I went on the train the other day on a business trip and was wondering how I can log my expenses on the go.

Then I remembered that we use Zoho Expense within our business. Problem solved!

Zoho expense allows you to add expenses such as travel, meals and other costs whilst your on the go, using your mobile device.

So, keen to capture all of the expenses for the day before forgetting them or losing the receipts, I used to Zoho Expense to log my expenses by snapping a picture of the receipt and logging the basic information including the expense amount and category and date.

And with that, zapped it in to the Cloud in just a few clicks!

All of the expense information is updated in the central database and can be accessed immediately by the accountant back in the office. Thus there is no need for me to get back to the office and laboriously key in the information.

Zoho expense is the small business expense tracking application from Zoho.

• Add expenses
• Categorise expenses
• Capture receipts
• Send receipts from email
• Report on expenses
• And more...

Please contact us for more information here about Zoho Expense

We are please to announce that Zoho Projects have increased the storage space for all the paid plans in Zoho Projects.

Current Storage Space:

Express - 5 GB
Premium - 15 GB
Enterprise - 30 GB

New Storage Space:

Express - 10 GB
Premium & Enterprise - 100 GB

This will give even more space to store project related documentation as well as larger files such as audio and video, screen captures and more.

Zoho Projects is a powerful online project management solution that can be used in all kinds of business verticals, from software design to marketing, to construction.

Click here for more details on Zoho Projects project management software.

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Zoho are pleased to announce the new Zoho CRM mobile 3.0 for iOS (iPhone/iPad) and Android smartphones.

Here is a quick peak at the new functions that are available:

- Completely redesigned app with an enhanced look and feel. 

- Task and Event focussed home screen

- Access to inventory modules.
- Collaboration 'Feeds'.
- Check in function to log GPS coordinates for visits to customers. 

- And more!

We hope you will try it out for yourselves at the links below, or just access your iTunes or Google Play stores and search for 'Zoho CRM'.

iTunes:

https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/zoho-crm/id444908810?mt=8

Android:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zoho.crm&hl=en

NOTE:

If you have been trying the Beta version, please uninstall this before re-installing the new CRM app.

Building on from the last blog on using Task and Task List templates, the next step is to make templates of the whole project.

This is something that is common place when working in one vertical for example, whereby your projects consist of the same sort of milestones, same tasks each time.

You can even create the same forum topics and upload the same documents, for example, 'kick off' type documents or user guides for training. All can go into the project template to save the Project Manager time later on.

Examples of where this function can be of use are SEO projects, web development projects, Marketing projects, construction projects and many more.

Here's how Project Templates are created...

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If you would like to know how Zoho Projects can be of use in your business to help you get things done more efficiently, contact us now for a free consultation.

Creating tasks is already pretty quick in Zoho Projects but there comes a time when a project manager will need to add similar, frequently occurring tasks on similar projects and then you want to do this as quickly as possible to minimise admin time.

An example may be if you are a web design company and need to add certain tasks or groups of tasks that recur in different projects, but maybe not in every project.

Perhaps they pertain to specialised kinds of testing, or additional requirements for certain customers, but do not warrant being in a project template (see our next blog on the Zoho Projects functions for details of that!)

You can add these kinds of similar tasks via 'task and task list templates' in Zoho Projects, saving time and making it easier than ever to get the project up and running and people working on their tasks.

Watch this video to find out how...

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Contact us for more information on Zoho Projects and competitive implementation, training and support rates.

Zoho Projects integrates with Zoho CRM allowing you to create and access projects from the CRM once the sale has been won... Here's how:

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Contact Mangoho to discover how Zoho Projects can be of use to your business.

We offer competitive rates for implementation Zoho support and Zoho training.

Wondering how to best use the Milestone and Tasks modules in Zoho Projects?

Here's a neat video from Zoho on how to manage those Milestones, Task Lists and Tasks from within Zoho Projects.

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Integrated Project Management with Zoho Projects...

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Mangoho offer affordable and professional implementation and support packages for Zoho Projects and all other Zoho apps.

Contact us now for more information.

We thought we would run a series of video blogs on one of Zoho's most popular small business apps, Zoho Projects.

This first short video from Zoho explains how to get started, including basic concepts and how to setup your first project...

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Milestones, Task Lists and Tasks...

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For more details on how Zoho Projects can be of use in your company and for details on our affordable implementation and training packages, please contact us here.

In addition to the numerous free Zoho Apps such as:

Zoho Calendar

Zoho Sheet

Zoho Writer

And their free editions on their flagship products like:

Zoho CRM

Zoho Projects

Zoho Mail

Zoho have offered a few free business tools for anyone wishing to use them, without any need to register as a Zoho user:

Revenue Forecaster

Expense Report Template

Invoice Generator

Zoho - An Operating System for your Business

Zoho offer over 25 online business solutions designed to help run every part of pretty much every business!

Click here to learn more.

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For more information on Zoho business software, contact us here for a free consultation.

Zoho offer their sincerest apologies for the recent disruptions to their services.

The intermittent connections issues you may have faced are due to a "DDOS attack" by cyber hackers who at this stage remain unknown but is well described what this is exactly, in Zoho's own words:

Zoho do offer a few options to their users in events such as this:

Read Only Services

This is available on a few core services such as:

If you are not sure of whether your specific app has a read only version, try your app in the same way as above. These are basically maintained on different servers and a whole separate network and are in effect a clone of your data for read only use in emergencies.

Status Monitoring

To check the status of Zoho services you can use this site: status.zoho.com, which uses another Zoho service running on separate servers, to monitor all of the Zoho websites. It will give you a currenct snapshot of the status as well as a seven day breakdown.

Twitter

Mangoho will of course publish tweets on such cases and we can be followed at @mangohocloud.

The Zoho team can be followed directly using this Twitter hashtag: @zoho

They are very fast to respond to these sorts of issues and this is a good way to keep up to date on fixes should there be any problems, especially if you are a regular Twitter user.

Apologies

No service is perfect. The news often contains reports on cloud services being hacked or data being leaked.  The 'Talk Talk' network in the UK was hacked this month, for example. When it happens, a quick and sincere apology from the service provider goes a long way.  With this in mind Zoho go on to say...

Not Only Zoho...

This is not something that affects only Zoho. In fact this goes on with hundreds of cloud service providers. Every day cyber criminals or hackers try to break or disrupt their systems.  There are websites that monitor this, one such website is:

http://map.norsecorp.com

Check it out... what you see going on around the world may surprise you!