Does anyone know of an email provider that will handle billing the users directly?
Shared pain as the rest, have been hosting email for people with the same last name since 1998, and migrated to G Suite for Your Domain in 2006, and they graciously increased the max users for the free account, and I have 147 users (almost all are active). From 1998-2006 I ran the email server, and it was a pain to deal with issues and complaints (mostly poor spam filtering). I can't go back to that, and I can't afford $10,584 a year to offer free email.
I've researched some other paid options, but my biggest issue is that I just can't deal with invoicing and collecting money from 140+ people. What I really need is an email host that will direct bill all the users. I don't mind paying for email as a service, I just need someone else to deal with all the money stuff from the other users.
For others assistance in research if you will be paying the bill for the full domain, here are some options I looked at:
Google Workplace - $72/year/user - advantage being no impact on users
Microsoft 365 - $60/year/user - less expensive, probably equal in quality to Google
Fastmail - $50/year/user - cheaper still, great reputation
Rackspace - $36/year/user - cheaper still, not best reputation
Namecheap - $11/year/user - most likely a get what you pay for situation
Honestly I think email is worth $72/year, and I would go that route if Google would bill each user directly.