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What is Google Workspace (Formerly G Suite)?

Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) seamlessly integrates Google's Business platform, including Google Email, Docs, Analytics, and much more! Get Google Workspace for your business today!

Google Workspace boasts a wide variety of intuitive tools for your business that work in conjunction with numerous software applications to bring you a slew of additional features. You can find Google products within your web hosting control panel.

This article discusses the following topics.

Ready, set, Google! ⤵
How to Order and Manage Google Workspace ⤵
Feature List and Pricing ⤵
Google Workspace vs. Gmail ⤵

Ready, set, Google!

Google Workspace puts the power of speed and innovation in your hands as a cost-effective solution to high-priced IT configurations. With robust backend management and streamlined administration, you can create and modify users anytime from anywhere. These applications facilitate collaboration across operating systems, browsers, and devices. Multiple creators can work together in real-time on documents, presentations, and spreadsheets for internal or external publications.

Create and attend online meetings with Google Meet using video and calendar integration, allowing you to adjust your schedule on the fly quickly. You can even participate in screen sharing and integrated chat features without video conferencing equipment.

Over 5 million businesses entrust their email services to Google to operate and function globally. Gmail offers easy task management and promotes efficiency with innovations in the inbox organization. A 99.9% uptime guarantee backs this service paired with exceptional 24-hour technical support.

How to Order and Manage Google Workspace

We have consolidated the articles that will guide you in ordering and managing Google Workspace.

Google Workspace Setup Part 1 - Setup with Internal Domains - This article walks you through purchasing and setting up Google Workspace with domains you've registered with HostGator.
Guide to Using Google Workspace with an External Domain - This article will guide you through purchasing and setting up Google Workspace with domains not registered with HostGator.
Google Workspace Set up Part 2 - Manage Google Workspace Admin - This article will guide you through the additional setup required within your Google Workspace admin account so you can use its functionalities.

If you already have or ever had a Google Workspace account with HostGator or another Google Workspace reseller, you will need to retrieve a transfer token before you can link your domain to another Google Workspace account. Please refer to the following article to guide you through this process and find the HostGator Reseller Public Identifiers.

How to Transfer a Google Workspace Account

Feature List and Pricing

Please visit our Google Workspace front-of-site to see the complete features and current prices.

Google Workspace has the following features:

Feature	Benefits
Custom Business Email	Gain instant credibility online with a professional email address that matches your domain name. Google Workspace is fully compatible with common email applications, so you can access your business email anywhere at any time.
Gmail, Chat, & Meet	Connect and collaborate with your team in real-time via email, chat, and video.
Calendar	Spend less time planning and more time doing with shareable calendars that make it easy to view your coworkers’ availability when scheduling meetings.
Docs, Sheets, Forms, & Slides	Increase workplace productivity by giving your team access to documents, spreadsheets, and presentations to collaborate in real-time. With unlimited revision history, you can view all changes that have been made to any document, so you never have to worry about losing your work.
Drive Cloud Storage	Store files in the cloud so you can access them from anywhere and control who can access files/folders by assigned view, edit, or comment permissions. Then share your files with others within or outside of your organization.
Gemini AI	Boost productivity and collaboration with the power of AI. With Gemini for Google Workspace, you can use AI-assisted features to: Gmail Draft email responses, query your emails, and summarize emails and email threads. Write emails like a birthday invitation or customer outreach notes. Get relevant responses to emails. Docs Summarize the main points of a lengthy document, create an outline for a sales pitch, brainstorm a list of ideas for a new marketing campaign, and easily polish your documents with writing, grammar, and formatting suggestions. Draft or refine copy like a blog post or project plan. Create inline and cover images for your documents. Generate inline summaries of a document. Create a variety of formatted documents, like blog posts, press releases, and campaign briefs. Use Proofread to check your spelling and grammar or get stylistic suggestions. Drive Summarize multiple documents, generate insights on a specific topic, help you find files, and more. Summarize and analyze your PDFs. Sheets Quickly create tables, such as an expense tracker, generate insights based on spreadsheet data, and more. Organize projects or events, such as a task tracker or conference agenda. Describe what you want to organize, and Gemini suggests a custom table with placeholder data that you can insert into your spreadsheet. To make manual text processing tasks easier, Gemini automatically detects incomplete column pairs and predicts remaining values. Slides Quickly generate new slides, like a meeting agenda, generate custom images for your presentations, rewrite content, and more. Create custom images with Gemini to add to your slides. Remove backgrounds from any image in a slide. Meet Take meeting notes in Docs and share them with your team. Use translated captions in real-time for your meetings in more languages. Use adaptive audio to join meetings with multiple laptops in the same room without dedicated conferencing hardware or worrying about echoes or disruptive audio feedback. Create custom background images. Get studio-quality audio, video, and lighting when you join a meeting. Chat Summarize a space or conversation, generate a list of action items, or ask specific questions. Catch up on unread messages in a conversation or space from Home. Automatically translate messages to your preferred language.
Gemini App	Chat with the Gemini web or mobile app to: Brainstorm ideas, develop a plan, or find different ways to get things done. Get a quick summary of more complex topics. Create first drafts of outlines, emails, blog posts, and more.
NotebookLM	Get critical insights faster and easier and accelerate team knowledge with an AI-powered research assistant. Upload your sources, and NotebookLM will summarize your information and make connections between topics for your review. You can listen and learn on the go by turning your sources into engaging audio discussions.
Google Vids	Help your team easily create and tell stories through AI-powered video creation. Use Vids to create, write, produce, edit, collaborate, and share your videos. Use "help me create" with Gemini in Vids to create a video using a prompt. Use templates to help you get started. Add your own content, including images and video clips from Drive. Add videos, GIFs, images, stickers, music, and sound effects from the Vids stock content library. Use a recording studio that lets you record audio, record yourself, your screen, or a combination. Collaborate in real-time & share videos by downloading as an MP4 or sharing with a link for playback view on a computer.
Security and Admin Controls	Easily add new user accounts, manage devices, and configure security settings, like two-factor authentication and SSO (single sign-on), to protect your company’s data.
24/7 Support	Call or email Bluehost support to get help from a live agent whenever you need it. You can also find answers online in our help center.

Google Workspace vs. Gmail

So, why would you pay for Google Workspace if you can get Gmail for free? Free Gmail offers a lot of great features for personal use. On the other hand, Google Workspace provides you with the business versions of the tools and services you may already know and love, plus even more. For a business, security is vital, and Google Workspace offers you peace of mind over data security with centralized administration and simplified endpoint management.

With a Gmail account, you can only use the @gmail.com extension. However, Google Workspace allows you to use your domain for all email accounts, which further aids customers' trust in you. You also can create group email boxes and shared calendars to keep teams organized and on the same page. Another bonus is that this functionality is available without leaving the business Gmail app, regardless of whether you're on a phone, desktop, or another mobile device.

If you need personal email and occasional access to Google Apps, then a free Gmail account may be best for you. However, if you have a business that you want to manage securely and need to make it easy for your team to collaborate from anywhere while keeping your data secure, then Google Workspace may be the right fit for you.

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