"Personal " profile question - Adobe for Teams Stock downloading "delegation" resolved

[allio22253111]

At work I use an adobe subscription part of Adobe for Teams that is admistered and paid for by my company.  Whenever we needed to download stock, it seemed only certain people had access to download stock, and some didn't. When I started a few years ago the process was just to message the person who had access to the stock the ID number and they would send it/add it to our shared files. This added a small bottleneck on projects, for waiting for stock, and another task for a teammate to do. My coworkers believed the administrator could control who who could access stock, and assumed it would cost extra to add more people. 

I found out today that is not the case. Whenever I tried to download stock, it would prompt me to either start a free trial or to pay for a stock subscription. This is why we believed it would be extra. Turns out, all I had to do was change the "personal" to my "company name" profile, which I had no idea was even a thing. I want to be clear, this is all the same email. I'm logged into "myname.company.email.com" when I am on both the personal prolife and the CompanyName profile. 

It really looks like adobe makes this unclear on purpose, in an attempt to get more users to pay for a stock subscription. I still don't understand, though. What is the purpose of having personal profiles on the stock website when its all paid for under teams for adobe by my company? What is the difference?

[Abambo · Accepted solution]

It really looks like adobe makes this unclear on purpose, in an attempt to get more users to pay for a stock subscription.

By @allio22253111

No. It really looks like your company did not properly train their employees, either on purpose or for lack of knowledge. 

In short: 

• your personal profile is for your personal interactions with Adobe. You could take there a personal subscription of Adobe products, althought I would never recommend doing that on your company e-mail. But it is possible for a freelancer to have a personal subscription on their name, and getting access to a Teams/Enterprise license allocated by the company they are working for. 
• your company profile is managed and controlled by your company, and an administrator can shuffle licences at their will. If an employee leaves the company, the licence gets allocated to the successor, without disruption and additional costs. All the data you produce (and store in the cloud) belongs to the company and is accessible by administrators if needed.
  
  Stock plans come in different flavours, but if you have a classic stock plan, it needs to be attributed to an administrator (or a simple user, that I'm not sure about, as I do not manage a stock plan) to be available to all users having an account in that environment. That has advantages (every user can license stock assets for the company) and disadvantages (if you licence the wrong stock assets, it deducts credits from your company plan, and when you licence a premium asset, it deducts a lot of credits from your company plan). You should check this with your managers. 
  
  BTW: the "authorized" users did what you did: they signed into the company profile, but did not tell you.
• Even that I never tried this out: our hypotetical freelancer could, in theory, have access to more than one company account and switching the profile at their will or need. 

[allio22253111]

Thanks for your reply and clarification on why it is set up this way.  It is still really frusterating that this was difficult to make clear, and I wish adobe would have better documentation in the future. 

[Abambo]

Sure, I agree. I really don't find a manual explaining all features.