If you find yourself reading this guide, you must be a Zoho mail user and looking to migrate from Zoho to Google Workspace. That is indeed an excellent choice as Google Workspace has a lot to offer and this is the most updated guide to get started!

There are three ways to migrate your data to Workspace: DIY with Google Data Migration, DIY with third-party tools like imapsync (or many others), or hiring experts for a managed email migration. Google provides a migration matrix that shows the different products that they recommend depending on your migration needs, based on the number of users to be migrated. Although it is not considering the data types and size you may have to migrate, it provides clarity to get started. For example, from 1-100 users, Google Data Migration (available in admin.google.com after you sign up), is a great solution. Google's Migration Product Matrix is the way to get started, where you will be able to learn more about Data Migration, GWMME, Google Workspace Migrate, and a few others.

If you are in a time-crunch, or want expert advisory for free, my recommendation is that you fill out our migration request form, so that we can help you figure out the best path for free. If you choose to do it yourself and plan on using Google's recommended tools, the best path would be to sign up with us, Cloudasta, a Google Premier Partner, so that you can gain free premium support, and if you have issues during the migration using Google's tools, we can provide assistance.

For complex migrations, or if making sure there are no errors is key, fill out our migration request form so that we can help you with a quote and walk you through our migration plan for managed migrations, where we do all the heavy lifting for you and guarantee results.

Migrate from Zoho to Google Workspace – Do It Yourself

Here’s what you need to do to manually migrate from Zoho to Google Workspace.

  • Log in to Zoho Mail, go to the settings, and select “Email Forwarding and POP/IMAP.”
  • Select the Enable option inside IMAP Access. The details are shown there; make sure you go through that.
  • Go to admin.google.com and the Data Migration section, using IMAP
  • In this link, you will find your SMPT server. This will be:
    • imap.zoho.com (For personal users with a username@zoho.com email address)
    • imappro.zoho.com (For organization users with a you@your-company.com domain-based email address)
  • Follow the steps from the Data Migration tool. The next one is to upload a CSV of your users
  • The third step is to configure the migration settings
  • After that, you would start the migration!

Yes, it is that simple.

You may run into potential issues due to previous steps you need to do to configure Zoho for the migration, or even issues with data types, or things you didn't consider. For example, if you use Zoho mail and Dropbox for file storage, you will need to migrate from Dropbox to Google Drive. This would require another process. If you sign up with Cloudasta, we will be one step away to send you to the right place to continue your DIY migration.

The Safest Option: Cloudasta's Managed Migration

If you don’t want to come across any security issues, loss of data during migration, and need it done without surprises, Cloudasta’s Managed Migration services are just what you need.

First of all, you will be able to migrate your email, groups, user accounts, files, documents, calendars, and whatever that comes with it. We will migrate your whole data from Zoho to Google Workspace through a high-end procedure that is tried and tested; we are experts on email migrations, with over 850 clients and over 20 million users migrated. To add more value, the process will be done featuring near-zero downtime. With a managed email migration, you’ll be able to focus on more important things while we handle all the complexity for you and guarantee a successful transition.

Request a quote, we provide 75% discounts on migration fees when you sign up or move your licenses with us. The value added is premium support, monthly newsletters digesting the latest updates from Google Workspace, webinars, expert advisory, and a team that is committed to getting the best discounts available.

We have been a Google Cloud Partner since 2014, we are also integrated with ShuttleCloud and have technology that is used by the largest email providers, including Gmail, to import email & contacts from over 200 email providers.

Get started with your migration project today, fill out our migration form!

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