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devynosborne
3 years agoExplorer | Level 4
Linking Personal and Business accounts - Account types?
I searched the help and forums, but couldn't quite find the answer to my question.
My wife has a long-held Dropbox Plus personal account, which syncs to her laptop (via the Dropbox app with the...
- 3 years ago
devynosborne wrote:
But this page confuses me about whether a Plus account can be linked with a Professional account, or if it has to be a Business Standard.
While Professional is considered a business account, it's an individual account, just like the Basic and Plus accounts. Account linking can only be done with a team plan, which would be Business Standard or Business Advanced. You can't link a Plus and Professional account.
I believe I read there are actually two different Dropbox folders (presumably labeled appropriately) that otherwise behave like a normal personal one. That would be ideal.That's correct. The existing personal account would have its folder renamed to Dropbox (Personal) and the Business account would be in a folder called Dropbox (Team Name), where Team Name is the name you give to the Business team.
devynosborne
Explorer | Level 4
strongroots1 wrote:I don't qualify for the teams accounts (only 1 person)
My wife was able to sign up for her Business Standard account, even though she is just one person. No other team members necessary.
You may mean that a Business Standard account is overkill for you. But I wanted to clarify there's no qualification (unless something changed with the very recent changes to teams).
strongroots
3 years agoNew member | Level 2
Just had a look, and it appears that yes, I can sign up for a Business Standard account, but would have to pay for 3 licenses (even though I would only be using one). I can hope that Dropbox will at some point count Professional accounts as being equivalent to Business Standard for this purpose of linking accounts, but in the meantime, I’ll be looking at alternatives.
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