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
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- 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.
- Easy to schedule meetings.
- Chat functionality is robust.
- Google Docs are simple to create and edit.
- The calendar tool isn't as easy to learn as Outlook.
- Sometimes Gchat notifications can be obtrusive.
March 03, 2022
Google Workspace Essentials Review
- 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.
- Google Sheets has limited capabilities compared to excel. Such as how you maneuver pivot tables, filtering, etc.
- On Google Docs, sometimes if they are multiple people working at one time, you can get shifted around on the doc. For example, if someone made a big edit that took up space, it will shift my content down. I wish you could lock the area you're editing so it doesn't move or get affected by other changes on the doc while you're editing.
February 26, 2022
Get Google Workspace Essentials - you won't be disappointed!
- Instant Messaging.
- Calendaring and calendar integrations.
- Ease of organizing important content in folders and subfolders.
- The ability to contain multiple emails in one thread.
- The workspace could be less busy - more simplified.
February 14, 2022
Easy to Use and Even Easier to Get Started
- Sharing documents
- Visibility on last changes
- Document tracking
- Google Sheets makes us want to say Excel who?
- Make it easier to configure to desktop
- Alerts when shared documents are being deleted
February 11, 2022
A formerly great service that has really fallen off.
- Convivence
- Price (until recently)
- Recent price hike
- Integration
- Email sync time
February 11, 2022
This set of tools matches needs of a company of any size
- Emailing
- Calendar events
- Video meetings
- Layout of folders on drive could be improved
- IM communicator could be better
February 10, 2022
I like this product very much
- Emails.
- Calendar.
- Sign-in.
- I can’t think of something.
February 10, 2022
Google Workspace Essentials has a few issues with syncing and uploading, but it is good overall
- Allows for easy access to documents for purposes of sharing
- Allows for easy downloads of files/folders
- The Word/Excel sheets are compatible with how you use it offline
- Syncing sometimes has issues. There is sometimes a delay.
- Uploading docs sometimes has issues. It stalls when you are uploading two or more docs simultaneously.
February 08, 2022
Easy to use
- document sharing
- calendar events/meetings schedule
- Search engine. Specially in Drive
- Security.
- Support. Sometimes the partner where you buy the system needs to contact Google and it is a annoying that you can't contact google directly.
February 06, 2022
Google Workspace Must Have for Small Business
- Email and communication
- File Storage
- Folder Management
- data security
- customer relation management
- large file sharing
February 04, 2022
Seamless Synch at its Best.
- Scheduling and calendar management is great
- Google meet call qualities are awesome
- Synch and share of documentation is great.
- Great cloud storage facility
- Record option to be there in Google meet
- ability to share documents outside google accounts need to be looked at
- Improvement in conversion to MS office based documents and converting those documents to googles format needs a little work.
- Will be good to have a pdf to word converter and vice versa
February 04, 2022
Nonprofit newbies, never fear: Google Workspace Essentials is here.
- UX design and ease of onboarding/training
- Suitable for smaller nonprofits at a price point that's unmatchable
- Impeccable and responsive customer service
- Collaborative team software for program development
- 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.
February 03, 2022
Needs no training
- Able to collaborate with team members in real time
- Easily keep track of your task on all devices
- Integrates with most CRMs
- Additional features to Google Meets
- Google Hangouts
- Google Sheets
February 03, 2022
A Complete Suite for Your Business
- Video conferencing
- CRM integration
- Simplicity
- Task tracking
February 03, 2022
Still a Valuable Resource for Small Businesses
- Email management
- Shared storage
- Collaboration
- Document editing
- Pricing for services
- Integration of personal/business accounts
- Consistent branding (no more name changes!)