Google Workspace Partner in Pokhara, Nepal
Buy Google Workspace in Nepali Rupees, with a proper tax invoice and no international credit card. NepTechPal is an official Google Workspace partner based in Pokhara — we licence your accounts, set up email on your own domain, migrate every message from your old system, harden the security settings Google leaves switched off, train your team, and answer the phone when something goes wrong.
Why Pokhara Businesses Are Moving to Google Workspace
Walk into almost any established business in Pokhara and you will find one of two email setups. Either the whole company runs on personal Gmail addresses — hotelxyz.pokhara@gmail.com on the signboard, the owner’s son’s account handling reservations — or there is a mailbox bundled free with the web hosting, sitting on a shared server with a two-gigabyte quota and an IP address that half the internet has already blacklisted.
Both work until the day they very expensively do not. A booking enquiry lands in a customer’s spam folder and the room goes unsold. A staff member resigns and takes four years of supplier correspondence with them, because the account was always theirs. The hosting mailbox fills up and silently stops accepting mail for a week before anyone notices. Someone reuses a password, an account is compromised, and fake invoices go out to your entire contact list under your own name.
Google Workspace fixes all of that at once. Your email runs on your own domain, so every message you send looks like it comes from a real company. Google’s spam and phishing filtering is the best in the industry, and correctly published SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records mean your mail arrives in inboxes rather than junk folders. Files live in Shared Drives owned by the organisation. And the Admin Console gives you a single place to add a new employee, switch off a departing one, and see what is actually happening in your own company’s email.
The catch, for a Nepali business, has always been the buying process rather than the product: Google wants USD on an international credit card, gives you an admin console and a help article, and leaves the domain records, migration, and security policy to you. That is precisely the gap a local partner closes.
Why Buy Google Workspace Through an Official Partner in Nepal
The licences are identical either way. What changes is how you pay for them, who sets them up, and who picks up the phone at 9am when mail stops flowing.
Pay in NPR — No International Card Required
This is the single biggest reason Nepali businesses cannot buy Google Workspace on their own. Google bills in USD and requires an international credit card, which most companies in Pokhara either do not hold or cannot load enough foreign currency onto. Through us you pay in rupees from your own bank account and get a compliant invoice for your books. No forex paperwork, no card declined at renewal, no service suspended because a payment failed.
The Setup Is Done For You, Not Documented For You
Google gives you an admin console and a help centre. We give you a working system. Domain verification, MX and DNS records, SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, mailbox creation, migration of your old mail, security policies, Shared Drives, and staff training are all handled by our engineers. You approve the plan, hand over your domain access, and start using your new email.
A Partner You Can Actually Visit
Our office is on Jalpa Road, Pokhara-8. When mail stops flowing on the morning of a big deadline, or a staff member deletes a folder they should not have, you call a local number and speak to the person who configured your account. Support is in Nepali or English, during Nepali business hours — not a chatbot and a 24-hour email response window.
Genuine Google Licences, Correctly Provisioned
You get real, fully licensed Google Workspace accounts registered to your own domain and your own organisation — not a shared account, not a resold mailbox on someone else’s tenant. You remain the owner of your data and your domain, and the account can be transferred out at any time. Ask any reseller offering suspiciously cheap Workspace whether they can say the same.
One Vendor for Domain, Website, Email, and Apps
Most email problems in Nepal are actually DNS problems, and DNS sits with whoever manages your domain and hosting. Because NepTechPal also builds and hosts websites, there is no three-way argument between your web developer, your hosting company, and your email provider. We hold all of it, so a change to your MX records takes ten minutes rather than a week of forwarded emails.
Google Workspace Services We Provide in Pokhara
From buying a single licence for a one-person consultancy to migrating a two-hundred-user organisation off Exchange, we handle the entire lifecycle.
Licensing & Billing in Nepali Rupees
Buying Google Workspace directly from Google means an international credit card, a USD charge, foreign transaction fees, and a receipt your accountant cannot book against your PAN. As a partner we sell you the same Google licences billed in NPR, with a proper Nepali tax invoice, payable by bank transfer, cheque, eSewa, or Khalti. Renewals, upgrades, and extra user seats all run through the same local account.
