In my opinion, when contracting with Zoom Workplace be cautious of the terms and adding subscriptions later on
June 03, 2024

In my opinion, when contracting with Zoom Workplace be cautious of the terms and adding subscriptions later on

Zachary Litif | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Business

Modules Used

  • Zoom Meetings & Chat
  • Zoom Video Webinar

Overall Satisfaction with Zoom Workplace

For the most part we just have Zoom Workplace pro licenses for video conferencing. We recently tested out webinar and large meeting and have been periodically using the large meetings. We discovered we do not have a use case for the webinar.

As far as business problems, it solves our need to meet with colleagues in different states and countries. However, Zoom Workplace has recently caused business problems from a financial standpoint for our organization with unclear billing and contract agreements that have led to overpayment since October. In our experience, we went down every avenue possible to rectify the situation to no avail, no customer success manager was willing to fix the situation, despite the fact that they admitted a trial version would have been provided for free for a month, but because we paid for it, the subscription was added to our 3-year contract which was not made clear during purchase.

In our experience, Zoom Workplace failed to respond to our requests to have this issue mediated by the better business bureau, NYS consumer protection bureau, or the NYS attorney generals office. We are looking into other options for video conferencing to move away from Zoom Workplace at the end of our contract.

Pros

  • Video Conferencing

Cons

  • Account management/ customer success
  • Contracting, subscriptions and billing management
  • Appealing to nonprofits
  • Mostly negative -- we have found multiple ways now to circumvent the use of Zoom Workplace for our business purposes

Do you think Zoom Workplace delivers good value for the price?

No

Are you happy with Zoom Workplace's feature set?

No

Did Zoom Workplace live up to sales and marketing promises?

No

Did implementation of Zoom Workplace go as expected?

No

Would you buy Zoom Workplace again?

No

I have actively been telling nonprofit partners and nonprofit colleagues to move away from Zoom Workplace. We have had such a poor experience with our current situation and getting charged ~$320/ month for products we only used once. When we asked to cancel it and spent hours talking to multiple people, ultimately the response was we could allocate the money toward other products. We are a small nonprofit that operates on a very lean budget and do not have the capacity to have "additional products" that we have no intention of using.

Zoom Workplace Feature Ratings

Not Rated
Calendar integration
5
Meeting initiation
5
Record meetings / events
5
Desktop sharing
6
User authentication
5
Participant roles & permissions
5

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