I'm seriously questioning their technical competence not just from support but also from development. When I subscribed to Zoho first thing I noticed (in 2011) that sending emails with multi-part alternative MIME types results in an empty plain-text part so anyone reading the mail in a plain-text MUA would see just an empty email (and it took them ages to get this basic feature fixed).
here some of my recent arguments with them: https://twitter.com/search?q=%40valbonneconsult%20zoho&src=t...
On the upside they are pretty easy to set up with IMAP and TLS in more exotic environments (e.g. offlineimap, postfix, mutt etc). If you go with them don't expect to scale your business because it's going to end in tears. OK for private use IMO.
I still use Zoho until now because of integration with some other apps (once I migrate those I will turn my back on them and never look back).
Have to agree with you there. I tried their online office apps a few times over the years (also recently) and was surprised how limited and kind of janky the software is. They don't seem to be improving.