Zoho Workplace partner in the USA · Los Angeles, CA
Zoho Workplace implementation partner for US offices
Mail, files, documents, chat and video calls behind one Zoho sign-in. Set up properly once, so nobody juggles five passwords.
We’re certified Zoho consultants in Glendale, near Los Angeles. We set up your domain, mailboxes, WorkDrive folders, Cliq and Zoho Meeting, move mail and files out of Google Workspace or Microsoft 365, and train people on their own inboxes.
- Five apps, one login, one admin console
- $1 mail-only seats next to full-suite seats
- Ad-free, with eDiscovery on Professional
Advanced PartnerCertified Zoho Workplace consultants
01Why Zoho Workplace
What is Zoho Workplace, and why do US offices switch to it?
Zoho’s office suite: email on your own domain, calendar, WorkDrive, Writer, Sheet and Show, Cliq, Zoho Meeting and a password vault under one account, from $3 per user a month. Six reasons owners pick it:
Not every seat has to be a full seat
Field and seasonal staff can sit on Mail Lite at $1, next to your Workplace users.
Google Workspace: Starter at $7 is the lowest seatTeam storage grows with the team
Standard shares 100 GB across 3 to 10 users, plus 10 GB per extra person. Professional starts at 1 TB.
Retention without buying the top tier
Retention and eDiscovery come with Mail Premium at $4 and Workplace Professional at $6.
Google Workspace: eDiscovery from Business Plus, $22No ads, and your data isn’t for sale
Zoho promises no ads in Workplace and no selling of customer data to third parties.
Email that knows your customers
The eWidget in Zoho Mail opens the matching Zoho CRM record beside a message.
One login, MFA and a shared vault
Directory handles sign-in and MFA, and Vault keeps shared passwords out of email. Zia, Zoho’s AI / SI assistant, is included.
02Try it · sample tool
Tick how your team works and see which Zoho Workplace apps take over
Pick what your staff do every day. The panel shows the Workplace app behind each one and the separate subscriptions it could replace.
03A new hire’s first day
What does day one look like for a new hire on Zoho Workplace?
Her workspace is ready before she sits down, because one admin console creates it. A sample Monday for a new coordinator. Scroll and her workspace assembles one app at a time.
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Step 17:45 am · Account
Her account and mailbox already exist
The office manager added her in the admin console on Friday: address, front-desk alias and MFA all ready.
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Step 28:10 am · Files
Team folders appear with the right access
Her groups bring the Operations and Front desk team folders to her laptop. HR stays locked, and nobody shared a file by hand.
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Step 38:40 am · Chat
A channel welcome instead of reply-all
Cliq puts her in #front-desk and #announcements. The team says hello in the channel, and the courier schedule sits pinned at the top.
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Step 49:15 am · Docs
The onboarding checklist is one shared doc
It lives in Zoho Writer, copied from the office template. She ticks items off and her manager sees the same file update.
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Step 510:00 am · Meeting
First stand-up, one click from the calendar
The weekly stand-up is already on her Zoho Calendar. She joins Zoho Meeting from the invite and meets the people she has been chatting with.
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Step 64:30 pm · Day done
Everything in one window, on one login
She works from the Workplace desktop app, with mail, calendar, chat and calls side by side. The courier portal login comes from the team Vault, not an email.
Sample new hire, office and times. Your groups, folders and channels come from the setup we agree in your BRD.
04Mail only or the full suite?
Does everyone on your team need the full Zoho Workplace suite?
Usually not. Mail-only plans start at $1 a user and can sit beside Workplace seats in one organization. Sort six cards to see which way your team leans.
Most people only send and read email
People work out of shared folders every day
Seasonal or field staff need an address, nothing more
You hold video calls with clients every week
Legal asks you to keep every email for years
Staff write proposals and reports together
Need CRM, accounting or HR apps as well? Zoho One includes the Workplace apps alongside them under one licence, so compare both before you buy seats.
05Plan mixer · sample
Price a Zoho Workplace mix for your own headcount
Set who needs the full suite and who only needs a mailbox. The mixer prices both groups at Zoho’s US list prices and works out the shared team storage.
