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Clarifications regarding Personal Use Plans vs Business Use Plans
Hi,
I am trying to figure out a general outline of all the plans, and here are my finds.
Personal Use plans : (payed as an individual)
1. Basic 2 Gb 1 user...
Dear Hannah,
Dropbox Essentials is mainly an individual account, which is more suited for work purposes.
Work purposes means that it is payed for as a company? One man business account?
I believe this page, that has an overview of the new plans will give you a lot of the info you're looking for.
This page only shows those Business plans: Essentials, Business, Business Plus and Enterprise.
There is absolutely no mention or the "Standard" and "Advanced" plans, yet this page has information on them:
https://help.dropbox.com/plans/what-dropbox-plan-do-i-have
But there is absolutely no mention if Standard and Advanced plans in this link are business plans or not.
I am an IT professional writing an application that uses DropBox API and I want to be able to know which of all the plans in this link
https://help.dropbox.com/plans/what-dropbox-plan-do-i-have
can allow 3rd party applications to access Dropox API.
If you answer this last question all my problems/questions are solved, as I won't have to test out every single plan separately.
I appreciate the fast answer, but I would very much appreciate to take the time to answer this message as it would save me tons of work and testing hours.
Cheers,
Dan
Rich
Super User II
Super User II
Dan1979 wrote:
Work purposes means that it is payed for as a company? One man business account?
It doesn't matter how it's paid or how it's used. Essentials in an individual plan meant for one person, not multiple people, and work purposes simply means that it includes some of the features normally found on the Business plans. Both the Professional and Essential plans are similar in this regard. They're typically used by business professionals, not Grandma saving pictures of her grand kids, though many people still use them for personal use. I am an individual, not a business, and I use a Professional plan for personal use only.
Dan1979 wrote:
But there is absolutely no mention if Standard and Advanced plans in this link are business plans or not.
The Just need storage? link on that page leads to the other plans.
Basic, Plus Professional and Essentials are individual plans meant for one person. Professional and Essentials include some, but not all, of the features found in the Business plans. For this reason you will often see them listed along side the actual Business plans, but they're still meant for an individual.
Family is like the Plus plan, but shared among a group of people.
Standard, Advanced, Business, Business Plus and Enterprise are all Business accounts meant for a team of people.
The plans are separated like they are on the Dropbox website because some plans (Plus, Professional, Standard, Advanced) are best for those that just need storage and a few extra features, while other plans (Essentials, Business, Business Plus, Enterprise) have more functionality beyond storage (file tracking, signature requests, video editing and review, etc.).
