Zoho News
- Zoho Commerce: Introducing Zoho Commerce 2.0 (Notable)
- This is a pretty big rebuild for Zoho Commerce including a new interface, new tools, improved mobile app, additional options other than products, and lots more.
- Zoho Desk: Introducing Playground
- This is an exclusive test environment specifically designed for Zia.
- Zoho Desk: Guided Conversation Bots (Android App)
- Guided conversations are now supported in the mobile app.
- Zoho Sign: Introducing Accessibility Controls
- Continuing to follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), Zoho Sign has added a handful of accessibility features.
- Zoho Sign: Zoho PDF Editor Enhancements
- You can now add watermarks, wet signatures, password protect your PDFs, export your PDFs as fillable PDFs, and there is now support for automatic fields.
- Zoho Sign: Introducing WhatsApp Integration
- Send signature requests now directly through WhatsApp and you can now make quick edits without having to switch to a word processor.
- Zoho Contracts: Introducing Import Contract API
- Migrating over from another platform? These new APIs should make this process smoother.
- Zoho Bigin: Workflows and Associated Products Enhancements
- Workflows can now trigger on specific field values (like “Deal Stage = Won”), support dynamic task descriptions, and assign owners based on who’s online. You can also tag scheduled actions, email lookup-based recipients, and choose fixed or percentage discounts in Associated Products. Bonus: assign team members per product for better accountability.
- Zoho Apptics: In-app Feedback 2.0
- Apptics now captures screen recordings, session data, and diagnostic info across web and mobile—giving you full context behind every user bug, frustration, or idea.
- Zoho Assist: (PSA) End of Support for Certain Windows Version
- Starting October 1, 2025, Zoho Assist will no longer support these versions of Windows:
- Windows 7
- Windows 8
- Windows 8.1
- Windows Server 2008 R2
- Starting October 1, 2025, Zoho Assist will no longer support these versions of Windows:
- Zoho Sprints: Share Work Items Across Projects and Users
- You can now share work items with users outside the project and across multiple projects—perfect for cross-team tasks like HR, training, or approvals.
- Zoho Sprints: Tags and Epic Search (Android)
- The latest Android update adds support for tags and keyword search in the Epic module.
- Zoho Meeting: Hearing Aid, Bluetooth Car Audio & AirPlay Audio Support (iOS)
- The title says it all, nice updates for those who are hearing impaired or need to take meetings on the road.
- Zoho CRM Developer: Celebrating 200 posts of Kaizen
- Shoutout to Zoho on this series, we personally think this is one of the best series of content Zoho makes. If you haven’t checked this out, these are extremely useful.
- Zoho Recruit: What’s New in ‘25
- And wrapping up this week’s news, in case you missed it, here are all the updates so far this year for Zoho Recruit.
Code Share of the Week
- Recursive Batch Processing in Zoho Inventory & Books
- A new method lets you process records in batches using a custom view and checkbox trigger—great for running functions on large data sets without hitting limits. Just check one box to kick off the loop.
This Week’s Blog
- Declare Independence from Bad Software by Switching to Zoho One
- Running your tech stack on multiple different platforms? Consider switching to Zoho One!
- ScaleHub – Case Study
- Shoutout to this long-term client based out of Hamburg Germany for this month’s case study. Learn how we were able to reduce their administrative time for forecasting by about 1 FTE-week per month.
Tips and Tricks
- Build Campaigns with AI! ChatGPT/OpenAI + ZIA Integration for Zoho Marketing Plus
- Create and deploy marketing campaigns quickly with AI. And following up on the Zoho One and Brand Studio, it currently still isn’t available, but might be some day soon.
- Zoho Deluge Functions Beginner Tutorial || Write your first Script EASY
- Struggling to learn Deluge? We are going to start filling that gap, by sharing some common use scripts in these step-by-step tutorials.
Question of the Week (AZAAZ)
- Handling Background Processing with Writer API
- Click here to watch this week’s answer.
