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Zoho Recruit partner in the USA · Los Angeles, CA

Zoho Recruit implementation partner for US staffing agencies and HR teams

Clients, job orders, submissions and placement fees in one place.

We’re certified Zoho Recruit consultants, led from our Glendale office in the Los Angeles area. For staffing and search firms we set up the Staffing Agency edition: clients and contacts, job orders, submissions your clients review in their own portal, and fee fields your owners can report on. We move you off Bullhorn or spreadsheets, train your recruiters and stay on for support.

  • One ATS for agencies and corporate HR
  • Resume parsing and Zia matching
  • Client and vendor portals
Zoho Advanced PartnerCertified Zoho Recruit consultants
You’ll talk to our senior team, not a call center.300+ projects · serving US clients since 2025

01Why Zoho Recruit

Why US staffing agencies and HR teams pick Zoho Recruit over Bullhorn and Greenhouse

Zoho Recruit is the rare applicant tracking system that ships two editions, one for agencies placing people with clients and one for companies hiring their own staff, with prices published per recruiter. Here are the six things we point to when a US hiring team asks why we recommend it.

Two editions, built for two different jobs

Staffing Agency tracks clients, job orders and every candidate you submit to them. Corporate HR swaps that for hiring managers, assessments and offer letter templates. If your business model changes, you switch editions and keep your data.

From $25 per recruiter / month, publishedGreenhouse: quote only

Resumes turn into records

Each resume is parsed into candidate fields: up to 250 a day on Standard, 500 on Professional and no cap on Staffing Enterprise. The Resume Extractor extension for Chrome adds a profile from a web page in one click.

Post once, reach 75+ job boards

One click sends a job to free and paid boards and to your branded career site, which works on phones and runs in 25+ languages. Candidates can apply with their LinkedIn profile.

Zia tells you who to call first

Zia, Zoho’s built-in AI (now also called SI, super intelligence), grades and ranks candidates by how closely they match the job’s requirements. Your recruiters still make the call. In Corporate HR it comes with Enterprise.

Clients and vendors log in themselves

On Staffing Enterprise, clients add job openings, review the candidates you submit and make interview calls in their own portal. Subcontracting agencies send candidates through a vendor portal. Ten portal licenses are included.

Staffing Enterprise

Offers check the salary band first

Offer letter templates fill in from the record. An approval kicks in when pay crosses your limit, and candidates sign through Zoho Sign, DocuSign or Adobe Sign. In Corporate HR the new hire then moves to Zoho People.

02Follow one job

One Zoho Recruit job, from post to signed offer

In Zoho Recruit a single job opening carries everything: where it was posted, who applied, who Zia ranked highest, who interviewed and what was offered. Scroll and watch one sample job fill up, the way we’d set it up for a US hiring team.

  1. 1

    Post it once

    The job goes live on your career site and the boards you choose, with no copying and pasting.

  2. 2

    Forty people apply

    Each resume becomes a candidate record, and likely duplicates get flagged before anyone wastes a call.

  3. 3

    Zia shortlists eight

    Candidates are ranked against the job’s requirements, so the recruiter reads the strongest eight first.

  4. 4

    Three interviews booked

    The candidate and the panel get the invite and video link, and feedback lands on the record.

  5. 5

    One offer, signed

    The offer comes from a template, clears approval, and is signed online. Status: Hired.

Sample job, names and numbers, for illustration only. Your own boards, stages and approvals are agreed in the BRD.

03Six hiring desks

Agency desk or HR team? Pick the Zoho Recruit pipeline that looks like yours

A contract staffing desk and a corporate HR team both use Zoho Recruit, yet their days look nothing alike. Pick the desk closest to yours and see the stages and fields our Zoho Recruit customization would add. Agencies that also chase new clients often run business development in Zoho CRM, synced with Recruit.

  1. 01Job order
  2. 02Sourcing
  3. 03Submitted to client
  4. 04Client interview
  5. 05Offer
  6. 06Placed
  7. 07On assignment

Fields we’d add: Bill rate · Pay rate · Margin · Assignment end date

  1. 01Search agreed
  2. 02Longlist
  3. 03Shortlist
  4. 04Client interviews
  5. 05Offer
  6. 06Placed
  7. 07Guarantee period

Fields we’d add: Fee % · Retainer paid · Guarantee days · Invoice date

  1. 01Requisition approved
  2. 02Applied
  3. 03Phone screen
  4. 04Panel interview
  5. 05Offer approval
  6. 06Hired

