Zoho CRM Email Tools Overview

Zoho CRM Email Tools Overview

Introduction to Zoho CRM Email

Efficiently nurturing potential customers and building strong relationships is a core function of CRM. While email serves as a primary customer interaction channel, using separate email and CRM systems can lead to challenges in prioritizing communication. This often results in toggling between platforms, which hinders follow-ups and sales updates.

Zoho CRM addresses this by providing sales context within email communications, allowing prioritization and a unified view of interactions. Automatically linking emails to customer records enables holistic tracking of communication progress, highlighting opportunities for enhancement. Moreover, Zoho CRM facilitates comprehensive visibility into customer interactions across your organization.

Overall, Zoho CRM streamlines email communication, enhances prioritization, boosts relationship management, and overall effectiveness.

Email Capabilities





Here, we have endeavored to categorize the email features available in Zoho CRM based on their usability for end users. Emails have been grouped into six distinct categories that align with their relevance and applicability within your business.

Emails in everyday operations

Zoho CRM provides you with tools to manage your emails efficiently, which are crucial for maintaining high productivity. Email remains the preferred channel for interacting with customers, allowing you the flexibility to craft thoughtful responses. Zoho CRM offers a comprehensive array of email features, ranging from fundamental necessities to advanced options. These features are adaptable to your specific business requirements and integration needs.

You can effortlessly send and receive messages, updates, and documents to and from customers, prospects, and your team. The ability to access, monitor, and handle email conversations linked to contacts, leads, and deals is at your fingertips. Zoho CRM facilitates collaboration and transparency by enabling the sharing of emails, task assignments, and direct cooperation within the CRM platform.

The intelligent MailMagnet feature is automatically activated and keeps you informed about CRM-related emails from prospects and customers, directly in your inbox. This empowers you to swiftly respond and establish tasks right from the MailMagnet interface, streamlining your email management process.

Let's take a look at some of the features you can use in your everyday business:

Native Email Support

Zoho CRM offers a native email feature that allows businesses to send emails to their customers directly from within the CRM, even if they haven't integrated their email inbox. This means they can use the same email address they used to sign up, avoiding the need to constantly switch back and forth between their mailbox and the CRM. You can send emails, create mass emails, and also set up automated emails using workflow rules. However, this is a limited setup that cannot track replies to emails sent via CRM. Users will not have access to the full range of email functionalities that Zoho CRM offers. Learn more about Email Communication: Send and receive mails

Inbox Integration (IMAP/POP3)

Your email inbox (Outlook, Google Workspace, Yahoo, Office 365, etc) becomes a natural extension of Zoho CRM, as it effortlessly integrates using IMAP and POP3 protocols, providing real-time access to your two-way email communications. Once your mailbox is integrated, you can access email conversations tied to CRM records like contacts, leads, deals, and so on, directly in CRM modules.

This contextual view saves time, which is crucial for managing high email volumes. It promotes teamwork by enabling email sharing, task assignment, and collaborative responses/strategies within the CRM platform.

This boosts transparency, coordination, and overall team efficiency. Additionally, you can use the integrated system for streamlined customer sales email support, enhancing sales and service processes. Learn more about Email configuration for IMAP and POP3

Email Composer and Send Mail Functionality

Effortlessly compose and send emails directly from within Zoho CRM, ensuring quick and effective communication with clients, prospects, and team members. Learn more about Configuring email compose setting

SalesInbox 

Elevate your email management with SalesInbox, an intelligent mail client that automatically categorizes and organizes work emails based on CRM data, providing a contextual view that enhances your insights. With email integration, SalesInbox organizes emails into CRM columns for contextual deal, lead, and contact insights. Track, collaborate, and expedite deals effectively. Learn more about SalesInbox for web

Organization Email Address

CRM email integration is usually tied to individual accounts. For example, Zoho CRM users set up their personal email accounts. However, situations may arise where all users must send emails from a shared company email like "support@zylker.com." Admins handle this organization email setup. After setup and verification, users can select either their own email or the organization address when emailing customers. Learn more about Organization email address

