Free For Non-Profits

Hey everyone,

Just wanted to let you know that I am going to finish testing Zoho in a few days(weeks) and hope to have a few reviews up soon.  Zoho is a web-based software suite that has many more features than Google Apps for Your Domain.  Google offers email, calendars, docs, spreadsheets, presentations, online notebook and user-customizable sites.  Zoho offers all these things and adds a Wiki, a project management program, a customer relationship manager, invoicing, web conferencing, an online database and a personnel recruitment program.  With the exception of the web conferencing, all of these products feature some sort of free version.

I am currently using Zoho CRM and it allows three users with storage up to 100MB for free.  You can add extra storage space to the free users or you can upgrade to the monthly paid version.  I am currently testing CRM as a contact manager for some fundraising that I do.  While it is not designed for this exact job, I think it can be adapted for this function.  Many of the fields are business related, but if you are running a small non-profit or business, it may be worth dealing with the strange fields in exchange for getting the service for free.  A word of caution: While you are able to export individual pieces of information for free, Zoho charges $10 per instance if you want to export all your data.  For example, if you want to export your contacts, you can do this for free.  But if you want to export all the information you have stored, you will have to pay Zoho.