Microsoft 365 licensing
Microsoft 365 licensing is easy to buy and hard to get right. We are a UK Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP), so we supply your licences, choose the right plans and terms with you, and manage them alongside the tenant we already support.
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Under Microsoft’s New Commerce Experience, mistakes are harder to undo. These are the four we see most.
Commitment
Annual and three-year seats can only be reduced within seven days of purchase, of adding them, or of renewal. After that you pay for the full term.
What you can doKeep your core headcount on annual terms and put uncertain numbers on monthly terms where the product offers one. Plan reductions for the renewal window.
Leavers
Mailboxes are kept “just in case” and licences stay assigned, so you pay every month for accounts nobody uses.
What you can doReclaim licences as part of every leaver process, and decide up front what happens to each leaver’s mailbox and files.
Plan choice
Business plans stop at 300 users, and some people are on plans with far more, or far less, than they need.
What you can doMatch plans to roles. Frontline plans suit shift and field workers; Business Premium or E3 and E5 suit people handling sensitive data.
Unused value
Separate tools are bought for features that Business Premium or E5 already include, such as Intune, Defender and Purview.
What you can doList what each plan already includes before adding anything. A Microsoft 365 health check shows what is switched off, and our Microsoft 365 consultancy then switches it on.
From a few Business Premium seats to enterprise plans, we recommend the plans that match how your people actually work.
Up to 300 users
Email, Teams and Office apps. Business Premium adds Entra ID P1, Intune Plan 1, Defender for Business, Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 and Purview data protection.
Enterprise
Enterprise security, compliance and device management. Since April 2024, new enterprise customers buy these without Teams and add a Teams licence.
Frontline
Licences for shift, retail and field workers, with Intune Plan 1 included.
AI
Copilot Chat comes with Microsoft 365. The Copilot add-on brings Copilot into Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams, and Copilot Business suits organisations up to 300 users.
Security and compliance
Security and compliance add-ons for Business Premium and enterprise plans.
Devices and cloud
Device management, cloud PCs and Azure services from the same supplier.
Under the New Commerce Experience, the term you choose decides how flexible you can be. The right mix is where most of the savings come from.
| Term | Best for | How it works |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly | Seasonal staff, contractors and uncertain numbers | Seats can be reduced at each monthly renewal. Not every product has a monthly term: Microsoft names Intune as one that does not. |
| Annual | Your core, stable headcount | Seats can be added at any time and share the same end date. They can only be reduced within seven days of purchase, of adding them, or of renewal. You can move a subscription to a longer term part-way through, but not to a shorter one. |
| Three-year | Selected plans, where you want price certainty | Available for some products. Price changes during the term do not affect it; they apply at renewal. Since April 2025, Microsoft also charges more for paying an annual or three-year term monthly than for paying it upfront. |
A planned switch, timed to your current terms, with no gap in service.
Licence review
We list every subscription, term, renewal date and assignment, and compare them with the people and devices you actually have.
Get a licence reviewWritten recommendation
We set out the plans and terms we would choose for each group of people, which features to switch on, and when each change can be made.
New subscriptions, old access removed
We time new subscriptions to your current terms so nothing lapses. Your users, data and settings stay exactly where they are; only the supplier changes.
Ongoing licence management
We reclaim licences when people leave, add seats when they join, and review your terms before each renewal so changes are planned, not missed.
Buying licences through a partner should not mean giving that partner permanent control of your tenant. Microsoft replaced the old delegated admin model, which gave partners standing Global Administrator rights, with granular delegated admin privileges (GDAP).
With GDAP, we request only the Entra ID roles each task needs, for a fixed period of between 1 and 730 days. You approve the request, and you can see or remove our roles at any time on the Partner relationships page of the Microsoft 365 admin center.
When you move to us, we check which partners still have access to your tenant and help you remove the ones you no longer use. Read more about how we protect identity in cyber security.
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The Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) programme lets Microsoft partners sell and support Microsoft 365 and Azure licences. The partner bills you directly and is your first point of contact for support. You buy from us, and one team handles licensing and technical help.
Yes. We time the move to your current subscription terms so there is no gap in service. Your users, data and settings stay where they are.
Under the New Commerce Experience, you can reduce seats or cancel only within seven days of purchase, of adding the seats, or of renewal. After that you pay for the rest of the term. Monthly terms can be reduced at each monthly renewal, where the product offers one.
We use Microsoft’s granular delegated admin privileges (GDAP): only the admin roles we need, for a fixed period, approved by you. You can see and remove our access in the Microsoft 365 admin center at any time.
Yes. Copilot Chat is already included with Microsoft 365. We supply the Microsoft 365 Copilot add-on, and Copilot Business for organisations of up to 300 users, and we help you check data and permissions before you switch it on.
It depends on the plan. Business and Frontline plans are sold with and without Teams. New enterprise customers buy E3 or E5 without Teams and add a Teams licence.
Yes. Our managed support starts from £25 per device per month, excluding VAT and licences. Microsoft licences are charged separately, and as a UK Cloud Solution Provider we can supply them alongside your support. See our pricing.
Send us your current licence list or let us look at your tenant. We will show you where you could save and what we would change.
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