What are the new Dropbox Business plans?

I received an email about this just now, and I'm confused. It says:

Thanks for being a loyal Dropbox Business customer. We want to let you know about some upcoming changes to your plan.

farther down...

• Advanced adds sophisticated admin, audit, and security tools, with as much space as you need. This plan’s feature set is most similar to that of your existing plan

(emphasis mine)

The problem with all this is that I'm a Dropbox Pro subscriber. It says so in my profile. So was this email sent to me in error, or have I been unknowingly paying for a higher tier all this time?

i can see most of these ideas and fins soultions but i have a question that asks, how many users can i have in the advanced buisness plan, at the moment i have 5 plus 5 TB of stoage....what will it be now ? its not clear

Tony

New plans and pricing structure, and I can see that our SMB will be squeezed out of what we need if we don't want the huge price increase.
Our current plan Teams Plan is AU$850 per year and the new Dropbox Business Standard is AU$1,050 per year. We currently need the auditing and advanced admin console and would be looking at the Dropbox Business Advanced at AU$1,650 per year which is almost double the cost of what it is now.

I can't see our company using Dropbox in the future because on the price increase.

EDIT: We're looking at switching to https://www.syncplicity.com/solutions/

Como usuario de Dropbox por años, me siento muy disgustado ya que los nuevos planes incrementan demasiado los precios, un 50% para tener unas características parecidas a los planes acutales o se pierden muchas características con el plan Standard manteniendo el precio. En ambos casos los clientes salimios muy perjudicados. Tal como dice Dropbox:

¿Por qué ha introducido Dropbox estos cambios?

Hemos atendido a las peticiones de nuestros clientes que pedían más flexibilidad para adquirir Dropbox Business. Ahora podrás seleccionar las herramientas de administración, los niveles de almacenamiento y los servicios de asistencia adecuados para tu equipo.

¿Por qué aumenta el precio de algunos planes?

El cambio de precio de algunos planes refleja el valor que añadimos a Dropbox Business a través de nuevas funciones y productos. El cambio de precio nos permite seguir invirtiendo en Dropbox, crear soluciones nuevas e innovadoras y ofrecer más valor a las empresas.

La flexibilidad para adquirir Dropbox Buisiness no consistia en esto, sinó en ofrecer planes inferiores como el nuevo Standard, a un precio inferior y más competitivo!! O por permitir elegir el número de usuarios sin forzar a un mínimo de 5!! O por ofrecer la posibilidad de contratar funciones independientes (quién necesita una función que la pague)... Pero no en lo que habéis hecho, que no aporta ninguna ventaja ni flexibilidad.

Y si el aumento de precio se debe al valor añadido que incorporan algunas funciones, sería lógico mantener el precio por conservar las mismas funciones (incluso menos por lo visto), bajar el precio en cuentas más básicas que prescindan de funciones y aumentar el precio en cuentas superiores que reciban más funciones.

Por otro lado, no entiendo que eliminen el Historial de Versiones Ilimitado!! esta era una de las mejores características de Dropbox y las que lo hacían destacar por encima de su comentencia, y en cambio parece que a las cuentas PRO les ofrecen la posibilidad de contratarlo como extra para ampliar a 1 año el Historial, cuando sería más importante ofrecer esta función a las cuentas Business...

Con estos cambios creo que no solo no váis a ganar muchos nuevos clientes que verán como los nuevos planes ofrecen menos por el mismo precio o lo mismo por mucho más precio, sinó que muchos de los fieles clientes vamos a considerar cambiar de proveedor.

Atentamente,
Un cliente disgustado.

Wouldn't it have made more sense to keep the pricing of the Advanced plan to approximately what users are paying now, and then offer the Standard plan at a cheaper price?

I ask because a 60% increase is too much to swallow for a file storage service.  For the same price as the Advanced plan ($20/user-month), an organization can get an E3 license of Office 365 which would include the Office products, Exchange e-mail, a 1TB per user OneDrive account for file storage/collaboration, and a 1TB + 0.5GB/user SharePoint storage limit (up to 25TB max).  In our organization's case (35 Dropbox users using less than 1TB), that's 35TB of OneDrive and 18.5TB of SharePoint storage.  The Standard plan isn't an option because we require HIPAA compliance.

This post isn't intended to be an ad for Office 365.  It's a plea for Dropbox to reconsider their pricing strategy.

According to the FAQ and e-mail I received (emphasis Dropbox's): 

• Advanced adds sophisticated admin, audit, and security tools, with as much space as you need. This plan’s feature set is most similar to that of your existing plan

The new price for the feature set most similar to that of my existing plan costs 75% more than my existing plan (60% more than the new Standard option).  Why not keep the pricing of the Advanced plan to approximately what users are paying now and offer the Standard plan at a cheaper price?  We use less than 1TB across 35 users, but we require HIPAA compliance and long-term file recovery for discovery purposes so the Standard plan isn't an option for us.

We also subscribe to Microsoft's Office 365 (E3 licenses) for the same price as the Dropbox Advanced plan ($20/user-month) which includes the Office products, hosted Exchange e-mail, etc.  We currently don't use the included storage options because we were already using Dropbox and find it easier to use.

The O365 features above are beyond the scope of what we expect from Dropbox, but from a strictly-storage perspective our O365 licenses also include:

1. A 1TB per user OneDrive account for file storage/collaboration
2. A 1TB + 0.5GB/user SharePoint storage limit (up to 25TB max).
3. HIPAA compliance, file recovery, and a very comprehensive admin/security feature set.

In our organization's case that's 35TB of OneDrive storage and ~1TB of SharePoint storage.  

While I imagine there are some Microsoft resellers salivating at the Dropbox Business customers they'll grab, we really hope Dropbox will reconsider their pricing strategy.  I'd like to know the likelihood of that happening.  The new pricing won't take effect for 19 months for us, but we need to evaluate whether we'll be around that long if we'll have to switch (i.e. Dropbox keeps the 60% increase) anyway.

We have just received notice that you, as a company, are moving from a business account to a four tiered ‘pro’ ‘standard’ ‘advanced’ and ‘enterprise’ system for Dropbox, with our account being shifted to an ‘advanced’ system (usability as of now, price as of next year),

By the looks of it we’d most likely want a ‘standard’ account (mostly because of the price!), however this does get rid of the ‘tiered admin’ abilities, would this then mean we’d only be able to have one admin for the account? In which case, what would the other members not be able to do? I understand the accounts do not get upgraded in terms of price till next year, can you confirm this?

Also I’ve seen you are moving from unlimited version history to 120 days for all your higher accounts, as a business we would need unlimited version control and so we have ‘opted in’ for now, would this then revert to 120 days in January 2018 or would we keep unlimited version control from now on?

On the other side, Dropbox is doing pretty good in 2016, with many great features released over the year. I can understand that they need to restructure their subscription plans to gain enough capital to go even further. I guess what they need is just some adjustments to the new plans to keep the impact to existing customers minimal.