Google Workspace Essentials vs. Yola

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Google Workspace Essentials
Score 9.2 out of 10
N/A
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…
$8
per month per user
Yola
Score 9.1 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Yola is a website builder and online presense platform that helps small and medium businesses, like shops, service providers, and non-profits, get online easily. Yola can be used to create a website, set up an online store, and get a website address. Yola features: Ease of Use Yola is simple so there is no need to know how to code or to be a tech whiz, with an editor that enables anyone to make a website quickly. Professional…
$5.91
per month
Pricing
Google Workspace EssentialsYola
Editions & Modules
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Free
$0
Bronze
$5.91
per month
Silver
$14
per month
Gold
$26
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Google Workspace EssentialsYola
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Google Workspace EssentialsYola
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Google Workspace EssentialsYola
Likelihood to Recommend
9.5
(17 ratings)
9.1
(3 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.6
(2 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
Google Workspace EssentialsYola
Likelihood to Recommend
Google
I will state this with 2 basic examples, When I require documentation to be edited by many editors then Google workspace is the way to go. It provides the best synching capabilities and also sharing capabilities. In case of meeting conduction through google meet a notes section would be awesome for personal notes and the capability to record the meetings would also help a ton to improve the productivity of all users
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Yola
In no way is my Yola experience inappropriate. Yola is perfect for me.
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Pros
Google
  • Google Docs & Google Slides are essential to our company as we are remote. Multiple people can work on the documents at one time.
  • Easy to share and store files in Google Drive.
  • Google Calendar is amazing, it integrates seamlessly with other Google products and it's our company's primary calendar tool.
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Yola
  • Easy Setup Using Templates
  • Quick Build Outs of a Website
  • Allows for Extensive Customization of Templates
  • Allows for Password Control of Website or Individual Pages
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Cons
Google
  • I'd love to see a formal integration of an Airtable-like program that expands on something like Sheets to really make project management extremely efficient and robust.
  • I think it would be useful if public-facing pieces like Google Forms were more customizable to our org's brand.
  • Creating some sort of easy-to-manage/integrated CRM, donor management, and marketing software would really change the game.
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Yola
  • Password Management Beyond a Single Password - Perhaps Implementing OTP which would allow the sites to do subscription services.
  • An easy way to upload images/files for reference when using HTML
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Likelihood to Renew
Google
Now that our department has used G Suite Essentials for close to 2 years, I can't imagine not using it. It has proven to be a very practical tool for sharing files / folders on a shared drive. It also makes it easy to modify and update content. It is user friendly and the interface is simple.
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Yola
I'm very happy, no problems.
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Usability
Google
Google Workspace is very easy to use. Even the advanced features are also rendered with an intuitive user interface. Opting into new features is easy, with a clear indication of whether they cost extra or free. Communications about new features as well as security threats are easy to understand and follow up on.
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Yola
Well. I rated Yola '10' because I couldn't rate it '10+.' For me it scores more than a '10.' I'm COMPLETELY satisfied. But not just with Yola, but with it's staff. Great people.
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Alternatives Considered
Google
Google Workspace Essentials is more robust than Dropbox with the other features that are available. Google Workspace Essentials is very comparable to Microsoft 365, and we ultimately went with Google because at the time, it was free/priced better than MS, and now we have lots of legacy files already stored on Google servers, so a switch would be too time-consuming. We went with Google Workspace Essentials over OpenOffice because of the email features of using Google.
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Yola
Yola exceeds ease of use above the others
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Return on Investment
Google
  • 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.
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Yola
  • For one, it help keep our service availability visible 24/7
  • It's a tremendous way to showcase what we do to millions of potential visitors.
  • Finally, Yola is a virtual growth enabler.
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