A user must have a license for a product before he or she can use that product. You can assign licenses to users individually, or you can assign licenses to all of the users in an organizational unit.

Some products offer multiple license options — for example, Google Drive storage offers different storage sizes. You choose the option when you assign a license to a user.

To assign licenses to users:

1. Go to the license management page for the product you want to assign licenses for.

   To reach the license manager:

   1. Sign in to the Google Admin console.
      
      
   2. In the classic Admin console, select Domain settings > Subscriptions & Billing. In the new Admin console, click Billing.
      
      The Admin console shows a list of boxes that correspond to each product, application, and service you've purchased, with basic information about your subscription to that item.
      
      
   3. In the box for the product you want to assign licenses for, do one of the following:
      • In the classic Admin console, click the Manage licenses link.
      • In the new Admin console, click .
      
      The license management page appears. The license management page includes three tabs:
      
      
      • Assigned users lists the users who currently have a license for the selected product.
        
        
      • Unassigned users lists the users who do not currently have a license for the product.
        
        
      • Manage licenses provides information about the licenses you've purchased for this product and offers general license management options.
        
        
   
   
2. To assign a license to every user in your organization, including users you add in the future:
   
   
   • Click the Manage licenses tab.
   • Select the check box Auto-assign the following license to all currently unassigned users and users subsequently created.
   • Choose the license option to assign from the drop-down list below the check box.
   
   If you don't have enough free licenses for all of your users, an error message appears. If you do, every user in your organization gets assigned a license. Skip the remaining steps.
   
   
   When this option is active, each user you subsequently create automatically gets a license for this product. When you run out of available licenses, Google creates the user without assigning a license (possible exception for Google Apps licenses).
3. To assign licenses to multiple users at once:
   
   
   • Click the Manage licenses tab.
   • Click the Browse button in the Assign bulk licenses to users section, select a text file that contains the full email addresses of the users to whom you want to assign a license (one address per line), and click Open.
   • Choose the license option to assign from the drop-down list next to the text box.
   • Click Upload
   
   If you have enough free licenses for the listed users, each one gets assigned a license.
   
   
4. To assign licenses to selected users, click the Unassigned users tab.
   
   A list of users who don't currently have a license appears.
   
   
5. To assign licenses to individual users, click the check box next to the names of the users to whom you want to assign a license.
   
   To assign licenses to all of the users in an organizational unit, click the Org link (just below the tabs) and highlight the organization to which you want to assign licenses. The right pane shows how many users in the selected organizational unit have licenses and how many do not.
   
   
   When you assign licenses to an organizational unit, only users directly in that organizational unit receive licenses. The action does not apply to users in child organizational units.
   
   
6. Click the Assign button and select the license option from the drop-down list that appears.
   
   The drop-down list shows the number of licenses you've purchased and the number that are already in use. If you have enough free licenses for the selected users, the names of the selected users move from the Unassigned users tab to the Assigned users tab.
   
   If you selected an organization in which some users already have assigned licenses, a dialog box appears asking whether you want to replace those user's existing licenses or only assign licenses to users who don't already have them.
   
   If you don't have enough free licenses for the selected users, an error message appears. Repeat step 4, selecting only the number of users for whom you have free licenses.