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Enterprise collaboration and online community software.

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Zimbra Collaboration Suite - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

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Last updated: March 2026

Zimbra Collaboration Suite overview

What is Zimbra Collaboration Suite?

Zimbra Community provides a full suite of social tools including blogs and microblogs, forums and wikis, media galleries and video embedding, content editing anf web pages, tags and tag clouds. Use Zimbra Community to set up a personal profile, find people and send friend requests, publish real-time updates on a live activity stream, create events and polls, like statuses and leave comments, receive notifications, use @mentions and hashtags and set up RSS feeds.

Zimbra Collaboration offers a range of messaging and collaboration tools that include the ability to set up a personal cloud with an inbox that integrates with your email, The personal cloud also has voice, task, address book and calendar, files and application sharing abilities. You can use the click-to.call feature, chat and visual voicemail tools in stay connected to team members at all times. Document and folders can be shared instantly over the secure Zimbra platform. Integrate Zimbra with external applications such as Facebook, Twitter, Socialcast as well as apps such as Oracle and SAP.

Key benefits of using Zimbra Collaboration Suite

Integration with powerful 3rd party tools and applications.

Search expertise with advanced Q&A tracking and reporting. Use content reputation and quality scoring, and badging and points to evaluate content.

Unified messaging integration with Cisco and Mitel to provide instant messaging, visual voicemail, click-to-call and call record history.

Design a social workflow in which community members can pose challenges, suggest ideas and vote on their favorite content.

Social analytics to display community health and effectiveness.

Dynamic content recommendations that connect people to the content they need quickly and tailored network suggestions that help build their personal networks

Email digests that are personalized with content recommendations to keep people better connected

Built with Big Data in mind; Zimbra Analytics data has been designed to make it easy to integrate with business intelligence systems

Ensure privacy and control of your data by running your community on your own premises, or at a trusted partner

Support for groups and subgroups (microsites) that feature configurable themes, layouts, roles and permissions

Basic moderation as well as advanced moderation capabilities for auto-moderation, word and phrase filtering and user banning

Configurable permissions for managing security and access requirements

Reputation management system including crowdsourced abuse reporting; extensible abuse management and reporting

Pre-built integration with Sitecore for web content management, Salesforce.com for customer relationship management, Microsoft SharePoint for document management and support for custom integration with other enterprise software applications

Social network authentication, Oauth and SSO support for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Salesforce.com, Google, Active Directory and custom solutions

Email integration with all major email servers with support for activity notifications, site-wide emails and daily or weekly digests

Support for localization of all unicode and double-byte characters and right-to-left languages; language packs for system translation in French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese and Simplified Chinese; plus support for dynamic translation of user-generated content in all languages supported by Lionbridge (GeoFluent) integration

Starting price

Free

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Pros & Cons

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Zimbra Collaboration Suite’s user interface

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Zimbra Collaboration Suite pros, cons and reviews insights

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What do users say about Zimbra Collaboration Suite?

The product loads very quickly and provide you with standard email functionalities.

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Who uses Zimbra Collaboration Suite?

Based on 92 verified user reviews.

Company size

Small Businesses

Enterprises

Midsize Businesses

Top industries

Information Technology and Services
Computer Software
Telecommunications
Education Management
Others

Use cases

Email Management
Collaboration
Instant Messaging & Chat
Community
Social Networking

Zimbra Collaboration Suite's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from Zimbra Collaboration Suite users:

Mobile access
Access controls/permissions
Contact management
Reporting/Analytics
Task management
File sharing

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Features rating:

Calendar management
Communication management
Content management
Email management
Real time editing
Video conferencing
Collaboration tools
Screen sharing
User profiles
Response management
Real-Time chat
Multiple user accounts
Live chat
Inbox management
Group management
Conferencing
Blogs
Activity/News feed
@mentions

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Zimbra Collaboration Suite pricing

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Pricing plans

Pricing details:

Free plan
Free trial
Subscription

Professional Edition

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No pricing info

Features included:

  • Advanced Search
  • Attachment Search
  • Briefcase
  • Conversation Views
  • Global Address Lists (GAL)
  • Litigation Hold
  • MS Exchange Interoperability
  • Offline Web Client (Chrome & Firefox)
  • Outlook for Windows (MAPI)
  • Personal Distribution Lists
  • Sharing & Delegation
  • Zimbra Docs
  • Zimbra Drive
  • Zimlets for Custom Customizations
  • Zimra Mobile (Activesync)

Standard Edition

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Features included:

  • Advanced Search
  • Attachment Search
  • Briefcase
  • Conversation Views
  • Global Address Lists (GAL)
  • MS Exchange Interoperability
  • Offline Web Client (Chrome & Firefox)
  • Personal Distribution Lists
  • Sharing & Delegation
  • Zimbra Docs
  • Zimbra Drive
  • Zimlets for Custom Customizations

User opinions about Zimbra Collaboration Suite price and value

Value for money rating:

To see what individual users think of Zimbra Collaboration Suite's price and value, check out the review snippets below.

“They have a plan for small businesses, the kickstart, which is perfect for those who have few boxes under management. The assistance is kind, punctual and courteous and their salesmen are very good.”
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Michelangelo C.

Freelance

“We can integration this suite with informative applications like Ted, IBM redbooks to view our daily feeds which is quite helpful for the people who are more interested in gaining knowledge.”
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shashank v.

SOFTWARE TRAINEE

Zimbra Collaboration Suite support options

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Support options

24/7 (Live rep)
FAQs/Forum
Phone Support
Email/Help Desk
Chat

Training options

Live Online
In Person
Documentation
Webinars

Zimbra Collaboration Suite FAQs

Q. Who are the typical users of Zimbra Collaboration Suite?

Zimbra Collaboration Suite has the following typical customers:
Freelancers, Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Non Profit, Public Administrations, Small Business

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Q. What languages does Zimbra Collaboration Suite support?

Zimbra Collaboration Suite supports the following languages:
English


Q. Does Zimbra Collaboration Suite offer an API?

No, Zimbra Collaboration Suite does not have an API available.


Q. What level of support does Zimbra Collaboration Suite offer?

Zimbra Collaboration Suite offers the following support options:
24/7 (Live rep), FAQs/Forum, Phone Support, Email/Help Desk, Chat

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