As an administrator of your organization's Google Accounts, you can control who uses Google Voice. Just turn the service on or off for those users in your Google Admin console. To get a phone number for calls, text messages, and voicemail, users also need a Voice license .
Before you begin
- Your organization needs a Voice subscription.
- To turn the service on or off for a set of users, put their accounts in an organizational unit or an access group.
Control who uses Google Voice in your organization
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Sign in to your Google Admin console.
Sign in using your administrator account (does not end in @gmail.com).
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Click Google Voice.
Tip: Scroll to see all services. Or at the left, choose a Filter to narrow the list, for example, based on status or popularity.
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At the top right of the gray box, click Edit Service
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To turn on or off a service for everyone in your organization, click On for everyone or Off for everyone, and then click Save.
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To turn on or off a service only for users in an organizational unit:
- At the left, select the organizational unit.
- Select On or Off.
- To keep the service turned on or off even when the service is turned on or off for the parent organizational unit, click Override.
- If the organization's status is already Overridden, choose an option:
- Inherit—Reverts to the same setting as its parent.
- Save—Saves your new setting (even if the parent setting changes).
Learn more about organizational structure.
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To turn on a service for a set of users across or within organizational units, select an access group. For details, go to turn on a service for a group.
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