I personally think Google workspace is better for small business. I think filesharing/permissions/synchronization is much easier and more intuitive across machines and employees and since everything runs in the cloud if you have say, iPads for the POS they can also use Google everything pretty easily.
Google Sheets is IMO also much nicer than Excel and for small business you don't really need to deal with Excel lock in.
Yeah, we were just starting out and really needing to keep every possible cost down when I chose MS. Looking back I definitely wish I'd paid a bit extra for Google Workspace though, it does look much better suited for a business at our size. Plus, I just cannot get people to use MS Office, they're constantly sharing Google sheets and docs around. Habits are hard to break!
Teams is much better suited for a company with 1000 staff and a tech department. Admin is massively overcomplicated. Oh well, hindsight is 20/20 I guess.
> That being said, the price you got seems unreal.
We're in Vietnam, and like I said, regional pricing. It is a good deal, but doesn't look quite as unreal from over here. Really wish more companies would do regional pricing, $8 a month for slack, $10 for notion and so on is basically a no go for a small business here.
Google Sheets is IMO also much nicer than Excel and for small business you don't really need to deal with Excel lock in.
That being said, the price you got seems unreal.