You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
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Ed
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffWhat are the new Dropbox Business plans?
We're replacing our existing Dropbox Business and Dropbox Enterprise plans with three new plans:
Standard—for teams needing powerful storage, sharing, and collaboration tools
Advanced—for teams...
Very illustrative explanation MrCoBalt!!
Our current plan.
£8/user/month. Unlimited storage and unlimited back up.
Standard Plan
£10/user/month. 2 tb storage and limited back up.
Advanced Plan
£15/user/month. Unlimited storage and unlimited back up.
So if our business decided to take the standard plan it will cost us more for less features. To have the same features we need to pay almost a 100% increase.
Well done dropbox you really dropped the ball on this one. We are now looking for alternatives.
- Hi Frontier2,
When you say "back up" are you talking about Version History?
I think in both new Business Plans, Standard & Advanced, the Version History is only 120 days when in the current Businesses plan is Unlimited!! And the no sense... Pro Plan, designed for people, not for companies, can pay 39$/€ for a Extended Version History of 1 year!!
Now, with the limited Version History it's very important to know how it works... it considers the "Last Modified Date" to decide if the file will be saved or deleted, then, if you save a file and then edit and save the file 4 month later, you lose the first version and you will only have the last version!! Dropbox deletes the previous version becouse it's modified date is more than 120days!! This is not a good Version History method!!- I do mean version history.
I spend 3 hours on the phone to dropbox yesterday trying to get some answers to some pretty basic questions.
1. Do the prices include or exclude VAT. Had to speak to 3 people to work this out.
2. Am I paying more for less. The 4th person admitted this was the case.
I believe the second person told me the Advanced plan had unlimited version history which I pointed out was different to the e-mail, she was adamant she was correct but I do doubt that.- @Frontier2 regarding your #2 point: definitely paying more for less retention if you're just now signing up on the Standard/Advanced plan, since regardless of plan picked it's only 120 days.
If you're planning to continue with Dropbox then, as per an email you may have received ("Important changes to your Dropbox Business plan") it states "The new plans offer 120-day version history and deletion recovery. Because you’re already a Dropbox customer, you can opt in through the Admin Console before April 30, 2017 to keep unlimited version history and deletion recovery."
My understanding is that once opted-in the unlimited retention will continue to be a feature of your Business plan for as long as you maintain that plan.
But in other words, new customers don't get as much while Dropbox back-handedly acknowledges that unlimited retention was an important selling point for the Dropbox experience… but it apparently won’t be for any customers going forward…
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yes it is exactly how you describe it, a bit of badly strategized price gouging here.
What I don't undestand is: do you pay for 5 users regardless of the amount of users/email you setup?