Fields we’d add: Department · Hiring manager · Salary band · Headcount ID

  1. 01Applied
  2. 02Credentials
  3. 03License verified
  4. 04Interview
  5. 05Offer
  6. 06Compliance cleared
  7. 07First shift

Fields we’d add: License state · License expiry · Shift preference · Facility

  1. 01Applied
  2. 02Knock-out questions
  3. 03Group interview
  4. 04Offer
  5. 05Background check
  6. 06First shift

Fields we’d add: Location · Shift · Availability · Background check status

  1. 01Sourced
  2. 02Recruiter screen
  3. 03Technical assessment
  4. 04Final loop
  5. 05Offer
  6. 06Hired

Fields we’d add: Main stack · Assessment score · Remote or hybrid · Work authorization

Hiring for something else? Walk us through it and we’ll sketch your pipeline on a discovery call.

04Try it yourself

Drop a resume into Zoho Recruit and watch it become a candidate

Zoho Recruit’s resume parser reads a resume and fills in the candidate record for you, then Zia scores the match against an open job. Pick one of two sample resumes and press Parse resume to see the idea. The people, the job and the scores here are samples.

Sample resume

Maya Ortiz

Senior Payroll Specialist

Mesa, AZ · [email protected]

Experience

Payroll Specialist, multi-state distributor, 2018–present. Runs biweekly payroll for 600 employees in 9 states.

Payroll Clerk, regional healthcare group, 2016–2018.

Skills

Multi-state payroll · ADP Workforce Now · Garnishments · Year-end W-2s · Excel

New candidateSample
Name
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Current title
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Skills
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Experience
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Location
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Email
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Sample match score vs job

Senior payroll specialist · Phoenix, AZ

Parse a resume to see how it lines up.

Sample data for illustration. In your account, parsing limits depend on the edition, and Zia’s match grades depend on the job requirements you set.

05Zoho Recruit pricing in the US

Staffing Agency or Corporate HR? Find the Zoho Recruit edition that fits

Zoho Recruit comes in two versions. Corporate HR is for companies filling their own roles; Staffing Agency is for firms placing candidates with clients. Prices run from $25 per recruiter per month (Standard, billed yearly) to $75 (Staffing Enterprise), and there’s a free edition for one active job. Answer three questions and we’ll suggest one.

1. How many recruiters will log in?
2. Which sounds most like you?
3. How would you pay?

We’d recommend

Free edition

$0for 1 active job at a time

Fine for a small business hiring for one role at a time. You can upgrade when hiring picks up.

Get this set up

06License cost calculator

Zoho Recruit pricing for 1 to 50 recruiters, worked out

Zoho Recruit is priced per recruiter, so hiring managers who only review candidates don’t need a paid seat. Slide to your recruiter count and pick an edition. The numbers shown are Zoho’s list prices per recruiter in USD, before sales tax.

Edition
Billing

Zoho Recruit per year$3,000$250 per month

Get a fixed-price setup quote

07Zoho Recruit vs the alternatives

Zoho Recruit vs Bullhorn, Greenhouse, Lever and Workable. Who charges what?

Most applicant tracking systems won’t show you a price until you sit through a demo. Here’s what US buyers see or typically report in 2026, per month. Watch the unit: Zoho Recruit and Bullhorn charge per recruiter, Workable per company, and Lever and BambooHR on your whole headcount. Greenhouse quotes every deal.

ATSCheapest paid planPlan most teams pickTop planHow it’s priced, and what else you pay
Zoho Recruit$25Standard, per recruiter$50Corporate Enterprise or Staffing Professional$75Staffing EnterprisePer recruiter. Free edition for one active job. A few optional add-ons, like the vendor portal
GreenhouseQuotereported from about $6,500 a yearQuoteQuotePriced by company size and hiring volume. Implementation and onboarding are reported as extra
LeverQuotereported $6–$8 per employeeQuoteQuotePriced on total company headcount, even if only a few people recruit. Paid add-ons on top
Workable$299Standard, per company$599PremierQuoteEnterprisePrice rises with company size. Texting and video interviews are add-ons on Standard
BambooHR$10Core, per employee$17Pro$25EliteA full HR suite. Open jobs capped at 5, 25 or 50 by plan. Flat fee from $250 under 26 employees
Bullhornfor staffing agencies$99Starter, per user$165CoreQuoteProImplementation and many modules priced separately
One year, 5 recruitersZoho Recruit Staffing Professional and Bullhorn Core: price × 5 recruiters × 12 months. Workable: Standard for the smallest company size × 12. Greenhouse and Lever: lowest reported yearly contracts.
  • Zoho Recruit$3,000
  • Workable$3,588
  • Lever~$6,000
  • Greenhouse~$6,500
  • Bullhorn$9,900

Same five recruiters, same year: Zoho Recruit costs about $6,900 less than Bullhorn Core.

