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Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023

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Re: Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023

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Post by minhazm »

MisterPea wrote: post #99
btian wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably because G Workspace is comically cheap.

The whole industry of calendar scheduling boggles my mind. It seems Google/Microsoft consider them small fish to fry, but Calendly is a multi-billion dollar company

Calendly is useful for scheduling meetings with people outside of your company. For meetings inside of your company Outlook and Google Calendar already have built in scheduling tools to help find a time that works for everyone.

Even then Outlook does have FindTime and has a plugin system to let you use third party tools like Calendly. There's also a product called Microsoft Bookings that's more of a direct competitor to Calendly. But at the end of the day Calendly's revenue is estimated at around $100 million from what I could find online and that's a drop in the bucket for Microsoft or Google.

Re: Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023

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Post by locusm »

Something else to keep in mind when using Google Apps is Google will charge you a close out fee if youre on an annual plan and want to upgrade. Most customers find themselves wanting to do this upon reaching max mailbox size and it cant be done from the admin panel.

Re: Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023

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Post by CharlesW »

candiddevmike wrote: post #6

What are you going to do, move to a different service? Switching out your cloud hosted office suite is probably a non starter for most companies.

> Switching out your cloud hosted office suite is probably a non starter for most companies.

I was recently at a startup that did this. Honestly, it was pretty simple.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/admin/moveto...

Re: Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023

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Post by boneitis »

atonse wrote: post #55
boneitis wrote: post #54

> Third, we are increasing the price of Google Workspace Enterprise Standard to reflect the value we’ve added to the edition [..] for large enterprises. But, they can't tell us by how much?

It’s Whatever the enterprise can stomach.

Fair point. When it's not even listed on their pricing chart in the first place, I guess there's likely some negotiation factor, as suggested in another comment.

Re: Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023

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Post by locusm »

jefftk wrote: post #5

Up 20%: Starter: $6 -> $7.20 Standard: $12 -> $14.40 Plus: $18 -> $21.60 They are also introducing an annual payment option where you can pay the old per-month prices ($6, $12, $18).

When you move to an annual plan and then need to upgrade you will get charged a close out fee in addition to the extra plan cost. Yes, Google is charging you for the privilege of investing further in their platform. Google Partners have been able to provide annual plans for years.

Re: Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023

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Post by cja »

bl4ckneon wrote: post #71
mrbonner wrote: post #59

It is time for me to evaluate my custom domain email service. I had the original/free Google workspace with custom email domain. In 2021, they charged me $6/month to keep that option afloat. To be honest, I think $6/month is a bit expensive for just email usage. I don't even use any other stuff coming with Suite. My question for this group: how do I get out of this without losing my email domain?

Zoho is a good option if it's just you and you want a custom domain for your email. Used them for a few years without needing to pay. Moved over to proton mail (paid) for my email now, it comes with cloud storage, calandar, and VPN too. You also get simpleLogin included, a mail forwarding service for your custom domain names so you can make burner email addresses if you want.

Did you try pasting an image into an email yet in Proton?

Re: Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023

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Post by asah »

dotBen wrote: post #77

Even at twice the price, the value of the collective Google Workspaces suite for most people is a no brainer. I pay more per month to the calendar scheduling SaaS provider I use than I do to Google - who provide the calendar plus email, drive, docs, meet, etc. An important lesson here for founders is price anchoring. Google is in a tough place because the prices are anchored to historically low amounts - they're incr…

fyi gsuite now supports calendly-like scheduling for paid subscribers. Works great.

Re: Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023

#108

Post by toomuchtodo »

minhazm wrote: post #101
MisterPea wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The whole industry of calendar scheduling boggles my mind. It seems Google/Microsoft consider them small fish to fry, but Calendly is a multi-billion dollar company

Calendly is useful for scheduling meetings with people outside of your company. For meetings inside of your company Outlook and Google Calendar already have built in scheduling tools to help find a time that works for everyone. Even then Outlook does have FindTime and has a plugin system to let you use third party tools like Calendly. There's also a product called Microsoft Bookings that's more of a direct competitor…

Genuinely curious question: So why doesn’t Google or MS offer a built in Calendly functionality? Think of how your calendar auto populates with Zoom details if you schedule a Zoom meeting in Outlook. Simply because they consider it a market not with competing in vs a product feature? This has to have had come up in a product discussion somewhere in these orgs.

Edit: someone mentioned in thread that Gsuite supports this natively now, so I suppose my question is more MS focused.

Re: Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023

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Post by xahrepap »

warkdarrior wrote: post #91
xahrepap wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think what your parent is saying (at least how I read it) is in the context of comparing it to boxed software. I buy MS Word 1995 for $100. Then they release added value and box it up as MS Word 1998 for $100. Then they release added value and box it up as MS Word 2000 for $100. Now we pay $10/mo. If you average it out, it's not too different than just paying for the added value as it grows. And worse, if I cancel…

You also pay for hosting of that software service (availability, security, etc.).

And that’s fair.. but worth pointing out I bought Diablo 2 Resurrected which I almost exclusively play online. Unless they release an expansion then I’m done paying them money.

I think there’s some places where SaaS makes a lot of sense. And storage costs and high data transfer volume…. It makes sense.

There’s a balance. Modern software leans too heavily to subscriptions though.

Re: Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023

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Post by caogecym »

mrbonner wrote: post #59

It is time for me to evaluate my custom domain email service. I had the original/free Google workspace with custom email domain. In 2021, they charged me $6/month to keep that option afloat. To be honest, I think $6/month is a bit expensive for just email usage. I don't even use any other stuff coming with Suite. My question for this group: how do I get out of this without losing my email domain?

Gmail (the free consumer facing one) can configure custom domains right? Does that not address your need? https://themeisle.com/blog/use-gmail-with-your-own-domain-na...
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