Your sample mix
$44a month, billed yearly
$528 a year at list price
- 12 × Workplace Standard × $3
- 8 × Mail Lite 5 GB × $1
Everyone on Workplace Standard would be $720 a year.
- Mailbox, suite seat
- 30 GB
- Mailbox, mail-only seat
- 5 GB
- Shared team drive
- 120 GB
- Meeting size
- Up to 100 people
Sample using Zoho’s US list prices in USD, before tax. Mail Lite and Mail Premium are sold on yearly billing only. Team storage follows Zoho’s published rule for Workplace seats; storage add-ons and discounts are left out.
06Zoho Workplace pricing in the US
How much does Zoho Workplace cost per user?
Workplace Standard is $3 per user a month billed yearly ($4 monthly), Professional $6 ($7 monthly). Mail-only plans cost $1 to $4, yearly only, and a free plan covers five users on one domain.
| Plan | Billed yearly | Billed monthly | Storage per user | Good for |
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| $0 | $0 | 5 GB mail | Up to 5 users on one domain, webmail and apps only | |
| $1or $1.25 for 10 GB | Yearly only | 5 GB or 10 GB mail | Staff who only need an inbox and calendar | |
| $4 | Yearly only | 50 GB mail + 50 GB retention | Mail-only seats that need eDiscovery and S/MIME | |
| $3 | $4 | 30 GB mail + team drive | Most offices: the full suite, meetings up to 100 people | |
| $6 | $7 | 100 GB mail + 100 GB retention + team drive | Regulated teams, bigger files, meetings up to 250 people, Connect intranet | |
| Quote | Quote | Custom limits | Very large organizations with custom hosting needs |
Per user per month in USD, before tax. Team drive on Standard: 100 GB for 3 to 10 users, plus 10 GB per extra user. On Professional: 1 TB, plus 100 GB per extra user. Setting up Workplace with us is priced on its own: one fixed fee in a signed BRD that lists every domain, mailbox and team folder.
07Zoho Workplace vs Google Workspace
Zoho Workplace or Google Workspace for your priorities?
Google Workspace starts at $7 a user on a one-year commitment and gives far more storage per person. Zoho Workplace starts at $3 and costs less on every matching tier. Rate what matters to your team; the bars follow your answers and nothing else.
- A low price for every seat
- Terabytes of storage for each person
- Co-editing docs with outside clients daily
- Mail retention without the top plan
- Cheap email-only seats for some staff
- An AI / SI assistant in every app
- The same login as Zoho CRM and Books
- Video meetings with 500 people
Read the full Zoho Workplace vs Google Workspace comparison →
08Access across mail, files and chat
Who can open which mailbox, folder and channel?
Access follows groups, not favors. This is the map we begin with on Workplace rollouts: staff get their own inbox plus the team spaces their groups belong to, managers see their team’s shared spaces, and only admins touch domain and security settings. Choose a role to see its reach.
| What | Admins | IT / helpdesk | Managers | Staff | Guests |
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| Personal mailboxes | Create, suspend | Reset access | No | Own | No |
| Group inboxes | Full | Full | Team | Member | No |
| WorkDrive team folders | Full | Full | Team | Member | Shared files |
| Calendars | Full | View | Team | Own | Invites |
| Cliq channels | Full | Full | Team | Member | No |
| Meeting recordings | Full | View | Own | Own | If shared |
| Domains, MFA and retention | Full | Delegated | No | No | No |
A starting map, changed to fit your office. Mail, WorkDrive and Cliq each keep their own sharing settings; we set them from the same groups so a person’s reach matches in every app, and the HR folder stays locked to HR.
09CRM, sign-in, devices and your old suite
What Zoho Workplace plugs into, and what we move you off
Workplace rarely stands alone. These three links come up on almost every rollout, and the tabs below show what comes across from the suite or host you use today. You approve a sample mailbox before the full copy runs.
Zoho CRM
The eWidget in Zoho Mail opens the matching CRM record beside a message, and customer emails can be logged on the contact for the sales team.