Where does BambooHR fit? It’s an HR system with hiring built in, priced per employee. A 100-person company on Core pays about $12,000 a year for HR and hiring together. If that’s the comparison you’re making, price Zoho Recruit alongside Zoho People.

Why we usually recommend Zoho Recruit to US hiring teams

  1. You can see the price before the demo. Every edition is listed per recruiter. You don’t have to negotiate to find out what it costs.
  2. You pay for the people who recruit. A 400-person company with three recruiters buys three seats, which matters next to tools billed on total headcount.
  3. One product for agencies and in-house teams. Staffing firms get clients, submissions and portals. Corporate HR gets requisitions, approvals and a career site.
  4. The whole hire can stay with one vendor: Zoho Sign for the offer letter, Zoho People for day one, Zoho Payroll for the first paycheck.
  5. AI / SI candidate matching through Zia comes with the higher editions, so it isn’t another contract to manage.

Where another tool can make sense: a large company with a structured-interviewing culture and dozens of connected HR tools may be happier in Greenhouse. A big staffing firm that runs pay, bill and VMS feeds through Bullhorn’s back office may find moving costs more than staying. And if hiring is light and you mostly need an HR system, BambooHR is a fair choice. If your hiring looks like one of these, we’ll point it out before you commit to Recruit.

List prices in USD per month as published or reported for US buyers in 2026. Greenhouse and Lever don’t publish prices, so their figures are typical reported contracts. Vendors change prices, so we confirm current numbers for your team before you buy.

08Zoho Recruit migration

Leaving Bullhorn or Greenhouse? Here’s where everything lands in Zoho Recruit

Choose the system you use now to see where your candidates, jobs and history land in Zoho Recruit. Our Zoho Recruit migration work covers the field mapping, a test run you check, and a cutover timed so no open job goes dark. Resumes and attachments come across with each candidate.

Moving from Bullhorn? See every Zoho migration →

In BullhornIn Zoho Recruit
CandidatesCandidates, with resumes attached
Client corporationsClients
Client contactsContacts
Job ordersJob openings
SubmissionsClient submissions
PlacementsHired status and placement fields
Notes & tasksNotes, tasks & calls
AutomationWorkflow rules & Blueprint

Moving from Greenhouse? See every Zoho migration →

In GreenhouseIn Zoho Recruit
JobsJob openings
Candidates & prospectsCandidates
ApplicationsCandidates linked to job openings
Interview plansInterview types & hiring pipeline
ScorecardsInterview feedback & assessments
Offers & approvalsOffers with approval rules
Job boardBranded career site
Departments & officesDepartments & locations

Moving from Lever? See every Zoho migration →

In LeverIn Zoho Recruit
PostingsJob openings
OpportunitiesCandidates linked to job openings
Pipeline stagesCandidate statuses
Feedback formsInterview feedback
Nurture emailsEmail templates & campaigns
RequisitionsJob openings with approval
Archive reasonsStatus reasons
TagsTags

Moving from Workable? See every Zoho migration →

In WorkableIn Zoho Recruit
JobsJob openings
CandidatesCandidates
Pipeline stagesHiring pipeline & statuses
EvaluationsInterview feedback & assessments
Careers pageBranded career site
OffersOffer letters with e-signature
RequisitionsJob approval workflow

Moving from Spreadsheets & email? See every Zoho migration →

In spreadsheets & emailIn Zoho Recruit
Candidate rowsCandidates, de-duplicated
Resume foldersParsed resumes on each candidate
Status columnCandidate statuses
One tab per jobJob openings
Client listClients & contacts
Email threadsEmails on the candidate record
  1. 1InventoryEvery field, status, template and report your recruiters rely on.
  2. 2Test runA sample of candidates and jobs moves first, and you check it.
  3. 3CutoverThe full move, timed between hiring pushes so no job goes quiet.
  4. 4TrainRecruiters practice on their own open jobs, with real candidates.

09Connects to what you use

Zoho Recruit integrations: job boards, email and the rest of Zoho

An ATS that can’t reach job boards, calendars and onboarding just becomes another inbox. These are the Zoho Recruit integrations we set up most for US teams, from Indeed and LinkedIn to Microsoft 365 and Zoho People. Hover a tile to see which candidates, interviews or new-hire records pass through it. Agencies often add Zoho CRM for client sales.

