The difference between free Gmail (Google) accounts and Google Workspace Business accounts

What’s the difference between a free Gmail account and a Google Workspace account?

Free Gmail accounts (or, more accurately, Google Accounts) provide a basic collection of Google services, and a low amount of online storage.

Google Workspace (formerly Google Apps) accounts have higher storage limits, and online document tools, often meaning that you can save money on other services you have been paying for, such as Office Tools, Digital Drive tools, Communication and Calendar tools.

Main Difference – email at your domain

Main Difference – email at your domain. yourname@yourdomain.com rather than yourname4423423@gmail.com. For business users, this is a must.

Main Benefits of Google Workspace

Main Cost Saving – one premium account for Sharing large files (Dropbox pro account replacement), creating, storing and sharing documents such as word processed docs, spreadsheets, presentations (Microsoft Office replacement), Calendars and communication tools (video conferencing, telephone conferencing replacement).

Plus the email – and in particular, spam filters – is some of the best in the business, if not the best.

It’s Business, Not Personal

But lastly, if you have a business, with several Google Workspace users, and one of them leaves, you still have access to the email, and ultimate control of the account. With free Gmail / Google accounts, you do not. The free accounts are issued to individuals. Google Workspace (was also known as Google for Work) accounts are issued to businesses, with the users held within them.

The Google Workspace account belongs to the business. A Gmail account belongs to the user. Big difference if that user is an employee of your company.

Buying through a Reseller

What’s the difference between a Google Workspace account your company signs up itself, and one bought through Silicon Dales?

If you sign up with Google Workspace as a business, you administer your Google Workspace account, with Google’s ordinary support. This is often not sufficient for a business which wishes to act quickly to add / remove / fix email and other Google Workspace accounts.

If you don’t have anyone in your business willing or able to administer your Google Workspace account, then it is often more cost effective to buy Google Workspace through a reseller who provides support and administration services, such as Silicon Dales.

Silicon Dales clients receive telephone and email support, for example, if you want to add a new user, you just request this from your account contact. If you want to remove an old user and forward emails sent to his or her email address to another user, you just ask your Silicon Dales account contact and this is done for you.

We charge a small fee on top of the monthly account fee for this support, per user account.

Have a look at our offering

For a full breakdown of the main features of your Silicon Dales Google Workspace account, visit the following link:

Get Google’s Google Workspace for your Business Here – fully managed or 20% off.

Remember, the main difference of using a reseller is support and implementation. Someone to actually do on your behalf. Managed Google Workspace – taking the load of managing email off your corporate IT team altogether.

Get Google’s Google Workspace for your Business Here – fully managed or 20% off.

3 thoughts on “The difference between free Gmail (Google) accounts and Google Workspace Business accounts”

  1. how to remove an account and start all over ,I can’t get into my account, I have trying using every password
    that I remembered using and no results

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  2. Please note, Google Apps changed its name to Google Workspace quite a long time ago – so read as if Google Apps and Google Workspace are the same thing (they are!). This article will be updated in the near future (its on the list) to accommodate new terminology. But the central points remain totally valid and accurate, just rebranded.

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  3. i am not receiving mail from my website to my gmail account, i don’t know if it is because that i am using a regular gmail instated of g suite account

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