Great workplace product with awesome UX.
We use Google Workspace Essentials for our corporate email, calendar, documents, sheets, etc. It is used by every employee in the …
Starting at $8 per month per user
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What is Google Workspace Essentials?
Google now offers Google Workspace Essentials (formerly G Suite Essentials), providing a solution for users of Outlook or Office whose teams want to use Google Meet and Google Apps without needing to involve a personal gmail account. Google Workspace Essentails…
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Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://workspace.google.com/essentials
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Starting price (does not include set up fee)
- $8 per month per user
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What is Google Workspace Essentials?
Google Workspace Essentials Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
Frequently Asked Questions
Google now offers Google Workspace Essentials (formerly G Suite Essentials), providing a solution for users of Outlook or Office whose teams want to use Google Meet and Google Apps without needing to involve a personal gmail account. Google Workspace Essentails includes Google Slides, Sheets, and Docs, as well as Google Meet, Google Drive, Forms, Sites, and Keep, in a bundle minus a gmail account.
Basic Essentials supports (via Meet) meetings with up to 150 participants, and Google Drive with 100GB per user and 2TB pooled. The Enterprise edition supports 250 participants in a meeting, as well as up to 100k viewers of a Live Streamed event, and 1TB per user of Drive space (25TB pooled).
Google Workspace Essentials starts at $8.
The most common users of Google Workspace Essentials are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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June 26, 2023
Great workplace product with awesome UX.
- It allows for easier communication via email, leading to more messages being sent.
- It allows for seamless calendar integration for users who use a personal Google calendar.
March 03, 2022
Google Workspace Essentials Review
- The ability to collaborate on documents in real-time has allowed us to land new business and perform at the highest level.
- Google Drive has provided us a common place for storing internal documents that are important to our business financials.
February 26, 2022
Get Google Workspace Essentials - you won't be disappointed!
- Since using the Google Workspace platform, we are able to use it to market our business better.
February 14, 2022
Easy to Use and Even Easier to Get Started
- Saved a ton of money by not having to buy MS Office Licenses
- Easy to deactivate accounts
- Control over company owned documents and information
February 11, 2022
A formerly great service that has really fallen off.
- Has worked well until recently.
February 11, 2022
This set of tools matches needs of a company of any size
- Consolidating all communication within one workspace
- Better treatment of our emails in others' mailboxes
February 10, 2022
I like this product very much
- Setup speed.
- Easy to use.
- Broad support.
February 10, 2022
Google Workspace Essentials has a few issues with syncing and uploading, but it is good overall
- Since the Covid-19 pandemic began, my department began working remotely more often, so it was essential that we had some type of network drive/cloud where we could share content.
February 08, 2022
Easy to use
- Time saving, we can all work on the same document at the same time.
- Easy recording of meetings. For example, training sessions. And easy sharing of the recordings.
February 06, 2022
Google Workspace Must Have for Small Business
- Cost effective business email
- Affordable file storage
- Complimentary note taking extension
February 04, 2022
Seamless Synch at its Best.
- Not being able to record some meeting had an impact on context loss which hampers ROI
- Seamless integration has increased ROI in some cases
- Ability to not convert the office work files to MS office format properly has reduced ROI in some cases.
February 04, 2022
Nonprofit newbies, never fear: Google Workspace Essentials is here.
- Our fundraising and development efforts nearly doubled 2020-2022, largely in part to the organizational tools within Google Workspace Essentials.
- We've opened up the capacity to work more closely with contractors in a more collaborative nature because of GWE's capabilities.
- It was integral to our brand overhaul.
February 03, 2022
Needs no training
- Allows us to have meetings with potential clients hence increase revenue
- Add meetings to calendar (increase revenue)
- Email marketing to potential clients (increase revenue)
February 03, 2022
A Complete Suite for Your Business
- Ease of use (more time to sell)
February 03, 2022
Still a Valuable Resource for Small Businesses
- Time-saving collaboration on documents
- Easy-to-use email features
- Consistent up-time for email (no loss of time/data)