Microsoft Office 365 Trials

Our platform automates the management of Office 365 trials by automatically enabling the trial option for the eligible Office 365 plans and by allowing your customers and your resellers to get a trial for the plan they wish to evaluate.

Enabling Free Trial for your Office 365 Plans

Microsoft allows their partners to offer a 30-day free trial to customers who wish to evaluate O365 Premium, E3, E5 and other plans and can convert these customers to a paid subscription at the end of the free period. Our platform automates the management of Office 365 trials by automatically enabling the trial option for the eligible Office 365 plans and by allowing your customers and your resellers to get a trial for the plan they wish to evaluate.

Get a Free Trial from Storefront

Your customers and your resellers will be able to evaluate O365 Premium, E3, E5, and other plans by getting a free trial from your Storefront.

Upgrade Trial to Paid Subscription

For your customers and resellers to upgrade their O365 trial subscription to a paid one, they must open the subscription in Storefront and select the action "Upgrade to Paid".

Managing Free Trials from BSS

This page explains how you can manage the free trials your customers have requested by creating trial subscriptions and upgrade them to paid directly from BSS.

Special Trials in Response to COVID-19 Situation

Microsoft has introduced two new trials for supporting partners in their response to the ongoing COVID-19 situation. The partner-initiated 6-month trials of Microsoft Office 365 E1 and Microsoft Commercial Teams Trial in CSP enables partners to provide customers with remote work scenarios.

For enabling these trials you will need to first run the "Get Services Definition" process for updating the Microsoft product catalog in your BSS. The following offerings will be added in your BSS: