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Zoho Projects

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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…

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Popular Features

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  • Team Collaboration (18)
    9.9
    99%
  • Task Management (18)
    8.7
    87%
  • Resource Management (17)
    8.6
    86%
  • Mobile Access (17)
    8.4
    84%
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Pricing

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Premium

$4

Cloud
per user/per month if billed annually

Enterprise

$9

Cloud
per user/per month if billed annually

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.zoho.com/projects/zohoproje…

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

Webinar: Getting Started with Zoho Projects

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Features

Project Management

Project management software provides capabilities to streamline management of complex projects through task management, team collaboration and workflow automation

8.6
Avg 7.5

Professional Services Automation

Features that support professional services organizations

7.3
Avg 7.4
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Product Details

What is Zoho Projects?

Zoho Projects is a web-based project management and planning software that provides project teams with a web-based collaborative environment. It contains the requisite features for project management platforms, such as time and resource allocation to tasks, issue tracking, milestones, Gantt chart, timesheets and reporting tools, task workflow automation and a feed modeled after social networking sites with the goal of approachability. It also includes a bug tracking module specifically designed to support software development projects, and is integrated with other Zoho products including Zoho CRM. It manages documents, contains calendar and list views, a team intranet and chat, and more. Its functionality is expandable with apps (Google Apps) and Zoho Projects is mobile accessible.

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

Screenshot of Task Automation with Blueprint - Map out your entire workflow with no code as flowcharts. Automate your tasks and notifications and set approval criteria with blueprint.Screenshot of Intuitive Gantt Charts - Say what, say who, say when. And done. Zoho Projects' Gantt chart comes feature loaded with advanced operations such as Critical path and Baseline.Screenshot of Inbuilt Issue Tracker - You can log, organize, track, and fix any problems. Features such as status and workflow, can be customized to suit the exact needs of your project.Screenshot of Drag, Drop and Done - A view of your tasks as cards placed along columns. Helps you identify bottlenecks and reorganize quickly using drag and drop.Screenshot of A quick pulse of all your work - The Portfolio dashboard, is a compact overview of all the work that's been happening across projects with widgets that address the project level timeline, status, ownership, budget health, and clients.Screenshot of Looks that matter - A refreshing UI that supports multiple themes, including an eye-catching dark mode.

Zoho Projects Videos

Zoho Projects is an online project management tool that lets you plan, track and collaborate with ease. Effective project management software helps you organize your work, communicate with your team, and achieve your project goals, irrespective of whether you're a team of 5 or...
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Watch a quick demo on how to manage your projects successfully with Zoho Projects 7. Zoho Projects 7 is the latest version of our online project management tool. With more speed, complete UI makeover, and enhanced features and updates, it's an all-new take on how to effortlessly achieve project success.

Zoho Projects Integrations

Zoho Projects Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android
Supported LanguagesCzech, Danish, Dutch, English(US), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Chinese, Polish, Turkish, Korean

Frequently Asked Questions

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 products including Zoho CRM.

Jira Software, Basecamp, and Trello are common alternatives for Zoho Projects.

Reviewers rate Team Collaboration and Email integration highest, with a score of 9.9.

The most common users of Zoho Projects are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Zoho Projects was used as a collaboration tool across the company to track project status, timelines, and manage workloads. The tool gives you the ability create dependency task lists that start backward or forward. Integrations were helpful. Reports were used for internal visibility and assisted with overall management and expectations. Overall the tool was very easy to use with a simple user interface.
  • 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 Projects is a cloud-based project management solution designed for small and mid-size companies. It offers project scheduling and budgeting, which allows project managers to define project tasks, assign them to their teams, estimate project costs and follow up on in-progress tasks. Zoho Projects works well for collaboration of project management, issue tracking, managing overall workflow, setting timelines and overall expectations.
Project Management (12)
76.66666666666667%
7.7
Task Management
90%
9.0
Resource Management
90%
9.0
Gantt Charts
70%
7.0
Scheduling
50%
5.0
Workflow Automation
80%
8.0
Team Collaboration
100%
10.0
Support for Waterfall Methodology
70%
7.0
Document Management
60%
6.0
Email integration
60%
6.0
Mobile Access
90%
9.0
Timesheet Tracking
90%
9.0
Budget and Expense Management
70%
7.0
Professional Services Automation (2)
45%
4.5
Invoicing
40%
4.0
Integration with accounting software
50%
5.0
  • Time savings - Ease in pipeline project transparency
Zoho Projects is an easy project management tool to use. It provides all the functionality that we required for handling projects. We can easily create personal forms for projects and tasks, allowing us to add and report on our own desire. Apart from this we can create and edit documents in real time which saves our time. This allows us to share text docs, presentations, tables with the whole team and we can work on them together.
Customer services and support was great. I was able to get someone on the phone to assist where needed. Online support could use some ramping up but overall there are enough resources to get through any bumps. Their team is very responsive and makes sure you get a resolution for your solution.
Zoho Projects is far superior as a project management tool compared to the simple ones we investigated. The pricing was very competitive to the market and the free trial helped out with our proof of concept. Compared to Workfront, you get similar functionality but at a fraction of the costs.
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We currently decided to not use Zoho any longer. I have a small Accounting business, and myself and my partner tried to use Zoho for many months to organize our projects and keep up with projects that were in a pending status, completed as well as reoccurring. It was a struggle to use this software based on the lack of customization we wanted and needed. It worked well for client data storage and campaign process, but overall it did make the cut as being our project management solution long term.
  • 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.
It worked well for reoccurring projects when you have the same items as a template base, and it was easy to create new projects from templates. However, it was cumbersome to customize and lacked a good conversation history for storing information that a team could easily find and respond. I did like the integration features, especially the calendar functionality. It was also very difficult to get support. I found that there was overall a lack of good support when trying to learn the product. I prefer to learn on my time instead of having to schedule time with someone live. Our current software has training clips to help learn the features of the software fast, and it is very convenient when I needed it. I felt that this product could have used more time in the beta phase before being rolled out. There needed to be more upgrades for common features that just were just not there yet.
Project Management (10)
46%
4.6
Task Management
50%
5.0
Resource Management
30%
3.0
Gantt Charts
60%
6.0
Scheduling
70%
7.0
Workflow Automation
30%
3.0
Team Collaboration
20%
2.0
Email integration
80%
8.0
Mobile Access
50%
5.0
Timesheet Tracking
50%
5.0
Budget and Expense Management
20%
2.0
Professional Services Automation
N/A
N/A
  • We needed a system to organize our growing business, so anything was better than what we had, which was nothing.
  • Recording time spend is a huge reason for using project software. It has made me aware of the tasks that are taking too long and where we are not being profitable as a company.
  • It has kept our team accountable for what needs to get completed and when projects are not in motion or completed timely. It's helpful to know in order to get billing out faster.
I think I started using this system in an early phase of development. They were constantly stating that "that feature will be coming soon." I felt that since I was already paying to use the software, I did not want to wait on their development team to get to my suggestions. Therefore we decided to move to another platform.
Support was not well trained. Most times being on the support calls were frustrating. It was mainly because the system could not handle our requests and therefore made the support staff feel inadequate.
We were testing out Asana at the time we moved on to Zoho. Zoho seemed to have more features that met our needs. Asana was not quite developed to the point of our liking. Zoho has an awesome calendar function that I loved, which Asana did not.
February 25, 2015

Don't go solo, go Zoho!

Cassandra Stephens | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Zoho Projects is being used by the whole organization to track client and in-house projects. Our billing model is either per-project pricing or in increments of 15 mins and Zoho Projects tracks time so many ways. It is so easy for an employee to enter their time and for project managers to then extract that information and for billing to use that information to populate invoices.
  • 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.
It's so easy to customize to fit the needs of any company. I use it in a small company setting but see if working for a much larger company as well. The price is reasonable and very competitive. Unlike some other "standard" project management solutions, Zoho Projects isn't overly complicated or daunting to use.
  • We use to log issues in Google Docs but were limited with layout, options, fonts, etc. With Zoho Projects, we've saved countless hours using the BugTracker.
  • In our previous system, it would take a few hours for me to review employee log entries every week. With Zoho Projects, it takes 30 minutes for 6 employees over 20 projects.
  • The exported Timesheet reports all of the information I need to update clients. I simply export it and send it!
The interface of Zoho Projects is so clean and modern compared to the others. The functions and abilities of this product outshone it competitors and the price is very reasonable and competitive. Finding and adding information in Zoho Projects is very easy even for a novice. Anyone can learn the system quickly.
8
I've reviewed about 8 other project management solutions and Zoho Projects is the best I've seen without being overly complicated. Zoho Projects keeps getting better! Recent new enhancements makes it even easier to navigate. There are new keyboard shortcuts that cut my time way down. The tools are very easy to use.
Yes
We used Basecamp but the product was not as robust as we need. The reporting is dismal and the time spent manually creating reports hurt productivity. The product was just too basic. Even with external plugins that enhance Basecamp, it still didn't fulfill all of our needs. We simply outgrew it.
  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
The features blew us away. Moving tasks, viewing logged hours and managing milestones were all critical for us. The product isn't daunting or discouraging to use. Every employee enjoys interacting with the product. It only takes a few clicks to do everything, no matter how complex! The product is fully customizable so we can hide those features we may not need on a small project but those features are there when we do.
If I had to do it again, I would of increased the number of tasks and functions being evaluated. For instance, is it possible to log time from an app, or can a task be moved to a new project. I would of increased the number of products to evaluate.
No
Zoho is so easy to use, you really don't need premium support (if they offer it). Zoho frequently implements new features or enhances existing features. All of the improvements are easy to use and you're notified on the dashboard what the new feature/enhancement is so you never miss an upgraded feature.
Zoho does everything I need for a small business. If you have to do a lot of heavy computing then this may not be the product for you but if you need to stay on top of projects and keep teammates updated, this product may just suit all of your immediate needs.
No
  • Logging hours is a breeze! There are so many ways to do so.
  • Adding issues in BugTracker is so easy even our interns are pros at it!
  • Adding users takes only seconds!
  • If adding hours within a task with many entries, the scrolling to the bottom to add hours is a bit of a pain.
  • No space/column for adding a budget of hours. It's different than the duration because we may work on a task that has a 4 hour budget over the span of a few days.
  • Trying to move a sub-task so it's a regular task is bothersome. The drag and drop will only put it as a sub-task to another task.
Yes, but I don't use it
The interface is easy to learn! Spending a few minutes is all you need to get the basics. It's fun to explore all of the different paths to log hours and allows you to choose the path best for you. The exported task XLS has all of the information I want and need.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • 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.
  • Low cost for a tool that we are able to generate bills for all hours worked per customer as well as track staff utilization.
I have not found a better product that meets our need for the price.
15
Sales, Account Management, Project Management, Implementation, Accounting, C-Level
0
  • Sales Database and Project ticketing and time tracking
Unfuddled
We have also evaluated Clarizen and although it's a good product, we are not quite ready to scale up to this yet.
  • Implemented in-house
  • Self-taught
Yes
We added custom field to the CRM - very easy to do. We added a custom field for bugs, but we don’t actually use it. There is no difference for us between tasks and bugs, in terms of how they are handled internally (staffed and assigned and executed in the same way). So it’s not useful to have the separate ‘bug’ list – actually adds work to have to look in two places for open issues.
No
Have not needed.
Questions are answered in an acceptable time frame.
The product is easy to use and understand.
Has not been down to my knowledge.
Speed meets my expectations.
  • No
Very easy it is a web based solution that needed very little support setting up.
There are free and low cost versions that be done on a trial basis and then downgraded. I would suggest trying at most you would be charged for only one month if you choose to downgrade.
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