Professional Email on Your Own Domain
yourname@yourcompany.com.np instead of a Gmail or Hotmail address that quietly tells every customer you are not a serious business. We verify your domain, publish the MX records, configure SPF, DKIM, and DMARC so your mail actually lands in the inbox rather than spam, and create every mailbox, alias, and shared group your team needs before you send the first message.
Email & Data Migration
Years of mail, contacts, and calendars move across without anyone losing an attachment. We migrate from cPanel and Roundcube webmail, Microsoft 365 and Exchange, Zoho, Yahoo, or another Google account, keeping folder structure and read status intact. The cutover is scheduled outside your working hours and runs in parallel, so mail flows into both systems until the switch is complete and nothing bounces.
Admin Console Setup & Security Hardening
A Workspace account left on defaults is a liability. We enforce 2-Step Verification across the organisation, set password policies, configure mobile device management so a lost phone can be wiped remotely, lock down external sharing on Drive, set up admin roles so not everyone is a super admin, and turn on the alerts that tell you when something is wrong.
Drive, Meet & Shared Drive Rollout
Files that live on one staff member’s laptop leave with that staff member. We move your documents into Shared Drives owned by the company, structure them by department, set permissions so the right people see the right folders, and get your team running Docs, Sheets, Meet, and shared Calendars properly instead of emailing final-final-v3.xlsx back and forth.
Staff Training & Ongoing Support
We train your team in person at your office in Pokhara or over Meet — how to use Gmail properly, share a Drive folder without breaking it, run a video meeting, and work offline when the internet drops. After go-live, adding a new employee, resetting a password, recovering deleted mail, or investigating a suspicious login is one phone call to us, not a support ticket to a queue in another timezone.
Get Your Google Workspace Quote in Nepali Rupees
Tell us how many people need a mailbox and what you use today. We will size the right plan, quote a fixed NPR price, and have you live within days — setup, migration, and training included.
Free consultation · No commitment · Response within 24 hours
Google Workspace Plans & Pricing in Nepal
Google publishes its list price in USD per user per month. We quote you a fixed NPR figure based on that list price, and bill you locally. Most Pokhara businesses land on Business Standard.
Business Starter
Small teams getting off free Gmail
USD 7 / user / month
30 GB pooled storage per user
- ✓Custom email at your own domain (@yourcompany.com.np)
- ✓Gmail, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Calendar, Chat
- ✓Google Meet video calls with up to 100 participants
- ✓Gemini AI assistance built into Gmail, Docs, and Meet
- ✓Security and admin controls in the Admin Console
- ✓Standard Google support plus our local Pokhara support
Business Standard
The plan most Pokhara businesses choose
USD 14 / user / month
2 TB pooled storage per user
- ✓Everything in Business Starter
- ✓Google Meet with up to 150 participants plus recording
- ✓Shared Drives so files belong to the company, not the employee
- ✓Appointment booking pages for sales and consultation slots
- ✓Far more storage — enough for photos, designs, and video
- ✓Esignature in Docs for quotations and contracts
Business Plus
Compliance, records, and larger teams
USD 22 / user / month
5 TB pooled storage per user
- ✓Everything in Business Standard
- ✓Google Meet with up to 500 participants and attendance tracking
- ✓Google Vault for email retention, archiving, and eDiscovery
- ✓Advanced endpoint and mobile device management
- ✓Secure LDAP and enhanced security controls
- ✓The right fit for banks, co-operatives, and regulated organisations
Prices shown are Google’s published USD list prices on an annual commitment; flexible month-to-month billing costs roughly 20 percent more, and Google may revise its list price at any time. The Business plans support up to 300 users — beyond that, Enterprise plans are quoted individually. Your NPR price is confirmed in a written quotation before purchase, and setup, migration, and training are quoted separately as one-time work.
Migrating From Your Current Email System
The fear that stops most businesses switching is losing years of mail. It is a copy, not a move — nothing is deleted from your old system until you are satisfied everything arrived.
From cPanel, Roundcube, or Hosting Email
The most common starting point in Nepal — email that came bundled with your web hosting, running on a shared server with a small quota, no spam filtering worth the name, and a habit of landing in the recipient’s junk folder. We pull every mailbox across over IMAP with folders intact, then repoint your MX records once the copy is verified.
