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Google Workspace
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No-cost Collaboration Tools for Teams | Google Workspace Essentials
Google Workspace Essentials Starter was built for people to use their current work email address and to collaborate with their team members.
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Google Support
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Essentials editions - Google Workspace Learning Center
Teams of up to 100 users at a company or school can use Google Workspace Essentials Starter edition for enhanced collaboration. Video meetings, Drive, and collaboration tools for teams W
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Is it impossible to create a Workspace Essentials Starter account??
I think you may have started in the wrong place - this is the website to sign up for Essentials: https://workspace.google.com/intl/en_au/essentials/ More on reddit.com
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Google Workspace Essentials Starter features?
2. All files in Drive now count towards the total storage. More on reddit.com
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Workspace Essentials Starter
if you have more than 300 users you are required to go to the enterprise plan. Do you have more than 300 users? More on reddit.com
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Google Workspace Essentials Starter FAQ is Incorrect!
I know this situation is stressful and many of us (myself included) are anxious about it, but I'm waiting for a couple more weeks to see if we can see more clearly after the dust settles. It seems that not even the support teams have enough information now. I upgraded in January and haven't reached out to support yet about the wait list, but there have been a few reports of people that either had their support cases dismissed (like you) or were asked to wait before they can be put into the wait list ( like this thread ). We jumped the gun and upgraded to Workspace without enough information. This time I'm trying to avoid the same mistake of commiting to something that they will change in a week or so. More on reddit.com
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Google Support
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Sign up for Essentials - Google Workspace Learning Center
Paid upgrades are available—You can upgrade to a paid edition of Essentials at any time from your Team dashboard to add more users, get additional business features, and access Google Workspace support. You can also buy a paid edition of Essentials edition through a Google Sales representative or local reseller. Educational institutions aren't eligible for Essentials Starter—Instead, qualifying institutions can sign up for Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals at no cost or another Education edition.
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Google Workspace
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Compare Flexible Pricing Plan Options | Google Workspace
*Google Workspace provides flexible pooled storage per user that is shared across the organization. Business Starter includes 30 GB pooled storage per user, Business Standard includes 2 TB, Business Plus and Enterprise Plus include 5 TB.
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Integrately
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How to Setup Google Workspace Essentials Starter - Free Edition
March 20, 2023 - Google has come up with Workspace Essentials Starter, a free tool that provides all the essential productivity apps to get started quickly, including Chat, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and more.
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r/gsuite on Reddit: Is it impossible to create a Workspace Essentials Starter account??
June 8, 2025 -

I tried creating a Google Workspace Essentials Starter edition account for my small (<5 people) business. We already have a custom domain, and don't need email (hosted elsewhere). However after creating a Workspace account and going to admin.google.com, I kept only being shown an option to buy the Business Starter edition. No way to access the admin panel without going through this.

Is the Essentials Starter edition gone or something?

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CRN
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Google Cloud Offers Free Google Workspace ‘Essentials Starter’ | CRN
February 3, 2022 - In a blog post Thursday, Kelly Waldher, vice president of marketing for Google Workspace, framed the new free offering as making it easy for employees to choose their own productivity tools for work, noting Google Workspace Essential Starter Edition doesn’t require a new email address, file conversions, new plug-ins or desktop software.
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Refractiv
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What is Google Workspace Essentials and How to Sign Up | Refractiv
February 17, 2025 - With the Essentials plan, you can access the apps you are already familiar with such as Google Drive, Docs, and Sheets. Google Workspace Essentials is a good starting point for teams wanting to try Google Workspace using their existing work email.
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TechRepublic
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How to use Google Workspace Essentials Starter for free - TechRepublic
April 8, 2024 - Google Workspace Essentials Starter is a free plan offering teams within an organization access to Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Chat and Google Meet.
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Google Support
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Switch to Essentials Starter edition - Google Workspace Admin Help
Google Workspace Admin · If you purchased your service from a reseller, go here instead | Do I have a reseller? You can downgrade your Enterprise Essentials subscription to Essentials Starter if you have less than 100 users and have not verified your domain.
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Google Workspace
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Google Workspace: Secure Online Productivity & Collaboration Tools
*Google Workspace provides flexible pooled storage per user that is shared across the organization. Business Starter includes 30 GB pooled storage per user, Business Standard includes 2 TB, Business Plus and Enterprise Plus include 5 TB.
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Reddit
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r/gsuite on Reddit: Google Workspace Essentials Starter features?
October 9, 2022 -

