What is the difference between Zoom Rooms and Zoom Meetings?
Zoom Meetings (mobile and desktop client): This is what users use day to day to join meetings from their personal or work computer or mobile device. Zoom Meeting is a desktop application and smartphone app designed for a user account on user-assigned devices (such as your mobile device, tablet, or desktop). The device that the Zoom Meeting app lives on is not designed to be a shared resource, it's tied to an individual. Zoom Meetings resides along with a user’s other applications (e.g. email, calendar, photos, etc on their device). So with Zoom Meetings, it's really the user's Zoom environment and profile. For example, Zoom Meeting will include the user's chat groups, 1:1 chat messages, starred contacts list, Zoom Phone number, call history, and other user-level settings and information.
A part of Zoom Meetings is Zoom for Home. Zoom for Home allows any Zoom user to deploy a personal collaboration device for video conferencing, phone calls, interactive whiteboarding, and annotation. Unlike a mobile device, tablet, or laptop which runs the Zoom application (one of many applications), Zoom for Home works on a dedicated personal device that only runs the Zoom software.
Zoom Rooms: Zoom Rooms is designed to run on hardware and appliances as a dedicated meeting environment for shared spaces (such as conference rooms), and ideal for group collaboration. Zoom Rooms is a dedicated, shared environment for communications and collaboration with a single consistent interface. This means that users know it will always work the same way regardless of which room they walk into, minimizing user error (very important when you think about meeting rooms that are shared among many different employees and their varying technical levels). Users can schedule the room using room booking tools and join their meetings with one tap. Taking Zoom Rooms outside the traditional conference room, Zoom Rooms can be deployed into open spaces as video-enabled interactive whiteboards, and even provide value add services such as digital signage, for corporate communications and branding, and room schedulers, for room booking management.
Zoom Rooms are IT-managed resources that are designed to be the only application up and running on a system. It’s also tied to a calendar resource that’s bookable by others. Zoom Rooms can leverage a variety of display, compute, audio, camera, capture, room control and touch display controller devices to join and manage meetings with integrated HD audio and video. This means that Zoom Rooms audio and video experiences can be easily deployed for phone booths, focus rooms, and huddle rooms, and customized for large boardrooms, broadcast studios, and custom training rooms.
All in all, Zoom Meetings (mobile and desktop client) and Zoom Rooms work together to greater emphasize that they are both a part of one interconnected platform, Zoom.
Do you charge sales or consumption taxes or VAT?
Zoom Services are available to both Business and Personal customers globally. Whether indirect taxes (e.g. sales tax, VAT, GST, or comparable consumption taxes) are charged will depend on jurisdictional tax law, your exemption status, ‘Sold To’ address and the Zoom Services purchased. If your online order includes indirect taxes, you will see the tax amount applied in your shopping cart after the billing step and before checkout is complete.
How does Zoom support non-profits?
Zoom offers verified nonprofit organizations worldwide a 50% discount on Zoom Workplace Pro, Workplace Business, Webinars and Large Meetings. For further details and to see if your nonprofit is eligible, please visit our Zoom Cares page.
For US non-profit organizations eligible for a sales tax exemption, follow the support guide to submit your exemption certificate. Some certificates may need manual review and result in initial tax charges, but once approved, any applicable taxes paid will be refunded to your original payment method.