From Microsoft 365, Outlook, or Exchange
Mail, contacts, and calendar events migrate across together, so meetings already in the diary do not disappear on switchover day. We handle the tenant-side export, the Workspace-side import, and the DNS cutover, and we keep the old mailboxes reachable until you confirm everything arrived.
From Zoho, Yahoo, or Another Provider
Any provider that speaks IMAP can be migrated. We run a test migration on one mailbox first so you can see exactly what the result looks like before we commit the whole organisation, then batch the rest over a weekend or overnight.
From Free Gmail Accounts
Many Pokhara businesses run on a handful of personal @gmail.com addresses that different staff members own personally. We move that mail into properly owned company mailboxes on your domain, so the data belongs to the business and does not walk out of the door when someone resigns.
How a Google Workspace Setup Works
Six steps from first conversation to a team that knows how to use the system it is paying for.
Consultation & Plan Sizing
We look at how many people actually need a mailbox, how much storage your current mail and files occupy, and whether you need Vault or advanced device management. Buying the right plan for the right number of seats is where most of the money is saved — and where most self-service purchases go wrong.
Account Provisioning & Domain Verification
We create your Workspace organisation, verify ownership of your domain, and set up the admin account, organisational units, users, groups, and aliases. If you do not own a suitable domain yet, we register a .com or .com.np for you first.
Migration & DNS Cutover
Your old mail is copied across while the old system is still live, so nothing is lost. Once the copy is verified we publish the new MX records along with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, and mail begins flowing into Google. The switch is scheduled for an evening or weekend to keep your working day intact.
Security Hardening & Policy Setup
2-Step Verification is enforced, sharing policies are set, mobile devices are enrolled, admin roles are separated, and recovery options are configured. This is the step almost everyone skips, and the reason so many Nepali business accounts get compromised.
Staff Onboarding & Training
We sit with your team — at your office or over Meet — and walk them through Gmail, Drive, Shared Drives, Calendar, and Meet on both desktop and mobile. Everyone leaves knowing how to do their actual job in the new system, not just how to log in.
Ongoing Support & Account Management
New staff, leavers, password resets, storage upgrades, suspicious login investigations, and annual renewals are all handled by us. Your licence count can go up or down as your team changes, and you always deal with the same local team.
Security, Control & Who Actually Owns Your Data
Buying the licences is the easy part. These are the settings that decide whether your company email is an asset or a liability — and they are the settings a self-service purchase leaves untouched.
Enforced 2-Step Verification
Account takeover in Nepal almost always comes down to a reused password and a convincing phishing email. Enforcing 2-Step Verification across your organisation removes that risk in a single policy change, and we roll it out with enrolment support so it does not lock your own staff out.
Mobile Device Management
Staff read company mail on personal phones, and phones get lost, stolen, and sold. Device management lets you require a screen lock, see which devices hold company data, and remotely wipe the company account from a handset without touching the owner’s personal photos.
Instant Offboarding
When an employee leaves, one action suspends their account, transfers their Drive files and mail to their manager, and revokes every active session on every device. Compare that to a shared cPanel mailbox where the password is still on a sticky note and nobody is quite sure who else knows it.
Company-Owned Files, Not Employee-Owned
Files in Shared Drives belong to the organisation. Nothing is orphaned when its creator leaves, and no critical spreadsheet lives only in a personal account you have no way of opening. This one change has saved more Nepali businesses more grief than any other part of a Workspace rollout.
Spam, Phishing & Malware Filtering
Google filters the overwhelming majority of spam and phishing before it reaches an inbox, and flags suspicious attachments and lookalike sender domains. Hosting-bundled email typically runs a basic filter that lets a great deal through and, worse, sends your legitimate mail to other people’s junk folders.
SPF, DKIM & DMARC Done Properly
These three DNS records are what tell the rest of the world that mail claiming to be from your domain really is from your domain. Configured correctly, your deliverability improves and nobody can spoof your company in an invoice fraud attempt. Left unconfigured — as they are on most Nepali domains — both problems are yours.
Who We Set Up on Google Workspace in Pokhara
Every sector has a different reason for switching. These are the ones we hear most often across Kaski and Gandaki Province.
