Why are Space Templates and Archiving only available to Enterprise accounts?

[Frank Vidal]

I don't understand why creating Space templates and archiving spaces is only available to those companies that are part of the Enterprise plan.  Why?  Smaller companies would benefit immensely from being able to templatize spaces.  Is the reason greed on Atlassian's part or is it a technical limitation of the Basic or Premium plans?

[Matteo Vecchiato]

Hi @Frank Vidal ,

Welcome to Atlassian community and thank you for your post.

Please review your informations, archiving feature is available on both premium and enterprise licenses: https://support.atlassian.com/jira-cloud-administration/docs/archive-a-project/ 

Kind regards 

[Trudy Claspill]

Hello @Frank Vidal 

Welcome to the Atlassian community.

As to why Atlassian the Custom Space Templates feature or any other feature is available only in one of the higher priced plans, we as users of the Atlassian products cannot speak authoritatively about the reasoning behind decisions made by Atlassian.

In general, Atlassian is a for-profit company. Any for-profit company that has a levels-of-service model is going to segregate some elements of service to be available only to customers willing to pay more.

One could argue that many of the features not available in the Free plan and only in a paid plan, or only in a paid plan higher than the one currently in use, would be valuable to the customers at a lower plan tier. 

If you feel strongly about a particular feature being pay-walled I recommend that you provide feedback directly to Atlassian about that through a support case or using the Help > Feedback option available directly within the Jira product.