Apr 8, 2019

What's the difference between a google account for personal use and one to manage your business?

I am interested in creating a new email account and I am trying to figure out if it would be beneficial for me to sign up for a business account or a personal one. What are the differences between the two? What are the pro's and con's?

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Last edited May 16, 2019

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Jas J

May 28, 2019

After a long while, I was able to get in touch with a Google Customer Rep through my GSuite services because you can chat with them there (which is one feature that I don't expect for a simple Business Gmail by selecting, "to manage my business"). Here is what the rep said:

"The difference is the type of apps or services you will have. The regular "for myself" option is a regular Gmail account. The "to manage my business" is designed to manage Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Sites, Groups, and Video only. Still, the difference is just the account type and some other features as even with the personal gmail.com account you are able to create Sites and manage Calendar, for example."

This is what they meant by the personal account is a regular account (this was previously stated in the convo):

"Google Accounts (personal):

Provide access to all Google products and services, such as Gmail, Blogger, Orkut, and Web History.
Can be created with any email address, such as the email address you have with your organization, or with any webmail address (@yahoo.com, @hotmail.com, etc.).
Signing up for Gmail automatically creates a Google Account with an @gmail.com address."

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bkc56

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Apr 9, 2019

If you are using the account for business use, you'll want an account that provides live support, and it would LOOK better to have your own domain (not a free e-mail provider).

G Suite (Google Apps): https://www.google.com/work/apps/business/
G Suite Help Center: https://support.google.com/a/#
G Suite Help Forum: https://support.google.com/a/community

Last edited Apr 9, 2019

User 11150354640844445072

May 6, 2019

I recommend you to try creating an account for yourself before replying to this tread.
If you try to create a new account, there are two options:
1. for personal use

2. to manage business
Both are @gmail accounts and is free.
I'm still wondering what are the limitation on each ?

Celia Wheeler

May 16, 2019

I do not want business account only want free Google account

Last edited May 17, 2019

Stanislav Dimitrov

May 27, 2019

Good question. I also searched the internet for an answer, to no avail.
When creating a business account in the @gmail domain, you're still asked the same questions. You need to provide first and last name, date of birth etc. There does not seem to be much of a difference with the private option. (reminds me of checking "business/pleasure" when you're booking an airplane ticket...)

Last edited Jun 15, 2019

Jas J