Forum Discussion

MartijnElfers's avatar
MartijnElfers
Bronze Contributor
May 14, 2025
Solved

New FY26 incentive guidelines

Hope someone can share some insights on this, as Microsoft is publishing conflicting messages.    Starting October, Microsoft will change the incentive requirements for partners.  In the announcem...
  • MartijnElfers's avatar
    Aug 05, 2025

    Just to formalize this answer. With the recent FY26 incentive guide updates we finally have our official answer. And it's a bit different from the slides or the Learn doc.

    Shame this couldn't be answered and cleared up beforehand. 

     

    For CSP Indirect Resellers the thresholds has been lowered to 25 points ONLY for MW, Azure, Security. Not for Business Applications. (why?)

    Modern Work & Security incentivesAzure incentivesBus. Apps. incentives

     

    And for CSP Direct Bill partners the threshold is still on achieving a Designation status to be eligible for incentives. No Designation, means no incentives in that Solutions Area. Plus the revenue threshold has been increased for incentive eligibility. 

    Making it more and more attractive to consider transitioning towards the indirect channel. 

Resources