Hi, I'm setting up some simple bookkeeping for a small business, and I stumbled upon this Google Workspace Essentials Starter offering. I have googled for the following questions, but so far have found no answers. I have searched this subreddit but also found nothing. So I'm hoping you guys can help out :)

I already have a custom email domain (not gmail), so I believe we should be eligible. (please CMIIW)

Now, I'm trying to figure out:

  1. Can I invite people who use gmail.com emails to this GW account?

  2. Are Google Docs / Google Sheets (there will be quite a few of these) still uncounted (always 0 bytes), or will they take up space?

  3. Does the GW account have the Shared Drive feature? And if yes,

    1. Can we invite people with gmail accounts or other domain emails to collaborate in these Shared Drives?

    2. If collaborators create files in these Shared Drives, will the files belong to this GW account?

    3. Is the 15GB per user space pooled, or only for individual users?

Thanks!

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XDA Developers
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Google launches a no-cost Workspace Essentials Starter plan
February 7, 2022 - It’s a free plan that lets businesses use all Google productivity apps except Gmail. The Workspace Essentials Starter plan (via 9to5Google) is primarily aimed at businesses that already have their email systems in place, but don’t have access ...
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Reddit
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r/gsuite on Reddit: Workspace Essentials Starter
May 17, 2022 -

I am with a startup MSP company. We started our Google Workspaces with the "Essentials Starter" (free) package to get everyone used to the platform since most of us all come from lifetime Microsoft product users lol. I would like to move our email from our junk hosted domain email system to Gmail with custom domain. From the looks of it, I need to upgrade our Essentials Starter to Business Starter so we can add a custom domain and Gmail to our Workspace. Well, everything I've read in their help section says to go to workspace admin > billing > subscriptions > choose Business Starter and upgrade to you.

The issue is our subscriptions only show we can upgrade to Google Workspace Enterprise Essentials which is 10/users/per month. Which does not include Gmail services either. Only more storage etc.

Since we aren't a paid subscriber yet we cannot contact support. Anyone have any ideas on how we can upgrade?

Thanks! :)

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UC Today
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What Is Google Workspace Essentials?
April 13, 2023 - Google Workspace Essentials Starter is a new free PL launched in February 2022. The plan is meant for new users who have never used Google for Work before. This includes individual G Suite users who now want to upgrade to a team or ...
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DemandTalk
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News | Google Cloud Introduces Free Google Workspace ‘Essentials Starter’ | DemandTalk
March 27, 2024 - The Workspace ‘Essential Starter’ version is accessible from mobile devices, tablets, computers, Drive for Desktop as it enables syncing of folders and files to a personal computer or Mac.
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Filerev
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Google Workspace Pricing: Is It Worth It to Upgrade in 2023?
November 15, 2024 - Google Workspace Essentials Starter is a small, team-centric set of Google apps. It includes Meet, Chat, Drive (with 15GB of storage, just like any other free Drive account), and the Docs/Sheets/Slides set.
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Google Skills
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Google Workspace Essentials | Google Skills
June 27, 2025 - Workspace is Google's collaborative applications platform, delivered from Google Cloud. In this introductory-level course you will get hands-on practice with Workspace’s core applications from a user perspective.
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ImprovMX
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Upgrade team collaboration for free: Google Workspace + ImprovMX
February 12, 2024 - Ready to boost your team’s collaboration without breaking the bank? Google Workspace Essentials Starter edition offers a fantastic suite of tools completely free for up to 100 users – but there’s one catch: no Gmail.