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March 2025 announcements

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This page provides the announcements for Microsoft Partner Center for March 2025.

Standardizing the billing structure with a pricing update; pricing updates for Microsoft Teams Phone and Power BI

On April 1, 2025, all new and renewing monthly billing plans for annual subscriptions will be priced five percent higher than the annual/triennial billing option for annual/triennial subscription plans. Pricing updates for Microsoft Teams Phone and Power BI effective April 1, 2025.

  • Date: March 3, 2025
  • Workspace: General
  • Impacted audience: All Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) Partners

Standardizing the billing structure with a pricing update

As a reminder, Microsoft is standardized the billing structure and introducing a pricing update for all products with per user monthly billing plans for annual and triennial term subscriptions starting on April 1, 2025. All new and renewing monthly billing plans for annual and triennial per user subscriptions are priced five percent higher than the annual billing plan for annual and triennial subscriptions.* This price update applies across Buy Online, CSP, and MCA-E for all segments. There's no pricing change for month-to-month or annual term subscriptions with upfront payment at this time.

Customer's can elect to change their billing plan from monthly to upfront billing, priced five percent lower than the updated monthly billing option, at their renewal date.* Starting on March 10, 2025, customers on end-of-sale (EOS) and EOS with Conversion offers, such as Microsoft 365 E3/E5 and Office 365 E1/E3/E5 suites with Teams, can schedule a change to edit the billing frequencies for their annual subscriptions at renewal. This feature is available to test in sandbox starting February 28, 2025.

The pricing update for monthly billing for annual term subscription commitments is reflected in the NCE license-based price list preview available on March 1, 2025. The NCE license-based preview price list doesn't indicate the expected five percent price increase for monthly billing plans for triennial term subscriptions. But these SKUs will see the five percent price increase on April 1, 2025. Read our announcement on the March 1, 2025 preview price list updates. EOS and EOS with Conversion Offer pricing updates are reflected in the April EOS price list, available on April 1, 2025.

Trials continue to default to renewing into annual subscriptions with monthly billing. But partners can specify values, such as license quantity, term, and billing frequency, for paid subscriptions their trial purchases renew into starting in April 1, 2025. Partners can also specify if they don't want their trial to autorenew.

Note

For a customer with Microsoft 365/Office 365 Enterprise suites with Teams to maintain their subscription of active licenses to those EOS SKUs, partners need to manage the renewals by enabling autorenew or scheduling the change. Partners can no longer purchase new EOS SKUs for CSP customers or make edits to term duration.

Pricing updates for Microsoft Teams Phone and Power BI

Microsoft is updating the pricing for Microsoft Teams Phone Standard, Power BI Pro, and Power BI Premium Per User starting on April 1, 2025. The pricing update is for new and existing customers upon renewal. For more details, refer to our November announcement For now, there are no further pricing changes to customers who purchase Power BI Pro and Teams Phone licenses in the Microsoft 365 and Office 365 E5 suites.

*There might be slight variations in price due to exchange rate fluctuations, local pricing policies, and rounding rules.

For more information on in-scope products, see the Billing change partner FAQ.

Call to Action

  • Notify existing customers that beginning April 1, 2025, Monthly Billing for Annual/Triennial subscriptions will see a five percent increase in price at their next renewal. Partners can use the price list preview released on March 1, 2025 to see pricing for active SKUs.

  • Inform customers that they can elect to change their billing plan from monthly billing to annual billing with upfront payment, priced five percent lower than the updated monthly billing option, at their renewal date. For customers with subscriptions to M365/O365 Enterprise suites with Teams, they can also schedule changes to billing frequencies for EOS and EOS with Conversion offers at renewal beginning March 10, 2025.

  • Notify customers that beginning April 1, 2025, mid-term billing frequency changes for triennial offers are blocked.

  • Specify values for paid subscriptions trial purchases renew into starting April 2025, including the term and billing frequency. The default renewal of an annual subscription with monthly billing continues to apply.

  • Inform customers of upcoming price updates to Teams Phone and Power BI.

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