Bringing Pooled Storage and Shared drives to Business Starter

Google Workspace, for short, G-Suite, refers to a cloud-based productivity suite with collaboration tools available for businesses of different sizes. To date, Google Workspace offers multiple different plans with different pricing and features, including Business Starter, Standard, Plus, and Enterprise plans. 

Business Starter is a great package for small businesses. It offers many very practical tools at relatively affordable cost, but it skips some of the more advanced features that the higher tiers' plans feature, including pooled storage and shared drives. 

Pooled Storage 

It can also be a possibility for organizations to use a shared common pool of cloud storage for all users with the pooled storage feature. You don't have to commit a fixed certain amount of storage to every single account. There is really great flexibility in storage allocation, and it is also more economical with different teams and departments within the organization that require different amounts of storage. 

Business Starter has 30 GB of cloud storage per user. This might be okay for small businesses but may become limiting as data grows. Pooled storage for Business Starter would add huge value because this would enable smaller businesses to utilize their storage resources better. 

Shared Drives 

Shared drives, or Team drives as it is referred to, offers a collaborative space for teams in order to store, search, and to get access to files. Unlike a personal Google Drive account it doesn't work. A shared drive here belongs to a team, not an individual. Hence, there is continuity if a person in a team changes. This is now available in all the Business Standard and higher plans. 

Shared drives will bring even better collaboration capabilities for small teams. In addition to that, it provides a centralized spot for storing and for teams to work on. This would be quite an attractive feature for small businesses wanting to improve their collaborative workflows, yet you do not need to upgrade to a more expensive plan. 

Benefits to Business Starter by Adding These Features 

More value: Adding pooled storage and shared drives makes the Business Starter plan a much more robust offer. It will attract even more potential users. 

More competition: The feature will help Google Workspace to better battle other productivity suites in the market. The platform will steal customers away from competing services. 

Easy upsell: Once the customers start making use of the facilities with Business Starter, they are highly likely to upgrade their plans when they need them the most, and they will feel the force of advanced Google Workspace capacities. 

Enhanced collaboration: Small businesses with more collaboration tools in place are expected to be very productive and have excellent teamwork. 

Ease of managing storage: pooled storage allows small businesses to better manage their resources in the cloud. 

These features might therefore mean the following changes for a business being a Google Workspace partner or reseller since they can be added without much rise in price to Business Starter: 

Pricing strategies: If these features can be added without raising much in price, the business starter becomes even more appealing to small businesses. 

Marketing and sales approach: You would concentrate on those new features in your marketing and sales that would attract a lot of new customers and make the existing clients change over from the competing platforms. 

Migration services: Therefore, these partners and resellers could easily offer all kinds of migration services to companies so that their file structure could be migrated to the new shared drive system. 

Training and Support: The new features shall provide training and support that will become new revenue streams for the client. 

Bring pooled storage and shared drives into Google Workspace Business Starter, and thus hugely increase its value to small businesses. Track such developments and the outcomes to effectively service clients and grow businesses in such a competitive software marketplace!