Are there any cheaper office 365 accounts other than essentials?

[thecomputerguy]

I have a client who currently has about 10 users in Office 365 all on Business Premium. They are going to be implementing a new HR system that comes with a phone app. The phone app means all of their field guys will now also need an email address.

This email address will essentially NOT be used. The only use for it is to create an account within the HR system using said email address. The persons who receive this email address will not even be using it for normal email.

I know the cheapest or free option would be a shared mailbox but that seems like a huge hassle on my end to make that work considering you can't add shared mailboxes as regular mailboxes in a phone. Essentially all we need is a basic POP account to be able to create an account within the HR app, ideally under their domain.

The app developers mentioned that free gmail accounts could also be used if the costs don't make sense.

Any ideas?

 

[trevm999]

We use Exchange Online Kiosk licences for service accounts. I think it's like $2 CAD/licence/month.

 

[Yosebas84]

Yeah, just like @trevm999 said, you have the exchange kiosk license, i got them in appriver for about 1.8 euros each/month is the cheapest license you can get i think.

 

[thecomputerguy]

Great thanks!

 

[urcomputech]

You can create an alias for each field person and have them all go to onemone Since they with be used as real email account, it won't make much of difference. This would effectively be free and under company domain.

 

[thecomputerguy]

You can create an alias for each field person and have them all go to onemone Since they with be used as real email account, it won't make much of difference. This would effectively be free and under company domain.

I thought about that but a lot of times when an account is created it doesn't specify WHO created the account depending on the website you are using. So we might end up with 10 different emails all sent to the same email that are identical and would have no way of identifying which email was meant for who because an email sent to an alias doesn't report which alias was used, as far as I know.

 

[urcomputech]

I thought about that but a lot of times when an account is created it doesn't specify WHO created the account depending on the website you are using. So we might end up with 10 different emails all sent to the same email that are identical and would have no way of identifying which email was meant for who because an email sent to an alias doesn't report which alias was used, as far as I know.

using the full alias email address and a rule that parses that address from the email headers

your rule will looks like this:
Apply this rule after the message arrives
with <alias email address> in the message header
move it to the <destination> folder

 

[VISA MC]

We have purchased a domain and set up the free IMAP accounts that come with most web hosting packages for situations like this. Maybe if the .net version isn't being used, buy that and stack up the free accounts.