Switch to Enterprise Standard edition

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If you sign up for Workspace from Gmail on Android, you can’t switch editions. Instead, cancel your subscription in Google Play and then sign up for a different edition on the web.

To upgrade from the legacy free edition of G Suite, go here instead .

You can transition your G Suite or Google Workspace subscription to Enterprise Standard edition.

What to know before you switch editions

Everyone in your organization gets the same subscription. For example, you can’t transition some users to Business Plus while others keep using the Business Standard edition.
If you’re on an Annual/Fixed-Term Plan , the transition includes all of your current users.
If you’re upgrading and your current subscription is on the Annual/Fixed-Term Plan with yearly payments, you can switch only to the Annual/Fixed-Term Plan with monthly payments. After you switch, you get a prorated credit for any remaining yearly subscription balance.
If you switch editions during your free trial, any unused days apply to your new subscription. For example, if you switch editions on the 10th day of your free trial, the last 4 days of the free trial apply to the new subscription.
If you’re on the Annual/Fixed-Term Plan, you can downgrade editions only after you Switch from Annual/Fixed-Term to Flexible Plan .
Not sure which edition to switch to?Compare features in Google Workspace Enterprise editions.

What features will I lose?

Switching from Enterprise Plus

Advanced video conferencing—Enhanced noise cancellation.
Live streaming—Live streams will be limited to 10,000 participants.
Hosted S/MIME—You can no longer enable the Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions standard or require encryption for incoming and outgoing mail messages.
Security center—You will no longer have access to information and analytics about the security issues that may be affecting your domain. You will also lose access to the security sandbox.
Access transparency—You can no longer review logs of actions taken by Google staff when accessing user content.
Work Insights—You can't access the reporting tool to get detailed metrics on your users' Google Workspace adoption.
Data regions—You can choose one geographic location for all users in your organization, but you lose access to advanced features, such as choosing different locations based on organizational unit or group, and reporting and auditing.

Upgrade to Enterprise Standard

Supported editions: Frontline Starter, Enterprise Starter, all G Suite editions

Supported editions with a verified domain: All Business editions, Essentials and Enterprise Essentials

To upgrade from Frontline Standard or Frontline Plus, contact Google Sales .

If you have Google Vault, make sure you don’t accidentally lose data. Before upgrading, follow these steps .

Sign in with a super administrator account to the Google Admin console.
If you aren’t using a super administrator account, you can’t complete these steps.
Go to Menu Billing > Buy or upgrade .

Requires having the Billing Management administrator privilege .
Next to the edition that you want to switch to, click Upgrade or Switch.
Review the impact that this change will have and click Next.
If your current subscription is on the Flexible Plan, select a payment plan for your new subscription:
- Flexible plan—No long-term commitment, pay for the users that you have each month, and add or remove users as needed.
- Annual plan (monthly payment)—Requires a one-year contract. Pay a monthly user commitment and add users as needed. To increase the number of users, for Total users, enter a new number. The Annual Plan isn’t available when you downgrade to a lower-level edition.
If your current subscription is on the Annual Plan (yearly or monthly payments), select Annual plan (monthly payment)as the payment plan for your new subscription.
(Optional) To add a promotional code, for Flexible plan, click Add promotion codeand enter the code.
Click Checkout Place Order.

If you previously purchased Drive storage or Google Vault licenses:In some cases, these licenses for Drive storage and Vault may remain assigned after you switch editions. To avoid charges for these licenses , check and remove any individual Drive and Vault licenses from users who still have them assigned after the transition.

Downgrade to Enterprise Standard

Supported editions: Enterprise Plus

Supported editions with a verified domain: Enterprise Essentials Plus

Sign in with a super administrator account to the Google Admin console.
If you aren’t using a super administrator account, you can’t complete these steps.
Go to Menu Billing > Subscriptions .

Requires having the Billing Management administrator privilege .
Click your subscriptionMore Downgradethe edition you want to switch to.
Review the impact that this change will have and click Next.
If your current subscription is on the Flexible Plan, select a payment plan for your new subscription:
- Flexible plan—No long-term commitment, pay for the users that you have each month, and add or remove users as needed.
- Annual plan (monthly payment)—Requires a one-year contract. Pay a monthly user commitment and add users as needed. To increase the number of users, for Total users, enter a new number. The Annual Plan isn’t available when you downgrade to a lower-level edition.
If your current subscription is on the Annual Plan (yearly or monthly payments), select Annual plan (monthly payment)as the payment plan for your new subscription.
(Optional) To add a promotional code, for Flexible plan, click Add promotion codeand enter the code.
Click Checkout Place Order.

(Optional) Set up data retention with Google Vault

You can preserve data in supported Google Workspace services indefinitely or delete it after a set time, as required by your organization's information governance policies. To learn more, go to Set up Vault for your organization .

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