Email Sharing Preferences

Easily manage email sharing by setting user-level preferences, ensuring efficient and secure access control for all the users of your organization. Learn more about Setting up email sharing permissions

Third-Party Add-On's (Google workspace, Office 365, Outlook, etc) 

Elevate your email experience by effortlessly adding third-party extensions from applications like Google, Office 365, and Outlook. Unlock enhanced communication possibilities directly from the CRM marketplace. With these extensions, you can effortlessly access contacts and leads right within your email applications using the CRM plugin.

Once the extension is installed, you can seamlessly add new leads or contacts to your CRM account, attach notes to records, and associate accounts, simplifying your workflow and boosting your efficiency.

Learn more about Zoho mail add-on
Learn more about  Zoho CRM for Gmail and Inbox

BCC Drop-box

Consolidate your business email communications from multiple accounts into your Zoho CRM effortlessly. No need to configure your email accounts within CRM. Utilize BCC Dropbox, which offers a unique email address for each CRM user. Just add this email address as BCC when sending emails to your leads or contacts. All corresponding emails will be logged in Zoho CRM automatically. If a lead or contact doesn't exist, BCC Dropbox can even create one based on your settings.

For example, if you use various emails like contact@zylker.com and support@zylker.com to communicate with a customer, BCC Dropbox links them all for better context in one place. Learn more about Using Bcc-dropbox

Emails for campaigns, promotions, and mass outreach

Zoho CRM empowers your marketing endeavors with a comprehensive suite of features tailored to campaigns, promotions, and mass outreach. From crafting compelling messages using email templates to executing large-scale campaigns, Zoho CRM offers a versatile platform that transforms your marketing strategies into impactful realities.

Zoho CRM recognizes the power of emails as a means of reaching out to your audience. Whether you're promoting a new product, launching a campaign, or conducting mass outreach, emails play a pivotal role in conveying your message. Your sales teams can build personalized mass outreach efforts by using CRM information (emails, business types, location, currency, products, etc) and add new business opportunities to your portfolio.

Let's take a look at some features available in Zoho CRM for campaigns and promotions:

Email Templates

Save time and ensure consistency with Zoho CRM's email templates. Craft polished and engaging messages that align with your brand identity, and readily apply them to your campaigns. you can craft email templates for common communications, ensuring consistency and saving time. Easily create templates for welcome emails, follow-ups, sales pitches, and more to streamline your email workflows. Learn more about Creating Email templates

Mass Emails

You can effortlessly send mass emails to your target audience using Zoho CRM. Engage with a large number of recipients while maintaining a personalized touch. Lots of customers can be targeted in one go. Learn more about Sending mass email

Zoho Campaigns Add-On and Campaigns module

Elevate your campaign management with the Zoho Campaigns add-on. Seamlessly merge Zoho CRM with specialized Zoho Campaigns capabilities for enhanced campaign creation, execution, and tracking. In today's competitive landscape, targeted outreach is essential for standing out. Zoho CRM empowers you to lead campaigns, promotions, and mass outreach, providing effective audience engagement tools.

Within Zoho CRM, the campaigns module offers a dedicated space to plan, execute, and track marketing initiatives. Effortlessly manage campaigns, monitor progress, and gain valuable insights into their impact. Learn more about Integrating Zoho Campaigns with Zoho CRM

Note: This module requires CRM integration with Zoho Campaigns.

Automated emails to support sales processes

Zoho CRM boosts your sales journey with a comprehensive suite of features designed to seamlessly automate emails into your business processes. From crafting personalized workflows with email actions to utilizing specialized modules for precise communication, Zoho CRM offers a dynamic platform that transforms your sales strategies into streamlined successes. Recognizing the pivotal role of emails in sales, Zoho CRM allows you to automate redundant emailing tasks throughout your sales processes. Whether it's sending follow-up emails or triggering specific actions based on customer interactions, automated emails play a vital role in nurturing leads and advancing deals.

