EU business account eligible for free trial?

[Michael Leonard]

Hi quick question:

I've recently started a UK-based limited company. I have a GSuite email account linked to the domain name and a UK business bank account.

If I sign up to Google Cloud using this google account, is the account eligible for the free trial?

Thanks

Mike

[Karthick (Cloud Platform Support)]

Hello Michael,

As per documentation business accounts are not eligible for the free trial. 

[Michael Leonard]

Thanks for the reply. I read that in the FAQ..... but this:

https://cloud.google.com/partners/partnercredit/

suggests otherwise. It's explicitly for businesses, and mentions the free trial (if not working with a cloud partner), or the free trial AND extra credit of $500 if working with a partner.

I came across this via this cloudflare blogpost which is a partner of GCP. My company will be using cloudflare. It won't be a 'startup' with investor/accelerator backing at least initially and so isn't eligible for the $3000 mentioned in the blogpost (ie GCP's startup programme). However both the blogpost and the partnercredit page above strongly suggest a business account IS eligible for a free trial, and that a business can also get a small extra credit bonus if they sign up through a partner referral link. 

Am I misunderstanding something? If I sign up through cloudflare's partner link will the company's GCP account get the 12 month free trial and the extra credit? This would be tremendously helpful initially during prototyping.

Thanks for the help in advance

[Michael Leonard]

Hi please see my reply below - would love to double check this with someone from Cloud Platform. Thanks.

Kind regards

Mike

On Wednesday, April 4, 2018 at 12:04:07 AM UTC+2, Karthick (Cloud Platform Support) wrote:

[Karthick (Cloud Platform Support)]

Hello Michael,

Thank you for your patience and my apologies for any confusion that may have caused. After checking with the billing and support team, a GSuite customer can avail a promotional credit as long as their Google Cloud Platform billing account is eligible and please note that free trial accounts are only available for online customers. As long as the user has not created a billing account yet and isn't a business account, they are eligible for free credits. You can fill Startup Partner Application Form for the startup team to review the credit to the users. Also, a separate team handles the Partner Credit apart from startups promotion. Note, if the users would be a partner than their billing account would be on an invoiced billing, this means that they will not be eligible for free trial credits.  Please let me know if this helps.