ClickSend alternative
Switching From ClickSend To A Team That Runs It
Two-way conversation that stays inside Zoho. Replies land on the record, and nothing about your customers leaves your own Zoho account: no vendor dashboard, no copy of your data, no phone home. Message one person or a whole list, and every reply lands back on the record in SMS History.
What makes it different
- Nothing phones home
- The reply comes back
- You bring the Twilio account
- Personalized at any volume
- It finds all the phone fields
- History follows the record
The short version
What you get here instead of ClickSend
ClickSend retired its SMS integration for Zoho CRM on 31 December 2025, and now points Zoho users at its own Automation Builder or at Sinch. You install a connector, and your customer data starts flowing out to somebody else’s platform so their application can send the message and hold the thread.
What you get here
- Runs Inside Your Zoho Account
- No Phone Home Architecture
- Built In Deluge Only
- Your Twilio Account And Numbers
- Two Way Conversations
- Search And Send One To One
- Bulk Send To Selected Records
- Send To A Specific List
What ships in the standard plan here
Everything in this list ships as standard.
- Runs Inside Your Zoho Account
- No Phone Home Architecture
- Built In Deluge Only
- Your Twilio Account And Numbers
- Two Way Conversations
- Search And Send One To One
- Bulk Send To Selected Records
- Send To A Specific List
- Full History On The Record
- Dynamic Text From CRM Fields
Where the service earns its keep
Most texting tools for Zoho CRM work the same way. You install a connector, and your customer data starts flowing out to somebody else’s platform so their application can send the message and hold the thread.
Nothing phones home
We hold no copy and run no dashboard on our side. There is nothing for us to lose in a breach and nothing for you to ask us to delete, because we were never holding it.
The reply comes back
No ClickSend account and no vendor platform in the path. The extension runs inside your Zoho account on your own Twilio credentials.
You bring the Twilio account
You connect your own Twilio account, so message costs are billed to you at Twilio prices with nobody in the middle taking a cut.
Personalized at any volume
Dynamic text pulls values out of the record as each message is sent.
Who this comparison is for
Service teams confirming and rescheduling appointments
Reminders cut no shows, and templates plus dynamic fields mean the message writes itself from the record. Schedule the send for the day before.
Sales teams answering customer data questions
Where do the phone numbers live, who else can read the conversation, and which processor touched it on the way.
Zoho admins running CRM alongside everything else
One more extension in the marketplace, installed the same way as everything else you run. There is no new platform to administer and no separate user list to keep in step with your CRM.
From install to first message
Four steps, and none of them involve standing anything up. You install the extension from the Zoho Marketplace and connect your Twilio credentials.
- 1
We assess your current setup
First we look at how things run today: what you already pay for, what is configured where, and which parts are actually causing you trouble.
- 2
Install from the Zoho Marketplace
The listing sits on the Zoho Marketplace and installs into your organization the same way as any other extension.
- 3
Connect your own Twilio account
Teams and brands can each send from their own line, which puts replies in front of whoever should be handling them.
- 4
Text a record and watch the reply land
Use a saved template if it is a message you send often, and dynamic fields fill in the details from the record.
The difference that matters
No second account, no second system
Both options give you two-way texting on your Zoho CRM records, and on paper the feature lists look similar. The difference is architectural. ClickSend is a messaging platform you sign up for, and your conversations run through it. Ours is built in Deluge and runs inside your own Zoho account against your own Twilio credentials, so there is no ClickSend account to hold, no vendor dashboard to log into, and no copy of your customer data anywhere but Zoho.
If your objection to texting from Zoho CRM has ever been “who else ends up holding this data”, that is the question this answers.
Where ClickSend stands now
What ClickSend does, in their own words
ClickSend retired its SMS integration for Zoho CRM on 31 December 2025. Their help center now files the Zoho CRM guide under Discontinued and points Zoho users at other ClickSend products instead. What follows is what that page says.
Taken from ClickSend help center. Checked September 2026.
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See Twilio SMS for Zoho CRMIs Cascadia a straight swap for ClickSend?
Not quite, because nothing phones home to us. We hold no copy and run no dashboard on our side. There is nothing for us to lose in a breach and nothing for you to ask us to delete, because we were never holding it.
Does any of our data leave Zoho?
No. The extension is built in Deluge and runs inside your own Zoho account, using your own Twilio credentials. Message content stays in your SMS History module, and we have no access to it.
Where does the extension actually run?
Entirely on the Zoho platform, written in Deluge, with no embedded third party interface and no external web application anywhere in the path. Everything happens inside your own CRM deployment, which keeps the data boundary simple to explain to a security reviewer or an auditor.
Can I personalize messages with fields from a record?
That is what dynamic text is for. It pulls values straight out of Zoho CRM and drops them into the message body when it is sent. First name, appointment time, invoice number, or any other field on the record can be used, so a message going out to two hundred people still reads as though it was written for each one individually.
Can I save messages and reuse them?
Templates handle that. Save the messages you send most often and pick one instead of typing it again. They work alongside dynamic fields, so a saved message still fills in each recipient’s own details at send time, which takes most of the retyping out of routine reminders, confirmations, and follow ups.
What if a record has several phone numbers?
The extension detects every phone field on the record rather than assuming a single default. If a lead or contact has ten numbers on file, all ten are available. You pick the ones you want to text. That matters most on records where the mobile number sits in a custom field rather than the standard one.
Can I schedule a message for later?
Compose it now and set the date and time it should go out. The send happens at the moment you chose rather than the moment you were at your desk. That helps with time zones, business hours, and anything that needs to land on a particular day, such as a renewal reminder.
What happens to the history when I convert a lead into a contact?
The message history maps across with the conversion, so the conversation stays attached to the record. Nothing is stranded on the lead you just converted. That keeps the full exchange readable from first outreach through to an ongoing customer relationship, which is usually exactly the point at which somebody needs to look it up.
How do I install it?
Through the Zoho Marketplace, the same way as any other Zoho CRM extension. Install it into your organization and connect your Twilio credentials in the setup screen. From there you can send your first message from a record right away. There is nothing to host and no server to stand up anywhere else.
Is there a free trial?
There is a ten day free trial on the Zoho Marketplace listing. Install it, connect your Twilio account, and send real messages before committing to anything. Trials cannot be extended, so it is worth having your Twilio credentials ready before you start the clock.
What is this Zoho CRM SMS integration?
It is a Zoho CRM extension that lets you text your leads and contacts using your own Twilio account, either one person at a time or a whole group at once. Replies come back into the SMS History module against the record they belong to, so the conversation stays readable inside the CRM.