Let's look at some automation available in CRM with respect to emails:

Email Workflows

You can create email workflows tailored to your unique sales processes. Zoho CRM's intuitive interface enables you to automate sequences of emails as an action based on some admin defined criteria and conditions, ensuring consistent communication and engagement at every stage so that you do not miss out on your customers. Learn more about FAQs: Workflow for emails

Email Actions (Blueprint, Command Center and Meetings Module):

Zoho CRM offers an array of advanced email actions designed to enhance your sales operations. Blueprint streamlines complex processes by triggering emails based on predefined stages. The Command Center empowers real-time email communication within your CRM interface. Series allows for the creation of drip email campaigns to nurture leads over time. The Meetings Module facilitates the scheduling of sales-focused emails, enhancing your engagement with your potential clients. Learn more about Setting email notifications

Zoho CRM equips you with the tools to effortlessly incorporate automated emails into your sales processes, allowing you to engage leads and manage relationships with precision. Explore the dynamic features within Zoho CRM and revolutionize the way you navigate your sales journey.

Email Analytics

Zoho CRM offers a complete set of Email Analytics tools that are specifically designed to give you valuable insights into your email communications. These tools help you track how your emails are being received and used, allowing you to understand the effectiveness of your emails. You'll have the information you need to make well-informed choices, improve the way you communicate, and build stronger relationships. You can keep an eye on metrics like email opens, clicks, and replies, which provide valuable information about engagement. By using this data, you can plan and execute more effective follow-ups, and enhance both your sales and marketing strategies.

Comprehensive Email Tracking

Zoho CRM's Email Analytics enables you to delve into the performance of your email communications. Gain visibility into metrics such as open rates, click-through rates, and response times, offering a comprehensive overview of recipient engagement.

Data-Driven Decision-Making

Zoho CRM's Email Analytics transforms raw data into actionable insights. Make informed decisions based on real-time data, ensuring your communication strategies are finely tuned to meet the needs of your audience.
Email Analytics is a crucial tool for refining your communication strategies.

Zoho CRM's suite of features provides you with the ability to gain comprehensive insights, optimize campaigns, and drive meaningful engagement. Learn more about Email Insights

Security and deliverability of emails

Zoho CRM prioritizes secure and efficient email communication. It provides a range of features to enhance message integrity, including best practice implementation and advanced domain authentication. With Zoho CRM's email security tools, you can communicate confidently, prevent your emails from being marked as spam, and maintain a positive sending reputation. The platform also offers a detailed best practices guide, equipping you with a checklist to ensure secure and deliverable emails that protect recipients from phishing attempts using your brand.


Email Authentication (SPF and DKIM) 

Establish trust with your recipients through domain authentication. Zoho CRM's implementation of Sender Policy Framework (SPF) and DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) ensures that your emails are verified and authenticated, increasing their credibility. Learn more about Adding SPF and DKIM records to DNS settings

Bounce Management 

Effectively manage bounced emails with Zoho CRM's bounce management tools. Keep your contact list clean by automatically handling bounced emails, ensuring that your communication efforts remain focused on engaged recipients. Learn more about Email bounce management

 

Email Relay

Zoho CRM's email relay capability ensures that your messages are delivered through your own servers, enhancing the likelihood of successful delivery while minimizing the chances of being marked as spam. Learn more about Setting up email relay

 

Email Credibility

Zoho CRM has an email credibility dashboard to manage email practices and keep track of emailing behavior of your CRM account through a scoring system for better sender reputation. Admins analyze email practices, tracking bounce and spam rates.

Features include:
  1. Email Credibility Score: Zoho CRM assigns a score based on activity, responses, bounces, and spam. It guides improvements, which is crucial for shared email reputation.
  2. Bounce Report: Access the sent vs. bounced emails report, diagnose issues, and take action.
  3. Credibility Score Trend Report: See credibility trends, compare with emails and bounces, refine strategies for ongoing enhancement.

