Are you looking for a full guide to Box for Google Workspace? Look here! This post will give you a brief introduction to this add-on as well as the steps for using it. Additionally, the post offers the best alternative to this add-on for those seeking comprehensive sync options.
The Box for G Suite add-on streamlines your content management. With just a few clicks, you and your teams can easily transfer content from Google Drive to Box directly. You can seamlessly include Box files in your emails, save email attachments to Box within Gmail, and attach Box shared file links while creating new Box Notes in Google Calendar invitations.
Using Box in conjunction with Google Workspace can offer several benefits for organizations and individuals. Here are some key advantages:
Since this Box add-on can be used on several Google Workspace services like Google Drive, Gmail, and others, we will show how to use it on Gmail as an example.
Step 1: Find and install the add-on in Google Workspace Marketplace.
Step 2: Open your Gmail and you will find a Box icon in the right sidebar. Then click it.
Step 3: Click “Log in” to sign in with your Box account. If you don’t have a box account before, you can also click “Sign up” to create one.
Step 4: Open the email you want to save to Box and click the Box icon in the right bar again. Then tap “Save Email as .txt file”.
Step 5: Choose a Box folder to receive this email and click the "Save to" button. Then you can click the launch icon beside the sent email to check if the email is uploaded to your Box folder.
Step 1: Write a letter by clicking “Compose” in the upper-left corner.
Step 2: Tap on the Box icon in the “New Message” window.
Step 3: Choose Box files in the Box window and decide who can access this file and how they can interact with the file.
Step 4: Click on “Insert File” in the Box window and you will see there is a file link in your message.
If you only want to sync Box files to Google Workspace or save Gmail emails to Box, MultCloud is undoubtedly the best alternative to Box for G Suite. It centralizes various cloud drives and email clients with one app and offers functions such as Cloud Transfer, Cloud Sync, Cloud Backup, and Email Migration.
Among all the functions, Cloud Sync and Email Migration can be used as the alternative functions of Box for Google Workspace perfectly. Cloud Sync automatically syncs your files between Box and Google Workspace with different sync modes; while Email Migration can directly save Gmail emails and attachments to your Box account as PDFs.
There are more advantages of Cloud Sync and Email Migration. We will show them along with the steps.
Step 1: Sign up for a MultCloud account.
Step 2: Add Gmail and Box to your MultCloud account. To add Gmail, you will click “Add Email” in the left sidebar and the Gmail icon. To add Box, you will click “Add Cloud” and its icon.
Step 3: Select “Email Migration” and check Gmail and Box in the boxes. Then you can customize the migration task with “Options”, “Schedule”, or “Email Filter”. After all the settings, click on “Migrate Now” to initiate this task.
Note: You can transfer 50 emails as PDFs every month for free. If you think 50 emails is not enough, you may get a premium plan and transfer without limitation. Besides, when you are a premium user, you can migrate up to 200 emails at once.
Step 1: Add Google Workspace and Box.
Note: When you add Google Workspace to MultCloud, you can choose to access all the accounts of your organization or just your personal account. If you are an admin and choose to add all the accounts, you may need to first domain install the MultCloud app and then select “Access organization” after you click on its icon on MultCloud.
Step 2: Select “Cloud Sync” and choose “Real Time Sync” in the upper bar.
Step 3: Check Google Workspace and Box in the Boxes. Then open “Options” and “Schedule” to see if they can be added to your task. Finally, click on “Sync Now” to start syncing.
Reading the whole post, you must know what Box for Google Workspace is and how to use it in Gmail. Besides, you are recommended to use MultCloud Cloud Sync and Email Migration as an alternative since it is more flexible. You can not only sync files from Box to Google Workspace but from Google Workspace to Box. What’s more, it can save emails to any cloud drives as PDF files.
Once you get to know MultCloud, you can use more functions in daily life, like saving Outlook emails to Google Workspace as PDFs or backing up files from Box to Google Workspace.