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Mar 23, 2026

Moving from Private Plans to Private Offers — Should We Make the Switch?

Hi Azure Marketplace community,

We, at https://marketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/product/saturaminc.qualdo_drx are currently using private plans to handle custom pricing for specific customers, and we're evaluating whether it makes sense to transition to private offers. Would love to hear from others who've made this move — or who've deliberately stayed on private plans.

Here's where we're at: private plans have served us well for restricting visibility and offering tiered pricing to select tenants, but as our deal complexity has grown (more enterprise customers, negotiated terms, channel partners), we're starting to feel some of the limitations.

A few things pushing us toward private offers:

  • Custom pricing flexibility — Private offers let us set percentage discounts or absolute prices per customer without creating a new plan for every deal. As our customer base grows, managing individual plans is getting unwieldy.
  • Multi-party / channel support — We work with some resellers and CSPs. Private offers seem to support that flow much better with multi-party private offers (MPPO).
  1. Are there scenarios where private plans are still the better choice over private offers?
  2. How are you handling the coexistence of both during a transition period?
  3. Any impact on reporting, billing, or reconciliation we should be aware of?

We want to make sure we're not solving one problem and creating another. Appreciate any real-world experiences!.

 

Thanks in Advance,

Kavitha Srinivasan

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