• Add records to Zoho Category
  
• Remove records from Zoho Category
  
• Automatically synchronize (one-way) Contacts, Tasks and Calendar Events from MS Outlook to Zoho CRM
  
• Export Contacts, Tasks and Calendar (Events) from MS Outlook to Zoho CRM
  
• Add Emails to Leads, Contacts or Potentials in Zoho CRM
  
• Add emails as Cases in Zoho CRM
  

Categorize Records as Zoho

1. Select the Contacts, Tasks, or Calendar events.
   Note that, the records should be selected from the corresponding folder that you had specified under Folder Settings. 
2. Click Home > Categorize.
   
3. Select the Zoho checkbox from the list of categories.
   The record will be marked under Zoho category.
   Similarly, you can remove the category by clearing the checkbox.
   

Synchronize Contacts, Tasks and Calendar

Note

Duplicate check for Contacts is primarily based on the Email ID of the contacts. In the absence of an email address, the duplicates are identified on the basis of the First Name and the Last Name.

Note

Duplicate check for Tasks is based on the Subject and End Date.

Note

Duplicate check for Events is based on the Subject, Start Date and Time and End Date and Time as well as the Email ID of the attendees/participants.

Synchronization of Event Participants

• Contacts
  
• Leads
  
• Zoho CRM user
  

Note

• Event invitation emails are not automatically sent to participants in Zoho CRM when an event is created upon synchronization from Microsoft Outlook. This is because the decision regarding invitation emails would already have been taken at the time of event creation in Microsoft Outlook. Therefore the user is not prompted to send an invitation email for events that are created as a result of synchronization in Zoho CRM. The same applies to events synchronized from Zoho CRM to Microsoft Outlook as well.
  
• If required, invitation emails can be sent to event participants by manually editing an event and sending the mail, like it is done for any regular event in both Zoho CRM and Microsoft Outlook.

1. In Microsoft Outlook, click Zoho CRM > Settings.
   
2. In Settings dialog box, click Contacts/Tasks/Calendars tab.
   
   
   
   
3. Select the Automatically sync the changes made in Outlook contacts/tasks/appointments to Zoho CRM checkbox.
   
4. Click Save.
   The changes made to the records before you enable the option to automatically synchronize, needs to be manually synchronized.

1. Log in to Zoho CRM from within Microsoft Outlook.
   
2. From the Zoho CRM Plug-in, click Sync Contact/Task/Calendar.
   The synchronization will automatically start. Based on the Synchronize Settings, the records will be updated.
   
   

Note

• You can click the View Details link to get the detailed list of changes.
  
• The Contacts/Tasks/Calendar Synchronization details are displayed in three categories - To Add, To Update and To Delete. 
  
  
  
  
• During the synchronization of contacts, tasks or events, records that were not synchronized during a previous sync are automatically uncheked and marked as Ignored during previous sync under the Information column.
  
  
  
  This way you can easily see which records were not synced previously. Also if you decide to include them in the current synchronization, all you have to do is select the records and synchronize them.
• A user's ability to edit records synced with Outlook depends on their profile permission and data sharing rules.
  
• In the case of restricted profile permission, a user will receive a Permission Denied warning when he/she attempts to modify the record.
  
  
  
  
• In case a user attempts to modify a record shared to him/her on the basis of data sharing rules, the record changes will be reflected in Zoho CRM based on the Access Type set in the data sharing rule. This will be the case even if the user has the required profile permission to access the record. For example, if the Access Type of a record is set to Read Only, the user cannot make record changes effective even if he/she has profile the required permissions to edit the record.
  

Add Emails as Cases to Zoho CRM

1. Select Inbox from the sidebar or the Folder that contains the emails that needs to be added to Zoho CRM.
   
2. Select the customer-specific Email from the Inbox or custom email folder.
   
3. From the Zoho CRM Plug-in, click Add Case.
   
   
   
   
4. In the Add Case dialog box, select a Status from the drop-down list.
   
5. Select the Attachments checkbox, if you want the attachments also to be added along with the email.
   
6. Search records based on a given criteria and then add the email as case to the selected records.
   
   
   
   
7. Click Add.
   The email will be added as a case in Zoho CRM.

Note

You can search and add the email as a case, only to the selected contacts, if required.

While adding it to Contacts, if you select the status and just click Add, then a new record will be created and the following values will be taken in Zoho CRM:

In MS Outlook	In Zoho CRM
Email Address	Email Address
Contact Name	Contact Name
Subject of the Email	Subject of the Case
Email Content	Case Description

Adding Email to Zoho CRM

• On clicking this option the selected email (received or sent) will be added to the lead/contact based on the Mail Settings that is specified.
  

• You can search records by criteria and add the email (received or sent) to the matching records.
  
• This option can be used to associate emails to potentials.
  
• Emails are not associated based on the Mail Settings. You have the option here to select the module.
  

• On sending an email from MS Outlook, it will be automatically added to the matching contact in Zoho CRM.
  
• The email sent will be added in Zoho CRM, only if it is available in the sent folder specified in the Mail Settings. 
  
• The contact to whom the email is sent should be listed in the Folder and Category specified in the Contact Settings. 
  
• For IMAP account users, email may not automatically get associated to the records in Zoho CRM, if the "Save sent items in the Sent Item folder on this computer" is not selected in the MS Outlook settings. To enable:
  
1. Open MS Outlook's account settings.
   
2. Click More Settings > Sent Items.
   
3. Select "Save sent items in the Sent Item folder on this computer".
   
4. Click OK.
   

• You can draft an email to your customer and add it to Zoho CRM whenever you send it.
  
• This option can be used to associate emails to deals.
  
  

1. Select the Folder that contains the emails that needs to be added to Zoho CRM.
   
2. Select the customer-specific Email from the folder.
   
3. From the Zoho CRM Plug-in, click Add Email.
   Based on the Mail settings the selected email will be added to the lead/contact in Zoho CRM.
   
   

1. Select the Folder that contains the emails that needs to be added to Zoho CRM.
   
2. Select the customer-specific Email from the folder.
   
3. From the Zoho CRM Plug-in, click Search and Add Email.
   
   
   
   
4. In the Add Email dialog box, select a Module (Leads, Contacts, or Deals) from the drop-down list.
   When you select Deals, another field will be available namely, Criteria (to search records).
   You need to select either Email Address or Deal Name to search the records. On selecting Email Address, the Contacts with the matching email address will be searched in Zoho CRM and the Deal records associated to the matching contacts will be listed.
5. Select the Attachments checkbox, if you want the attachments also to be added along with the email. You can also do the following:
   
• Search records based on a given criteria. The matching records will be listed.
  
6. Click Add.
   The email will be added to the selected leads/contacts/potentials.

Note

While adding it to Leads or Contacts, if you select the module and just click Add, then a new record will be created and the following values will be taken in Zoho CRM:

• Email address in MS Outlook will be the email address in Zoho CRM
  
• Contact name in the mail will be the Contact or Lead name in Zoho CRM.