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Set up Essentials for your domain

For: Managing Essentials for your entire organization

Use this guide to set up additional Google Workspace Essentials features for your domain. This requires being the owner or IT admin for your organization's domain.

1	Sign up with your business email address Sign up for Essentials Starter with the email address at the domain where you plan to use Essentials. This should be an address where you can currently get mail. Note: You can't sign up with an address at a public web host like gmail.com or yahoo.com. Instead, you must use a custom address, such as for a business or organization.  SIGN UP    How sign-up works Alternatively, you can buy Enterprise Essentials edition through a Google Sales representative or local reseller.
2	Upgrade to Enterprise Essentials If you signed up for Essentials Starter edition, go to the Billing page in your Admin console, and upgrade your subscription to Enterprise Essentials. Or, you can upgrade to Enterprise Essentials during the domain-verification process in the next step. Learn how Switch to Enterprise Essentials edition
3	Verify your domain to unlock more features After you upgrade to Enterprise Essentials, you can unlock features: User (identity) management features, such as the ability to create user accounts and manage user profiles Advanced security features, such as admin-managed 2-step verification and password monitoring and enforcement Unlock features by verifying that you or your organization owns your domain. You'll then assume full administrative control of all Essentials user accounts in your organization. Learn how Verify your domain to unlock features (for email-verified services)
4	Set up a new billing account for your domain After you verify your domain, you must set up a new billing account. Do this even if you already set up billing as an email-verified customer in step 1 of this guide. To protect the data of these customers, we delete the billing accounts they set up for their email-verified service. Set up billing to avoid suspension: After you verify your domain, you have 15 days to set up billing. If billing was already set up, you must set it up again. Otherwise, your account will be suspended. Learn how Set up Google Workspace Essentials billing
5	Access your administrator account After you verify your domain, you'll manage all services, users, and security controls from your Google Admin console. If you previously managed your Essentials team using the Team dashboard in Drive, you'll now do these tasks in the Admin console. Learn how Sign in to your Admin console Open the Admin console from your other apps Reset your administrator password
6	Set up and manage your team Use your Admin console to set up and manage your users' accounts and contact information. Set up Add accounts for employees and contractors  Make another user an admin Turn a service on or off for your users Manage your users' global contact Directory Learn how Change a user's profile or email name Reset a user's password
7	Manage video calls Set up the video meeting features you want your users to have. Learn how See all ways you can manage Meet for users
8	Manage chat collaboration   Set up the chat features you want your users to have. Learn how See all the ways you can manage Chat for users
9	Work with cloud storage & online docs Import your organization's files to Google Drive. Set up file storage and sharing options. Then discover a powerful suite of document, spreadsheet, and presentation apps that you work with in your browser Set up Migrate your files to Drive Set sharing permissions for users Professional file templates for your organization Internal project website More Drive setup... Learn how Get started with Drive (cloud storage) Get started with Docs (online documents) Get started with Sheets (spreadsheets) Get started with Slides (presentations)
10	Manage calendars (Optional) Turn on Calendar Set up Turn Calendar on or off for users
11	Set up your organization's account Add your logo. Then depending on your business needs, you may want to set up additional account security features. Learn how Add your business logo Set up 2-step verification Enforce password strength settings Follow more security best practices Region specific Turn on or off Meet smart features and personalization
12	Train your users Get training guides, tips, customer examples, and other resources to help your users work smarter and master Essentials for the workplace. Visit the Google Workspace Learning Center
13	Upgrade for more services Ready for more? Upgrade to a  Business or another Enterprise edition to add Gmail to your service suite. Learn how Switch Google Workspace editions

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