Moving From Personal To A Business Workspace
Moving into Business is mostly about creating a shared workspace and deciding which work should stay personal and which work should be copied into the team space.
What changes first
The first thing that changes is context. Personal work stays in your personal account. Business work lives in a workspace. Those are separate places in GridGap, and they stay separate even when the same user has access to both.
In practical terms, the move starts when you create the Business workspace subscription and give the workspace a name and seat quantity. That creates the shared working space. It does not automatically move every personal project into it.
Separate billing contexts
Personal Pro billing and Business workspace billing are separate. You can have one without the other, and you can also have both at the same time. When you move into a Business workspace, do not assume that the personal account and workspace billing state have merged.
This separation is useful because it lets a personal user keep their own private work while the team or organisation pays for the shared workspace separately.
What happens to your projects
Your original personal projects stay private and unchanged. If you want them inside the workspace, you import them. Importing copies the project into the workspace as an organisation-owned project.
The import does copy the project structure, versions, scenarios, appliances, and input data, but it does not bring across stored results or warnings. That means the copied project needs to be recalculated inside the workspace to create fresh saved results there.
If two copied projects would end up with the same name, GridGap resolves that by adjusting the target name. That keeps workspace project names unique without overwriting your original personal copy.
Who should do what
The workspace owner usually sets up the Business subscription, invites members, and decides who can do what. Admins can help with workspace management. Members can work on shared projects if the workspace is active and their role allows it. Viewers are there mainly to review.
That means the move from personal to Business is not just a billing step. It is also a collaboration step. Someone has to decide who owns the workspace, who manages seats, and who actually needs editing access.
What to do after setup
After the workspace is active, import the projects you want to share, open each one inside the workspace, and run Calculate again so the workspace has its own saved results. Then use the workspace projects page, members page, and billing page to keep the team structure tidy.
If you are moving from one-person use into team use, it usually helps to keep a small number of clearly named workspace projects first, rather than importing everything at once.