Zoho Creator

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An all-in-one low-code application development software.

About Zoho Creator

Zoho Creator is a low-code business process management (BPM) software that enables businesses to build custom applications, automate workflows, and manage data. Designed for developers, IT managers, business analysts, project managers, and digital transformation leaders, Zoho Creator provides an AI-powered app builder, custom apps, mobile apps, online portals, and integration flows to streamline business processes across various industries.

Zoho Creator's features include BI and analytics capabilities, a unified data model, and auto-scaling infrastructure to support enterprise-grade applications. The platform empowers users to tackle complex business challenges through its low-code development environment, import files and databases, enrich data, and integrate with legacy ERP systems. Zoho Creator's data collection forms, schema relationships, and business intelligence dashboards enable users to visualize and gain insights from the business data.

The software's automation capabilities include workflows, serverless functions, notifications, schedules, and approvals, all powered by the Deluge scripting language. Zoho Creator also offers integration through its Unified Data Service, payment integrations, and extensive API support, allowing users to connect applications with other business tools.


Key benefits of Zoho Creator

  • Mobile Apps for iOS, Android

    Any app created on Zoho Creator is readily available as a mobile app with no mobile-specific development. Team members and clients can also download the Zoho Creator mobile app and can access real-time data all the time. Zoho Creator helps users stay connected to data all the time.

  • Time to Market

    Zoho Creator provides a flexible and easy-to-use platform to build databases over the web that significantly reduces the development time. Zoho Creator helps users achieve the time to market by offering intuitive drag-and-drop interface to build forms/tables without coding. You can create databases either by importing data from spreadsheets or from MS Access database (.mdb) file.

  • No Database Complexities

    Zoho Creator platform takes away all the database complexities with creating tables, modifying the structure of the tables and maintenance headaches like - Storage, Availability and Security. Zoho Creator offers administrators the flexibility to modify table attributes and transform both data and table structure, while allowing users full access to the database. All the changes and modification are made instantly without any delay or patch.

  • Flexible and Agile Development Process

    Zoho Creator offers intuitive drag-and-drop interface to create tables/Forms and add business rules. You can build custom databases without coding. Zoho Creator's scalable approach enables admin to modify the structure of the database and the data while allowing users full access to the database. You can create custom databases in time that scales with businesses.

  • Workflow and Business Rules over the web

    Zoho Creator is incorporated with Deluge Script, a scripting language that lets users to design business workflows and perform a variety of automated actions based on the criteria specified. No programming skills required, just drag-and-drop actions, triggers.

  • Secure Database Hosting

    Zoho Creator platform provides highly available, scalable and secure hosting infrastructure. All Zoho Creator applications and the informations within the application are remotely stored and hosted on Zoho web servers, which are monitored everyday. It employs industry-standard practices like SSL encryption, around-the-clock security of data centers, back-up and recovery systems.

  • Active Developer Community

    Zoho Creator has built a strong community of independent developers and ISV's who can help users in the database development process. Zoho Creator Forum is the place to share knowledge, ideas with each other and also to post questions, issues and get help from the experts.


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    • Industry: Automotive
    • Company size: 2–10 Employees
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    Easy low code app development

    Reviewed on 17/2/2023

    Creator is helping me to custom build apps for my specialist business operations and once done will...

    Creator is helping me to custom build apps for my specialist business operations and once done will help our clients do business with us easier.

    Pros

    Easy to use with a lot of custom featues, no code knowledge required and lots of preset options to help build pages. The templates are helpful too!

    Cons

    Still learning some features and how to customise things more but so far it's been a good process!

    Colin
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    • Industry: Information Technology & Services
    • Company size: 2–10 Employees
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    • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

    Zoho Creator - Rapid App Development

    Reviewed on 24/4/2019

    Mostly this has been used for prototyping and proof of concept for larger projects that end up...

    Mostly this has been used for prototyping and proof of concept for larger projects that end up being developed on other platforms. It's great value for what you get. If you are using other elements of the Zoho suite there are good integrations and Creator would be great for adding functionality for the likes of first-line workers in the organisation.