Zoho Recruit
  • Job boardsPost once to Indeed, ZipRecruiter and other boards; applicants flow back in.
  • LinkedInCandidates apply with their LinkedIn profile, and LinkedIn shows up as the source.
  • Zoho PeopleHired candidates become employee records, and onboarding starts.
  • Zoho CRMAgencies sync clients, contacts and new business deals.
  • Zoho SignOffer letters signed online, with the signed copy on file.
  • Zoho BookingsWe connect it so candidates can pick a slot from the panel’s calendar.
  • Zoho MailCandidate emails logged on the record, sent from templates.
  • Google WorkspaceGmail and Google Calendar sync with candidates and interviews.
  • Microsoft 365Outlook email and calendar, plus Teams links for video interviews.
  • Background checksOrder a check from the candidate and see the result there.
  • WordPressLive job listings and apply forms on your own website.
  • Zoho AnalyticsTime to hire, source quality and recruiter workload in one dashboard.

10Projects we run

Four Zoho Recruit implementation projects we run most often

No two hiring teams are the same, so each project gets its own scope and a fixed price in a signed BRD. Most still look like one of these four. After go-live we keep providing Zoho Recruit support and training, so new recruiters ramp up fast and changes don’t wait on a ticket queue.

Quick start

For small teams hiring from an inbox

  • Corporate HR Standard setup
  • Career site and job board posting
  • One hiring pipeline and email templates
  • Online training for recruiters and managers

Fixed price, agreed in a signed BRD

Agency rollout

For staffing and search firms

  • Clients, job orders and submissions
  • Client and vendor portals
  • Bill rate, pay rate and margin fields
  • Dashboards for recruiters and owners

Fixed price, agreed in a signed BRD

Migration + customization

For teams leaving Bullhorn, Greenhouse or Lever

  • Candidate, job and resume migration with a test run
  • Custom fields, layouts and Deluge scripts
  • Offer approvals rebuilt in Blueprint
  • Zoho Recruit training, on-site or online

Fixed price, agreed in a signed BRD

Hire to onboard + AI

For HR teams that want one flow

  • Zia candidate matching
  • Zoho Sign offers and Zoho People onboarding
  • AI agents that screen and draft replies
  • Approvals and action logs

Fixed price, agreed in a signed BRD

What happens after the offer is signed? For in-house HR teams, our Zoho HR & Payroll bundle turns the person you hire in Zoho Recruit into an employee in Zoho People, then a line on the next Zoho Payroll run, and nobody retypes their details along the way.

How the HR bundle works

11Straight answers

Asked on almost every Zoho Recruit discovery call

Short answers on editions, resume parsing, portals, pricing, migration and AI / SI. If yours isn’t here, bring it to a free discovery call.

What is Zoho Recruit?

Zoho Recruit is Zoho’s applicant tracking system. It posts jobs to job boards and your career site, parses resumes into candidate records, tracks candidates through your hiring pipeline, schedules interviews and sends offer letters. It comes in a Corporate HR edition for in-house teams and a Staffing Agency edition with clients, submissions and portals.

How much does Zoho Recruit cost in the USA?

Corporate HR costs $25 per recruiter per month for Standard and $50 for Enterprise, billed yearly. Staffing Agency costs $25 for Standard, $50 for Professional and $75 for Enterprise. Monthly billing costs more ($30, $60 and $90), and there is a free edition for one active job. All figures are USD before tax. Setting up Zoho Recruit with us is its own fixed price, written into a signed BRD before we build a single pipeline.

Should we choose the Staffing Agency or Corporate HR edition?

Choose Staffing Agency if you place candidates with outside clients, because it adds clients, contacts, submissions to clients and, on Enterprise, client and vendor portals. Choose Corporate HR if you hire for your own company, because it focuses on hiring managers, assessments, offer letter templates, approvals and the Zoho People hand-off. We confirm the right edition on your discovery call.

Does Zoho Recruit parse resumes automatically?

Yes. Zoho Recruit parses resumes into candidate fields such as name, contact details, experience and skills. The Staffing Agency edition parses up to 250 resumes a day on Standard, 500 on Professional and an unlimited number on Enterprise. The Resume Extractor extension for Chrome can also add a candidate from a profile on a web page.

Does Zoho Recruit use AI to match candidates?

