Ordering Office 365 Business Plans

The Office 365 Business plans have the special condition that Microsoft supports only up to two subscriptions per customer in partner center. For complying with these requirements, our platform supports the provisioning of one monthly and one annual subscription for these plans in partner center.The following scenarios describe how our system handles the provisioning of Office 365 Business plans.

Provisioning of Annual Subscriptions in MS Partner Center is Enabled


By enabling this option, that can be found at Microsoft Cloud Services settings, our system will provision both monthly and annual subscriptions in the partner center. 

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For price protected subscriptions
An order is placed for 5 x Business Essentials monthly licensesMonthly subscription IW1 is created with quantity 5Monthly subscription MS1 is created with quantity 5
An order is placed for 7 x Business Essentials annual licensesAnnual subscription IW2 is created with quantity 7Annual subscription MS2 is created with quantity 7
An order is placed for 3 x Business Essentials monthly licensesThe quantity of subscription IW1 is updated to 8The quantity of subscription MS1 is updated to 8
An order is placed for 10 x Business Essentials annual licensesThe quantity of subscription IW2 is updated to 17The quantity of subscription MS2 is updated to 17
For non price protected subscriptions
An order is placed for 5 x Business Essentials monthly licensesMonthly subscription IW3 is created with quantity 5Monthly subscription MS3 is created with quantity 5
An order is placed for 7 x Business Essentials annual licensesAnnual subscription IW4 is created with quantity 7Annual subscription MS4 is created with quantity 7
An order is placed for 3 x Business Essentials monthly licensesMonthly subscription IW5 is created with quantity 3 The quantity of subscription MS3 is updated to 8 (IW3 + IW5)
An order is placed for 10 x Business Essentials monthly licensesAnnual subscription IW6 is created with quantity 10The quantity of subscription MS4 is updated to 17 (IW4 +IW6)
Subscription IW3 is cancelled
The quantity of subscription MS3 is updated to 3

Provisioning of Annual Subscriptions in MS Partner Center is Disabled


By disabling this option, our system provisions always monthly subscriptions in partner center.

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An order is placed for 5 x Business Essentials monthly licensesMonthly subscription IW7 is created with quantity 5Monthly subscription MS5 is created with quantity 5
An order is placed for 7 x Business Essentials annual licensesAnnual subscription IW8 is created with quantity 7The quantity of the monthly subscription MS5 is updated to 12 (IW7 +IW8)
Subscription IW7 is cancelled

The quantity of subscription MS5 is updated to 7