Mojobase vs Zoho One

What's the real difference between Mojobase and Zoho One?

Zoho One is breadth: one subscription for a long list of separate Zoho apps, from CRM, Desk and Campaigns to Books, Payroll, People, Inventory and a website builder. Mojobase is depth on the day-to-day: the mail, meetings, customers, tasks, documents and money a small team handles every morning, held in one place so one AI can see all of it.

The practical difference shows up when work crosses apps. A customer writes asking why their order is late and whether the invoice is still due. In Mojobase the AI reads the email, finds the customer's page, sees the unpaid invoice and the open task, checks the delivery terms in the Handbook and drafts the reply for a person to send. Every change it makes is listed in Activity with Undo, and you set per kind of change whether it waits for you or happens on its own.

How do the prices work for a team of five?

Mojobase for five people is $139 a month on the list price, or $105 a month for the first 10 companies, for life. Zoho One's all-employee price is $30 an employee a month, billed annually, which is $150 a month for five; Zoho marks that price "first year only" and charges $37 per employee per month from year two. Billed monthly it's $45 per employee. The catch is that all-employee pricing needs a licence for everyone on payroll. If only some staff will use it, Zoho's flexible user pricing is $67 a user a month billed annually, or $105 billed monthly.

So Zoho One can be the lower price per head, and it includes far more software. Mojobase's price buys fewer apps, the AI included, and nothing to licence for staff who never log in.

What does Zoho One do that Mojobase doesn't?

Zoho One is the better choice for anything that needs a ledger, a warehouse or a payroll. It includes Books for accounting, Expense, Billing and Payroll, People and Recruit for HR, Inventory for orders and stock across warehouses and channels, Campaigns and Marketing Automation, Sites and Commerce for a website and store, and an app creator for custom processes. Mojobase has none of these.

Mojobase reads invoices from your company's Stripe account in US dollars and tracks who owes what in Numbers and on each person's and company's page in Customers. It drafts reminders for people to send; it doesn't create, prepare or send invoices. It also has no bookkeeping, tax or inventory, so a business that needs those either keeps Zoho One or pairs Mojobase with an accounting app.

Why choose Mojobase over a bundle of apps?

Because a small team rarely uses 45 apps, and every app is another screen to learn and another place the information doesn't reach. Mojobase has eight parts that share one customer list, one search, one Quick actions box (⌘K) and one log of everything people and agents did. Your customers fill themselves in from the people you email and meet. Tasks are suggested from the email that asks for the work. The Handbook holds your prices, policies and tone, and every AI run reads it first.

It is built for 1 to 25 people, and it works well for teams up to 100, where the owner still answers support, chases payments and plans the week, and wants the AI to take the first pass at all of it.