Hotels, Resorts & Travel Agencies
Booking enquiries arrive by email and are worth real money, so they cannot sit in a spam folder or bounce because your hosting mailbox filled up. Shared inboxes let reservations@ and info@ be answered by whoever is on shift, Calendar keeps front-desk and guide schedules in one place, and Drive holds itineraries, licences, and guest documents accessible from any phone.
Schools, Colleges & Training Institutes
Eligible educational institutions in Nepal can qualify for Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals at no licence cost — email for every teacher and student, Classroom, Meet, and Drive included. We handle the eligibility application, verification, and rollout, and you only pay for the setup work rather than per-user licences.
NGOs, INGOs & Social Organisations
Registered non-profits can qualify for Google for Nonprofits, which includes Workspace for Nonprofits at no cost and discounted upgrades to Business Standard equivalents. Donor correspondence, grant records, and project files sit in one auditable place, which matters when a funder asks for documentation years later.
Co-operatives, Microfinance & Banks
Financial institutions need retention, not just delivery. Business Plus with Google Vault keeps a searchable archive of every message for the period your policy requires, device management protects data on staff phones, and enforced 2-Step Verification closes the door on the credential phishing that targets this sector constantly.
Hospitals, Clinics & Diagnostic Centres
Patient correspondence, referral letters, supplier orders, and staff rosters all move to accounts the institution owns and controls. Access is revoked the day a staff member leaves, and records do not disappear with a departing doctor’s personal Gmail account.
Trading Houses, Retailers & Manufacturers
Purchase orders, proforma invoices, and supplier negotiations with counterparties in India and China depend on email that arrives reliably and looks legitimate. A properly authenticated domain is the difference between your quotation being read and your quotation being filtered.
IT Companies, Agencies & Startups
Shared Drives, Groups, and Meet form the backbone of a distributed team, and Workspace integrates with almost every SaaS tool you already use. Single sign-on with Google means one identity to provision and one identity to switch off when someone leaves.
Construction, Engineering & Consultancies
Drawings, tender documents, and site photographs are large and need to be shared with clients without a courier or a WeTransfer link that expires. Drive handles the file sizes, keeps version history, and lets you withdraw access to a folder the moment a project ends.
Google Workspace vs Microsoft 365 vs Hosting Email vs Free Gmail
Microsoft 365 is a genuine alternative and we will tell you honestly when it fits better. The bundled hosting mailbox and the personal Gmail address are the two setups almost every business here should be leaving behind.
| Factor | Google Workspace | Microsoft 365 | Hosting Email (cPanel) | Free Gmail |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Storage per user | 30 GB to 5 TB depending on plan | 1 TB OneDrive on most business plans | Typically 1–5 GB shared across the whole account | 15 GB shared with personal photos and Drive |
| Professional domain address | Yes — @yourcompany.com.np | Yes | Yes | No — @gmail.com only |
| Deliverability | Excellent, with SPF/DKIM/DMARC configured | Excellent | Poor — shared server IPs are frequently blacklisted | Good, but reads as a personal address |
| Video meetings | Meet — 100 to 500 participants, recording on paid tiers | Teams | None | Meet, limited duration for group calls |
| Central admin control | Full Admin Console — users, devices, policies, audit logs | Full admin centre | Basic mailbox creation only | None — every account is personally owned |
| Data ownership when staff leave | Company retains everything; account transferred or wiped | Company retains everything | Depends on who holds the cPanel password | The employee owns it and takes it with them |
| Uptime commitment | 99.9% SLA on paid plans | 99.9% SLA | Shared hosting uptime — no meaningful guarantee | No SLA |
| Paying from Nepal | NPR invoice through a local partner | USD card, or a local partner | NPR, bundled with hosting | Free |
| Local support | Our Pokhara team, in Nepali | Vendor support queue | Your hosting company | Community forums only |
Google Workspace in Nepal — Frequently Asked Questions
The questions Pokhara businesses ask us most often about pricing, payment, migration, and what happens to their old mail.
What exactly is Google Workspace, and how is it different from a free Gmail account?
Google Workspace is Google’s paid business suite — Gmail on your own domain, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Calendar, Meet, Chat, and an Admin Console that lets your organisation control all of it centrally. A free Gmail account belongs to the individual who created it; a Workspace account belongs to your company. That difference decides who owns your data, who can revoke access when someone leaves, how much storage you get, and whether you have any support or uptime guarantee at all.