Sign-in and MFA
Zoho Directory runs one login with MFA for every Workplace app, single sign-on for other tools, and Vault keeps shared passwords out of email.
Outlook, desktop and phones
Paid plans connect to Outlook and phone mail apps over IMAP, POP or ActiveSync, next to Zoho’s own desktop and mobile apps. The free plan is webmail and apps only.
Moving from
- Comes across
- Gmail mailboxes and labels, aliases, Google Groups, calendars, contacts, Drive files and Docs, Sheets and Slides
- Lands in
- Zoho Mail folders and email groups, Zoho Calendar, WorkDrive team folders and My Folders, Writer, Sheet and Show
- Watch for
- Shared drive permissions, which we rebuild as team folder access from your groups
- Comes across
- Exchange Online mailboxes, shared mailboxes, distribution lists, OneDrive and SharePoint libraries
- Lands in
- Zoho Mail mailboxes and email groups, WorkDrive My Folders and team folders; Word, Excel and PowerPoint files open in Writer, Sheet and Show
- Watch for
- Teams chats and meetings, which move to Cliq channels and Zoho Meeting from cutover day, so agree which history to keep
- Comes across
- IMAP mailboxes on a web host, old PST or EML archives, and files from a shared server or USB drives
- Lands in
- Zoho Mail mailboxes copied with the migration tool, archives imported per person, WorkDrive team folders
- Watch for
- MX, SPF and DKIM at your registrar, switched to Zoho on the agreed cutover day
- Comes across
- Slack channels with their message history, from the workspace export a Slack admin downloads
- Lands in
- Zoho Cliq organization or team channels, picked channel by channel
- Watch for
- Bots and integrations, which stay behind because the export holds conversations, not logic
10Three ways to start
Zoho Workplace implementation packages
The bars show which parts of Workplace each package switches on: mail, WorkDrive, Cliq and Meeting, then documents. Every package is scoped in writing before a single DNS record changes.
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Email first
For offices still on hosting-company email
- Domain checks plus MX, SPF, DKIM and DMARC
- Mailboxes, aliases and email groups
- Old mail and archives copied across
- Mail-only seats where a full seat isn’t needed
A fixed fee in a signed BRD, with your cutover date in it.
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Where we usually start
Full suite move
For teams leaving Google Workspace or Microsoft 365
- Mail, calendars and contacts moved
- Drives rebuilt as WorkDrive team folders
- Cliq channels and Zoho Meeting set up
- Group-based access across every app
One fixed fee in a signed BRD covering every mailbox and folder.
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Suite plus compliance
For offices with legal, HR or audit rules
- Everything in Full suite move
- Retention policies and eDiscovery
- MFA and single sign-on through Directory
- S/MIME for sensitive mail
Fixed in one signed BRD, with each policy listed.
Already on Zoho CRM? The Mail eWidget and CRM email logging can be added to any package. Your first call costs nothing; larger tenants may start with a paid scoping phase, priced before it begins, and support after go-live is agreed in writing.
11How the rollout runs
How a Zoho Workplace rollout goes, cutover day included
Your old suite keeps delivering mail while everything is copied. Mail records only change on a date you approve, and the old system stays read-only until your team confirms nothing is missing.
- Discovery callHeadcount, the suite you pay for now and its renewal date.
- Usage checkWho needs the full suite, who only needs mail, and what each person stores.
- Scope and BRDDomains, mailboxes, folders and a cutover date, at one fixed price.
- Domain and accountsDNS checks, mailboxes, groups and MFA built before anyone moves.
- Sample mailboxOne mailbox and one folder move first, and you check them.
- MX cutoverMail records switch on the agreed date, then a final sync.
- Train and supportStaff learn on their own inbox, online or in person in Southern California.
12Offices with mixed seats
Where Zoho Workplace saves the most
The savings show up fastest where a few people live in shared files and calls while everyone else only needs an inbox. These are the US industries where that mix is most common.
- Professional servicesProposals co-written in Writer, client folders in WorkDrive and retention on every engagement inbox.
