Top 12 Reasons for Using Zoho Projects

Looking for a project management tool to manage your projects? Here's a dozen reasons why you should choose Zoho Projects.

12. Available in major languages

Your mother tongue is not English or you have an international team placed in many countries? Zoho Projects is available now in 15 international languages - Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Swedish. And the list is growing.

11. Gantt Charts

Want to know visually how your projects are progressing? You can click on the Reports tab of Zoho Projects and the Gantt charts will give you a bird's eye view of your project's status (based on open/closed tasks and for each user).

10. Timesheet

Make your client billing easy. Ask your team to fill up the hours they put in for each of their tasks. Zoho Projects provides the option to export timesheets as xls/csv. And to specify non-billable hours too (say, team meetings).

9. Better User Management

You can classify your project members based on their roles - Administrators, Managers, Employees, Contractors & Clients. Each role has pre-defined access privileges. List Milestones as 'External' for your clients to view and monitor how their project is progressing.

8. Calendar

Zoho Projects' Calendar function gives an easy view of tasks, milestones & meetings planned for the month. You can add tasks etc from the calendar view itself. iCal is supported and you can export your Zoho Projects calendar to iCal supported calendars like Google Calendar.

7. Email & RSS notifications

Tasks can be edited, their status modified. And you can set email notifications so that other team members are notified of the task's changes. Zoho Projects offers authenticated RSS feeds too which team members can subscribe to.

6. Integration with other Zoho apps

A major plus for Zoho Projects compared to other project management applications. When you sign up for Zoho Projects, each of your project members gets free access to the whole suite of Zoho applications (as Zoho has a single sign on system).

5. Forums

A central place to discuss what's happening in each project. You can even embed html code snippets, say a video in YouTube or a Zoho Sheet spreadsheet/chart with project figures.

4. Centralized Document Management

You can bulk upload project documents and make Zoho Projects your online repository. View/edit the documents, spreadsheets, presentations using the appropriate Zoho app (Zoho Writer/Sheet/Show) without downloading and viewing/editing them each time using a desktop-based application.

3. Variety of Task Options

Club tasks as task lists and several task lists as Milestones. Set dependency among tasks. Create task list and project templates for easy duplication. Assign multiple owners to a task. Set end date, email notification for each task. Assign priority (color coded), edit the task completion status, add Notes. And associate forum topics, documents to a task.

2. Improved Collaboration and Transparency

If you are a small team collaborating on a project, what better way than to have all the tasks listed centrally with their completion status? Combine this with all projects documents being available centrally with a forum to discuss the project happenings, you have a transparent system that allows easy project execution through collaboration.

1. Affordable Price

No large upfront fees. Pay-as-you-go. You can manage upto 10 projects for as low as $12 per month. There is a free version for managing one project. Zoho Projects allows having unlimited users even for the free plan. Check out Zoho Projects' pricing plans.

Try Zoho Projects now for all your project management needs.

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