Beat Office 365 Price Increases | 5% Off

If you purchase new, or renew existing Office 365 licences, you can avoid Office 365 price increases. We will offer at least a 5% reduction on the current 2017 prices for 12 months. This offer includes Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Skype for Business and the entire suite of Office 365.

Office 365 price increases 22%

I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but Microsoft have yesterday announced a 22% price increase for their cloud services, including the Office 365 price, from 1st January 2017. If you are considering an Office 365 subscription, I highly recommend you complete your purchase for a 12 month commitment before 31st December 2016 in order to avoid Office 365 & Exchange Online price increases.

It’s obviously an inevitability of Brexit, and thankfully, we were proactive and forward thinking on behalf of our customers and protected their Office 365 price. We took the decision to add or renew all of our customer users with 12 month terms at the end of Q3 2016. We enable almost 5000 users, communicating across 4 continents and 15 time zones, who expect the best possible service with the least possible disruption.

 The bulletin we have received from Microsoft in full:

Office 365 Price: Important changes for customers buying enterprise software and cloud services in British pound.

We wanted to give you advance notification of some important changes to pricing coming in January 2017.

Effective January 1, 2017, we will be increasing British pound pricing to harmonise prices for enterprise software and cloud services within the EU/EFTA region. We periodically assess the impact of local pricing of our products and services to ensure there is reasonable alignment across the region and this change is an outcome of this assessment.  These changes are similar to the recent harmonisation adjustments to pricing in Norwegian krone and Swiss franc we made in April 2016.

From January, British pound prices for on-premises enterprise software will increase by 13% to realign close to euro levels.  Most enterprise cloud prices in British pounds will increase by 22% to realign close to euro levels.  Even after this adjustment, customers across the region buying in British pound will still find our cloud offerings highly competitive. For indirect sales where Microsoft products are sold through resellers, final prices and currency of sale will continue to be determined by them. In the EU/EFTA region, partners will continue to have access to prevailing prices in euro, Norwegian krone, Swiss franc, Swedish krona, and Danish krone, along with revised prices in British pounds.

For business customers, these changes will not affect existing orders under annuity volume licensing agreements for products that are subject to price protection. For example, customers with Enterprise Agreements have price protection on previously ordered enterprise software and cloud services, and will not experience a price change during the term of their agreement. Similarly, business customers with cloud commitment subscriptions such as Office 365 also receive price protection during their subscription term, which is normally twelve months from the start of paid subscription.

Prices for new product additions under existing volume licensing agreements and purchases under new contracts will be as defined by the price list at the time of order.  This pricing change will not apply to consumer software or consumer cloud services.

If you have any questions or would like to speak to someone regarding protecting your Office 365 Price please get in touch.