Cost
What does professional email on my own domain really cost?
The published price is per person. The number of addresses a business needs is not the number of people it has — and that gap is the whole cost question.
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Every question you were going to search, answered in order.
What professional email really costs, why nobody has to leave Gmail, and how to connect a domain without breaking the things already running on it.
Find your route in two questions
Who is the address for?
Do the arithmetic yourself
Slide to your team size. Watch the per-seat bill.
Per-seat suites charge for every address, every month. A domain with routed addresses charges once for the domain. The gap is the whole argument, so measure it on your own numbers — plan prices are read live from the same catalogue the checkout uses.
10-person scenario
Small businesses
The team already answers customers from five personal Gmail addresses, and every invoice goes out looking like a hobby. The fix is not another software suite — it is one domain with an address per job.
Shared
Delivered to three inboxes at once — each one listed on the address, not forwarded blindly
$7/user/month on an annual plan
Cost
Do I need Google Workspace, or is domain email routing enough?
One gives every person a workplace. The other gives your domain addresses that land in inboxes people already have. Choosing badly is expensive in both directions.
Read the guideDeliverability
What are SPF, DKIM and DMARC, and do I need all three?
Three records decide whether your mail is believed. The acronyms describe file formats, which is why every explanation is confusing — here is what each one is for.
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My email isn't arriving. How do I find out why?
“Email isn't arriving” is four different problems with four different fixes. Twenty minutes in the right order tells you which one you have.
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Large employers
At workforce scale the licence bill is only half the story: identities outlive employment, addresses get orphaned, and the org chart drifts away from the mail system. Ownership and lifecycle control matter as much as price.
Business plans stop at 300 users
Cost
What does email cost for an organisation of a thousand people?
At a thousand people the interesting number is not the seats. It is the addresses that are not people — and at this size there are usually more of those than there are staff.
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How do I set up hundreds of email addresses at once?
Creating four hundred addresses by hand is a week of work and a guaranteed typo. Importing them is an afternoon — most of it spent on the spreadsheet, which is the right place to spend it.
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Can an automatic DNS scan find everything on my domain?
A scan reads what your domain publishes. Several important things are not published, and knowing which is the difference between a clean move and a broken one.
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Should I use a catch-all email address on my domain?
A catch-all means you never miss mail sent to a typo. It also means you accept mail sent to every address a spammer can invent, and that trade is worse than it sounds.
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Education & campuses
A campus hands out addresses that expire at graduation, while clubs pass one shared password from committee to committee. Lasting institutional addresses and short-lived personal ones need different treatment — by design, not by accident.
$6/user/year; eligibility applies
Routing
Can I send email from my own domain using my existing Gmail?
Receiving mail on your domain is half of it. This is the other half — the step that decides whether your replies look professional or reveal the arrangement behind them.
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Can one email address deliver to several people's inboxes?
Pointing one address at several inboxes takes a minute and solves a real problem. It also has one failure mode that surprises every team that tries it — the replies.
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Do I have to confirm the inbox I'm forwarding email to?
There is no confirmation email any more. The address forwards the moment it exists, every destination is visible on the address, and when mail does not arrive the cause is one of two records.
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Do I have to change my nameservers to get email on my own domain?
There are three ways to connect a domain for email. One of them, two records at the DNS host you already use, leaves your website and your existing mail untouched and is the right default for nearly everyone. The other two exist for specific situations, and this guide says which.
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What should I check before pointing my domain at an email service?
Connecting a domain for email is safe. Connecting it without reading what is already there is not. This is the ten-minute inventory that separates the two.
Read the guideFrom question to working address
Three stops, in order.
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Scan your domain
Free and read-only. You see what is live today and what we recommend — nothing changes.
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Read your route
Two questions above, or the scenario that looks like you below. Every guide states its answer in the first line.
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Connect and verify
Records applied for you, mail forwarded to your destinations the moment an address exists, and a real message proves it works.
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