Product Updates
We're replacing our existing Dropbox Business and Dropbox Enterprise plans with three new plans:
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Wouldn't it have made more sense to keep the pricing of the Advanced plan to approximately what users are paying now, and then offer the Standard plan at a cheaper price?
I ask because a 60% increase is too much to swallow for a file storage service. For the same price as the Advanced plan ($20/user-month), an organization can get an E3 license of Office 365 which would include the Office products, Exchange e-mail, a 1TB per user OneDrive account for file storage/collaboration, and a 1TB + 0.5GB/user SharePoint storage limit (up to 25TB max). In our organization's case (35 Dropbox users using less than 1TB), that's 35TB of OneDrive and 18.5TB of SharePoint storage. The Standard plan isn't an option because we require HIPAA compliance.
This post isn't intended to be an ad for Office 365. It's a plea for Dropbox to reconsider their pricing strategy.
According to the FAQ and e-mail I received (emphasis Dropbox's):
The new price for the feature set most similar to that of my existing plan costs 75% more than my existing plan (60% more than the new Standard option). Why not keep the pricing of the Advanced plan to approximately what users are paying now and offer the Standard plan at a cheaper price? We use less than 1TB across 35 users, but we require HIPAA compliance and long-term file recovery for discovery purposes so the Standard plan isn't an option for us.
We also subscribe to Microsoft's Office 365 (E3 licenses) for the same price as the Dropbox Advanced plan ($20/user-month) which includes the Office products, hosted Exchange e-mail, etc. We currently don't use the included storage options because we were already using Dropbox and find it easier to use.
The O365 features above are beyond the scope of what we expect from Dropbox, but from a strictly-storage perspective our O365 licenses also include:
In our organization's case that's 35TB of OneDrive storage and ~1TB of SharePoint storage.
While I imagine there are some Microsoft resellers salivating at the Dropbox Business customers they'll grab, we really hope Dropbox will reconsider their pricing strategy. I'd like to know the likelihood of that happening. The new pricing won't take effect for 19 months for us, but we need to evaluate whether we'll be around that long if we'll have to switch (i.e. Dropbox keeps the 60% increase) anyway.
Precisely the same situation as me...
At this rate, it'll be cheaper to buy a few servers and co-locate them!!!
Why is Dropbox making these changes?
We're listening to our customers who asked for more flexibility in buying Dropbox Business. Now you'll be able to select the admin tools, storage levels, and support services that are right for your team.
What that REALLY sounds like instead:
"We're listening to OUR INVESTORS who asked for MORE MONEY!"
Poor show DropBox. Poor bloody show!!!
Everywhere else in Tech, the price DECREASES!
We are a small business and subscribed for the unlimited data solution of the business plan. Having to move to an advanced subscription to maintain this triples our cost annually so we have cancelled our plan and will look for alternatives. I'm sure there will be a lot of others in the same situation. Instead of grandfathering these accounts in and leaving as is or offering a discounted rate Dropbox chose to give no options.
Just Vicker L.!!
We have just received notice that you, as a company, are moving from a business account to a four tiered ‘pro’ ‘standard’ ‘advanced’ and ‘enterprise’ system for Dropbox, with our account being shifted to an ‘advanced’ system (usability as of now, price as of next year),
By the looks of it we’d most likely want a ‘standard’ account (mostly because of the price!), however this does get rid of the ‘tiered admin’ abilities, would this then mean we’d only be able to have one admin for the account? In which case, what would the other members not be able to do? I understand the accounts do not get upgraded in terms of price till next year, can you confirm this?
Also I’ve seen you are moving from unlimited version history to 120 days for all your higher accounts, as a business we would need unlimited version control and so we have ‘opted in’ for now, would this then revert to 120 days in January 2018 or would we keep unlimited version control from now on?
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