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Shared Mailbox worked perfectly, thankyou.
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Shared Mailbox worked perfectly, thankyou.

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So I have a client who had their 5 domain mailboxes moved into the office365 cloud environment by their previous IT on a Office365 Business Premium Plan. Now they want to create another mailbox to direct spammy/unimportant emails too, however it seems like this requires the addition of another User license, which is $190 which they are not too happy with and I agree.<br />
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Upon review of the Office 365 Business plans, the lowest tier is Business Essentials which is $84 per user/yr but it only includes the online mailbox and 1tb OneDrive. Which is the main thing required here, then the next tier up is Office 365 Business, which has everything except the online mailbox (Kind of weird?) but thats already $158 per year... no thankyou. <br />
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So got me thinking cant I then just downgrade to Office 365 Essentials, then buy Office365 home to install on their workstations and almost half their licensing costs while maintaining the exact same features just split across 2 licenses? <br />
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Is there anything I am overlooking here?
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So I have a client who had their 5 domain mailboxes moved into the office365 cloud environment by their previous IT on a Office365 Business Premium Plan. Now they want to create another mailbox to direct spammy/unimportant emails too, however it seems like this requires the addition of another User license, which is $190 which they are not too happy with and I agree.

Upon review of the Office 365 Business plans, the lowest tier is Business Essentials which is $84 per user/yr but it only includes the online mailbox and 1tb OneDrive. Which is the main thing required here, then the next tier up is Office 365 Business, which has everything except the online mailbox (Kind of weird?) but thats already $158 per year... no thankyou. 

So got me thinking cant I then just downgrade to Office 365 Essentials, then buy Office365 home to install on their workstations and almost half their licensing costs while maintaining the exact same features just split across 2 licenses? 

Is there anything I am overlooking here?

Office 365 Business Premium vs Business Essentials + Office365 Home

Office 365 is a group of software plus services subscriptions that provides productivity software and related services to its subscribers. Office 365 allows the use of Microsoft Office apps on Windows and OS X, provides storage space on Microsoft's cloud storage service OneDrive, and grants 60 Skype minutes per month. Office 365 includes e-mail and social networking services through hosted versions of Exchange Server, Skype for Business Server, SharePoint and Office Online, integration with Yammer, as well as access to the Office software. All of Office 365's components can be managed and configured through an online portal; users can be added manually, imported from a CSV file, or Office 365 can be set up for single sign-on with a local Active Directory using Active Directory Federation Services.