The major difference between free Gmail and business Gmail (Google Workspace) is the design of the product. While free Gmail is designed for personal users, Google Workspace is specifically designed for business use, with business Gmail and team collaboration capabilities.
For example, Gmail does not have team management capabilities, and file sharing is limited to individuals. So when a Gmail user wants to share a file with multiple individuals they must input each user’s email address one at a time. Whereas, Google Workspace user can do this in a single click by accessing their corporate Gmail and selecting the team they want to share the files with, instead of adding individual email addresses one by one. This important feature saves time and improves collaboration.
Also, Google Workspace allows the creation of shared group inboxes in your Google company email that can send up to 2,000 emails per day – perfect for businesses that need to send a large number of emails every day.
Yes. Google Workspace migration tools are available for importing your old emails from legacy environments, such as Microsoft®, IBM® Notes® and other email systems. For more information on the tools available for data migrations into Google Workspace, see Migrate your organisation’s data to Google Workspace.
Vault is included with Google Workspace ’s Business and Enterprise editions. Once you've started your free trial of Google Workspace, you can select and purchase one of these editions from within your Admin console. Alternatively, you can purchase by contacting sales.
No. Mobile Management is included with Google Workspace because security is important and we want to make sure that you have the protection you need. Also, Admins can enforce policies across both Android and iOS so that your employees can choose the device they’re comfortable with to get work done.
Google Workspace's Drive provides twice the amount of storage, 24/7 phone and email support, sharing controls and advanced reporting. You can upgrade to unlimited storage (accounts with fewer than five users get 1 TB/user) for an additional fee. See Google Workspace's pricing details for more information.
Google Workspace has been built from the ground up to mitigate the unique threats to cloud systems. Google's standards for performance and reliability apply to businesses, schools, universities and government institutions around the world. The technology, scale and agility of our infrastructure bring unique security benefits to our customers. Our vast network of data centres are built with custom-designed servers that run our own operating system for security and performance. Because Google controls its entire hardware stack, we are able to quickly respond to threats that may emerge. Google employs dedicated security professionals to work on protecting your data, including some of the world's foremost experts in computer security. Just like all teams at Google, this team is constantly innovating and making the future more secure, not just for Google's billion users, but for business organisations as well. Google has an outstanding track record of protecting user data. We protect this data from outside intrusions as well as insider threats. In addition, we tightly restrict and monitor any internal access to user data. The small set of employees with access is subject to rigorous authentication measures, detailed logging and activity scanning to detect inappropriate access via log analysis. It is this unique combination of people, technology and agility that ensure your data is secure at Google.
No, the cost of a domain is separate from Google Workspace. During sign-up, you must specify the domain that you want for your business email. If you don't yet own the domain, you can purchase it from Google for an additional fee.
All you need to use Google Workspace is a modern browser. Google itself often underlines that Chrome would be the best browser for Google Workspace as it gives you access to Chrome-only apps, but it's not a must. Whether you use macOS or Windows, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, or Safari – you can benefit from lots of perks by using one of the many modern browsers that are available.
Depending on the subscription plan that you opted for, you can easily add more than one domain. However, when signing up you need to choose one primary domain which will be associated with your account, your Google Workspace and the individual Cloud Identity. Once you have done that you can add a secondary domain or a domain alias – both is possible as long as you verify your ownership of the domains.
There are two ways to purchase Google Workspace; either you may directly purchase it from Google or from a Google reseller like us. For the applications, all are the same no matter you choose to purchase with. However, if you choose to purchase Google Workspace from the reseller, you not only will get technical support from Google and also enjoy the various benefits that provided by the reseller. Usually, a reseller offers more attractive pricing for the customer. This is because resellers can give discounts from their own margin in order to provide better pricing.