Reviewers mostly see Zoho as a practical, affordable suite for small businesses, especially for CRM, accounting, payroll, and broader workflow management. They often praise its breadth, useful automation, and integrations across Zoho products, with some calling it intuitive once learned. The main complaints are a clunky or slow interface, occasional bugs, confusing email integration, and a setup experience that can feel overwhelming because of the many settings and features. One manager also says Zoho Cliq and Zoho People work well for goals and performance tracking, though time tracking has limits.
Zoho Cliq
Hey Product Hunt community! 👋
I am excited to introduce Zoho Cliq 7.0, our most comprehensive release yet! 🚀
We built Cliq 7.0 to help teams collaborate, automate, and communicate without context switching or breaking focus.
🤖 Multi-Vendor AI & Multimedia Summaries: Bring Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cohere, or Zia into your workspace. Summarize videos, audio, and recordings, run AI tasks, and build workflows via your preferred model.
📌 Chat Tabs & Advanced Search: Pin vital docs, links, and widgets inside channels with chat tabs. Locate files and past discussions fast with upgraded advanced search.
⚡ Cliq Mini & Collaborative Sheets: Carry conversations across CRM, Mail, and WorkDrive using the redesigned Cliq Mini. Co-author spreadsheets directly inside your chat.
🌐 Guest Access: Securely collaborate with external clients and partners via scoped channel access.
🎥 Inclusive Meetings: Live captions, pinned Sign Language Mode, and built-in availability checks to eliminate scheduling conflicts.
🛠️ No-Code Dev Tools & MCP: Build automations with a drag-and-drop Flow Builder, pin frequent actions via Chat Actions, and connect external AI agents via MCP and OpenAPI.
🛡️ Security & Accessibility: Granular AI privacy controls, admin message reporting, and full WCAG 2.0 alignment.
We would love for you to explore Cliq 7.0 and share your feedback below!