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User seat limit on NCE unit price?
Has anyone heard of a user seat limit for the Unit Price on NCE (i.e. the discounted cost direct CSP partners pay)? I'm familiar with the 2,400 seat limit Microsoft imposed on the 5% promotional incentive when moving from legacy CSP to NCE that ran through March 2022, however outside of promotional seat limitations I cannot find any verbiage referencing a seat limitation on the NCE pricing CSP partners receive. I've had a couple other partners tell me there is a limitation on NCE but they can't point me to any documents that include that verbiage.
Hi KathyH724
Sorry for the delay, I had to get clarification on this & then I was out of the office on Friday. Thank you for your patience.
SMB Offer SKUs-
The New commerce experience for seat-based offers in CSP FAQ states that the 300-seat limit on certain SMB SKUs applies to the aggregate of seats on a customer’s multiple subscriptions on that SKU, not to each subscription on that SKU.
Think of SMB offers as a smaller group of seat-based offers such as M365 Business Edition SKUs (M365 Business Basic, M365 Business Standard and M365 Business Premium).
Seat-based offers -
Most of the larger promotions (such as the “Seat-based offers in new commerce”) allow up to 2,400 seats such as the M365 E3 15% discount in CSP, which is a MW promotion for enterprise.
If a promotion has a seat count maximum and a partner wants more licenses than the maximum seats, the partner needs to purchase one subscription up to the limit at the promotional price and a second subscription at the non-promotional price. New commerce promotions - Partner Center | Microsoft Learn
If this reply answers your question, please Accept as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly. Otherwise, please let me know if you need further assistance on this topic.
Regards,Microsoft CSP Licensing Concierge
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Hi KathyH724
Sorry for the delay, I had to get clarification on this & then I was out of the office on Friday. Thank you for your patience.
SMB Offer SKUs-
The New commerce experience for seat-based offers in CSP FAQ states that the 300-seat limit on certain SMB SKUs applies to the aggregate of seats on a customer’s multiple subscriptions on that SKU, not to each subscription on that SKU.
Think of SMB offers as a smaller group of seat-based offers such as M365 Business Edition SKUs (M365 Business Basic, M365 Business Standard and M365 Business Premium).
Seat-based offers -
Most of the larger promotions (such as the “Seat-based offers in new commerce”) allow up to 2,400 seats such as the M365 E3 15% discount in CSP, which is a MW promotion for enterprise.
If a promotion has a seat count maximum and a partner wants more licenses than the maximum seats, the partner needs to purchase one subscription up to the limit at the promotional price and a second subscription at the non-promotional price. New commerce promotions - Partner Center | Microsoft Learn
If this reply answers your question, please Accept as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly. Otherwise, please let me know if you need further assistance on this topic.
Regards,Microsoft CSP Licensing Concierge