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What does Zoho Projects do?

Tool: Zoho Projects

The Tech: Project Management

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Their Pitch

Project management software built for you.

Our Take

A project management for teams who need more than Trello but don't want to spend months configuring Jira.

Deep Dive & Reality Check

Used For

  • +**Your project deadlines keep slipping because nobody sees the dependencies** → Visual Gantt charts show exactly which delayed task is blocking everything else
  • +**You're billing clients based on rough time estimates and losing money** → Built-in timers and weekly timesheets track every minute for accurate invoicing
  • +**Half your team is overloaded while others are bored** → Workload reports show exactly who has capacity for new tasks
  • +Kanban boards that let you bulk-create tasks in seconds instead of opening each one individually
  • +Custom dashboards that executives can actually read without asking for explanations

Best For

  • >Your team is drowning in email chains trying to track who's doing what by when
  • >You need actual time tracking for client billing instead of guessing hours at month-end
  • >Already using other Zoho tools and want everything to sync automatically

Not For

  • -Teams under 5 people — you're paying for minimum user seats you don't need
  • -Dev teams wanting heavy customization — the automation is point-and-click, not code-level flexible
  • -Anyone expecting instant setup — you'll spend a week learning all the features or use 20% of what you pay for

Pairs With

  • *Zoho CRM (automatically creates project tasks from new deals so nothing falls through cracks)
  • *Slack (where your team gets pinged about overdue tasks and project updates)
  • *Zoho Books (for invoicing clients based on actual tracked hours instead of estimates)
  • *Google Workspace (because you're not moving your entire email and docs setup)
  • *Zoho Desk (turns support tickets into trackable issues within projects)

The Catch

  • !Free tier caps at 2 projects, so client agencies outgrow it in weeks
  • !Mobile timesheets are clunky — your field team will complain about logging hours on phones
  • !Full Zoho integration benefits require their $37/user bundle, doubling your actual cost

Bottom Line

Gantt charts and time tracking without the enterprise complexity tax.