The long wait for a unified Zoho sign-in is finally over. This post is about how to get the best out of Zoho Single Sign-on or Zoho Accounts – one of the major milestones to happen at Zoho. All the existing users and new users registering with Zoho can now access the following Zoho services – Zoho Writer, Zoho Sheet, Zoho Show, Zoho Planner, Zoho Creator & Zoho Chat – with a single user name (or email ID) and password. More Zoho services will be brought under this unified system in the near future.

We have tried addressing as many scenarios as possible.

Scenario 1 : You have an account with only one of the Zoho’s services
If you have an account with only one of the Zoho’s services, you will be able to access it as before. There is an exception here though – assume you have a Zoho Planner account that you have been accessing through your user name, say, “johndoe”.

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As informed earlier, the Zoho services Writer, Sheet, Show, Planner, Creator & Chat are all down for a scheduled maintenance. As some of you guessed it right, it is for introducing the Zoho Single Sign-on as all the above services come under a single ‘Zoho Accounts’. Once the services are up again, you will able to access them with a single user name/email ID and password. A detailed post follows elaborating on how to migrate to Zoho Accounts and merge your different email IDs/user names and passwords (in case you use them) for the different Zoho services.

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The following Zoho services, Writer, Sheet, Show, Planner, Creator and Chat will all be down for a major server side update which is tentatively scheduled from 8:30 PM, Friday, October 6, 2006 PDT till 1:30 AM, Saturday, October 7, 2006 PDT. You will not be able to access the services mentioned above during this time period & this is an advance notice for you to plan your activities accordingly. Our apologies for the inconvenience.

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