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you are using a knee-capped version of Microsoft 365 and Paying More For It.
GoDaddy.com offerings
Unmasking the True Cost of GoDaddy: Beyond the First Year Discounts
While they offer attractive first-year discounts to lure customers, our analysis reveals how their long-term costs stack up against the competition. Ultimately, GoDaddy is more expensive for less features over the long haul.
Microsoft 365 Secure Online Essentials
$10.99 /User/Month
Renews for $14.99 a month
Microsoft 365 Online: Web versions of Office apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, plus mobile apps
1 TB secure OneDrive Storage
Meet, chat, and collaborate with your team, customer, or suppliers with Microsoft Teams
Professional Email with 50 GB email storage
World-class data security and spam filtering
99% uptime guarantee
Microsoft 365 secure Business professional
$11.99 /User/Month
Renews for $19.99 a month
Microsoft 365 Desktop Apps: Download apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint to 5 devices, plus get web and mobile apps
1 TB secure OneDrive storage
Meet, chat, and collaborate with your team, customers, or suppliers with Microsoft Teams
Professional Email with 50 GB email storage
World-class data security and spam filtering
99% uptime guarantee
HIPAA compliant email
Microsoft 365 secure Premium Bundle
$16.99 /User/Month
Renews for $29.97 a month
Microsoft 365 Desktop Apps: Download apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint to 5 devices, plus get web and mobile apps
1 TB secure OneDrive Storage
Meet, chat, and collaborate with your team, customer, or suppliers with Microsoft Teams
Professional Email with 50 GB email storage
World-class data security and spam filtering
99% uptime guarantee
HIPAA compliant email
Email Archiving
Microsoft sells its services at retail prices or through cloud partners like us at a discounted rate.
For clients with 10 or more mailboxes, EPI provides a 5% discount on all Microsoft 365 services purchased through us. Regarding pricing updates, as of July 2023, Microsoft adjusted its pricing structure for Microsoft 365. The Business Standard plan is now priced at $15 per month without an annual commitment, or $150 with an annual commitment paid up front or monthly.
Microsoft 365 Business Basic
$7.20 /User/Month
Start with web and mobile apps
Web and mobile versions of Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Outlook
Chat, calling, and meeting with teams from laptop, tablet, or phone
Appointment booking and management with Microsoft Bookings
Project management tools including Microsoft Forms, Microsoft Lists, and Microsoft Planner
1 TB of cloud storage per user
Business-class email(name@yourbusiness.com)
Standard security
Anytime phone and web support
Microsoft 365 Business Standard
$15.00 /User/Month
Everything in Business Basic, plus:
Installable desktop apps including, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Outlook
Ability to work offline and upload changes to cloud when you reconnect
Tools for creating marketing materials with Microsoft Publisher
Hosting Capabilities for webinars and large meetings
Attendee registration and reporting tools for webinar
Database and date visualization with Microsoft Access
Anytime phone and web support
Microsoft 365 Business Premium
$26.40 /User/Month
Everything in Business Standard, plus:
Device management
Ability to remotely wipe lost or stolen devices
Advanced security tools and features
Controlled access to company data
Cyberthreat protection
Despite the promotional jargon, Microsoft's plans ultimately offer more value than GoDaddy's offerings, especially when considering the costs from the second year onward. The pricing difference is significant.
Microsoft 365
Business Basic
Business Basic
VS
GoDaddy.com
Secure online essentials
Secure online essentials
Microsoft 365
Business Standard
Business Standard
VS
GoDaddy.com
secure Business Professional
secure Business Professional
Microsoft 365
Business Premium
Business Premium
VS
GoDaddy.com
secure premium bundle
secure premium bundle
Godaddy.com
$14.99 per month
$19.99 per month
$29.97 per month
Microsoft 365
$7.20 per month
$15.00 per month
$26.40 per month
GoDaddy.com
Business essentials
Business essentials
VS
Microsoft 365
Business Basic
Business Basic
godaddy.com
$10.99 per month
Microsoft 365
$7.20 per month
Includes booking and 5TB of shared storage
GoDaddy.com
Business Professional
Business Professional
VS
Microsoft 365
BusinessS tandard
BusinessS tandard
godaddy.com
$15.99 per month
*Adds HIPPA Compliance
Microsoft 365
$15.00 per month
Adds Publisher
Adds Access
GoDaddy.com
Business premium
Business premium
VS
Microsoft 365
Business Premium
Business Premium
godaddy.com
$25.97 per month
**Adds Spam Filering
Microsoft 365
$26.40 per month
Adds Device Management
*All Microsoft 365 plans are HIPAA, HITECH and many other regulations (GDPR) compliant.
**Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is $2 (Plan 1) or $4 (Plan 2)/month/user and provides advanced AI based spam filtering.
GoDaddy.com Limitations
We can help navigate beyond inefficient systems & streamline your workflow
We frequently encounter customers who use GoDaddy.com, mainly for email, often unaware of tools like Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, One Drive or Bookings. They might try to integrate a Customer Relationship Manager that promises One Drive compatibility but fails because GoDaddy.com restricts full access to their subscription. This not only hampers functionality but also costs them more. To compensate, these customers might subscribe to Dropbox, incurring additional fees. When they need scheduling features, they find GoDaddy.com doesn’t offer Bookings, leading them to pay extra for GoDaddy’s marketing solutions or external services like Calendly.com. Ultimately, circumventing GoDaddy.com’s restrictions leads to substantially increased costs per user each month.
Navigating through this assortment of services creates clunky workflows and inefficiencies. Switching to Microsoft 365 consolidates all these needs into one streamlined, cost-effective suite that just makes sense for modern business operations.
Many of our clients started off with a disparate landscape of IT services. They pay for Zoom for meetings, GSuite or GoDaddy for email, Slack to communicate via desktop chat, Dropbox to store their files and Calendly to allow their customers to schedule appointments. Some even turn around and pay Microsoft for Excel, Word and PowerPoint. All this amounts to a large monthly per-user charge that EPI can significantly reduce by migrating the organization to Microsoft 365.
GoDaddy, Zoom, Slack, Dropbox, Calendly and no backup
GoDaddy
$240
zoom
$192
Slack
$150
DropBox
$216
calendly
$240
* Prices per user per year
$1,038 /user/year
• Not everything is backed up
• Users have accounts in each service
• Very difficult to manage centrally
• Prices as of 3/31/2024
• Not all services quoted at HIPAA Compliant price levels.
Microsoft 365 from EPI
Microsoft 365 + EPI Backup
$75 per year
Email
Chat
Video Conferencing
Shared and Personal cloud Storage
Bookings
Desktop Office Applications
$255 /user/year
• Email, Files, chats and Video Transcripts are backed up and secure
• One account for all services
• Can be managed centrally
• HIPAA Compliant