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Que_Ball

Canadian dollar pricing now confirmed for Microsoft365 / Office365 price increases in March 2022

Business Operations

My wholesaler confirmed the March price increases in CAD (Canadian dollars) were made available by Microsoft for renewals and new orders. So not every subscription will face the price hike at the same time as your keep paying your existing price until that anniversary date.

They are NOT taking this opportunity to adjust the currency conversion rates at this time. So products not facing the price hikes will stay the same price. Microsoft could always give their wholesalers and direct partners 30 day notice in future to adjust currency rates when publishing the next months pricelist previews but at this time they did not touch those other prices (I was betting they would but happy to be wrong).

Pricing for the products going up are not going to be rounded up or down when converted. So the 20% usd hike is exactly 20% increase in CAD which means the pricing is not a nice round number for some of those products. I was also betting they would round up to nearest whole dollar and again I am happy to be wrong.

Reseller cost price increase is the exact same percentage wise from the current prices.

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ProductNew March 2022 MSRPIncrease from current
MS365 Business basic annual commitment$7.70/mo+20%
MS365 Business premium annual commitment$28.20/mo+10%
MS365 Enterprise E3 annual commitment$47.90/mo+13%
Office365 Enterprise E1 annual commitment$12.80/mo+25%
Office365 Enterprise E3 annual commitment$30.60/mo+15%
Office365 Enterprise E5 annual commitment$50.60/mo+9%

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ProductNew March 2022 MSRPIncrease from current
MS365 Business basic annual prepaid$92.40/yr+20%
MS365 Business premium annual prepaid$338.40/yr+10%
MS365 Enterprise E3 annual prepaid$574.80/yr+13%
Office365 Enterprise E1 annual prepaid$153.60/yr+25%
Office365 Enterprise E3 annual prepaid$367.20/yr+15%
Office365 Enterprise E5 annual prepaid$607.20/yr+9%

Posted Feb 9, 2022, 11:54 PM UTC

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IAMA_Canadian_Sorry•

Brilliant that they can make endlessly long blog posts about their "breadth and depth motions" for 6 months but can't lock a simple price value down until the last minute. Monopoly status achieved.

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Soggy-Selection8940•

Just doing my first deal on NCE for 40 seats through Pax8. Man it's confusing.

There's annual commit, monthly payment, apparently an extra 5% that does not show on the price list but they promise me will be applied AFTER I buy.

I quoted my client current pricing of $6.40 per user but tf him he had to pay up front before March 1.

I am being told that I should do it under NCE because I will get the extra 5% but I feel like there will be a gotcha in there somewhere.

Also confirmed with Pax8 that if I buy my 40 basic, then find out that I want 5 of those to be Standard, I will need to buy additional licenses. They can't upconvert them even though the MS documentation says partial upgrades are available

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cyklone•

You can upgrade to 5 standard and decrease your 40 basic to 35.

If you are starting a new sub with standard this is a new activation/renewal date though.

Edit: now I am not 💯 that this is accurate...

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Soggy-Selection8940•

Not according to the Pax8 rep I spoke to. I am going annual so I can't cancel the 5 basic.

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cyklone•

Looks like this could be a Pax8 limitation?

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Soggy-Selection8940•

Yes I think so. He said the API is not ready yet, so I guess it is an issue with Pax8

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Dakzekiel•

You can upgrade and add licenses during the subscription. You cannot downgrade or remove during the subscription. Get your clients in NCE before march 1 and save them the price increase!

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networkn•

We are being told in NZ that office standard will get a price increase too.

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Findussuprise•

Same in UK. It’s a mess considering the deadline is 1st March. Lots of distis have no idea either.

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nightmarr9921rt•

Where are we hearing this? We have the UK pricing now and as expected there is no price increase on Microsoft Business Standard unless you are switching to monthly commit in which case its the 20% that all monthly skus are getting.

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creedian•

Isn’t Monthly supposed to be 20% more than Annual?

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Que_BallOP•

Yes, monthly commitment is 20% higher list price. Under the NCE promo the monthly prices are currently the same as yearly commitment until July. There is currently no reason to consider buying the month to month subscription though until at least March 10 when new subs under legacy CSP are disabled.

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