Ytel's message360° API Provides Zoho CRM Customers Multi-Channel Capabilities

FOOTHILL RANCH, Calif., Aug. 1, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Ytel, a cloud communications company, announced today its new partnership with Zoho CRM. With over 3,500 employees and 6 locations worldwide, Zoho is recognized as one of the leading CRMs on the market. Now available to Zoho customers is text messaging functionality through a native integration with message360°. A Ytel solution, message360° is a Cloud Communications API that integrates Voice, Text, Email, and Direct Mail functionality into any web-based application.

"Zoho was the perfect partner for us because of their customers' needs," said Nick Newsom, CEO at Ytel. "Communication is, and will always be, high priority for businesses and we are helping Zoho provide multi-channel capabilities to their customers."

"We want our customers to get the most out of Zoho, which is why we launched Zoho Marketplace. Here, businesses can choose from a broad range of powerful extensions that increase the capabilities of Zoho products and help businesses be more efficient and productive," said Raju Vegesna, Chief Evangelist at Zoho. "Extensions such as message360° connect seamlessly with Zoho products, ensuring a smooth user experience. We are happy to feature message360° on Zoho Marketplace, and believe that it would be valuable for our customers."

Found in the Zoho marketplace, the message360° extension will allow customers to engage in more personal, two-way conversations through text messaging. Key features of this extension include:

- The ability to send text messages to contacts
- Creation and management of custom text message templates
- History tracking and scheduling of  bulk text message campaigns

There is no cost to start using the message360° extension and Zoho customers get $10 in API credits to get started.

To learn more about the message360° extension in the Zoho Marketplace click here.

To learn more about message360°, click here.

About Ytel (www.ytel.com)
Ytel^® specializes in cloud-based B2B communications solutions, powering modern communications through voice, text, email and direct mail. Its SaaS-based offerings include Cloud Contact Center®, message360°^®, and sipPro™. Ytel supports billions of outbound and inbound interactions, on a company owned network, for the primary purpose of increasing revenue and maximizing efficiency for clients.

About Zoho (www.zoho.com)
Zoho is THE operating system for business - a single cloud platform with all the necessary applications to run a business entirely from the cloud. Businesses can acquire and manage customers using Zoho's marketing, sales and customer support applications - Campaigns, CRM and Desk - and can then empower employees to create, store and distribute content on the cloud with Zoho's productivity and collaboration applications - Office, Mail and Docs. Additionally, businesses can run their own operations on Zoho's finance and human resources applications - Books, People and Recruit.

More than 20 million users around the world across hundreds of thousands of companies rely on Zoho every day to run their businesses - including Zoho itself. A business can choose to run the entire Zoho suite or just a single application. Zoho applications are available directly through zoho.com, or through an ecosystem of hundreds of worldwide Zoho partners.

Zoho is a division of Zoho Corp., a privately-held and consistently profitable company, with more than 4,000 employees. Zoho is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA with international headquarters in Chennai, India and offices in Austin, London, Yokohama and Beijing. For more information, please visit http://www.zoho.com.

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