WhatsApp Business vs. Zoom Workplace

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
WhatsApp Business
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
WhatsApp Business is a free to download app that was built FOR small business, allowing users to connect with customers easily by using tools to automate, sort and quickly respond to messages. For medium and large businesses, the WhatsApp Business API powers communication with customers all over the world, allowing them to connect with them on WhatsApp in a simple, secure, and reliable way.N/A
Zoom Workplace
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Zoom Workplace, Zoom’s open collaboration platform with an AI Companion, empowers teams to be more productive, and strengthen customer relationships throughout the customer lifecycle with Zoom’s Business Services for sales, marketing, and customer experience teams, including Zoom Contact Center.
$16.99
per month per user
Pricing
WhatsApp BusinessZoom Workplace
Editions & Modules
WhatsApp Business
Free
Add-On Zoom Translated Captions
$5
per month per license
Pro
$16.99
per month per user
Business
$21.99
per month per user
Add-On - Conference Room Connector
$499
per year
Basic
Free
Enterprise
Custom
Add-On - Zoom Whiteboard
starting at $2.49
per month per user
Add-On - Large Meetings
starting at $600
per year
Add-On - Cloud Storage
starting at $120
per year
Add-On Audio Conferencing
starting at $1200
per year
Add-On Zoom Phone Power Pack
Starting at $300
per year per user
Add-On - Quality of Service Subscription
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
WhatsApp BusinessZoom Workplace
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual billing.
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Community Pulse
WhatsApp BusinessZoom Workplace
Considered Both Products
WhatsApp Business
Chose WhatsApp Business
WhatsApp has been my choice for a few reasons. 1) being already sth I use everyday 2) more reasonable in terms of pricing compared to Zoom and others 3) more widely accepted, compared to Telegram and viber. The familiarity of WhatsApp I think is the winner here. Others are …
Chose WhatsApp Business
We opted for Whatsapp Business for [a] large number of adept people. Compared to other products, Whatsapp has already been disseminated all over the world, which makes it much easier for users to use. The fact that we can use it on cell phones and computers brings us even more …
Zoom Workplace
Chose Zoom Workplace
Zoom is 100% superior in almost all aspects compared to its 2 main competitors: Microsoft Teams and Skype. Only a few organizations in the Australian Education sector use Skype anymore. There are several universities and organizations that are forced to use Teams by their …
Chose Zoom Workplace
Zoom app is user friendly, it is also very fun to use. We chose zoom over other apps because of its efficiency and better functionality. Because of Zoom, we've all become great communicators. Also, since it is widely used by business owners and corporations, people are counting …
Chose Zoom Workplace
We devised our specifications and evaluated the following products and Zoom has most of the features that we required for our business. The most prominent and frequently used features among our organization is breakout rooms. This minimizes the urgency to buy multiple licenses …
Chose Zoom Workplace
We started testing the tool and quickly changed everything. We chose to use it because it worked very well and with a higher quality than expected. Today we do not think of using another tool because it is meeting all our needs. We managed to keep the team updated and united, …
Chose Zoom Workplace
Zoom, in my opinion, was the best option to use because of the great video and audio quality. The other options has a big delay the voice of the participants and the video quality is not great. Zoom is also a lot more stable in terms of control over the participants you can …
Chose Zoom Workplace
Zoom is easier to use than Google Hangouts and Skype, both of which can be very cumbersome. Also, while Google Hangouts has made some changes to its services it still lags behind Zoom. WhatsApp is the easiest to use but has fewer capabilities than Zoom. Zoom is easy to use, …
Features
WhatsApp BusinessZoom Workplace
Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software
Comparison of Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software features of Product A and Product B
WhatsApp Business
-
Ratings
Zoom Workplace
8.3
962 Ratings
1% above category average
High quality audio00 Ratings8.5954 Ratings
High quality video00 Ratings8.6954 Ratings
Screen Sharing
Comparison of Screen Sharing features of Product A and Product B
WhatsApp Business
-
Ratings
Zoom Workplace
8.5
961 Ratings
3% above category average
Desktop sharing00 Ratings9.3960 Ratings
Online Meetings / Events
Comparison of Online Meetings / Events features of Product A and Product B
WhatsApp Business
-
Ratings
Zoom Workplace
8.5
967 Ratings
2% above category average
Calendar integration00 Ratings8.7879 Ratings
Meeting initiation00 Ratings9.1941 Ratings
Record meetings / events00 Ratings9.1917 Ratings
Online Events Collaboration
Comparison of Online Events Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
WhatsApp Business
-
Ratings
Zoom Workplace
8.2
832 Ratings
1% above category average
Live chat00 Ratings8.8814 Ratings
Online Events Security
Comparison of Online Events Security features of Product A and Product B
WhatsApp Business
-
Ratings
Zoom Workplace
8.8
822 Ratings
12% above category average
User authentication00 Ratings8.7719 Ratings
Participant roles & permissions00 Ratings8.8789 Ratings
Cloud PBX
Comparison of Cloud PBX features of Product A and Product B
WhatsApp Business
-
Ratings
Zoom Workplace
7.8
209 Ratings
6% below category average
Hosted PBX00 Ratings7.598 Ratings
Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)00 Ratings7.7123 Ratings
Directory of employee names00 Ratings8.3194 Ratings
Call Management
Comparison of Call Management features of Product A and Product B
WhatsApp Business
-
Ratings
Zoom Workplace
8.0
228 Ratings
