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[Greg Enns]

Microsoft has released a plan that allows you to make monthly payments instead of the usual single large annual payment.   Spreading out payments should help those companies struggling with cash flow.
Many thanks to Donavan Lane with Innovia Consulting who first notified us of this offer.

Here’s a few key notes:

• Your monthly cost will be equal to your Annual cost divided by 12. (No additional costs!)
• You must have an On-Prem Microsoft license and be current* on Annual Enhancement
• There is some confusing license management that makes this possible, but these are the important things that I think most users will be concerned about:
  • You will not pay any extra
  • At the end of the promotion you can choose to either keep your On-Prem license and go back to paying annually, or switch to the cloud and continue to pay monthly.
  • If you expect to go to the cloud in the next couple years, then this offer is even more beneficial for you: You can get up to 4x more cloud licenses than you currently have for $0 additional cost for the length of this promotion so long as you request them within 60 days from joining this promotion.
  • There is some gray area when it comes to buying more on-prem licenses while on the promotion-sounds like it’s possible, but might cost more.
• Even though you are switching to monthly payments, you must pay all 12 payments or you are considered lapsed.

For more details, I recommend talking to your partner, or checking out this blog post that Innovia just put out today with more details about this.

_{*Lapsed Exception: Microsoft is allowing exceptions for customers who lapsed between January 1, 2020 and May 31, 2020}

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Greg Enns
ERP Coordinator
Technical Prospects
Appleton WI
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[Gregory Alford]

Thanks for posting this. I just barely caught our AP people. We were just about to pay the annual fee. In these trying times, cash flow is King.

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Gregory Alford
Director of Technical Resources
Tri Star Metals LLC
Aurora IL
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