

You’ll get more versatility if you upgrade to Microsoft 365 Standard, which costs $12.50 per user per month in the US and £9.40 in the UK. That’s a solid start that’ll sate many small and medium-sized businesses, but the Basic tier lacks many advanced features. Admins can deploy custom permissions and groups to restrict access to sensitive data. Security comes from Exchange Online Protection, and Microsoft’s software adheres to critical international and industry-standard security and privacy protocols. You can use Teams to plan schedules, track information with Lists, interact with customers through Bookings and get feedback with Forms. If you want these apps as desktop versions, you can pay $8.25 or £7.90 for Microsoft 365 Apps for Business, which gives you downloadable office apps instead of web versions but without Teams.īeyond that, the Basic tier includes 1TB of cloud storage (opens in new tab) for each user, business-class email with 50GB of space per mailbox, custom domain names and full calendar capabilities. You can use web, Android and iOS versions of Word (opens in new tab), Excel (opens in new tab), PowerPoint (opens in new tab), OneNote (opens in new tab) and Outlook (opens in new tab), and you also get access to Exchange so you can use your domain name for emails.Ĭollaborative working is possible in documents and spreadsheets, and files are saved and synced across all of your devices with OneDrive and SharePoint.

All the prices here are based on an annual subscription purchase, and all the prices we’ve mentioned here don’t include sales taxes.įor that money you get access to a host of popular apps.


And while that does mean you get fewer features, it also brings the cost down: in the US it costs just $6 per user per month, and in the UK it’s £4.50.
