Zoho Zia Agents Settings Guide – Users, Billing, Connections & Publishers

Zoho Zia Agents Settings: Managing Users, Billing, Connections and More

The Settings page in Zoho Zia Agents acts as the central control hub for your organisation. From here you can manage the people who have access, review and purchase AI credits, configure external service connections, set up publishers that trigger agents, and enable instant messaging channels. This article walks through each section in turn.

Your Profile

The Profile section holds the personal information and account details associated with your user record in the organisation. Keep this up to date so that audit logs and notifications reflect the correct identity.

People Management

People Management is divided into three tabs: Users, Roles, and Teams.

Users

Super Admins can invite new users by entering an email address and assigning a role during the invitation flow. Existing users can have their roles changed, their accounts toggled between active and inactive, or be removed from the organisation entirely.

  1. Open the Users tab. Navigate to Settings and select the Users tab under People Management.
  2. Select Invite Users. Enter the new user's email address and specify the role they should receive.
  3. Confirm the invitation. The user will receive an email prompting them to accept and join the organisation.

Roles

The Roles tab displays the pre-defined roles available within Zia Agents. At present, custom roles are not supported, so users are assigned to one of the system-provided options.

Teams

Teams allow you to group users together for organisational and access purposes. Administrators can create new teams, rename them, adjust their membership, and delete teams that are no longer needed. To create a team, open the Teams tab, provide a name and description, choose the members to include, and confirm.

Plans and Billing

This section gives a full picture of how AI credits are being consumed and allows Super Admins to purchase additional credits when needed.

Credit Tracking and Purchase

The billing dashboard shows available and consumed credits, with filters to view usage by timeframe. To buy additional credits, click the Buy Credits button, complete the Zoho Store checkout, select your preferred currency (USD or INR), specify the quantity you require, and finalise payment.

ZKS (Zoho Key System)

ZKS is Zoho's managed connection to supported LLM providers. Zoho handles the billing relationship with those providers on your behalf. Several free Zoho models are included:

  • Standard tier models receive 30 million free tokens per month.
  • Pro tier models receive 20 million free tokens per month.

Usage beyond these monthly allowances draws from your AI credit balance.

BYOK (Bring Your Own Key)

If you prefer to use your own API credentials from an LLM provider, BYOK lets you add those keys directly. Calls made through your own keys are billed directly by the vendor, so they do not consume Zoho AI credits. You can add, edit, and remove API keys from the BYOK interface.

Usage Analytics

Two reporting views help you understand where tokens and credits are going. The By Model view shows consumption broken down per individual model, while the By Agent view aggregates usage across each deployed agent.

Connections

The Connections area within Settings mirrors the main Connections interface. Use it to manage the third-party service integrations your agents can call upon. See the dedicated Connections article for full configuration details.

Publishers

A publisher is an organisation-level connection between Zia Agents and a Zoho service that allows that service to send events to your agents. Publishers are created once and shared across the organisation.

Supported Zoho services include Assist, Backstage, Bigin, Billing, Books, Campaigns, Commerce, CRM, Desk, Expense, Inventory, Invoice, Marketing Automation, Meeting, SalesIQ, Sprints, and Survey.

  1. Go to Settings > Publishers. Select the Zoho service you want to connect.
  2. Choose the account. Select the specific organisation or account within that Zoho service.
  3. Name the publisher. Enter a descriptive name so it is easy to identify later.
  4. Authorise access. Grant the required data permissions and confirm creation.
Note: A publisher only grants the connection between Zia Agents and the chosen service. To make an agent respond to events from that service, you must also build a trigger on the agent itself.

Instant Messaging

The Instant Messaging section lets you enable agent interaction through platforms such as WhatsApp. Setting this up requires connecting a Meta Business account via Facebook Business Manager and configuring a messaging channel.

Note: Instant Messaging is currently available for select users only.
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