Yes. Zia, Zoho’s built-in AI, grades and ranks candidates by how well they match a job’s requirements, so recruiters can read the strongest applicants first. In Corporate HR, AI candidate matching is part of the Enterprise edition. We can also build AI agents on Claude, OpenAI or Gemini that connect to Zoho Recruit through Zoho MCP, with your recruiters approving key steps.

Does Zoho Recruit have a client portal for staffing agencies?

Yes. On the Staffing Agency Enterprise edition, clients can add job openings, review the candidates you submit and make interview decisions in their own portal. A vendor portal lets subcontracting agencies submit candidates to your jobs. Ten portal licenses are included, and more can be added.

Can Zoho Recruit send offer letters for e-signature?

Yes. Zoho Recruit builds offer letters from templates with merge fields, can send an offer for approval when pay crosses a limit you set, and lets candidates sign through Zoho Sign, DocuSign or Adobe Sign. Recruiters are notified when a candidate accepts.

Zoho Recruit vs Bullhorn: which is better for a staffing agency?

For small and mid-size US agencies, Zoho Recruit usually costs far less. Staffing Professional is $50 per recruiter per month billed yearly, while Bullhorn is reported at $99 to $165 per user before implementation and add-ons. Bullhorn can still suit large firms that run pay, bill and VMS feeds through its back office, and we will tell you honestly which fits.

Zoho Recruit vs Greenhouse: which should we pick?

Greenhouse is quote-only and priced by company size, and suits larger companies with structured interviewing and many connected HR tools. Zoho Recruit publishes its prices, charges per recruiter and covers job posting, pipelines, offer approvals and onboarding hand-off for most small and mid-size US companies at a lower cost.

Can you migrate our data into Zoho Recruit?

Yes. We handle Zoho Recruit migration from Bullhorn, Greenhouse, Lever, Workable, other applicant tracking systems and spreadsheets. We map every field, run a test migration you review, then move candidates, resumes, jobs, clients, notes and history, and train your recruiters.

How long does a Zoho Recruit setup take?

It depends on your edition, data migration, customization and integrations. We write the scope into a BRD first, then give you a dated schedule covering every pipeline, job board connection, candidate import and recruiter training session, so you can plan your next hiring push around go-live.

What does Zoho Recruit integrate with?

Zoho Recruit integrates with job boards such as Indeed and ZipRecruiter, LinkedIn, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, background check providers and video interview tools. It also connects to Zoho People for onboarding, Zoho Sign for offer letters and Zoho CRM for agency client sales. In-house teams that also want onboarding and pay handled can add Zoho People and Zoho Payroll through our HR & Payroll bundle, so a new hire moves from offer to first paycheck in Zoho.

Is Zoho Recruit good for a small business?

Yes. Zoho Recruit for small business starts with a free edition for one active job, and Corporate HR Standard costs $25 per recruiter per month billed yearly. You get job board posting, a career site and a clean hiring pipeline without paying for your whole headcount.

Do you provide Zoho Recruit support and training after go-live?

Yes. After go-live our Zoho Recruit consultants provide ongoing support, admin help, new automations and training for new recruiters and hiring managers, online or on-site in Southern California.

Do hiring managers need a paid Zoho Recruit seat?

No. Zoho Recruit is priced per recruiter, so hiring managers who only review candidates don’t need a paid seat. Only the people running searches and pipelines count toward your license total.

What is SI?

SI stands for super intelligence. In September 2026 a US executive order asked federal agencies to use “super intelligence” or “SI” in place of “artificial intelligence” in official communications. Most businesses still say AI, so we use both terms.

12How a Zoho Recruit project starts

Before your Zoho Recruit setup starts, we agree four things

These four steps pin down what you’re getting and what it costs, in writing, before any build begins. A small team’s setup can often be scoped from the first call. Bigger work, like moving an agency off Bullhorn, may need a paid scoping and BRD phase, and we’ll quote that up front.

Recruiting teams usually meet us over video from anywhere in the US, Canada or Latin America, and we can sit down with your hiring managers in person around Southern California. Rather write first? Send us a note.

  1. Discovery callYour hiring goals, volume and the tools your recruiters use today
  2. Workflow mappingHow you hire now: stages, approvals and where candidates drop off
  3. Scope & budgetThe edition that fits, what to migrate and what to automate, agreed in the open
  4. BRD sign-off Our promiseEvery requirement in writing, at a fixed price, with a delivery schedule

From kick-off to go-live, the rest of the process is on one page. See how we work →

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