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Get Started with Reports in Zoho CRM

Jun 28, 2024

In the super-active world of customer relationship management (CRM), the possibility to transform raw data into actionable insights is vital. Zoho CRM is a versatile platform offering various reporting tools designed to meet diverse analytical needs. Whether you are tracking sales performance, monitoring customer interactions, or evaluating marketing efforts, the wide range of Reports in Zoho CRM helps you confidently make data-driven decisions. 

In this blog article we will cover all about Reports in Zoho CRM and learn how they can be leveraged to streamline your business and fuel growth.

What are Reports?

With a growing business, your data increases and often results in complexities. This data holds information about the various business aspects. Insights from this data are important for the growth of your business, understand current trends, and plan your moves accordingly. That’s Reports in Zoho CRM for you playing a vital role in bringing together all the relevant data as desired to achieve specific goals, such as generating monthly reports, understanding customer behavior, market trends, and much more.

Benefits of Reports in Zoho CRM

Reports in Zoho CRM offer ample amount of benefits to your businesses. You can make the right decisions keeping in consideration your business performance so far and also helps you understand what steps to take for further success. Here are some key advantages:

  1. Insightful Data Analysis: With Reports an organization can analyze large amounts of data, that uncovers the critical insights about how your business is performing, customer behavior, and market trends. This makes way for more informed decision-making and growth in the long run.
  2. Tracking Performance: With Reports in Zoho CRM we can track the performance of various business aspects, such as sales, customer service, marketing, etc. This ensures that we meet our defined targets on time and at the same time also identify the areas for improvement.
  3. Customizable and Adaptable: You will find variety of report types that can be further tailored to specific requirements of the business, offering flexible and adaptable data analysis.
  4.  Real-Time Insights and Forecasting: Zoho CRM’s real-time data reports keep businesses up-to-date. This enables us to covert quick responses to opportunities. Moreover, these detailed reports highlight the latest trends, while promoting accurate forecasting and better planning for the future.
  5. Improved Collaboration: Reports in Zoho CRM are easily shareable. This fosters teamwork by ensuring all users have access to the same information, enhancing coordination across multiple users and teams.

Overall, the reporting capabilities in Zoho CRM provide a compact view of business operations, drive efficiency, and support strategic growth.

Create Reports in Zoho CRM

Creating Reports in Zoho CRM is a seamless and powerful process that enables businesses to gain valuable insights from their data. With Reports in Zoho CRM, users can create various reports, designed to meet different analytical needs. With instinctive steps to select modules, define filters, and customize data views, Zoho CRM’s reporting tools allow you to obtain precise data analysis. Moreover, the ability to add customization, schedule automatic report generation, and share insights across teams ensures that all users can stay informed and updated This helps in making data driven decisions for the business.

How to Create Reports in Zoho CRM

Navigate to the Reports Module. In the left panel, you can see all the different types of reports.

Create Reports in Zoho CRM

Click on the Create Report button icon to create a New Report and also set a name for your Report.
To create a new report we first need to select a Primary Module.

Create Zoho CRM  Report Name

What is a Primary Module?

Primary Module in reports refers to the main module from which the report is generated. The data that you want to analyze and report on will be available in this module. When creating reports in Zoho CRM, you first select a primary module as shown below, and then you can pull in related data from other modules as necessary.

Select Primary Module in Zoho Reports

Once the Primary Module is selected, choose the related modules.
Here, with a related module, we are building a relationship between the Parent Module and the Child Module.

Primary Module in Zoho CRM Reports

The parent list shows all modules that are referred to in the lookup fields of the primary module. The child list displays all modules referred to in the related lists of the primary module.

A Parent Module is a module that is linked to the primary module through a lookup field. With this relationship, the primary module can refer to data from the parent module. When creating reports in Zoho CRM, you can include data from these parent modules to provide a more detailed view of related information.

Important Note: For broader information, you can select multiple parent modules.

A Child Module is a module that is linked to the primary module through a related list. This means the primary module can include related records from the child module, allowing you to compile and analyze data in your reports.
Once you have selected your Parent and Child Module click on the Continue Button to move to the next step.

Once the Report is created based on your selection and preferences, it can further be customized by arranging and selecting columns, and adding Filters.

Set Advanced Filters in Zoho CRM
  • You can create filters based on dates, i.e. records using date fields in the primary module for the report.  
  • You can create advanced filters using other fields to define the criteria records must meet to be included in the report.

Here once you have applied the filter, you can see the data that matches your filter criteria .
We can further segregate the data of the report in Row Groups or Column Groups.

Example

Lets have a look at the data by segregating them in Row Group.

Zoho CRM Reports in Row Group

We can also segregate the data by grouping them into columns. 

Example

Grouping them based on the lead sources in a column view.

Zoho CRM Column Groups

We also have an Aggregate Column that enables us to perform calculations on row and column groups. Functions such as sum, average, maximum, minimum, and count can be used to display metrics.

Once all of the details are set as desired, Click on the Save button on the right top corner.

Your Contacts with Deals Report is all ready.

Zoho  Reports

Turning Reports into Charts

Once your report is ready you can further enhance the effectiveness of your report, by incorporating various types of charts to visually represent your data. This includes Pie charts, Bar charts, Funnel charts, and more.

Zoho CRM Chart reports
  1. You can also clone your reports to use similar data in other reports and make changes by editing as required.
  2. You can send these reports to other team members via email or schedule them for later too. 
  3. We can also export the Reports from the system in Excel, PDF, or CSV format.
Report Chart View in Zoho

Important Facts:

If you are working with Reports in Zoho CRM, here are some important facts that you must know:

  • Users that have Manage report permission, can create, edit and share report folders.
  • Users can see fields and records from connected parent/child modules in a report, even without access to those specific records, provided they have access to the modules.
  • If users don’t have access to the parent or child module in their profile, they cannot view the report.
  • We can export a maximum of up to 2000 rows in formatted export and 50,000 rows in detailed export

Conclusion

In conclusion, Reports in Zoho CRM has robust capabilities that enable businesses to transform raw data into actionable insights. By customizing and obtaining detailed reports, organizations can make informed decisions, optimize processes, and drive growth. Creating these reports is straightforward, allowing businesses to tailor them to their unique requirements with ease. Embrace the power of Zoho CRM reports to unlock the full potential of your data and stay ahead in today’s competitive landscape. 

As your business grows, it brings more complex data which is a good thing when it comes to business. But often these data can be challenging when working with reports. 

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