Google Workspace Essentials vs. Zoho Sites

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Google Workspace Essentials
Score 9.2 out of 10
N/A
Google now offers Google Workspace Essentials (formerly G Suite Essentials), providing a solution for users of Outlook or Office whose teams want to use Google Meet and Google Apps without needing to involve a personal gmail account. Google Workspace Essentails includes Google Slides, Sheets, and Docs, as well as Google Meet, Google Drive, Forms, Sites, and Keep, in a bundle minus a gmail account. Basic Essentials supports (via Meet) meetings with up to 150 participants, and Google Drive with…
$8
per month per user
Zoho Sites
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Zoho Sites is a zero-code website builder that contains key features that helps online businesses to create professionally designed websites within minutes. It helps users to: Create Create a website with designer-made templates that are free and optimized to look great on any screen. Customize Customize every aspect of a website with a drag & drop editor. Access the HTML & CSS editor for more in-depth customizations if needed. …
$5
per month per site, billed annually
Pricing
Google Workspace EssentialsZoho Sites
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Starter
$5
per month Per site, Billed Annually
Pro
$17
per month Per site, Billed Annually
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Google Workspace EssentialsZoho Sites
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsZoho sites offers a free trial for 15 days after which the software is available across 2 pricing tiers. Pricing details are outlined below: Starter: $5/site/month (billed annually) Pro: $17/site/month (billed annually)
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User Ratings
Google Workspace EssentialsZoho Sites
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(16 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
7.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Google Workspace EssentialsZoho Sites
Likelihood to Recommend
Google
I will state this with 2 basic examples, When I require documentation to be edited by many editors then Google workspace is the way to go. It provides the best synching capabilities and also sharing capabilities. In case of meeting conduction through google meet a notes section would be awesome for personal notes and the capability to record the meetings would also help a ton to improve the productivity of all users
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Zoho
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Pros
Google
  • Google Docs & Google Slides are essential to our company as we are remote. Multiple people can work on the documents at one time.
  • Easy to share and store files in Google Drive.
  • Google Calendar is amazing, it integrates seamlessly with other Google products and it's our company's primary calendar tool.
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Zoho
No answers on this topic
Cons
Google
  • I'd love to see a formal integration of an Airtable-like program that expands on something like Sheets to really make project management extremely efficient and robust.
  • I think it would be useful if public-facing pieces like Google Forms were more customizable to our org's brand.
  • Creating some sort of easy-to-manage/integrated CRM, donor management, and marketing software would really change the game.
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Zoho
No answers on this topic
Likelihood to Renew
Google
Now that our department has used G Suite Essentials for close to 2 years, I can't imagine not using it. It has proven to be a very practical tool for sharing files / folders on a shared drive. It also makes it easy to modify and update content. It is user friendly and the interface is simple.
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Zoho
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Usability
Google
Google Workspace is very easy to use. Even the advanced features are also rendered with an intuitive user interface. Opting into new features is easy, with a clear indication of whether they cost extra or free. Communications about new features as well as security threats are easy to understand and follow up on.
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Zoho
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Alternatives Considered
Google
Google Workspace Essentials is more robust than Dropbox with the other features that are available. Google Workspace Essentials is very comparable to Microsoft 365, and we ultimately went with Google because at the time, it was free/priced better than MS, and now we have lots of legacy files already stored on Google servers, so a switch would be too time-consuming. We went with Google Workspace Essentials over OpenOffice because of the email features of using Google.
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Zoho
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Google
  • Not being able to record some meeting had an impact on context loss which hampers ROI
  • Seamless integration has increased ROI in some cases
  • Ability to not convert the office work files to MS office format properly has reduced ROI in some cases.
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Zoho
No answers on this topic
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