AI and email intelligence

Zoho CRM brings a sophisticated suite of AI-powered features called Zia (Zoho intelligent assistant) that seamlessly integrate into your email workflows, transforming your interactions into strategic opportunities. From leveraging AI insights while composing emails to extracting valuable information using the Email Parser, Zoho CRM empowers you to optimize communication, drive meaningful engagement, and make informed decisions.

Zia for emails

Zia for email functionality brings a suite of powerful features to streamline your email communication. It includes data enrichment from email signatures, extracting relevant activities from emails, determining email intents and creating custom intents based on your business needs, analyzing email sentiments and CNS (Consecutive Negative sentiments), providing email summaries, suggesting subject lines, capturing email emotions, and offering auto suggestions, smart completions, and intelligent prompts within emails. This comprehensive tool enhances email management and productivity while fostering better customer engagement. Learn more about Zia for Emails

Email Parser

Extracting relevant data from emails becomes effortless with Zoho CRM's Email Parser. This tool automatically retrieves information from incoming emails, creating relevant records or customizing any action within Zoho CRM. This automation saves time and ensures your CRM data remains accurate and up-to-date. Learn more about Email Parser


By leveraging AI insights while composing emails and automating data extraction, Zoho CRM equips you with the tools to drive impactful interactions and nurture meaningful relationships with your customers.

Email capabilities support in CRM modules

Capability
Leads
Contacts
Accounts
Deals
Vendors
Custom module(s)
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
Yes
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Yes
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No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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No
No
No
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Yes
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Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
No
Yes
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No
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No
No
No
Yes
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No
No
No
No
Yes
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Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
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No
Yes
No
Yes


Email Limits

In Zoho CRM, you can either send bulk emails or individual emails. Following are the limits for sending emails based on your account's Edition. Please note that email limits will be set based on the organization's time zone.
Mass emails and emails sent from the organization email address (setup in Zoho CRM) will be sent from Zoho's server.

Limits for Individual Emails

The email limit for the organization will be calculated based on the total number of confirmed and active users in the account.

  • In the Free and Trial Editions – The email limit will be calculated by the total number of confirmed users x 50 (emails). In Free edition, only 3 confirmed users can be added in the organization account, therefore the limit for each user will be 50 emails/day (12 AM to 11.59 PM in your organization's time zone is considered as one day). These 150 emails can either be shared between the three users, or a single user can send all the 150 emails.
The total email limit of an organization takes both emails that are sent as "To" and "CC" into account. For example, if 50 email addresses are inserted in the "To" field and 100 email addresses in the "CC" field, then the total email limit for the day will be reached. This applies only to the Free and Trial editions.
  • In the Paid Editions – The email limit will be calculated by the total number of confirmed users x 300 (emails). There can be "n" number of confirmed users in the paid edition, therefore an organization can send up to n x 300 emails in a day (12 AM to 11.59 PM in your organization's time zone is considered as one day). These n x 300 emails can either be shared between the users, or a single user can send all n x 300 emails. 
    For example, assume you have 5 active and confirmed users in your organization’s account. As the limit for each user is 300 emails/day, the total number of emails per day, per organization can be up to 1500 (300 x 5) emails.

Limits for Mass Emails

  • You can send mass emails based on the subscribed CRM Edition.
    • Standard Edition – 250 per day.
    • Professional Edition – 500 per day.
    • Enterprise Edition – 1000 per day.
    • Ultimate Edition - 2000 per day.
  • 12 AM to 11.59 PM in your organization's time zone is considered as one day, to calculate the email count.
  • The mass emails per day, per company includes Autoresponders, active email Schedulers, Macros, and Mass emails.
  • You can also increase the mass email limit up to 2500 per day, per organization for an additional cost. Please write to sales@zohocorp.com to increase your mass email limit.

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