Ziflow

We work with a lot of cross functional teams, so it is nice to have them review things on their own and provide feedback all in the one place for our team to review. It helps cut back on meetings and emails full of feedback that gets lost. This is especially helpful when we are working on our catalogs. We do reviews on Ziflow all the way from rough layouts to proofreading.

Ziflow is a great program for all our proofing needs. Creating a proof is as easy as dragging it over. To add someone, you can just start typing an email and it'll pick up from an address book and you can click the name. You can also add multiple people to one tag and have them all added at once to a proof. You can also create templates with people already added to various stages to really speed up the process of adding people to proofs. The stage function itself is also great for having multiple approvals from multiple stages instead of creating new proofs after each person approves.

- Its easy to give feedback. Zflow gives tools in which your able to point out what needs to be adjusted and what looks good
- the capabilities of proofing videos able to pause videos and give feedback.
- its an easy to use interface that allows uploading proofs and tagging people in easily

Great when you have a lot of creative approvals to manage with many decision makers and to keep versions in control- nice safety and security to the tool. Account team is outstanding....

Great proofing software and I have tried many of them, great for easily sending files to clients and collecting feedback. It is well fitted for sending designs (print and web) for review to clients, especially when there are multiple stakeholders involved as they can all easily look at the same file and make comments simultaneously. It could also be used for in-house approvals and reviews.

Ziflow has been great when routing print projects, meaning things going to a print house but can also be used in a digital PDF platform. Ziflow has allowed our organization to move through work at a fast pace and involve multiple teams in the creative process. Ziflow gives all the teams the access to let their voice be heard during content development and decision making of a projects life.

When we have created a visual image for a client with lots of detail. Ziflow allows client to precisely comment on certain things. I have used Ziflow for proofing an audio file instead of a visual one and found this slightly more difficult to navigate.

Ziflow is very well suited to any Marketing department that has inputs, changes, comments and suggestions coming in from multiple different contributors. Even if there are not multiple contributors, the ability to easily mark up a proof is way better than trying to do the same thing in a program like Acrobat

In my case I only use Ziflow to upload proofs to the brand, is very easy to use although at the beginning you can find it tricky but then you will get used to it. I will like to learn of other things that Ziflow can do instead of only upload proof that is my case only, will be helpful to see its potential to the fullest.

Ziflow is well suited for publishing processes of all nature - from print products to online publications and even media-enriched publications. It is great for working on the go and submitting notes for immediate feedback using the in-built communication capabilities. I have not found scenarios where Ziflow could be considered not appropriate, given that the scope of Ziflow is very precise and fills a specific niche in the market.

Ziflow is best suited for medium to large organizations, the kind where 5 or more people from different departments will be commenting on a proof, projects are created via briefs/dockets that are then assigned to another department, projects are likely to go through multiple revisions because the people who initially assigned the work are not graphically inclined, etc. For freelance designers who are dealing with just one client at a time, it would be overkill.

It is best suited for approval processes and file sharing when commenting is required from multiple sources. This is what the software was made for and does it without any hassle or problems. This system for monitoring which files still need to be approved, which are progressing and which are completed is very straightforward and doesn’t require any in-depth training.

As a company in the product development sector, the majority of projects require input from different departments, such as, Product Development, Marketing, Social Media, E-commerce, etc. Ziflow is a powerful tool that has allowed us to facilitate what before used to be physical documents passing through each department. A single round of comments could take days. Instead, using Ziflow allows us to have all departments involved add their comments simultaneously if a much faster fashion, making the process more effective and efficient.

Works well in routing an asset for alignment but does not work well for password protected asset review. It does have the ability to review digital links (like a website) but if you're reviewing multiple assets within a link (like display ads in multiple sizes), it'll open up outside of the platform so you're unable to comment within the original route

Ziflow has come a long way and is proving itself useful in many different aspects. I cannot think of an instance where it wouldn't be fitting. Any ads, emails, and web pages have to be reviewed before being published, so doing so with Ziflow simplifies the process and holds you accountable by displaying the stage of the proofing process you are in.

When proofing is a part of broader collaboration across the org, it allows you to integrate it tightly into the broader tech stack

Ziflow is well suited for any marketing/design team, unless it is Social Media focused. Ziflow has helped our team in all print materials (packing design, catalogs, signs, banners, ads) and website material (ads, homepage redesigns, banners) as well as photo shoot post production (we create one photo per page contact sheets and comments on what needs retouching, cropping or killing). I only hope one day it will be more social media campaign friendly.

Ziflow, as a platform, provides active design and development teams with an incredibly useful tool for being able to review our work in progress. This allows us greater control and time efficiency in our development process. The ability to then share these live projects for internal and external reviews has significantly reduced the volume of emails and back and forth on Slack and Teams so we can spend our time developing and delivering and not having to chase people down to get them to review what they need to.

Ziflow is great and makes collaboration easy. Depending on how big your project is- you can loop in and tag as many people as you would like. I am a senior project manager who works and manages global teams, and Ziflow made it easy to collate all feedback. I appreciate previous versions are stored so you can go back and review them to ensure all feedback and notes were captured in the "new" versions. Also, having the feature of organizing your proofs into different folders, archives, duplicates is great for file keeping. I always found version control when receiving feedback on creative files, but Ziflow allows you to upload PDFs and docs, and compare them side to side, which helps to ensure everything flowed in correctly. Lastly, the ability to create workflows is incredible and saves you so much time.

We do weekly newsletters where we advertise a breadth of brands that use our product offerings as well as any promotions.Sometimes there are 10 brands, with 5 separate account managers. We are able to get every module approved by the account managers and have exact links, copy changes and images added to the proof. Once all account managers have approved, the proof is automatically pushed to marketing, compliance and legal so that we can collate all feedback and approvals into one place. Ziflow acts as our source of truth for every proof we do.

As I work in the marketing team with the graphic designer we use Ziflow to get approvals for all of the content we are creating, making it seamless to receive feedback on our work to make immediate changes, uploading multiple versions of a proof to ensure we are all aware of the current correct design and it allows for other teams in the organisation to provide their feedback and approvals effortlessly.

The version comparison makes it perfect for marking up and checking whether changes have been implemented by my team as per my client's requests. For video review it also works very well - it has completely replaced our traditional, clumsy way of reviewing videos. Some of my clients feel intimidated by the interface, so perhaps the client-facing side of things should be simplified.

Most of our proofs require multiple reviewers across different timezones so Ziflow streamlines all our review needs. It ensures everyone is using the same software and becomes familiar with the way of proofing that is efficient and effective. The only scenarios where it is not appropriate is when the file to review isn't supported by Ziflow, eg a PPT presentation

We use Ziflow specifically in reviewing our product materials. I wish it was easier for someone to learn the commenting features - it can be a lot to ask them to watch the Ziflow tutorial (10-15 minutes) or schedule time to go over it with each person. It's great for getting really zoomed in and figuring out the details, but this means that sometimes edits are hard to notice between versions. There should be something in the upload feature where you can reflect this more. We've gone around this by adding boxes around areas that are changed for reviewers to quickly approve the appropriate changes. Even small features like a spell check option or MLA/AP style check or if a word should be hyphenated would be great functionality. Could we add this as a feature where we can teach the system what words are needed for our style and it catches any incorrect punctuations or spellings of those?

Video review with multiple stakeholders and creatives will need a diverse tool like this. Comments on style frames and storyboards need different tools than on video, and Ziflow does a good job balancing both.