5% below category average
Answering rules00 Ratings8.5169 Ratings
Call recording00 Ratings9.0206 Ratings
Call park00 Ratings8.0129 Ratings
Call screening00 Ratings7.5145 Ratings
Message alerts00 Ratings7.9182 Ratings
Business SMS/External Messaging00 Ratings7.6121 Ratings
Voicemail Transcription00 Ratings7.1167 Ratings
Mobile apps
Comparison of Mobile apps features of Product A and Product B
WhatsApp Business
-
Ratings
Zoom Workplace
8.5
252 Ratings
0% above category average
Mobile app for iOS00 Ratings8.5222 Ratings
Mobile app for Android00 Ratings8.5157 Ratings
Unified Communications Platform and Collaboration
Comparison of Unified Communications Platform and Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
WhatsApp Business
-
Ratings
Zoom Workplace
8.4
211 Ratings
3% above category average
Centralized communications management00 Ratings8.3170 Ratings
Team messaging00 Ratings8.5181 Ratings
Team document sharing00 Ratings8.7159 Ratings
Call and meeting analytics00 Ratings8.3173 Ratings
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Score 8.8 out of 10
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Score 8.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
WhatsApp BusinessZoom Workplace
Likelihood to Recommend
9.2
(25 ratings)
8.7
(1020 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(1 ratings)
7.0
(25 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(5 ratings)
8.4
(45 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
8.3
(4 ratings)
5.6
(46 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
6.3
(11 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(13 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(2 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.6
(3 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
9.2
(8 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
WhatsApp BusinessZoom Workplace
Likelihood to Recommend
Meta Platforms Inc
By using WhatsApp Business, I can now respond to customers faster, keep them updated about new deals, and even send out surveys to understand their needs. The ability to send stickers and photos makes the app more interactive and engaging. It easily beats other social networks in terms of the quality and quantity of messages sent, which is a good thing for businesses.
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Zoom
Integration with other products and the AI summaries have been huge wins for Zoom Workplace in our organization. They have been life changing for our team. Also, being able to make and receive calls from our cell phones rather than have to give out personal cell phone numbers has been wildly successful with our attorneys.
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Pros
Meta Platforms Inc
  • Ease of communication with clients which helped us in improving our customer satisfaction and quick response time.
  • We can customise messages for different clients such as for vendors, business clients.
  • Excellent support in share images, videos, documents. It saves a whole lot of time and effort by email it to various clients and stakeholders.
  • Various options to create catalogue & showcase accordingly
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Zoom
  • I love how easy it is to set the focus on the presenter. It is annoying when people don't spotlight themselves as a presenter, so you get to see the whole gallery of attendees in smaller, two-inch windows.
  • I like the capability of having break-out rooms. Even though I don't use them very often, it is nice to have them available if the right situation presents itself for smaller group chats.
  • The recording quality is better than I have experienced with other products (Microsoft Teams, WebEx, etc.), and the fact that it is already an MP4, so I don't have to convert it for publishing on our intranet is huge to me.
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Cons
Meta Platforms Inc
  • UI/UX of WhatsApp has room for improvement. The goal should be to add more features for business interactions outside of the everyday messenger. (interface wise, not feature wise)
  • Multi-device use is added but it's still not as flexible and fast as other messengers like Telegram
  • File transfer is time consuming and troublesome. It also has limits.
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Zoom
  • Love notes - allow insertion of table or grid
  • Allow admin to turn off DND
  • Allow a way to group individual people chats - not channels just individual peeps into groups for ease of finding - like how you can group shared calendars into sections in Outlook
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Likelihood to Renew
Meta Platforms Inc
It's ease and pocket friendly use makes it best in the market when you are required to connect with client directly and showcase your products. One needs to understand how powerful WhatsApp Business as a tool is if he/she knows it's use at it's potential. There are many customisations one can do and interact with multiple clients at one time which saves time and efforts.
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Zoom
We're sticking with Zoom for the foreseeable future--given its compelling feature set, ease of use, and advanced technology, there's just no other competition to be excited about. Plus it's a Gartner-recognized industry leader, so it's a rather easy choice.
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Usability
Meta Platforms Inc
Most reliable app for business and personal use. I rely on it with any hesitation. Its encrypted chatting system impresses me a lot. Easy file transfer is also appreciated. Maximum people use this app, so I can communicate with most people through this. It makes my life more comfortable.
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Zoom
Zoom is made for the non tech office. It has features that can be made to do what you need to run things on a day to day basis. Immediately we we able to get meetings going with remote employees. The ability to be able to add smartphone connected people was a big plus. Zoom met our needs at the time.
