

Items to note if you commit to annual or multi-year:

You can continue month-to-month payments for these products, however, there is a premium for this level of flexibility.There are a couple of options to consider, taking effect on June 30th, 2022. NCE impacts all cloud products for O365, M365, D365, and Power Platform in that the client must evaluate how they want to transact these products long term. This one is trickier, just bear in mind that the NCE program is different from the previously mentioned model on price increase, although they do stack in some cases.

So, timing is key, and planning is important. Meaning the price increase will not take effect on your monthly plan until the subscription renews on or after March 1 st of 2022.Īll of that said, if you provision or upgrade any of these products on or after March 1 st of 2022, then you are subject to an instant price increase. While you are not obligated to stay on the annual subscription basis and can cancel and make license adjustments at any time, if you check your admin center in the licensing section, you will notice that each monthly plan still shows an expiration date sometime in the future. If you are a Microsoft customer on a month-to-month license payment plan, whether you know it or not, behind the scenes you are actually on an annual subscription model. If you are a Microsoft customer who prepays for your licensing a year at a time (annual prepay), then this price increase will not go into effect until your annual term renews on or after March 1 st of 2022. So, does this mean if you currently own any of these license plans that on March 1st, your pricing will go up automatically? Not exactly. March 1st, 2022 marks the official start date for the pricing increase on these specific Office 365 and M365 plans.
