Microsoft licences on invoice, no card

What do you pay for licences with, if you have no card?

With an employee's card — and then you explain that to the auditor. Buying a subscription from Microsoft yourself only works with a card: there is no invoice to a company. The licences sit on a personal mailbox, the renewal goes to someone who left in the spring, and nobody knows how many seats are really paid for.

An invoice instead of a card, one line instead of ten

We become your subscription partner: the licences arrive on a single invoice to your company, with a PO number and thirty days to pay. The price is the one you are entitled to. Our mark-up on it is $0.00, and the invoice prints that figure.

The account stays yours. Partner access follows Microsoft's rules, is time-limited and is removed when you ask — and nothing leaves with it: not your data, not your domain, not your right to buy direct.

Renewals, adding and removing seats, sorting out price rises — that is our job, not your e-mail thread with Microsoft support.

What the service line covers

included: Placing and renewing subscriptions at your price
included: Adding and removing staff, with access closed off
included: Running the account and the sign-in rules
included: Checking price rises and spare seats before renewal
included: One invoice to your company, with a PO number
included: A yearly report: what is paid for, who uses it, when it ends
paid to the vendor: Licences at the vendor's invoice price, mark-up $0.00

Your price

Service line

$7.50 per user per month

Annual commitment. Invoice to your company, PO and net-30.

What the tier includes

included: Account administration, renewals and the report
included: Adding and removing staff
included: Minimum yearly invoice per account — $1,200
paid to the vendor: Licences at the vendor's invoice price, mark-up $0.00

Eligibility for a discounted price

$670

We check which price you are entitled to.

What the tier includes

included: Checking your status and your organisation's paperwork
included: Matching against your current subscriptions and renewals

Extras

not included: Extended Windows 10 updates, first year$61 per device
not included: Second year of updates$122 per device
not included: Third year of updates$244 per device
not included: Subscription and licence audit, up to 50 seats$670
not included: Subscription audit up to 250 seats$1,340
not included: Moving email off someone else's server$85 per mailbox
not included: Baseline security setup$2,120 up to 50 seats
not included: Adding or removing one member of staff, one-off$28 with a subscription

Questions

We already bought licences with a card. Can they be moved?

Yes. Microsoft has a set procedure for it: you approve the partner request, and the subscriptions move onto invoice with no reinstall and no data loss. The account, the domain and the mail stay yours.

Is the mark-up really zero? What do you earn on?

On the work. The service line of $7.50 per user per month is running the account, renewals, and staff joining and leaving. The licence goes at the price you are entitled to, and the $0.00 mark-up is printed on the invoice as its own line.

Are we entitled to a discounted price?

We check that before the quote; it costs $670. Nonprofit discounts do not carry over to schools or government bodies, and education prices do not carry over to local authorities. Microsoft decides which price you are entitled to, not us.

What happens to Windows 10 once support ends?

Extended security updates are bought a year at a time and double in price each year after: $61, $122 and $244 per device. We put no mark-up on those either, and the extension carries no technical support at all — it is updates only.

Microsoft licences on invoice