My company (a nonprofit) has been using Zoom for our video conferencing and phones. Per the "Plan Management" page in our account portal, we are set to renew our plan on April 24th, 2024. We were planning to decrease our licenses (16 Workplace Business + 20 Workplace Business Plus), which I was partially able to do in March in our account portal on the "Plan Management" page, decreasing our Workplace Business licenses to 1 (we couldn't go to 0). I also requested an opportunity to discuss our phone licenses with an account manager.

We were contacted by a Zoom Renewals Manager along with our Account Manager to discuss renewal plans. I met with the Renewals Manager and expressed that we were interested in decreasing our number of licenses and phone lines. Afterwards, he sent me a quote which was significantly higher than the current rate displayed in our Zoom billing portal, despite the fact that we were actually decreasing our licenses. I responded that we were a nonprofit and wanted to make sure we were getting discounted rates in the quote. He asked to set up another meeting.

In the meantime, I met with our Account Manager, who, to his credit, seemed to understand our needs just fine and even sent a message to the Renewals team outlining them, including the request for a discounted rate.  I then met with the Renewals Manager again. He appeared confused as to which licenses we wanted and which we didn't, despite the fact that this was now well documented in multiple places. Once that was worked out, he showed me a price breakdown that included a nonprofit discount (though still more expensive than our current plan for fewer licenses) and told me he would send me the quote. Afterwards, he sent me a quote without any of the discounts he had shows me. I sent an email to both the Renewals Manager and our Account Manager asking for clarification and reiterating our need for a nonprofit rate. That email has yet to receive a response.

At this point, I have no confidence that our needs have been addressed, let alone heard and understood. The communication between teams at Zoom and to our company has been abysmal. If Zoom is unable to meet our needs, I need to know ASAP so I can start looking for alternative tools for video conferencing and/or phone systems. My biggest question is: What will happen if I do nothing and wait until April 24th? Will the amount displayed in our Zoom portal be charged? Will we retain the licenses displayed there for the next year? 

I would love an opportunity to discuss with someone who has the authority and knowledge to help us out. Thanks very much!

Hi! I wanted to know if there is a way to turn off the Call Monitoring disclaimer for inbound calls. I want to keep them for outbound calls. We currently mention call monitoring and recording on the custom greeting we have so we would like to remove the disclaimer on the inbound calls.

I could not find this setting and if not it should be included as a fix in future updates. 

I am a basic user, Version: 6.4.3 (52139), Mac Pro. I am trying to turn off the blue screen background, which I presume is a virtual background. I'm not even sure how I got one. Changing virtual background to None does nothing. Trying to follow instructions to change the background have gotten me nowhere. I tried following the instruction "As an admin (logged in), navigate to zoom.us/account/setting, then Meeting -> In Meeting (Advanced)You'll find the following options for your entire org's account, including 'Require user s to always use virtual background'. Disable this and unlock the virtual background setting if this is locked." I am not "authorized" although I am the sole owner of the account.  How can I become the admin of my own account?

After signing in, following other the other instructions I found doesn't work because my interface doesn't seem to match the instructions:

To enable or disable Virtual background for all users in the account:

1. Sign in to the Zoom web portal as an admin with permission to edit account settings.
2. In the navigation menu, click Account Management then Account Settings.  [NO ACCOUNT SETTINGS UNDER ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT ergo no meeting tab or In Meeting (Advanced) links. I have screen shots if necessary.]
3. Click the Meeting tab.
4. Under In Meeting (Advanced), click the Virtual background toggle to enable or disable it.
5. If a verification dialog appears, click Enable or Disable to verify the change.

Hi, this post is more for curiosity. I'm wondering if I am in a tiny minority of people who have a large number of "No Fixed Time" meetings. This is because we have many clients with whom we "hop on a call" on short notice, at varying times. This use case seems to be a real second-class citizen, in that,

a. You can't create such meetings from the desktop app

b. The whole page is wasted space for me - see screenshot. I have to scroll down, click the tiny "Recurring meetings" link, and then scroll down through my many meetings to find one (alpha-sorted of that list was restored in - thanks!). Most of the screen is used with the beach umbrella and "no meetings scheduled, enjoy your day". (I don't have any meetings SCHEDULED, but unfortunately in my situation, that isn't automatically a beach day... sigh.)

If this is indeed a low priority use case, that's fine, but I have one small suggestion: at the top of this page can there be a simple one-line quick search box? That way I can quickly "zoom in" (ha) on my desired meeting. I believe that feature would equally benefit those have *scheduled* recurring meetings. Thanks!

While I am able to see closed captions in some meetings, I am unable to turn them on in other meetings. I have gone to Accessibility in Settings, but  CC simply would not appear at the bottom of the screen. They did not turn on when the other member present initiated the call, nor when I initiated the call. I did get as far as seeing the sample of a caption, and I turned on "enable." I hope someone can guide me to a solution.

In trying to schedule group meetings recently I have noticed that the alternative hosts feature, which I rely on heavily, is suddenly missing from the desktop client. Is this a known issue? Will this be added back? It's annoying to have to go to the web interface in order to schedule my meetings.

Immediately after I did the latest Zoom update, my zoom meeting window showed a blurred background and my features appeared a bit fuzzy. I have tried all the suggested settings to remove the blurred background and restore my natural window view, but nothing works. What has happened? And how can I restore my default zoom window view?

About a month ago I noticed all my starred contacts disappeared in the Zoom Windows app. I've readded them several times but after a day or two they will disappear again. The only contact that does not get deleted is the single internal/company contact on this list. All cloud contacts and personal contacts are removed. Is anyone else having this problem and found a resolution?

Every day I get at least 1 or 2 confirmations of Zoom meetings I didn't sign up for.

Then I get notifications that the zoom meeting name has been changed.

Reporting the abuse is a tedious process.

SUGGESION: Include a link in all Zoom emails to report it or state that you did not sign up for it.

And maybe start canceling accounts that do this.