Paid User is Not able to add external user to Spaces, but Free user can add anyone

[amitemizentech]

Google Starter Workspace have limitation of adding external users to Spaces. 

A PAID Google Starter User can only chat one to one with external user but can not create Spaces / Groups with external users. 

i.e. if I am a user of DOMAIN.COM I can only chat one to one with EXAMPLE.COM which is external domain to me but I can not add users from EXAMPLE.COM in Spaces 

but a free user can add anyone

i.e. mygmailaccount@gmail.com can add anyone from DOMAIN.COM & EXAMPLE.COM in Google Spaces. 

so its a hack available to any company to use this feature to create a free gmail with any name and add DOMAIN.COM & EXAMPLE.COM both. 

but the team @ Google does not care about that. 

Google has so much restrictions.
so my suggestion to have flexibility to admin & users so that they will not migrate to other platform like microsoft which are providing full flexiblity 

[cryptochrome]

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@amitemizentech wrote:

Google has so much restrictions.

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Sure, but you chose to buy a very restricted and cheap version of Google Workspace. The Starter plan is really not much more than rudimentary. You could go for a higher plan, like Business Standard, and then you won't have these restrictions. 

[adminfurlangrou]

Is there a work around on this? We use outside vendors and need a place to communicate with them "live"

[cryptochrome]

Unfortunately, the only "workaround" is upgrading to the Business Standard plan.