Question

I was setting up Google Apps for a small company (25 employees) and discovered that google want to be paid for each user when your organisation has more than 10 users. I am sure the limit used to be much higher (50 users).

Is there an alternative to using google apps that has similar feature set and can be used for free by a small organisation (25 users)

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Edit: Additionally…

If I already have an account, can I add another domain as a sub-organisation, and therefore benefit from my existing higher user limit? Has anyone done this?

Answer 1

The limit used to be higher (25-50, though I don’t recall for certain) and if the account was set up then, it’s grandfathered.

Subdomain’s are only available in the paid version, and they’d only get you an alternative domain going to the same inbox, rather than additional addresses. So you’d be able to have [e-mail] and [e-mail], rather than [e-mail] and [e-mail].

I’ve not seen anything approaching the same features.