Switch to Business Plus 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 Business Plus 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.
Only organizations with 300 or fewer users can switch from an Enterprise edition to a Business edition.
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 downgrade your edition and lose a feature, such as data loss prevention (DLP) or Google Vault, you can get the feature back if you upgrade within 51 days. Otherwise, you need to wait at least 85 days to upgrade to an edition with the feature.
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 editions .

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What to do before you switch

Prevent storage restrictions for users

Verify the total storage used by all users in your organization. Choose a subscription that provides enough storage for your organization's needs. Find out how much storage your organization is using .

Upgrade to Business Plus

Supported editions: Frontline Starter, Business Starter and Business Standard, Enterprise Starter, all G Suite editions

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 Business Plus

Supported editions: Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus, Enterprise Essentials and 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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