Assign, remove, and reassign licenses

Applies to Cloud Identity Premium and other paid subscriptions in your Google Admin console.

In some cases, Google automatically assigns a license for a service to every user in your entire organization. In other cases, you can manually assign licenses to your entire organization, an organizational unit, a group of users, or an individual user. You can also turn on the option to automatically assign licenses to users.

You assign and manage licenses in 3 places in the Google Admin console:

  • The Billing page—Use to assign licenses to all users in your organization or an uploaded list of users or to set up automatic licensing.
  • The Users page—Useful for assigning licenses to multiple users, but not all users in your organization. You can manage licenses for multiple users using a CSV file.
  • An individual user’s page—Good for managing a single user.

Assign and remove licenses

These steps are for assigning and removing user licenses. If you want to reduce your license count, go to Reduce licenses instead.

If you remove a user’s license, you might lose their data. To retain the data, you can instead archive the user. For details, go to Archive former employee accounts.

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Reassign licenses

You can’t directly reassign a license for a Google service from one user to another. Instead, follow any of the procedures above to unassign the license from the original user and then assign it to the new user.

After you unassign a license, it might take up to 24 hours before you can reassign the license to a different user.

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