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Partner vs Professional vs Corporate Account
Flyboy2016
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I currently provide 3D CAD modeling and drawing services for multiple clients on several platforms. OnShape is an exciting alternative.
Are there any management / admin differences in the interface between free, professional, and corporate accounts?
Does the partner program provide any differences in data management that the free or professional accounts do not?
In one professional or corporate account, can I setup separate clients and manage them independently?
If a client leaves my service but wants to continue using OnShape, can their data be easily transferred over to their own personal account?
Thanks in advance!
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From a functionality standpoint, there is no difference between free and professional (I will circle back to Enterprise).
The value proposition for Free is significant. Free users can create unlimited free public documents (and up to 5GB of free online storage).
In addition, Free users may also have up to 10 free private documents (not to exceed 100MB). This is NOT a lot - but the intention is to give you the opportunity to evaluate Onshape against a proprietary design need without making your efforts public. If you are able to use these free private documents for commercial purposes, that's fine with us (but again, it's (intentionally) not a lot).
Onshape Professional opens this up - unlimited free private documents and 100GB of online storage.
If a client engages with you to do some work, you can develop your solution and share the document with your client during the design phase so that you may conduct periodic reviews - a significant benefit of Onshape. At the end of the project, you may transfer ownership of the document to your client and they in turn can remove you from the share. This frees up your free account to do more work.
Now it gets interesting.
If you have a Professional account, you may share the document with your client and it count against their 10 free private documents, but NOT their free storage limit (typically the limiting factor).
If your client has a professional account, they may share a new blank document with you to work on (again, counting against your 10 free but NOT against your free storage allocation).
We did this specifically to increase the value of the Professional account - making it possible to share/interact with other users regardless of whether they had a Professional account or not.
Both Free and Professional account holders may use free and paid apps from the app store.
Enterprise adds another level of control for larger organizations of Professional users - adding reporting, user management and more granular app access and sharing controls.
I realize that there is a lot of information here, please feel free to ask any questions and most importantly, start using Onshape!
Many thanks - Philip . . .
ps - private documents in your Trash count against your free private storage - make sure you delete them (Empty Trash) to recover the free storage.
One more question...At how many users would you recommend an Enterprise account?
ps. I use OnShape personally but need to evaluate all the features and functions before rolling out to clients. So far I am intrigued!
My answer was crafted to specifically answer your questions. As such there is no one document that parrots what is written here.
An Enterprise account starts adding value at two professional users - but there is plenty of time for that.
If I was offering Professional services, I would certainly want a Professional account so that i was not limited in the number of jobs i could take on at any given moment in time.
If you are interested in becoming a consulting partner (because you wanted to help companies adopt Onshape and offer your consulting services related to training, support etc), then you can get the process started here - https://www.onshape.com/partners/consulting.
My recommendation - take a job that's on your plate now (or one that you have previously completed) and do it (or duplicate it) in Onshape.
Become and expert!!!!!!
philip_thomas said:
Enterprise adds another level of control for larger organizations of Professional users - adding reporting, user management and more granular app access and sharing controls.
Would you please provide more details on these Enterprise controls?
_Dave_
The best way to get a complete description is to have a quick chat with your sales support representative - they will be able to put together a solution for your specific business needs.
(your sales support representative is the person that sends you all the emails