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Reliability and Availability
Meta Platforms Inc
No answers on this topic
Zoom
There have been less than a handful of outages during our two years with Zoom, and whenever there was one, an email informing us of the outage went out immediately, and they had the issue resolved shortly thereafter.
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Performance
Meta Platforms Inc
No answers on this topic
Zoom
Zoom has among the best performance of any video conference platform, as I've mentioned several times. Besides that, their Chat platform works great, and their back end always runs smooth. It's unfortunate that reporting can now only be done by one month at a time, but nonetheless, it only takes a second to run any kind of Zoom report, whether it's an attendee report, Poll results, a user report, a list of meetings from the past month, etc.
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Support Rating
Meta Platforms Inc
There were some issues in the beginning when the app used to get hanged. We had emailed customer support, and we received a response promptly. There was an issue with the phone where some updates had to be downloaded. You can also complete a form online to contact customer support. The staff can speak many languages
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Zoom
Because I got a response right away, and was assigned one specific individual to work with me from the beginning to the resolution. I had an actual email address and direct contact with this person without having to start over and over every time I contacted Zoom - this singular individual remained attentive and was well informed on the subject matter and quite able to resolve my needs.
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Implementation Rating
Meta Platforms Inc
No answers on this topic
Zoom
If you receive any pushback from higher ups, point to any of the various positive reviews like this one. Or show Zoom's excellent Gartner report, or articles describing Zoom's partnership with Sequoia capital. It's not difficult to show how Zoom is a trustworthy industry leader with best-in-class technology.
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Alternatives Considered
Meta Platforms Inc
In a business organisation communication is the main factor for the development. And WhatsApp Business is the most perfect software for it. The software is designed with full of perfect features for the better communication. It performs very effectively than other software. I am fully satisfied with the features of the software. A superb software to me.
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Zoom
Zoom Workplace is typically on the more expensive end against other options, but it's the industry leader for a reason. It has the most brand credibility by far, but that doesn't mean it's perfect. There are limitations when it comes to technical performance, customization and video/audio quality. I prefer Slack myself for communication apps, but Zoom Workplace is a good alternative.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Meta Platforms Inc
No answers on this topic
Zoom
The billing and price model is really fair for so many functions that they offer, our remote work requires each of the features that Zoom offers, so accepting payment for a tool like this is the least we can do. I like that billing arrives on time and that they offer opportunities and payment times.
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Scalability
Meta Platforms Inc
No answers on this topic
Zoom
Because the Basic licenses are completely free, and because it's very easy to configure and install Zoom, and because anyone can join Zoom from a link without needing an account, scaling is a Breeze. There are absolutely no roadblocks. My company keeps adding more Zoom Pro license every week since it's so in demand. We were able to convert users from several different platforms onto Zoom with no trouble at all.
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Professional Services
Meta Platforms Inc
No answers on this topic
Zoom
Zoom is perfect for our business. We use it to video chat with prospective clients. The name recognition alone gives us credibility and it is very easy to screen share and send content out.
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Return on Investment
Meta Platforms Inc
  • With WhatsApp Business help, productivity has risen while email and text messages continue to be used.
  • It’s helpful to adapt, have a positive business return, and use WhatsApp Business groups to manage communication with specific people.
  • Integrating the company and the improvement of its visibility allowed for better optimization of customer engagement.
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Zoom
  • Zoom, in essence, is how we deliver what we sell. Services delivered over Zoom account for 80% of our annual revenue.
  • Zoom saves me approximately 3 hours every week thanks to integrations with other software I use.
  • Zoom webinars have fueled my list growth.
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ScreenShots

Zoom Workplace Screenshots

Screenshot of an example collaboration feature. These are used to:
Transcribe, summarize, and capture action items with AI Companion from your in-person meetings.
Improve visibility and alignment by sharing emails to chats
Elevate a chat to a meeting or phone call to get to resolution faster. 
Continue meeting conversations and easily access shared information in Team Chat.Screenshot of an example of Zoom's productivity features. These features are used to:
Improve productivity across teams, locations, and time zones.
Organize project deliverables and assets in a centralized, collaborative doc.
Collaborate and map out projects visually on a whiteboard.
Jumpstart brainstorming sessions using AI and templates.
Gather valuable team input for well-informed decision-making with surveys and polls.
Stay on top of action items surfaced from across Zoom Workplace.Screenshot of some additional collaboration features. These are used to:
Optimize office experiences and in-person time.
Make sure remote participants feel connected with what is going on in the room.
Collaborate across remote and in-person teams on a virtual whiteboard.
Easily know and identify who is in the room and who is speaking in a Zoom Room with smart name tags and smart speaker tags.Screenshot of an example of Zoom's AI companion. This feature is used to streamline communications, improve productivity, increase employee engagement, and optimize flexible work.Screenshot of additional AI Companion features. The tools is also used to:
Launch internal campaigns.
Deliver visually rich updates with live streams, billboards, and videos.
Ensure critical comms are never missed with read receipts.
Send updates to deskless workers with Workvivo TV and Chat.