Can I pay for Google Workspace in Nepali Rupees?
Yes — that is one of the main reasons to buy through a partner. Google bills directly in USD and requires an international credit card, which many businesses in Pokhara do not have or cannot reliably load. We invoice you in NPR, accept bank transfer, cheque, eSewa, or Khalti, and issue a proper Nepali tax invoice for your accounts. Renewals work the same way, so your service never lapses because a foreign card was declined.
How much does Google Workspace cost in Nepal?
Google’s list prices are USD 7 per user per month for Business Starter, USD 14 for Business Standard, and USD 22 for Business Plus on an annual commitment, with monthly flexible billing costing roughly 20 percent more. We convert that to a fixed NPR figure at the time of quotation and add the setup and migration work as a one-time cost. A five-person office on Business Standard is a modest monthly line item — usually less than what the same business spends on a single hosting renewal spread across the year.
Will I lose my old emails when I migrate?
No. Migration is a copy, not a move — your existing mailbox stays exactly as it is while we copy every message, folder, and attachment into Google. We verify the copy before touching your MX records, and we keep the old system reachable for a period afterwards. In a properly run migration, staff open their new inbox on Monday morning and find their entire mail history already there.
How long does the whole setup take?
A small team with no migration can be live the same day. A typical business of ten to thirty users with several years of mail to move takes two to five working days end to end, most of which is the migration copying in the background rather than anything you have to wait around for. Larger organisations with Vault, device management, and department-level Shared Drive structures usually take one to two weeks.
Do I need to buy a new domain name?
Only if you do not already have one. If your business already runs a website at yourcompany.com or yourcompany.com.np, we use that same domain for email. If you do not have a domain yet, we register one for you as part of the setup — and if you would like a website to go with it, that is work we do too.
Can I keep my current website and hosting?
Yes. Email and website hosting are separate things connected only by DNS. Moving your email to Google Workspace changes your MX records and leaves your website exactly where it is, with no downtime and no change to your site. We handle the DNS edits so nothing else on your domain breaks in the process.
How many user licences do I actually need to buy?
One per person who needs their own mailbox. Shared addresses such as info@, sales@, or reservations@ can be set up as free groups or aliases rather than paid accounts, which is where a lot of unnecessary spending happens when businesses buy directly. Sizing this correctly is part of our consultation — it is common for us to quote fewer licences than a client expected to need.
What happens to a staff member’s email when they leave the company?
You keep it. We suspend the account, transfer their Drive files and mailbox to their manager or successor, set up forwarding so incoming mail is not missed, and then release the licence so you stop paying for it. The departing employee loses access on every device immediately. None of this is possible when your team runs on personal Gmail addresses.
Is Google Workspace free for schools and NGOs in Nepal?
For qualifying organisations, largely yes. Accredited educational institutions can apply for Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals, which provides email, Classroom, Meet, and Drive for staff and students at no licence cost. Registered non-profits can apply for Google for Nonprofits, which includes Workspace at no cost with discounted upgrades. We handle the eligibility application and verification for both, and you pay only for the setup, migration, and training work.
Do you provide a VAT or PAN invoice?
Yes. Every purchase and renewal comes with a compliant Nepali invoice issued against your PAN or VAT registration, which is exactly what you cannot get from a direct USD card payment to Google. This is often the deciding factor for organisations that have to justify every expense to an auditor or a funding body.
What support do we get after everything is set up?
You get us. Adding a new employee, resetting a locked account, recovering deleted mail, chasing a message that did not arrive, increasing storage, tightening a sharing policy, or investigating a suspicious login is a phone call to our Pokhara office. Google’s own support sits behind us for platform-level issues, but in practice almost everything a Nepali business needs is resolved locally, in Nepali, the same day.
Google Workspace Setup Across Pokhara & Nepal
We serve businesses, hotels, restaurants, schools, hospitals, and entrepreneurs across Pokhara and beyond. Wherever you are in Nepal, we deliver the same quality.
Not in the list? Contact us — we work with clients across Nepal and internationally.
Move Your Business Email to Google Workspace
Tell us how many mailboxes you need and what you are running today. We will come back with a fixed NPR quotation, a migration plan, and a go-live date. Visit us on Jalpa Road, Pokhara-8, or let us handle the whole thing remotely.