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Assign unassigned support cases in Zoho CRM

The Zoho CRM AI Assistant lists open Cases owned by a queue user or a placeholder owner and proposes a real owner for each, by the rule you give. Once you approve, it changes the case owners.

Zoho CRM AI Assistant is a Chrome extension that opens beside Zoho CRM. Tell it what you want to do in plain language, and it works with your CRM for you. Try Plus free for 14 days, then stay on Free forever.

the problem

New cases land on the queue and wait

Cases from the web form or email go to a shared user such as “Support Queue”, or to whoever set up the form. Someone is meant to hand them out, but on a busy day nobody does, and the customer waits for a reply while the case sits with an owner who will never answer it.

the solution

Ask for the queue cases and how to share them out

Name the placeholder owner and your rule:

Find open Cases owned by the Support Queue user. Assign billing cases to Sam Patel and everything else to Lena Ortiz. Show me the list before you change anything.

The assistant reads the open cases owned by that user, looks at the fields your rule uses (such as Type, Priority, Case Origin or the account), and lists each case with the owner it would give it. You can change any line before you approve.

Nothing is written until you approve. Then it changes the Case Owner on each case. It can also move the case’s open tasks, meetings and calls to the new owner if you ask. Changes to more than 20 records at once ask for a final confirmation.

  • Reads open Cases, their owner and the fields your rule names, and your active users.
  • Writes the case owner, and the owner of its open activities if you ask, only after you approve.
  • It applies the rule you give; it does not check who is on leave or how busy each person is.

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What would you like to do?

Ask about your CRM or describe a change you want to make.

pricing

Start with 14 days of Plus. Stay on Free after that.

Every new account gets 14 days of Plus free — no card, nothing to claim — and then settles onto Free, which is permanent. In the side panel every plan has the same safety controls and supported actions, and they differ in how much you can ask for each week. The MCP connector is included in every paid plan (Plus, Pro and Max) and in the 14-day Plus trial, with the same 10,000 tool calls a month on each.

Plus

For reps who use the assistant every day.

5x the Free usage

$23/ month
Try Plus

14-day free trial, then billed monthly

  • 5x the Free usage
  • All supported CRM actions
  • Approval controls
  • Includes the MCP connector

Pro

For heavy daily CRM work.

25x the Free usage

$94/ month
Get Pro

Billed at signup, then monthly

  • 25x the Free usage
  • 5x the usage of Plus
  • All supported CRM actions
  • Approval controls
  • Includes the MCP connector

Max

For the heaviest CRM workloads.

125x the Free usage

$500/ month
Get Max

Billed at signup, then monthly

  • 125x the Free usage
  • 5x the usage of Pro
  • All supported CRM actions
  • Approval controls
  • Includes the MCP connector

Free

$0No card, and permanent

Limited weekly usage, with the same supported CRM actions and approval controls. It is where your account settles after the 14-day Plus trial.

By hand

Without the assistant

Not ready to install? Here is how to do the same thing in Zoho CRM yourself, step by step.

Need more than Max? Contact sales

without the assistant

How to do it by hand in Zoho CRM

You can do this in Zoho CRM yourself. Here are the steps.

  1. Open the Cases module and create a custom view: Case Owner is the queue user and Status is not closed.
  2. Go through the list and decide an owner for each case.
  3. Open each case and change the Case Owner.

An assignment rule can set the owner of new cases as they arrive, but the cases already sitting in the queue are handed out one by one.

questions

Frequently Asked Questions

It changes the case owner, and only after you approve. Status, priority, subject and description are not edited, and the customer is not contacted.