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Zoho CRM is a customer relationship management platform for managing leads, contacts, accounts, deals, activities, and sales workflows. The Zoho CRM connector lets your Lovable app read, search, create, and update CRM records through your own Zoho CRM account. With Zoho CRM, your app can:
  • Query and display Leads, Contacts, Accounts, Deals, Tasks, Cases, Products, Quotes, and Invoices
  • Search and filter records for dashboards, portals, and internal tools
  • Create and update records across standard and custom CRM modules
It’s a good fit for sales dashboards, lead intake tools, customer portals, and operational apps that need live CRM data from Zoho CRM.

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Common use cases and example apps

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How to connect Zoho CRM

Workspace admins and owners can connect Zoho CRM. App connectors are enabled by default on Free, Pro, and Business plans. On Enterprise plans, workspace admins and owners can manage app connector availability for the workspace. You can create multiple Zoho CRM connections using different Zoho accounts, regions, or OAuth apps, which is useful for separating production and sandbox environments. When the connection is created, Zoho CRM becomes available across all projects in the workspace. Anyone building in a project can ask Lovable in chat to link their project to it.

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Prerequisites

Before connecting Zoho CRM, make sure you have:
  • A Zoho CRM account
  • Access to the Zoho API Console for your Zoho CRM data center to create a Server-based Application
  • The data center where your Zoho account is hosted, such as United States, Europe, India, Australia, Japan, Canada, or China
  • Lovable workspace owner or admin role
All API requests made through this connector count against your Zoho CRM API limits and your Zoho CRM plan. Billing and quota are handled directly by Zoho CRM, not Lovable.

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Step 1: Create a Zoho API console application

Zoho CRM uses OAuth to authorize third-party access. Create a Server-based Application in the Zoho API Console for the same data center as your Zoho CRM account to get the Client ID and Client Secret for Lovable.
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Open the Zoho API Console

Sign in to the Zoho API Console URL that matches your Zoho CRM data center.
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Create a Server-based Application

Click Add Client or Get started, then choose Server-based Applications.
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Enter application details

Fill in the application details:
  • Client Name: for example, Lovable Integration
  • Homepage URL: your app or company website URL
  • Authorized Redirect URIs: add https://api.lovable.dev/workspaces/connectors/standard/oauth/callback
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Copy your credentials

Save the application, then copy the generated Client ID and Client Secret. You’ll enter both values in Lovable.
Your Client Secret functions like a password. Keep it secure and never share it publicly. You’ll need it in the next step.
See Zoho’s API console documentation for more detail.

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Step 2: Connect Zoho CRM to Lovable

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Open Zoho CRM in Connectors

Go to Connectors → App connectors and select Zoho CRM.
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Add a connection

Click Add connection.
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Enter your connection details

Fill in the connection fields:
  • Display name: name the connection, for example Zoho CRM Prod. This name is only used inside Lovable to identify the connection.
  • Data center: choose the region where your Zoho account is hosted. Check your Zoho CRM URL, for example crm.zoho.eu means Europe.
  • Client ID: the Client ID from your Zoho API console application.
  • Client Secret: the Client Secret from your Zoho API console application.
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Choose who can access this connection

Under Who can access this connection, decide who in your workspace can use the connection:
  • Only you (default): only the person creating the connection can use it and its associated data.
  • Invite specific people: only you and explicitly added workspace members can use the connection and its associated data.
  • Invite entire workspace: click Invite entire workspace to make the connection available to everyone in your Lovable workspace.
See Connection-level access for more information.
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Connect to Zoho CRM and authorize

Click Connect. The Zoho CRM authorization window opens, so make sure your browser doesn’t block pop-ups. If it does, Lovable redirects you instead.Sign in to Zoho CRM if prompted, review the requested permissions, and click Accept or Allow.You’ll be redirected back to Lovable with a confirmation.
When connected, anyone building in a project can ask Lovable in chat to link their project to Zoho CRM (based on configured connection-level access). Your Lovable apps can then read, search, create, and update CRM records through your connected Zoho CRM account.

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Limitations

The Zoho CRM connector cannot:
  • Support per-end-user Zoho CRM login. Each connection represents a single Zoho CRM account shared across all projects linked to it.
  • Bypass Zoho CRM API limits, rate limits, or plan restrictions.
  • Return record lists without explicit fields. Zoho CRM rejects list requests that omit the fields parameter.
  • Receive Zoho CRM webhooks or real-time record-change events.
If Zoho CRM authorization is revoked from the Zoho side, or if the Zoho API console application is deleted or changed, you’ll need to reconnect the integration in Lovable before API calls can succeed again. Editors and above can remove specific projects from a connection without deleting the connection entirely. The connection will remain available for other projects. To unlink projects:
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Open Connectors

Open Connectors and select .
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Open the connection

Open the connection you want to manage.
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Select projects

Under Linked projects, check the projects you want to unlink.
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Confirm

Click Unlink projects and confirm.
When unlinked, those projects will no longer have access to through this connection. If a project needs again, you can link it to any available connection.

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How to delete a connection

Workspace admins and owners can delete connections. Other members can delete a connection if they created it, or if they have been explicitly granted access to it.
Deleting a connection is permanent and cannot be undone. It will remove the credentials from all linked projects, and any apps using this connection will stop working until a new connection is added.
Before deleting, review the Linked projects section to see which projects are currently using the connection. To delete a connection:
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Open Connectors

Open Connectors and select .
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Open the connection

Open the connection you want to remove.
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Review linked projects

Review the Linked projects section.
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Delete

Under Delete this connection, click Delete and confirm.