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Does $180/user/year seem excessively high to anyone else?

diziet 13y ago
As a business expense it seems like a no-brainer, especially with features oriented around security like remote wiping, account transferring and more detailed logs.
- taylorwc 13y ago
  Agree. The features you mentioned above, along with an awesome revision history tracking feature, make it an easy decision.
- ewang1 13y ago
  Except the remote wipe doesn't work if the employee disconnects their computer from the internet.
  - icelancer 13y ago
    Well, sure. It can't violate the laws of physics, what a shame.
- btgeekboy 13y ago
  As a business expense for a 50+ person company, that's over $9000 a year. That doesn't seem like a no-brainer, especially when Google will give me Apps (including Drive) for $50/year/person.
  - krschultz 13y ago
    A 50+ person company is burning >$5,000,000 on salary + benefits + office space.
    - btgeekboy 13y ago
      Yes, but for $9000/year, I could very easily stand up a server, backups, and a VPN to access more than 1TB of data.
  - diziet 13y ago
    We pay for Google Apps for everyone in our company, and unfortunately no one used Google Apps. I know some people pay and expense Dropbox on their personal accounts, and if more of our team needed to use Dropbox I can easily see getting on their Business plan. Plus the Business plan ends up costing less than the consumer version. The couple of thousand dollars is fairly trivial amount of money - you need to look at price per headcount. Salesforce and other SAAS services that we use cost a lot more per person and yet we still happily pay for them. I can also see a simple feature like 'Track logins, devices, and locations ' being a must have depending on the security requirements internally.
aaronbrethorst 13y ago
No, not at all. $180/user/year = $15/user/month. In comparison, Salesforce Sales Cloud starts at $25/user/month, and Box for Business starts at $15/user/month.
matdes 13y ago
not in the slightest.
arethuza 13y ago
For business use it is probably one of the cheapest "serious" SaaS price levels I have seen (e.g. go and have a look at what Salesforce charge per user per month).
rhc2104 13y ago
In addition to everyone else's comments on pricing, it's $125/user/year if you pay annually (additional users after the first 5 users, which are $795/year).
- owlmanatt 13y ago
  Seems comparable to Box's pricing.
- btgeekboy 13y ago
  Oh, I didn't see that. Upvoted.
giovannibajo1 13y ago
It's a 44% raise from the previous "Dropbox Team" business pricing. It used to be $125/user/year. So AWS S3 does a big price drop, and Dropbox Business raises prices by 44%. Sounds good :)
- rhc2104 13y ago
  It is still $125/user/year if you pay annually. It is $15/user/month if you pay monthly.

As a business expense it seems like a no-brainer, especially with features oriented around security like remote wiping, account transferring and more detailed logs.

taylorwc 13y ago
Agree. The features you mentioned above, along with an awesome revision history tracking feature, make it an easy decision.
ewang1 13y ago
Except the remote wipe doesn't work if the employee disconnects their computer from the internet.
- icelancer 13y ago
  Well, sure. It can't violate the laws of physics, what a shame.
btgeekboy 13y ago
As a business expense for a 50+ person company, that's over $9000 a year. That doesn't seem like a no-brainer, especially when Google will give me Apps (including Drive) for $50/year/person.
- krschultz 13y ago
  A 50+ person company is burning >$5,000,000 on salary + benefits + office space.
  - btgeekboy 13y ago
    Yes, but for $9000/year, I could very easily stand up a server, backups, and a VPN to access more than 1TB of data.
- diziet 13y ago
  We pay for Google Apps for everyone in our company, and unfortunately no one used Google Apps. I know some people pay and expense Dropbox on their personal accounts, and if more of our team needed to use Dropbox I can easily see getting on their Business plan. Plus the Business plan ends up costing less than the consumer version. The couple of thousand dollars is fairly trivial amount of money - you need to look at price per headcount. Salesforce and other SAAS services that we use cost a lot more per person and yet we still happily pay for them. I can also see a simple feature like 'Track logins, devices, and locations ' being a must have depending on the security requirements internally.

aaronbrethorst 13y ago

No, not at all. $180/user/year = $15/user/month. In comparison, Salesforce Sales Cloud starts at $25/user/month, and Box for Business starts at $15/user/month.

matdes 13y ago

not in the slightest.

arethuza 13y ago

For business use it is probably one of the cheapest "serious" SaaS price levels I have seen (e.g. go and have a look at what Salesforce charge per user per month).

rhc2104 13y ago

In addition to everyone else's comments on pricing, it's $125/user/year if you pay annually (additional users after the first 5 users, which are $795/year).

owlmanatt 13y ago
Seems comparable to Box's pricing.
btgeekboy 13y ago
Oh, I didn't see that. Upvoted.

giovannibajo1 13y ago

It's a 44% raise from the previous "Dropbox Team" business pricing. It used to be $125/user/year. So AWS S3 does a big price drop, and Dropbox Business raises prices by 44%. Sounds good :)

rhc2104 13y ago
It is still $125/user/year if you pay annually. It is $15/user/month if you pay monthly.