Zoho Creator - Bring Your Own Credentials for Connections

Zoho Creator introduces bring your own credentials (BYOC) for built-in connections, allowing greater control and overcoming shared rate-limit constraints.

• Bring your own credentials (BYOC) for built-in connections
• Authenticate using OAuth credentials generated and managed in your own third-party accounts
• Two modes for creating new connections: Quick connect (default, uses Zoho-managed credentials) and Custom (BYOC)
• Overcomes shared rate-limit pool constraint across customers
• Provides greater control over API limits and quotas at individual account level
• Reduces rate-limit constraints imposed by third-party providers
• Enter required authentication parameters such as Client ID, Client Secret, and service-specific details
• Extend individual account's API quota limits
• Overcome third-party provider rate-limit caps more effectively
• Manage integration keys and tokens independently
• Removes dependency on Zoho-managed OAuth application rate limits
• Currently applicable to all built-in connectors in Zoho Creator (C6)
• Applicable to all built-in connectors on Zoho Creator Developer platform
• In C5, applicable to connectors that have Datasources support
• Does not affect existing connections which continue using Quick Connect model
• Plan to extend BYOC capability to custom connectors in next phase
• Rolled out March 23, 2026 to users in all data centers
• Availability: All data centers