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We launched Zoho Invoice earlier last year, as sophisticated invoicing software and one of our first products that is completely free for all SMEs. It was our small act of kindness to the SME community that aided our growth. However, the fact that our program will be completely free does not change our view; Zoho Invoice offers no hidden fees, advertisements, or commitments.

We've increased our pledge to make your life simpler by adding 12 additional, fully free add-ons that you can connect to Zoho Invoice without writing a single line of code. Set up triggers and processes, automatically synchronize data between platforms, and more with Zoho Invoice.

1. Slack

Notifications regarding events affecting your estimates, invoices, payments, and customer activity should be posted to your designated Slack channel on the customer site. This saves time for your whole team because all of this information is in one location.

2. Office 365

Import Office 365 contacts and employees into Zoho Invoice quickly and easily. Invite people from your Office 365 account, monitor email discussions from Outlook to Zoho Invoice, and more.

3. Google Workspace

Connect e-mail discussions to transactions like estimates and invoices so you may simply refer to them at any time. Import users and contacts from Google Workspace into Zoho Invoice, upload transaction files directly from Google Drive, and more.

4. Zoho Expense

For invoicing and cost management, connect Zoho Invoice and Zoho Expense. By classifying costs by kind of cost, client, or project, you may avoid repetition when entering costs and payments and gain a better understanding of your organization's spending.

5. Zoho Analytics

To see and track critical KPIs from your Zoho Invoice data, create several custom reports and dashboards. Use the full-featured Business Intelligence (BI) tool and Zoho reporting tool to translate and extract your Zoho invoice data to generate any report or dashboard you want.

6. Zoho Cliq

Notify your selected Cliq channel about critical occurrences involving your estimates, invoices, and payments. This way, your entire team can keep up without having to log in to Zoho Invoice each time.

7. Zoho Desk

Invoices and estimates may be created, viewed, and managed from Zoho Desk cards, contacts, and accounts. Get contextual billing information for Zoho Desk contacts and accounts, such as unused credits, outstanding receivables, and billing addresses.

8. Zoho CRM

Synchronize Zoho Invoice client information and deliver all relevant information to the sales team in one location, including customer contact information and transaction history. You can generate estimates and invoices for your customers straight from Zoho CRM, eliminating the need to transfer between applications.

9. Zoho projects

Make it easy for your project managers and financial assistants to estimate and invoice their clients' costs at the start of the project. Use Zoho Projects to sync project details and schedules, and then use Zoho Invoice to deliver professional bills.

10. Zoho people

Transfer employee and contact information from Zoho People to Zoho Invoice. Directly from Zoho Invoice, view the projects and activities specified by Zoho People. Track your staff' precise working hours and pay your clients depending on the amount of hours done.

11. Zoho SalesIQ

Connect Zoho Invoice and Zoho SalesIQ to strengthen your customer connections by offering complete help to your customers via live chat on your client site. Create message templates or use a robot to address commonly requested inquiries and cut down on support time.

12. Zoho Mail

From Zoho Mail to Zoho Invoice, you can see all of your email discussions. Attach email attachments to Zoho Invoice estimates as invoices instead of downloading, uploading, and reattaching them.

“Elementary, my dear Watson.”

Time and again, recruitmentgurus have stressed the need to have a hiring process that is inclusive, unbiased, and that focuses on ensuring a potential candidate fits right within the company’s culture.

But how do you measure the effectiveness of a process like this? Well, two factors determine its success or failure—one is a new hire’s progress at a company while the other is their retention rate. To be more elementary about it, recruitment is all about finding good talent and building good teams.

A company’s growth relies heavily on its employees. Thus, having a strong recruitment process is a must. Though access to the best technology is not a limitation anymore, working your way through the competition and changing candidate demands requires some necessary tweaks. The journey of an applicant to hire consists of several critical stages, including — awareness, application, assessment, analysis, and finally acquisition.

Awareness – Creating the right channels for recruitment marketing 

Most modernrecruiters follow the mantra mentioned above. But, sometimes attracting the right hires relies heavily upon the awareness stage. It is key to ensuring that candidates, who are interested in applying for your jobs, learn enough about your company and its culture and then, hopefully, apply for the job.

But how do you create awareness? Well, start by exploring media that candidates heavily rely upon, and then publish your job openings where they matter the most—niche job boards, social media networks, professional networks, mobile applications, communities, and passive talent pools, among others.

Application process – Building a diverse and inclusive talent pipeline

Switch to an applicant tracking software (ATS) that helps manage multiple job postings from a single interface. Make sure there are web forms across job boards and aggregators for candidates to find a job and apply or even just send a query.

Recruiters must also bank on a centralized vendor portal where third-party recruitment agencies or vendors can contribute candidate profiles for certain job openings. This creates a talent ecosystem where the right candidates find the right jobs, which ultimately creates a win-win for all stakeholders.

Analysis – Candidate relationship management (CRM)

Having a hiring process that can ace CRM is a definite winner in today’s market. Recruiters must ensure that candidates are kept engaged and informed throughout the interview process. They must be able to Interact with them directly on their social profiles and schedule automated emails to engage them and continuously communicate any valuable information going further, whether they are a prospect or not.

Assess – Evaluate both skills and personality

Experts from therecruitment industry have insisted that modern recruiters should evolve into “skill hunters” rather than simply job board dependents. But is it enough? Well, longer employee retention can be guaranteed only when a candidate resonates with the company’s vision and identifies their career growth within the organization. No, analysis limited to only skillsets is no more enough.

Acquisition – Provide value, not just money

While making a switch in their jobs, candidates expect more from a company. They expect more from their recruiters as well. It has become important that recruiters dedicate time to research a company’s work atmosphere, employee benefits, ongoing education, provision for parallel work, study opportunities, and travel potential.

Sure, it takes time to adapt to the constantly changing talent needs and the influence of technology on it, but if your strategy is futuristic and your fundamentals are on point, you know that the right candidates will make their way to you.

Recruiting is hard and involves mastering the art of placing the right candidates with the right company. But you know what makes the whole process worthwhile? The satisfaction of building a great team. 

This is the second post in our special series focusing on hiring lessons essential for every recruiter. In the first post, we broke down the basics of effective recruitment. Stay tuned for our third post, which will elaborate on the secret ingredient of recruitment. We have a huge announcement coming up, and we would love to keep you notified. Learn more.