We compared Monday.com and Zoho CRM across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Features: Monday.com is praised for its user-friendly interface, flexibility, collaboration features, and automation capabilities. Zoho CRM receives acclaim for its intuitive interface, customizable choices, cost-effectiveness, and extensive features.
Room for Improvement: Monday.com users want additional automation rules and better integration with third-party apps. Zoho CRM users said the mobile app could be simpler and that Zoho could improve its data organization and automation.
Service and Support: Monday.com has garnered positive reviews, with customers commending its exceptional and timely technical support. Zoho CRM generally offers good customer service, with responsive support during regular business hours. However, some users had mixed experiences with knowledge and availability.
Ease of Deployment: Most users say Monday.com’s initial setup isn’t too complex, and many noted that the company offers easy-to-follow tutorials. Still, customization and integration can be challenging. Zoho CRM's setup process differs in terms of complexity and time required. While some users found it straightforward, others mentioned that it took a significant amount of time, ranging from weeks to months.
Pricing: Monday.com's pricing is based on the number of users, and most reviews said the licensing model is flexible and reasonable. Zoho CRM is praised for its affordable pricing, being seen as competitive and reasonable. Customers appreciate the cost-effectiveness of using Zoho CRM in the cloud, which eliminates the need for hardware investment.
ROI: Monday.com customers have reported increased productivity and more efficient task completion. Zoho CRM enhances productivity and effectiveness, minimizing the requirement for extra personnel and leading to a positive return on investment.
Comparison Results: Monday.com users say the platform is easy to use and deploy. They also like its flexible and affordable pricing. However, some users say Monday.com could improve by adding more automation options and simplifying integration with other applications. Zoho CRM is commended for its simplicity and intuitive interface. It is more cost-effective and offers more features than many competing solutions. However, users have said Zoho’s scalability and customization options are limited.
"When you have a tool that anybody can use from all devices, it spares some time so that you could do and handle way more things."
"It has allowed our small team of five to deliver more projects on time and with quality as well as instill trust with clients that their projects do not fall through the cracks."
"There are many incredible features, however, the ability to tag each other in comments, mark out progress, and get alerts through the app keeps us moving forward."
"Shareable boards with external partners and a couple of automations are valuable. I also like the simplicity or the clarity of the platform, and how it's a one-stop shop for everything rather than having multiple spreadsheets and folders."
"The most valuable tools are the search function, automated email reminders, and the ability to track changes through the activity log."
"It is extremely customizable to each and every one of my clients' needs."
"The way everyone can work together is fantastic."
"Automation is great."
"I think the whole pipeline tracking is most useful for us."
"CRM software that's simple to use, with good technical support, scalability, and stability."
"The best thing about Zoho CRM is that it is integrated with other Zoho applications."
"There are many features that capture customer data."
"The most valuable features are the lead, opportunity and task management as well as dashboard creation, reporting, contact management and campaigns."
"I like the solution's reminder feature which is helpful for big projects. There are many tasks that run at the same time. The reminder feature makes things easy for me since I use Zoho's mobile version as well."
"What I like best about Zoho CRM is the web form feature. I find Zoho CRM forms excellent."
"Zoho CRM is easy to use and easy to understand."
"It would be nice to have more custom automation and also to simplify some steps to better manage a team and a workload for projects."
"It does have some native report widgets, but there are limitations on those. They're still building that capability out in my opinion. The reporting in monday.com is probably the weakest link, but there are third-party apps that you can add in that do some great reporting for you. You can also tie monday.com into a data warehouse and use something like Tableau, Power BI, or any reporting tool that can report out of a data warehouse to get the more in-depth reports that you need. Monday.com will get there, but it doesn't seem to be one of their top priorities."
"We would like to connect with email solutions such as Outlook."
"They should make it possible in the inbox to select all inbox updates and mark them as read."
"There are a lot of ways that monday.com does not work, for example, when it comes to HRMS. A particular employee can't apply for leave or check the status of a leave request or check his 401(k) status. Those are things that are missing in monday.com."
"We need to have conversations within the platform."
"We have always wanted to be able to perform a global search for a phone number."
"We would like to see better Microsoft Outlook integration."
"The support response time for this solution could be improved."
"Some of our clients could not develop their requirements using the product."
"The only thing I noticed was that it does not support multi-country operations. In Canada, for example, we do not use the term "state," but rather "province," and we do not use zip codes, but rather "postal codes.""
"The integration should be more user-friendly."
"The product's scalability and stability need improvement."
"Pricing for Zoho CRM could be improved because it is expensive. My company also needs some analytics, so it would be good if Zoho CRM had built-in analytics."
"The process of creating reports is not very user-friendly - it takes time, and it's confusing."
"There are at least two big pieces. One is just the ability to reorganize the data and clean it up to eliminate duplicates and things like that. It is very manual at the moment. It only gives us certain fields that we can check on. Because of our particular database, it creates a problem. We deal with hospitals, and there are 50 hospitals. It is tough to figure out which one is which. Is it this one or the other one? So, trying to clean things up is very difficult. I'd like to have more ability to share data fields. The data is structured into different buckets, and I frequently have to create the same field in two different buckets. It would be nice if I could just do a view-only field in another bucket. In my contact bucket, I would like to be able to have just a view-only of the account information so that I don't need to enter it again, which is what I have to do currently."
monday.com is ranked 1st in CRM with 222 reviews while Zoho CRM is ranked 6th in CRM with 47 reviews. monday.com is rated 9.4, while Zoho CRM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of monday.com writes "We can collaborate with our customers efficiently and professionally, and automation makes it easy for everyone". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zoho CRM writes "A highly stable solution that allows customization and data sharing". monday.com is most compared with Wrike, Asana, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Project and Odoo, whereas Zoho CRM is most compared with SAP CRM, Bitrix24, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, LeadSquared and Odoo. See our Zoho CRM vs. monday.com report.
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