News Highlights
- Zoho One: A new onboarding layer with app usage tracking helps admins and users finally discover everything the platform can do.
- Zoho Meeting: The core video platform is being rebuilt from the ground up to fix the AV quality issues that have kept teams on Zoom.
- Zoho Forms: Native Zoho Sign fields for legally binding e-signatures land in a packed quarterly feature roundup.
- Zoho CRM: The May community digest highlights Kaizen 242 and the new Slight UI component builder for low-code widget creation.
Zoho News
Zoho One: App Adoption and Feature Discovery Tools
A new onboarding layer inside Zoho One helps users and admins self-discover apps and features, including a usage progress bar in the app directory showing what percentage of your team is actually using each product. Zoho called out a recurring piece of customer feedback that the platform’s full potential feels out of reach, and this is their answer to it. It’s something the Zenatta team hears on sales calls constantly too, so it’s good to see Zoho getting this feedback and acting on it.
Zoho Meeting: Video Platform Framework Migration
Zoho Meeting is rebuilding its core video platform from the ground up to improve audio, video, and screen sharing connectivity. Some features are temporarily unavailable during the transition, and a few (like screen sharing permission overrides) are being deprecated entirely. July 11th is the current ETA for the bulk of features to return. The UI and feature set have never been the problem with Zoho Meeting. If they fix the AV quality, it could finally become a real alternative to Zoom for teams that are tired of paying for both.
Zoho Forms: Quarterly Feature Roundup
A packed quarter for Forms includes a native Zoho Sign field for legally binding e-signatures directly on a form (requires name and email fields to tie the signature to an individual), Spotlight Forms, Unsplash backgrounds, 100 new card and board themes, autofill for logged-in Zoho users, a progress bar, Microsoft Power Automate integration, and Zoho vertical field data mapping. Zoho Forms shows up in more than half of Zenatta’s builds, and updates like these are exactly why.
Zoho CRM: May 2026 Community Digest Part 1
May’s digest wraps up a strong month for CRM, touching on the native QuickBooks integration and forecasting improvements, but the real highlight is the community section at the bottom with free Deluge functions, client scripts, and Kaizen posts. Kaizen 242 in particular walks through using the new Slight UI component builder to create a sales order popup directly from the Deals page, without touching HTML or CSS.
Zoho Projects Plus: Zoho Learn Integration
Zoho Projects Plus now integrates with Zoho Learn, bringing knowledge management and training capabilities directly into the project management suite.
Zoho Payroll: H1 2026 Product Updates
The H1 2026 Payroll roundup covers improvements to payroll flexibility, gratuity tracking, employee self-service, and reporting.
Zoho Payroll: AI-Powered Payroll Upgrade
Zia is now available in Zoho Payroll as an AI assistant for employees, letting them get instant answers about payslips, taxes, and reimbursements without going through HR.
Zoho Billing: May 2026 Feature Roundup
May’s Billing update adds price list associations by business location, annexure support, and additional flexibility across billing operations.
Zoho Expense: Mobile App UX Improvements
Zoho Expense has rolled out UX improvements to its iOS and Android apps to simplify day-to-day expense and travel management.
Zoho Marketing Automation: Important Security Update
Both Zoho Marketing Automation and Zoho Campaigns are dropping support for older TLS versions; users on older browsers will need to update to stay connected.
Zoho Apptics: Now on Apple TV
Zoho Apptics is now available on Apple TV, letting you monitor app metrics like sessions, crashes, and active devices on the big screen.
Code Share of the Week
Version History Locations in Various Deluge Editors
New team member Shelby pointed out that version history is available in far more Deluge editors than most people realize. It just lives in different spots depending on the app. In Creator and the Zoho Finance apps, it’s tucked behind a three-dot more options menu. In Flow, it’s in the upper left next to the function name. In Desk, it’s on the far upper right near the help button. CRM has the most visible implementation after their Deluge editor overhaul, with a dedicated sidebar that shows version history, a changes comparison view, and a full edit log. The one exception right now is Zoho Projects, where version history doesn’t appear to be surfaced in the UI at all. Check the Club Zenatta post for screenshots of each location so you’re not hunting around blind.
New on Zenatta
Zoho Books Team Training
The long-awaited Zoho Books team training course is now live at zenatta.com/training, covering the full workflow from estimate to invoice, purchasing, chart of accounts, banking, reconciliation, taxes, inventory, and key Zoho integrations. Nicole put the course together in record time. It’s a one-time purchase with permanent access for your whole team. Use code CLEANBOOKS2026 at checkout to save an additional $250, valid through July 1, 2026.
Tips and Tricks
AI Agents Rollout for SalesIQ || Summer 2026 Release
A deep dive into SalesIQ’s new AI agent features, with a focus on training your bot via web URL and a useful reminder to be thoughtful about what actions you let those agents actually execute on a visitor’s behalf.
Zoho CRM Homepage Tutorial
A walkthrough on setting up role-based CRM homepages with custom views, dashboards, and the newer ability to drop reports directly onto the homepage, saving your team from hunting across modules to find what they need to work on.
This Week’s Quizzes
- Monday Quiz: How does the Model Context Protocol (MCP) function within the new system?
- Wednesday Quiz: How do custom modules in Zoho Projects Infinity improve team efficiency?
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