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funkhauser
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12 months ago

Dropbox Professional vs Essentials plans

Hi! I'm getting confused about the Professional vs the Essentials plan.  On the Dropbox site it says for either plan that it's more advanced than the other. That couldn't possibly be true? It seems...
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Mark
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12 months ago

Its going to depend upon what you want really.... Essentials is more aimed at Business users and Professionals is home users. 

So I moved from Professional to Essential as I wanted access to things like Sign and to be able to edit PDF's etc. 

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funkhauser
New member | Level 1
12 months ago

Thanks for the information. Sounds like each has distinct features then instead of one containing the other plus extras? Do you know if there’s an overview comparing both? I find the wording professional/home vs essentials/business aren’t helping much.

Cheers.

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    Mark
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    12 months ago

    You can view Essentials via https://www.dropbox.com/plans#all-features but I cannot for the life of me work out where Professionals is! 

    In fact if I go to https://www.dropbox.com/en_GB/pro and try and buy it takes me to Essentials.... 

    I suspect Pro isn't purchasable anymore - or its been merged in to Essentials.

    I know when Essentials came out it was more expensive that Professional and a mid-step between Plus and Essentials.

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      funkhauser
      New member | Level 1
      12 months ago

      If I click on the first link, I only get to see Professional and nothing about Essentials. It does say somewhere else that Essentials has everything from Professional plus the features you mentioned. If both come at 199 USD, why would anyone want to get Professional? And why did Dropbox make it so confusing?

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