MS 365 for non profits vs Gsuite for non profits

[dee001]

Hello everyone, I have been pushing Gsuite for nonprofits for any nonprofit customer that I run across but I see that Microsoft offers a free package for nonprofits, my question is how different is it from what Google offers. With Google, I can set up an unlimited amount of email accounts, team folders, and 30 GB accounts docs and sheets.

I have a customer that been running an exchange server that has many problems but I was planning on offering them Gsuite for nonprofits for hosting their mail and they already have local installs of office products so everything on their end would be the same but no longer have to keep that server in place.

Any suggestions on the MS 365 for nonprofits on the Microsoft website it doesn't give many details on what we would get and I see that it requires tech soup account just like Google does.

 

[Sky-Knight]

MS Office 365 E1 is free for non-profits. That's cloud apps, Teams, and pretty much everything you need to run a business, and it has all the Teams ecosystem bolt-ons that Google just flat doesn't have. (E3 for on Premise apps is $4.50 / month / user)

So I find this question curious, because any objective analysis of O365 vs Google returns one clear answer... Google sucks. When Microsoft released Teams, Google was left on the wrong side of a feature leap.

 

[roborobs computer repair]

techsoup.com and use O365 that is the best for sure.

 

[dee001]

Do you get the local installs of word, excel, and outlook or only web access to these apps. I want to go with MS 365 for nonprofits just to get the experience of setting it up. My other concern is the customer really wants this done fast and the last time I did a google for nonprofits from what I recall I got the acceptance email in less than 3 weeks using tech soup. Do you know how long will it take for the approval from Microsoft

 

[Sky-Knight]

E1 is web apps only, E3 is required for local apps, or Business Premium, which I think you can get now.

The Tech Soup part of things didn't take me long at all, I only recall it being a day or two. Now, getting the O365 Tenant flagged as nonprofit... THAT took some doing. But only because the people at the church responsible for things weren't doing their jobs. It took a solid day on the phone to get that sorted out. But it's also been an absolute AGE, five perhaps six years now? Microsoft has streamlined everything a bucket since then, so I wouldn't expect things to be that hard.

As an aside, I can get the nonprofit stuff via PAX8 as well, so if you have that you might be able to skip the techsoup entirely. Pretty much just signup here:https://nonprofit.microsoft.com/register If you want to go direct, you can probably just do that and "buy" direct. Because once the account is flagged you're buying seats direct from MS anyway.

*Edit* Looks like TechSoup is involved there anyway, and if they don't have an account that's up to 20 days according to that link. The time sink is proving nonprofit status, not setup of the stuff.

 

[roborobs computer repair]

*Edit* Looks like TechSoup is involved there anyway, and if they don't have an account that's up to 20 days according to that link. The time sink is proving nonprofit status, not setup of the stuff.

But very worth it for the Organization.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

I just help my clients apply online direct with Microsoft..skipping the additional steps of TechSoup.
Just have them register at this MS page
https://nonprofit.microsoft.com/register

Other info here.
Ensure you know what they used for that first email address, and password..and you take it from there...I set them up at PAX8 and add the licenses, billing client for payable ones (even non profit licenses you can resell now)