Google Workspace Essentials vs. Yola

I will state this with 2 basic examples, When I require documentation to be edited by many editors then Google workspace is the way to go. It provides the best synching capabilities and also sharing capabilities. In case of meeting conduction through google meet a notes section would be awesome for personal notes and the capability to record the meetings would also help a ton to improve the productivity of all users

Incentivized

Yola is great for a more static approach to building websites. Building dynamic applications is possible because of HTML, but oftentimes harder to accomplish.

• Google Docs & Google Slides are essential to our company as we are remote. Multiple people can work on the documents at one time.
• Easy to share and store files in Google Drive.
• Google Calendar is amazing, it integrates seamlessly with other Google products and it's our company's primary calendar tool.

Incentivized

• Easy Setup Using Templates
• Quick Build Outs of a Website
• Allows for Extensive Customization of Templates
• Allows for Password Control of Website or Individual Pages

• Record option to be there in Google meet
• ability to share documents outside google accounts need to be looked at
• Improvement in conversion to MS office based documents and converting those documents to googles format needs a little work.
• Will be good to have a pdf to word converter and vice versa

Incentivized

• Password Management Beyond a Single Password - Perhaps Implementing OTP which would allow the sites to do subscription services.
• An easy way to upload images/files for reference when using HTML

Now that our department has used G Suite Essentials for close to 2 years, I can't imagine not using it. It has proven to be a very practical tool for sharing files / folders on a shared drive. It also makes it easy to modify and update content. It is user friendly and the interface is simple.

Incentivized

I'm very happy, no problems.

Google Workspace is very easy to use. Even the advanced features are also rendered with an intuitive user interface. Opting into new features is easy, with a clear indication of whether they cost extra or free. Communications about new features as well as security threats are easy to understand and follow up on.

Incentivized

Well. I rated Yola '10' because I couldn't rate it '10+.' For me it scores more than a '10.' I'm COMPLETELY satisfied. But not just with Yola, but with it's staff. Great people.

Google Workspace Essentials is more robust than Dropbox with the other features that are available. Google Workspace Essentials is very comparable to Microsoft 365, and we ultimately went with Google because at the time, it was free/priced better than MS, and now we have lots of legacy files already stored on Google servers, so a switch would be too time-consuming. We went with Google Workspace Essentials over OpenOffice because of the email features of using Google.

Incentivized

How Yola stacks up against them? I think the question is best phrased: 'How do these stack up against Yola?' That's just it, in my opinion, they don't. In fact, Yola's in a class by itself.

• Our fundraising and development efforts nearly doubled 2020-2022, largely in part to the organizational tools within Google Workspace Essentials.
• We've opened up the capacity to work more closely with contractors in a more collaborative nature because of GWE's capabilities.
• It was integral to our brand overhaul.

Incentivized

• For one, it help keep our service availability visible 24/7
• It's a tremendous way to showcase what we do to millions of potential visitors.
• Finally, Yola is a virtual growth enabler.