- Construction and home servicesOffice staff on the full suite, field crews on mail-only seats and job folders for drawings and photos.
- Healthcare practicesFront-desk group inboxes, part-time staff on mail-only seats and locked folders for practice paperwork.
- Real estateAgents on addresses at your own domain, shared listing folders and a team channel per office.
- ManufacturingPlant staff with mail-only seats, shift channels in Cliq and spec sheets kept in one team folder.
- Lending and fintechRetention and eDiscovery on loan-team mail, with MFA and single sign-on for every staff login.
13Zoho Workplace questions
What do offices ask before moving to Zoho Workplace?
Plain answers on Zoho Workplace pricing, access, migration and setup.
What is Zoho Workplace?
Zoho Workplace is Zoho’s office suite for business: Zoho Mail and Calendar on your own domain, WorkDrive file storage, Writer, Sheet and Show, Cliq team chat and Zoho Meeting, plus Vault for passwords and Directory for sign-in and MFA, under one account and one admin console.
How much does Zoho Workplace cost in the USA?
Billed yearly in USD, Workplace Standard is $3 per user a month and Workplace Professional is $6, or $4 and $7 billed monthly. Mail Lite costs $1 (5 GB) or $1.25 (10 GB) and Mail Premium $4, yearly only, and the plans can be mixed in one organization. Our setup work is a separate fixed fee in a signed BRD.
Zoho Workplace vs Google Workspace: which costs less?
Zoho Workplace, on every matching tier: $3 for Standard against $7 for Google Business Starter, and $6 for Professional against $14 for Business Standard, per user a month on yearly terms. Google gives far more storage per person, so heavy file users may still prefer it.
Can you migrate us from Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 to Zoho Workplace?
Yes. Mailboxes, aliases, calendars and contacts move into Zoho Mail, and Google Drive, OneDrive or SharePoint files move into WorkDrive team folders. You check a sample mailbox first, then the full copy runs and mail records switch on an agreed date.
Will our email stop working while we switch?
It shouldn’t. Mail is copied while your old system keeps running, the MX records change on the date you approve, and a final sync picks up late arrivals. The old system stays read-only until your team confirms nothing is missing.
Is there a free Zoho Workplace plan for a small business?
Zoho has a forever-free plan for up to five users on one domain, with 5 GB of mail each, but no IMAP, POP or ActiveSync. Small businesses that want Outlook, shared files or meetings usually start on Workplace Standard at $3.
Does Zoho Workplace include video meetings?
Yes. Zoho Meeting comes with both Workplace plans: up to 100 participants on Standard and 250 on Professional, with screen sharing and 5 GB of cloud recordings per host.
Does Zoho Workplace include email retention and eDiscovery?
Yes, on Workplace Professional and on the mail-only Mail Premium plan, along with S/MIME. Workplace Standard and Mail Lite don’t include them.
How long does a Zoho Workplace setup take?
It depends on your mailboxes, domains, shared drives and how much history moves. The signed BRD dates every mailbox batch, team folder and training session, so the cutover day is known before work starts.
What does Elite Tech Global charge for a Zoho Workplace rollout?
We don’t charge for the first conversation. Your rollout then gets one fixed price in a signed BRD listing every mailbox, domain and team folder. Larger tenants may start with a paid scoping phase, quoted up front, and support after go-live is agreed in writing.
Who can open shared folders and group inboxes in Zoho Workplace?
Whoever belongs to the group behind them. We build access from groups, so staff see their own inbox plus the team folders, group inboxes and Cliq channels their groups use, managers see their team’s spaces, and only admins change domains, MFA and retention. Guests see only files or recordings someone shares with them.
Can we move from Slack to Zoho Cliq in the same project?
Yes. A Slack admin exports the workspace, and the channels you pick come into Cliq with their message history. Bots and integrations do not travel in the export, so we list them in the BRD and rebuild the ones you still need.
What is SI?
SI stands for super intelligence. In September 2026 a US executive order asked federal agencies to use “super intelligence” or “SI” in place of “artificial intelligence” in official communications. Most businesses still say AI, so we use both terms.
14Let’s talk
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