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Zoho's MCP (Model Context Protocol) server lets AI assistants such as Claude connect directly to Zoho CRM and work with your live data through natural language. Rather than you clicking through views and filters, the AI can read your pipeline, summarise deal status, flag stale records, bulk-update f
Add a Call prep button to Zoho CRM Leads that drafts spoken qualification questions across Budget, Authority, Needs, Timeline and Competition.
A note on changing a Zoho Books purchase order's delivery address while creating supplier orders from an accepted Zoho CRM Quote. My original method created an organisation address in Books and assigned its ID to a purchase order. This updated version adds a delivery address to the customer instead, then uses that cust...
This is an article about a Zoho Billing custom function that worked when it was executed manually but did not run automatically when a new invoice was created. The custom function was configured with the Invoice Created trigger. However, opening the function displayed the following message: Workflow does not exist! Inv...
A function to calculate how many trays of each available size are needed for a requested number of portions. Pass in the portion count and a list of tray capacities, and Ascent.fn_CalculatePortionCount returns a map of tray sizes to quantities. The important detail is what “best” means: first minimise surplus capacity...
A quick article on using a Zoho Analytics discrepancy table to add missing products and update existing product records in Zoho CRM. In this example, Unleashed supplies the product details, Zoho Analytics identifies the differences, and a scheduled Deluge function applies the changes to a custom CRM module.
Thought I'd write an article to help me the next time I needed to connect the Unleashed inventory software API directly to Zoho Analytics and pull in the product catalogue.
Not sure what this is but it's an article listing some errors in Zoho Books when using the shortcode command to retrieve the details for an item in Zoho Books...
Pretty self-explanatory really. Something to be cautious about but it took me so long to do that I needed an article here to help me if ever I get asked to do it again. Siimply put, Zoho Analytics can't see the Zoho People Salary table within the built-in integration / synchronization.
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