    Pros

    Zoho Creator is an application development tool sold as a stand-alone SaaS product or as part of the Zoho One Suite.

    Zoho Creator is a quick way to create applications without writing code. You can create forms, reports, pages and workflows largely through a drag-and-drop interface. There is a custom scripting language available for more complex requirements, but most users will be sticking to the no-code features.

    This is a good solution for collecting data on web forms and presenting it in meaningful reports. Completed apps can be embedded on websites or made available to users within or external to the organisation. Apps created are responsive and designed to display well on desktop, tablet or smartphone.

    Typical use cases are collecting data for surveys, tests and managing assets. With a bit of practice, you can create functional apps with triggers for email notifications and the like. Zoho Creator can be a good tool for agile teams to use for proof of concept for larger projects that may be developed further on other platforms.

    Cons

    Could be dangerous in the wrong hands - ease of use is a double-edged sword. You'll still want to retain control of these kinds of tools; it's easy for enthusiastic amateurs to get carried away!

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    • Industry: Education Management
    • Company size: 51–200 Employees
    • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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    • Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10

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    Reviewed on 7/12/2021

    Pros

    The most thing I like about zoho creator is that it is easy to use and understand .

    Cons

    The most thing I don't like about zoho creator is that like other zoho products it take a long time for the support .

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    Anand
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    • Industry: Nonprofit Organisation Management
    • Company size: 51–200 Employees
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    Value for money product!

    Reviewed on 12/3/2022

    Pros

    I like customizable data management and adding data to dashboards and customizing them according to our needs. It doesn't need many codings, however, sometimes there might be glitches which can be sorted out with some help from coders

    Cons

    The price is a little bit costly however they'll provide a discount for non-profits. So it really helps.

    Colin
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    Powerful App Builder for Non-Programmers

    Reviewed on 13/10/2018

    We have used Zoho Creator for both internal and public facing apps. It is probably the quickest way...

    We have used Zoho Creator for both internal and public facing apps. It is probably the quickest way to get data collection forms on a web page. Power users can make use of Zoho Creator for simple data collection and reporting apps that need more than a spreadsheet but don't warrant the involvement of the development team. Great value, especially when included as part of the Zoho One bundle.

    Good solution for the right business applications.

    Pros

    While there is a bit of a learning curve, Zoho Creator can be used by non-programmers to create quite sophisticated applications using a drag and drop form builder and report builder. There is also a scripting language for more sophisticated requirements, but many simple apps can be created with no coding at all. Customer support is generally good and responsive. If you are already familiar with other Zoho products (CRM, Survey, Forms etc.) you should be able to get productive right away.

    Cons

    Can be tricky to brand exactly as you might like; lots of settings and interface isn't as intuitive as it could be. You'll likely want some oversight from the development team for anything that will be public facing, but that would be the case for any app in the wild.

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    Zoho Creator FAQs

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    Zoho Creator offers the following pricing plans:

    • Starting from: US$8.00/month
    • Pricing model: Subscription
    • Free Trial: Available

    Flexible Users Plan : STANDARD - $8/user/month/annually (Create your first app) PROFESSIONAL - $20/user/month billed annually (Create apps for your team/department) ENTERPRISE - $25 /user/month billed annually (Create core software solutions for your organization)

    Zoho Creator has the following typical customers:

    Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

    Zoho Creator supports the following languages:

    English, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese

    Zoho Creator supports the following devices:

    Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)

    Zoho Creator integrates with the following applications:

    Box, Dropbox Business, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Maps, Google Workspace, Microsoft SharePoint, OneDrive, PayPal, QuickBooks Online Advanced, Salesforce Sales Cloud, Twilio, WordPress, Zapier, Zoho Analytics, Zoho Billing, Zoho Books, Zoho CRM, Zoho Desk, Zoho Flow, Zoho Invoice, Zoho Recruit, Zoho Sites

    Zoho Creator offers the following support options:

    Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat

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