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bjgoldstein
New member | Level 2
7 years ago

Need to reduce licenses

What needs to be done to reduce the number of licenses that we are paying for?
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  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
    7 years ago
    I am pretty sure you can only do this upon renewal of your contract to a minimum of 3 (it used to be 5).

    You can alter the licences you need at the Admin dashboard: https://www.dropbox.com/team/admin/dashboard
  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    7 years ago
    Entering a minus symbol and a number doesn’t work to show the 'Remove licenses' option?
     
    If this is the case, would it be okay to message you at the email address associated with your forum profile to assist further?
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Jay
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Hi there, you can reduce licenses as Mark said to a minimum of 3 licenses, however the change will only appear on your account (and thus the reduced fee) when your account next renews, which is either in a month or year.
 
If you can’t reduce your licenses and you did remove people in the past, check if those users were suspended instead of removed, as suspended users still take up a license.
 
This also applies to pending invite to your team, so if any exist that you don’t want to join the team, just delete the invite from the admin console.
 
Hope this information helps!
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TABNORM
Explorer | Level 4
7 years ago

This did  not help. It delets the person NOT the number of licenses on contract.

  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
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    7 years ago
    How many licenses do you have at the moment and how many do you want on your account?
    • TABNORM's avatar
      TABNORM
      Explorer | Level 4
      7 years ago

      Hi

      I need to reduce to 3 from the 7 we have. My licenses renews in a month.

      • Jay's avatar
        Jay
        Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff
        7 years ago
        How many active licenses do you currently have assigned to users? Are you able to reduce the licenses in any way?

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