Licensing and cloud
Subscriptions, tenants and cloud — on one invoice.
$112 per hour of work · $0.00 markup on licences.
Who at your company counts how many licences you are paying for?
Nobody. The bill arrives once a month, the total grows, and there is never time to look into it. Seats are paid for people who left. The same person sits in two subscriptions at once. A renewal went through on auto-charge at the old price and the new one was noticed a year later.
An invoice you understand
Once a month you see what the money went on: how many seats are occupied, how many are paid for in vain, what is expiring and when. Subscriptions, email, cloud and design licences are run by one team — and that team will also suggest what to move to another plan.
A licence stays a licence and work stays work. The vendor's bill reaches you as its own line, exactly as it is, and our markup on it is zero — printed as a number on the invoice. That is why a conversation about a plan does not turn into a conversation about our money.
A month later the surplus seats are gone, the renewals are in the calendar, and every price carries the date it was checked against.
- included: One bill review a month: occupied seats and surplus subscriptions
- included: Renewals in the calendar: the date and the cancellation window named in advance
- included: Plans chosen for the company as it is now, not as it was last year
- included: Joiners and leavers: access and a seat in the subscription
- included: Every price of ours carries a check date: the vendor's price list moves
- included: You pay us by the hour for the work, and the vendor for the licences
- paid to the vendor: Microsoft, Google, Adobe and Autodesk licences — at the vendor's bill, $0.00 markup
- paid to the vendor: Cloud spend and state tax — at the vendor's bill, $0.00 markup
What we do with licences and cloud
- not included: Accounts, access and licences looked afterfrom $7.50 per seat per month
- not included: Bill review and renewal preparationfrom $335 per invoice review
- not included: Email migration with no lost messagesfrom $65 per mailbox
- not included: Looking after the cloud and its billfrom $1,290 a month
- not included: Where to move from VMwarefrom $1,120 per machine
- not included: Upgrade the servers while they are still supportedfrom $1,120 per plan
- not included: Order in your Adobe and Autodesk subscriptionsfrom $895 per day
What we do and from what price
- Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace — $7.50 per seat per month on an annual contract
- Licence audit and renewal review — $335 per bill review
- Email migration and changing provider — $85 per mailbox moved
- Azure looked after, with the bill explained — $1,290 a month for the cloud
- VMware exit plan — $4,030 for an exit plan up to 25 machines
- Server and SQL database upgrades — $1,120 for a plan up to 25 servers
- Adobe and Autodesk subscriptions — $2,570 for an audit and re-registration
Questions
We already buy licences through a reseller. Why change?
You do not have to. The contract with the vendor and the bill stay yours, and we take no markup on them. The difference is who runs your subscriptions between the bills: adding and removing people, keeping the plans matched to the company, and showing once a month what the money went on.
Why is the licence price not printed next to yours?
Because it is different money. Microsoft's and Google's price lists move, and printing a copy would mean promising someone else's price. The licence reaches you as the vendor's bill, exactly as it is. Our line is for the work, and it carries the date it was checked against.
There are four of us. Is this review meant for bigger companies?
No. With few subscriptions the review takes less time and costs less: the price is worked out from the number of accounts, not from a tier you have to grow into. Seats paid for in vain turn up at four people just as they do at forty.
We have decided to start. Where do you begin?
With an inventory. We look at which subscriptions exist, whose name they are in and who actually uses them. Then your contract with the vendor: when the renewal falls and what the cancellation window is. Only after that do we propose changes and name a yearly figure.
Tell us the headcount and the subscriptions you pay for — we will send a quote by email and call if that is easier.
We have your request
We answer during the hours listed in the contacts at the foot of the page. The quote and the conversation come first — nothing is signed and nothing is charged.