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Zoho Recruit is a talent acquisition platform that helps in-house recruiters and staffing agencies source, track, and hire the best candidates. It has robust functionality, such as applicant tracking, assessments, artificial intelligence (AI) and offer management. Zoho Recruit automates key tasks, such as bulk emails and candidate pipeline updates, to help streamline the hiring process.
In this post, we’ll discuss Zoho Recruit’s pricing in more detail.
Does Zoho Recruit have a free plan?
Yes, Zoho Recruit has a Forever Free plan that accommodates recruiters in both corporate businesses and staffing agencies. The plan accommodates a single active job and includes candidate management, email management, interview scheduling and 24/5 email support.
Does Zoho Recruit have a free trial?
Yes, prospects can sign up for a 15-day free trial of the Enterprise plan. After the trial ends and they want to continue using Zoho Recruit, they’ll start at the Forever Free plan or upgrade to any of the paid plans.
Zoho Recruit Pricing Plans
Zoho Recruit has monthly and annual subscription plans based on the per-user, per month pricing strategy. It offers targeted pricing for internal HR (corporate HR recruiters) and staffing agencies. We take a look at each.
Internal HR (In-house/Corporate HR Recruiters)
In-house recruiters can choose from the Forever Free plan or two paid plans. The plans are:
Forever Free
The Forever Free plan accommodates one active job and includes basic features, such as:
- Candidate management module
- Department management module
- Interview management module
- Notes module
- A single career site
- Premium job boards
- The ability to submit candidate to hiring manager
- Web forms with auto-response rules
- Simple search
- Up to five email templates
- Zapier integration
- Up to 256 MB file storage
- Export module data
- 500 application programming interface (API) calls per day
Standard
The Standard plan costs $30 per recruiter, per month ($25 per recruiter, per month yearly), It includes all of the features of the Forever Free plan, plus:
- Up to 10 active jobs per recruiter
- The ability to track tasks, calls and events
- Posting to free job boards
- Social media postings (e.g., LinkedIn, Facebook)
- Employee referrals
- The ability to convert candidate to employee
- Up to 250 source boosters per day
- Up to 250 resumes parsed per day
- Candidate review form
- Interview feedback form
- Resume inbox
- Resume extractor
- Boolean search
- Up to 250 mass emails per day, per organization
- Up to 100 email templates
- Up to five custom “From” addresses
- An unsubscribe link
- Document library (e.g., folder sharing, version history, reviews)
- Standard reports and dashboards
- Customization (e.g., branded logos, unique fields, custom views)
- Workflow management (e.g., up to five workflow rules, workflow alerts)
- Up to three career site pages
- Up to three Zoho Marketplace extensions
- Integration with other Zoho products (e.g., Mail, People, Docs, Workerly, Campaigns)
- Integration with Microsoft Outlook and Google Suite
- 1 GB free storage per organization
- Monthly data backup
- 3,000-5,000 API calls per day
Enterprise
The Enterprise plan costs $60 per recruiter, per month ($50 per recruiter, per month yearly). It includes all of the features of the Standard plan, plus:
- Up to 20 active jobs per recruiter
- Unlimited source boosters
- Unlimited resume parsing
- Web form assignment rules
- Up to 750 mass emails per day per organization
- Unlimited email templates
- Up to 50 custom “From” addresses
- BCC dropbox
- Email auto responders
- Advanced reporting features (e.g., custom reports and dashboards, integration with Zoho Analytics, report scheduling, recruiting KPIs)
- Advanced customization features (e.g., custom links, functions and buttons)
- Advanced workflow management features (e.g., workflow assignment rules, time-based actions, Blueprint recruiting automation)
- Candidate portal
- The ability to invite candidates in bulk
- Up to 10 career site pages
- Portal management with 10 free portal licenses
- Up to 25 Zoho Marketplace extensions
- Integration with Zoho Forms
- Integration with SMS Gateway and Phonebridge
- 3 GB free storage per organization
- 10,000-30,000 maximum API calls per day
- 200 custom function calls
Staffing/Recruiting Agencies
For staffing agencies, there is a Forever Free plan, plus three paid plans. The plans are:
Forever Free
The Forever Free plan accommodates one active job and includes basic features, such as:
- Candidate management
- Client management
- Interview management
- Notes
- A single career site
- Premium job boards
- The ability to submit candidate to clients
- A single web form for candidates/clients
- Web form auto response rules
- Simple search
- Up to 50 candidate tags
- Up to five email templates
- A default portal domain
- Zapier integration
- Up to 256 MB file storage
- 500 API calls per day
Standard
The Standard plan costs $30 per recruiter, per month ($25 per recruiter, per month yearly), It includes all of the features of the Forever Free plan, plus:
- Up to 100 active jobs
- The ability to track tasks, calls and events
- Posting to free job boards
- Social media postings (e.g., LinkedIn, Facebook)
- Source boosters
- Jobs on Google Search
- Parsing up to 250 resumes per day
- Formatted/branded resumes
- Candidate review form
- Interview feedback form
- Resume inbox
- Up to 250 resumes extracted per day
- Candidate and client contact linking
- Up to five web forms for candidates/contacts
- Boolean search
- The ability to search candidate attachments
- Up to 250 candidate tags
- Up to 250 mass emails per day, per organization
- Up to 100 email templates
- Up to five custom “From” addresses
- An unsubscribe link
- Document library (e.g., folder sharing, version history, reviews)
- Standard reports and dashboards
- Customization features (e.g., branded logos, renaming tabs, up to 50 custom views per module, up to two unique fields)
- Workflow management features (e.g., up to five custom workflow rules, workflow tasks)
