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Microsoft 365 and Azure licensing

Subscriptions supplied through our own entities in 131 countries, each invoiced locally in the currency Microsoft sets for it — under one relationship, with the same team doing the engineering.

Minimum10 seats

Countries131

Currencies9

TermMonthly or annual

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01 — Overview

What this engagement is

Buying Microsoft 365 and Azure subscriptions through us as your Cloud Solution Provider. Same tenant, same subscriptions, different partner of record and a different invoice.

The reason this is a service rather than a transaction is the international part. If you are weighing this against a direct Enterprise Agreement, we have compared the two without a reseller in the room. Microsoft’s CSP programme is regional: a partner authorised in one region can sell only into that region’s country list, which is why most resellers can invoice in exactly one country. A group with entities in Germany, the UK, the Gulf and Canada usually ends up with four resellers, four contracts, four renewal dates and nobody who can see the whole estate.

We hold authorisations covering 131 countries. Each entity gets a local invoice in the currency Microsoft sets for it, under one relationship.

02 — Outcomes

What you get out of it

01One relationship across every country where you operate, instead of one reseller per country

02Local invoices in local currency, so no entity carries foreign exchange exposure it did not ask for

03Renewal dates aligned, so the estate can be reviewed as a whole rather than in fragments

04A commitment-term structure that matches the business: the stable headcount on annual, the seasonal part on monthly

05The same team holding the licensing and doing the engineering, so nobody hands you off when something breaks

06Full ownership of your tenant retained, with the partner of record changeable at any time

03 — Deliverables

What you receive

✓Licensing review before anything changes. Read-only, free. What you hold against what is assigned and used.

✓Transition plan respecting existing renewal dates, so nothing is cancelled early or duplicated.

✓Commitment-term recommendation per group of seats — which belong on an annual term, which should stay monthly.

✓Entity and currency map for groups: which of our entities invoices which of yours, and in what currency.

✓Plan comparison and price list. Ten plans side by side with prices in the header, and the full list for your region, refreshed monthly. Ours is published.

✓A named contact who is an engineer, not an account manager.

04 — Plan

How the work unfolds

Week 1

Free licensing review

Read-only. What you hold, what is assigned, what is unused, and where the renewal dates fall. No obligation and no charge, whatever you decide afterwards.

Week 1

Entity and currency map

For a group, which entity invoices which and in what currency. For a single company, this takes five minutes.

Week 2

Commitment structure

Which seats go on an annual term and which stay monthly. Getting this right is usually worth more than any discount.

At renewal

Partner-of-record change

You accept the partner-of-record change in your tenant. Subscriptions transfer at their renewal points, not before, so nothing is paid for twice.

Ongoing

Invoicing and support

Local invoice per entity, in local currency. Changes to seat counts handled as they arise.

Annually

Review

Assignment against actual use, and the commitment structure revisited against how the headcount actually moved.

Start with the free review

Read-only, no obligation, and it usually pays for itself before you decide anything. What you hold, what is assigned, what is unused, and where the renewal dates fall.

Free review · minimum 10 seats · 131 countries

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05 — Before we start

What we need from you

→A minimum of 10 seats

→A Microsoft 365 tenant with a country setting in a region we are authorised for — the list is here

→Someone who can accept a partner-of-record change in the tenant

→Visibility of current renewal dates, so nothing is transferred at the wrong moment

06 — Working together

Who does what

IT Partner

Run the licensing review at no charge
Map entities and currencies for the group
Recommend the commitment structure
Handle the partner-of-record transition at the right renewal points
Invoice locally, in local currency
Tell you when you are paying for seats nobody uses
Do the engineering when something breaks, rather than passing you on

Your team

Accept the partner-of-record change in the tenant
Decide the commitment structure from our recommendation
Tell us when headcount changes materially
Own the decision on which entity contracts where

07 — Scope

What is not included

×Enterprise Agreements. We operate in the Cloud Solution Provider programme. If an EA genuinely suits you better, we will say so.

×The United States. Served by our headquarters location at o365hq.com, which holds the US authorisation.

×Regions where we hold no authorisation. Latin America, Africa, India, Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan, Brazil and New Zealand each need a partner registered there. Project work has no such restriction.

×Third-party software outside the Microsoft price list, unless it appears in our published catalogue.

×Legal or tax advice on the entity structure. We describe how the invoicing works; your advisers rule on it.

08 — Fine print

Limitations and technical notes

!Microsoft fixes the billing currency per country. A Swiss entity is billed in francs whether or not anyone would prefer euros. That is why the currency sits next to every country on the coverage page.

!Eligibility follows the tenant, not the office. A company operating from Australia with a tenant registered in the UK is a European customer. A company registered in Estonia with a tenant set to the DRC is not.

!On an annual term, seats can be added at any time but reduced only at renewal — the full New Commerce rules. On a monthly term they can be reduced each month. This is the mechanic behind the commitment structure recommendation.

!Prices are Microsoft’s, published and updated monthly. Ours are lower and depend on volume and term. The list price is on the site so you can check the arithmetic yourself.

!You own the tenant. Partner of record can be changed at any time and nothing about buying licences here restricts that.

!Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Sudan and Syria appear in no CSP region and cannot be served by any Microsoft partner.

09 — Questions

Asked on almost every first call

Does changing partner disrupt anything?

No. Nothing is migrated and nothing goes offline. You accept a partner-of-record change in the tenant and subscriptions transfer at their renewal points. Users notice nothing.

Can you invoice each of our subsidiaries locally?

Yes, and it is the main reason groups come to us. Each entity is invoiced by whichever of ours is authorised for its country, in the currency Microsoft sets for it, under one relationship and one team.

What is the minimum?

Ten seats.

Are your prices lower than Microsoft’s published list?

Yes, and how much lower depends on volume and commitment term. We publish Microsoft’s list price on the site precisely so you can see what the starting point is rather than being told a percentage.

Do we have to use you for projects too?

No. Licensing and project work are quoted independently. Most clients end up doing both because one party responsible for both is simpler, but nothing requires it.

What if we want to leave?

Change the partner of record. There is no exit process and no penalty, because there is nothing to unwind.

Scoping costs nothing

Tell us the shape of it and we will tell you what it involves

Answer the form or write to us. You get back a written scope, a sequence and a fixed price — usually within one business day, and nobody rings you unless you ask.

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