Also +1 for this feature. We are also a small company but just the two founders would need these features right now. Otherwise it’s too cost extensive if we would upgrade for every employee. Especially during Covid-19 you think about an investment like these 
Any updates Asana Team?
I am genuinely shocked that this is not possible. The whole point of Portfolios is for reporting, which by its nature is done by higher levels within the organisation in order to track things from more of a birds eye view. Why would the Interns and working students need this or the workload feature. It is absurd to expect a company already using premium to upgrade the entire company to business for a high level feature that is, I believe, only really intended to be used by a few people at the company!
@Marie could you at least give some insights into the justification/reasoning behind this?
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Asana team,
I look forward to seeing you all resolve this issue. Especially taking into consideration small businesses that are being mindful of unnecessary spending.
We look forward to a fix to this challenge.
I’m in the same boat as everyone else here. For Asana to say it’s not something they’re considering at the moment - really? The thought never passed your mind? - is crazy. My company is very likely to switch PM tools, just because four of us can’t get the Business plan.
We are also testing out different options to solve this problem also. Right now we are using MS project along with Asana but it seems like there has to be a better option. Keep us posted in what you figure out.
HI Asana,
I would like to add my name here to the long list of companies and teams that need a multilayered billing plan for people on the same teams on Workspaces.
As has been noted by many, Microsoft Office 365 offers this, Users of Asana need this functinoality - the possibilty to assign a Premium licence to certain users (Technical users) and a Business licence to other users (Project Managers users)
Please listen to us.
Thanks
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+1 here, it would tip the balance in my organisations choice of software for team resource and project management. As it stands I may as well stay with the lightweight planner tool built into 365
Totally agree- want to be able to upgrade some specific users to be able to use portfolios
+1 we need to be able to upgrade some but not all of our org to business - this is a feature we really want.
I agree! The ONLY thing anyone in my org needs Business for is form branching on TWO projects. Please don’t make me Zap anymore!
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I am sure this comment is somewhere in here, but I’m not sure what to search for. Our organization has 40 or so users on the premium level. Some of the team has need for Business level features, but we can’t afford paying for every single user to have this. I’d like to see a pricing structure that allows pricing based on roles. For example our project managers and leaders have need for the portfolio feature. Our Operations team has need for human resource tools. Our leadership have need for goals.
Or even better, reduce per user pricing to make business level more affordable.
I look forward to hearing Asana’s response. Our team desperately needs this too.
I would love to see this option too. Can’t upvote it since I’m out of votes. 
Thanks for sharing your feedback with us, @Brie_Chapa! As it stands, it’s not possible to upgrade specific users to Business when you have a Premium plan. There are some workarounds if you change your plan to a Division, I recommend you checking this thread: What I learned about divisions 😅
In the meantime, I’m merging this thread with the main request to consolidate votes and feedback. We will post updates as soon as we have any!
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I’ve probably voiced out my opinion before regarding universal pricing and plans. Not everyone is earning dollar. Some countries (including one I live in) have weak usd exchange rate and lower living standard so multiplying users on plans is a huge concern. 
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+1 on this. Absolutely absurd that we have to upgrade an entire organization and double our cost when only project managers need the upgraded features. Also absurd that this need has been known since 2018 and there still hasn’t been a fix.
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Our company can’t justify paying for a Premium features that we won’t use, hence we stay on the basic plan and it works for us. However, if there was a Basic Plus plan where we can manage users and create custom templates that would be something we’d consider for our company and for the companies we manage.
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@Uriel_Razovsky Welcome on board in Asana word
Maybe one day it will change, we have to keep faith 
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I think the reason this hasn’t been done is that Asana doesn’t want to lose the extra revenue from companies who upgrade all their users. Small companies (like ours) cant justify more than doubling our costs for features which only need to be used by only a few managers.
A good compromise to this issue would be have a Business premium plan for individual users. Since the entire company wouldn’t be moving to that, I think we and a lot of other companies would be fine with something like $50 per month per user for several users if we don’t have to upgrade the entire organization. Asana gets more revenue from companies who were never going to upgrade the entire org and small companies don’t have to more than double their expenses.
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