- Up to three career site pages
- Access for up to 50 guests or interviewers
- Up to three Zoho Marketplace extensions
- Integration with other Zoho products (e.g., Mail, CRM, Docs, Workerly, Campaigns)
- Plug-ins for Microsoft Outlook
- Built-in calendar
- Syncing with Google and Outlook calendars
- Event scheduling
- 1 GB free storage per organization
- Monthly data backup
- 3,000-5,000 maximum API calls per day
Professional
The Professional plan costs $60 per recruiter, per month ($50 per recruiter, per month yearly). It includes all of the features of the Standard plan, plus:
- Up to 250 active jobs
- Forecasting
- Up to 500 resume parsing per day
- Prescreening
- Up to 10 web forms for candidates/contacts
- Up to 20 web form assignment rules
- Semantic search
- Zip code search
- Up to 500 candidate tags
- Up to 500 mass emails per day per organization
- Up to 250 email templates
- Up to 50 custom “From” addresses
- BCC dropbox
- Advanced reporting features (e.g., custom reports and dashboards, integration with Zoho Analytics, report scheduling)
- Additional customization features (e.g., up to 150 custom fields per module, up to 100 custom views per module, up to five tab groups)
- Additional workflow management features (e.g., workflow assignment rules, field updates, time-based actions)
- Candidate portal
- The ability to invite up to 100 candidates in bulk
- Up to five career site pages
- Portal subdomain
- Access for up to 100 guests or interviewers
- Up to 10 Zoho Marketplace extensions
- Integration with Zoho Forms
- Integration with SMS Gateway and Phonebridge
- Macros
- Multiple currencies
- 2 GB free storage per organization
- 5,000-10,000 API calls per day
Enterprise
The Enterprise plan costs $90 per recruiter, per month ($75 per recruiter, per month yearly). It includes all of the features of the Professional plan, plus:
- Up to 750 active jobs
- Unlimited resume parsing
- Up to 20 forms for candidates/contacts
- Up to 20 web form assignment rules and up to 50 rule entries
- Unlimited candidate tags
- Up to 750 mass emails per day per organization
- Unlimited email templates
- Up to 50 custom “From” addresses
- Up to three email auto responders
- Advanced customization features (e.g., up to 20 custom links, custom functions and buttons)
- Advanced workflow management features (e.g., up to 50 custom workflow rules, Blueprint recruiting automation)
- The ability to invite up to 200 candidates in bulk
- Up to 10 career site pages
- Portal management with 10 free portal licenses
- Unlimited access for guests and interviewers
- Up to 25 Zoho Marketplace extensions
- 3 GB free storage per organization
- 10,000-30,000 maximum API calls per day
- 200 custom function calls
Additional Costs to Consider
Add-on Features
Zoho Recruit offers several add-on features for both in-house recruiters and staffing companies. Note that the add-on features aren’t available to users under the Forever Free plan. The features are:
Employee License
Companies can buy an employee license for $10 per month, which must be purchased in packs of 10. With this license, employees can refer candidates to recruiters, while hiring managers can set up job requisitions, interview candidates and give feedback.
Vendor Portal
The first 10 licenses for the vendor portal are free under the Enterprise plan, but Enterprise plan users who need additional licenses can purchase additional licenses for $6 per user, per month.
Client Portal
For staffing agencies, Zoho Recruit offers a client portal for $6 per license, per month (the first 10 licenses are free under the Enterprise plan). Clients can create job openings, review candidates, give feedback and make interviewing decisions.
Video Interviewing
Recruiters can conduct live and one-way video interviews with candidates for $12 per job opening. The hiring team can also collaborate on interview feedback.
Implementation Services
Jumpstart
In the Jumpstart program, Zoho Recruit’s staff provides account setup and configuration for companies that need a fully-customized solution. There are three pricing tiers that range from $1,000 for 20 hours to $3,000 for 40 hours and includes setting up and customizing many features, such as emails, notifications, user profiles, security, integration, resume management, candidate portals, reports and templates.
Data migration services aren’t included in the Jumpstart program, so there’s a separate fee. Interested prospects can contact Zoho Recruit for a custom quote.
Support
Zoho Recruit has both free and paid customer support available in four tiers.
- Basic – The Basic plan is free and available to users in the Forever Free plan. It includes a knowledge base, a community forum, a customer portal, email support and a 24-hour maximum response time.
- Classic – This plan offers free support to all paid plan users. It includes all of the features of the Basic plan, plus toll-free phone support during business hours, live chat support during business hours (note that this is available only for Enterprise plan users) and a 12-hour maximum response time.
- Premium – The Premium support plan costs 25% of the license fee annually and adds on 24/5 live chat and phone support, remote assistance, a 45-day onboarding process, configuration assistance and a three-hour maximum response time.
- Enterprise – The Enterprise plan costs 30% of the license fee annually and includes all of the features of the other three plans, plus 24/7 support, a 60-day onboarding process, a technical account manager, a quarterly report on feature usage and recommendations and a one-hour maximum response time. Note that there’s a minimum of 15 users required for this plan.
Conclusion
Zoho Recruit’s scalable pricing plans allows recruiters to upgrade or downgrade as their needs change. They can also add on optional features or premium support. Zoho Recruit has a 45-day money-back guarantee that provides users with a full refund if the user isn’t satisfied with the software. Prospects that want to check out Zoho Recruit can sign up for the free trial on its site.