Subscription Terms and Billing Frequency - New Customer Experience

Subscription Terms and Billing Frequency - New Customer Experience

License Terms  


The New Commerce Experience (NCE) supports licenses with 1-month, 1-year, and 3-year terms, but not all of them are available for all products.
There are 1-month subscriptions as well as 1-year subscriptions available for M365 products, with 3-year subscriptions available for some Dynamics 365 products.
In CloudCockpit’s catalogue it's possible to see which term durations are available for which products.  

Pro tip
Adding further licenses into the same active subscription has two benefits:
1. The price is the same for yourself as well as for your partner
2. The end date of all the individual licenses is controlled by the end date of the subscription, and thus they all align when renewing


Billing frequency  

 
The New Commerce Experience (NCE) supports upfront monthly, annual, and triennial (once every 3 years) billing.
Partners can choose a billing frequency dependent on the subscription term:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

Subscription term 

Billing frequency options 

1 month 

Monthly 

1 year 

Monthly or annual 

3 years 

Monthly, annual, or triennial 



Balancing Risk and Discounts


It's important to consider the balance between discounts and associated risks when selecting a subscription term. While longer terms offer higher discounts, it's crucial to note that seat reductions are not possible during an annual term.

However, with CloudCockpit, mid-term changes to billing frequency are possible, dependent on the license term and billing frequency that you want to move to.
If an option is not available, then you may be able to schedule the change to occur at renewal, as described in the following table: 

Original license term and billing frequency 

Change to license term and billing frequency 

1 month, monthly 

1 year, monthly 

1 year, annually 

                                  Term: monthly 
                                  Billing: monthly 

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Immediately, or at renewal 

Immediately, or at renewal 

                                  Term: 1 year 

                                  Billing: monthly 

At renewal only 

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At renewal only 

                                  Term: 1 year 

                                  Billing: annually 

At renewal only 

At renewal only 

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Pro tip
You don´t need to go all or anything in terms of license term and billing frequency. If you have for example a seasoned business, you can have both a monthly term and an annual term subscription for the same seat-based offer at the same time with the appropriate number of seats in each term to accommodate your permanent and seasonal employee.  Which will allow you to balance the discount and risk of longer terms.