How to Create Users During Google Workspace’s Initial Setup Walkthrough

Quick and easy-to-follow guide for Google Workspace administrators

How to create users in a new Google Workspace account step-by-step with images

Step 1

Now that you verified your domain ownership, you may want to add users. This is the second part of the initial setup.

Users are Google accounts you create for other people and manage as a Google Workspace admin. The cost of your Google Workspace is based on the number of users you have. Click here to learn more about users.

-If you work alone, or would like to skip this step for now and add users later, click here to move on to step 3.

-If you would like to create accounts for other people now, click CREATE to the right of step 2 and proceed with the next steps below.

Step 2

You can add up to 10 users during the 14-day free trial. If you add an 11th user, paid service begins.

Click CONTINUE.

Step 3

Click ADD ANOTHER USER.

Step 4

Type the user’s name and email address below. The Email username is the user’s primary email address. They use this email address to sign in to their account and access services.

If you’d like to add an additional email address, type it in the Email alias (optional) field.

Each user can have up to 30 secondary email addresses, called email aliases.
Users can’t log in using alias email addresses.
All emails sent to alias email addresses go to the same Gmail mailbox that users access with their primary email address.
You can only add an email alias to a single user. To add a single email address to multiple users, you need to create a group as shown here.

Click Add an additional alias to add more aliases. You can also add or remove email aliases later.

Click SAVE USER when you’re ready.