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Google Workspace Essentials
Formerly G Suite Essentials

Overview

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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Needs no training

10 out of 10
February 03, 2022
Incentivized
I have used Google Workspace Essentials at almost all the jobs that I've done over the last three years. I like using it because I'm …
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Verified User
Manager in Marketing
Accounting Company, 201-500 employees
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Pricing

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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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Product Details

What is Google Workspace Essentials?

Google Workspace Essentials Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

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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Reviews and Ratings

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June 26, 2023

Great workplace product with awesome UX.

Verified User
Manager in Marketing
Accounting Company, 201-500 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Google Workspace Essentials is well suited to collaboration, especially on creative teams who are editing documents frequently. It makes scheduling meetings pretty simple, although it can be tough to find meeting times with five or more attendees. Google Sheets are easy to share and gate when working on confidential data or projects in progress.
March 03, 2022

Google Workspace Essentials Review

Verified User
Analyst in Other
Legal Services Company, 11-50 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Google Workspace Essentials is truly the easiest way to collaborate on business items/content. Our company is fully remote, so we rely on Google Workspace Essentials to collaborate on projects and access documents, etc. For proposals, multiple team members can work on the same document simultaneously. There is also an "editing" feature in addition to the "comment" feature that allows you to suggest edits to any text or item on the doc. We leverage this tool a lot when QAing content.
February 26, 2022

Get Google Workspace Essentials - you won't be disappointed!

Robin Anderson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Robin Anderson
Program Manager/Operations
Smarter Divorce Solutions (Financial Services, 1-10 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
We've noticed that more and more companies are using Google Workplace. This is a plus for our company as most of the employees we have hired are familiar with your platform so it makes it easier to onboard a new employee. Our experience with Google Workspace has been very positive and haven't been any scenarios where the platform has been less appropriate.
February 14, 2022

Easy to Use and Even Easier to Get Started

Tania Gallegos | TrustRadius Reviewer
Tania Gallegos
HR Generalist / Talent Recruiter
Rockpoint Legal Funding (Financial Services, 11-50 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
If your company team works remotely and you want to simplify team meetings, Google Workspace Essentials will do just that.

Google Workspace Essentials is not suited or rather not necessary for really small in-office teams. However, in general, it solves all issues that Microsoft Office can solve, and I would highly recommend it as it is easy to learn.
February 11, 2022

A formerly great service that has really fallen off.

Verified User
Manager in Legal
Law Practice Company, 1-10 employees
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
We used it consistently for 12 years, but recent price increase and service decreases mean we will no longer be using it and I cannot in good conscience recommend it to anyone anymore. Two or three years ago, my review would have been glowing, but, in my opinion, the product and price have gone down significantly since then.
February 11, 2022

This set of tools matches needs of a company of any size

Verified User
Executive in Finance and Accounting
Apparel & Fashion Company, 1-10 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I believe this set of tools can match the needs of a great range of companies, regardless of their size and industry. The biggest win for our company was having in one place the following combination of tools: email + calendar + meet. That meant that the person that schedules a meeting could use the company emails taken directly from the mailbox, add the meeting in their calendars, and automatically have a "meet" link added to the invite. Then, everyone logs into the meeting using their email credentials. This made the communicating process during pandemic way smoother.
February 10, 2022

Google Workspace Essentials has a few issues with syncing and uploading, but it is good overall

Verified User
Technician in Other
Education Management Company, 51-200 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
The other day I had a folder filled with many files/docs on my PC that needed to be uploaded into Google Workspace Essentials. To upload one at a time was going to be time-consuming, so I tried uploading several at a time, but then I don't know if there was a bandwidth problem, but the uploading stalled. I had to reduce it down to two docs per upload, which was better than one at a time but still time-consuming.
February 04, 2022

Seamless Synch at its Best.

Verified User
Manager in Sales
Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
February 04, 2022

Nonprofit newbies, never fear: Google Workspace Essentials is here.

Verified User
Program Manager in Other
Non-profit Organization Management Company, 1-10 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Anyone starting a nonprofit organization from the ground up could use to sign on to Google Workspace Essentials because it's a gigantic platform with lots of capabilities that can serve as the central hub for so many different components to launching a successful, mission-driven entity. It's extremely affordable, which makes it quite a perk and bonus for nonprofits with limited budgets trying to get their fundraising game going. Specifically, startup nonprofits with small teams and remote working situations are pitch-perfect for the Google Workspace Essentials suite, as it allows for real-time collaborative workflows and feels ideal for less complicated project management.
February 03, 2022

Needs no training

Verified User
Employee in Sales
Events Services Company, 1-10 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I'm able to send an email from my CRM and still have access to the email, and still able to keep track of the email in my Google inbox. In my email. I think that they can improve on some of the features of Google Meets. The background features do not work very well. Also, when you send a message in the chat and come off the meeting and reenter, you lose all the chat history.
February 03, 2022

A Complete Suite for Your Business

Verified User
Employee in Sales
Marketing & Advertising Company, 11-50 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
In my opinion, if you are in sales and your CRM can cleanly integrate with Google Workspace Essentials, it's a no-brainer to use it. I know some CRM products integrate better with other email suites, but the complete offering of Google Workspace Essentials gives you email, video conferencing, tasks, and calendars in one space, so it seems like a clear winner.
February 03, 2022

Still a Valuable Resource for Small Businesses

David Calvert | TrustRadius Reviewer
David Calvert
Pastor for Creative Arts
Grace Community Church (Religious Institutions, 1-10 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Google Workspace Essentials is well-suited for small businesses that want to maintain their brand identity with email addresses that have Google security, and it works well for users who take advantage of the Google platform. It is not as appropriate for folks who have to navigate Microsoft environments or who utilize Dropbox or other shared storage as a central tool. These companies don't play nice together yet.
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