we are with different types of activities, and then show me a list of activities with their details in one listical view.
- I think providing more functionality that can be directly used in a Scrum team would add immense value to the product.
- Reporting could be better. It might be that I wasn't aware of all reporting features, but I definitely struggled with getting insights from reports.
- Integration with Gitlab would help.
The Best Project Management Tool
- The best tool for planning projects (for non-certified project planners or beginners).
- It allows the division of complex projects in milestones, tasks, and subtasks, and to schedule activities according to deadlines.
- It is also good for task monitoring and projects discussion.
- The best features: Mobile app, project organization, calendar, and email integration.
- Some minor UI bugs in the web app and the mobile app (but can be fixed or patched).
- No possibility of cloning or copying repetitive projects with all the content and people managing the projects (could help gain a lot of time especially on complex long projects with a lot of milestones and tasks).
- Time management
- Project workflow analysis and bug-fixing
- Exposure and communication with the teams for a better understanding of the past, present and future situations of each and every project
- Task management and bug reporting and resolving tools
- It also supports future planning of upcoming projects too
My governance platform - Zoho projects delivers for Simpliance
- Simple and easy to set up and start using
- Very effective for projects and tech sprints for a software development company like ours
- Very rare to find any bugs or data loss
- Allows seamless collaboration and monitoring
- Constant innovation and new features which keep us loyal
- Excel reports could be more easy to download
- Meeting rooms should become part of the projects as it will enable further collaboration
The gateway app to an optimized worklife
- We use it to manage our sales orders as there are lots of moving parts which are necessary to get client orders done properly.
- I use it anytime I have a new idea I want to put into motion. As I can create a list for brainstorming, feedback, specific actions necessary in order to test and or implement the idea.
- Unrelated to business, it's a great way to plan travel in order to make sure you don't forget those important things like passport, flight arrangement, client meeting confirmation, and meeting prep as far as what specific documents or things do you need to bring with you.
- And since everyone is on the go and expected to keep up with work, the mobile/tablet app makes it a breeze to keep up, work on, and create new projects.
- It would be great if some of the project printing functions could be enhanced. I love the way it visually looks on screen but on paper not so great.
- Pricing isn't crazy expensive at $25/month per user but would be great if there was a discount provided or a package deal if using many of the other Zoho Suite of products.
- The trial allows for 1 Project which is nice but I don't think it adequately allows someone to properly evaluate the app and to get a feel for it. Seems like allowing about 5 would be a much better way for someone to get the feel for it.
- Assigning Tasks
- Including artwork and banner ads that need to get implemented in web development
- Assigning timelines and deadlines
- Having them be monitored by other team members
- Accountibility
- Comments sometimes buffer and don't get published immediately.
- Projects is good but there is a need to make deliverability more urgent with a point system rewarding those staff members that are most prolific in completing tasks and punishing those that are not as good (or timely), much like the FACEBOOK news-feed rating in likelihood of getting speedy response time while MESSAGING.
- Chronological vs. IMPORTANT outstanding tasks that need TLC
Managing Expectations by Managing Projects
- The ability to track multiple projects at the click of a button: Zoho Projects has the unique feature to jump between identical screens of a project (E.G., viewing tasks) in one click. You can select another project at the top nav-bar, and instantly be put at the same screen as the previous project, but for the now selected one. When viewing resources, tasks lists, its easy to jump to other projects without sifting through multiple channels to see the same information.
- Staying on top of tasks: Zoho has a variety of ways of telling users that they have tasks due or that are overdue. There are different mechanisms that allow easy tracking: Email confirmations, a clear and concise user dashboard, and also a Google Calendar integration that keeps employees abreast of what tasks they should be engaging in.
- The famous Gantt Chart: As an Engineering company, the Engineers that use the software have found the Gantt Chart feature both simple and productive. Having the ability to customize the charts with filters and convert them to PDFs allows any department to easily relay project timelines both internally and externally without having superfluous information left in the visuals. When showing accounting tasks or sales tasks within a project, users can easily with as little as two clicks, get the information they need in Gantt Chart format and ready to print.
- Support Feature: Currently Zoho does not offer direct phone support. They allow emailing to customer care and on rare occasions will ask to setup a phone conference to discuss details/problems that users are experiencing. The turn around time on getting questions answered is mediocre at best. In urgent cases, one can expect at least 6-8 hours before a response is given.
- Customer Access: Although Zoho does offer a customer portal for clients to view project timelines and details, it has little ability to manage what exact information a client can see. There are general limitations in privacy where you either allow a customer to see all information, some, or little at all. There is no 'nit picking' where you have to conceal certain information.
- Requesting Features: When it comes to business-specific needs, Zoho does not seem to be thrilled about adding customization to our company. Asking for items such as an 'information sheet' for a project that would need to be filled prior to creation seems to be a daunting task and replies from support are generalized saying they 'will implement in the future'.
Zoho Projects enables project management, time sheet management and collaboration across distributed teams at a fair cost.
- Zoho Projects is web-based so anyone can access it.
- Zoho Projects has a fairly comprehensive set of features for project management, task and time tracking.
- The pricing is reasonable and affordable for small businesses.
- There is no ability to add custom fields in the "Bugs" module - for example, if we want to add fields such as Version Number.
- Reporting is not integrated - its a fairly expensive add-on.
- There is no easy way to track actual and completed dates for tasks - so historical variance analysis is not easy.
Don't go solo, go Zoho!
- There are so many ways to log hours! Each employee can choose the method that works best for them. Having choice empowers the employees.
- The BugTracker feature is amazing! The BugTracker allows custom fields to better fit our needs. Also, the ability to add files, images and comments to each issue has saved us time and headaches!
- The reports export with all of the important information we and our clients need.
- Zoho Projects can be customized in so many ways. No matter what your company does or in what field, Zoho Projects will work for you!
- Zoho Projects keeps getting better! Recent new enhancements makes it even easier to navigate and the new keyboard shortcuts are amazing!
- Within a task, to log hours you must scroll all the way to the bottom. If there are a lot of entries, this can be tiresome. The Add Log Hours link should be at the top of the entries.
- The default font size in Pages is very small. Even if you select all of the text and increase the font size, any links will remain in the small font size. You must edit the source code to change the font size of links.
- In the Timesheet Calendar view, it would be helpful to break apart the non-billable and billable on hover like it does when you hover over the Time Log column in Tasks.
Solid project management capability at a low price.
- Task assignment and time tracking for project and service work by customer.
- Specifically, we set up clients as distinct projects and use the milestones, task lists, and tasks to manage deliverables. Zoho allows us to track time per task and generate invoices
- Generates easy report to create invoices.
- There is no differentiation between a task’s duration (ie, budgeted hours) and due date. These are linked in Zoho Projects, which is fairly useless for a project management tool.
- I don’t believe we can add custom fields to tasks, only to bugs (which we don’t use). This is a major weakness.