As a not for profit, we try and invest every dollar we can into provision of services for the benefit of people. We do however recognise the value of technology in improving our service delivery, and universal Print is absolutely the solution we need for printing as we increasingly move our infrastructure into the cloud.
For us, the current pricing model is a major barrier to adoption - to the point where we currently just can't afford to do it. We'd like to see a not for profit pricing model that better reflects NFP's capacity to fund 'nice to have' (but crucial) infrastructure services like UP - it will enable us to adopt new technology while maintaining our commitment to focusing our financial resources on people.
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- Saurabh_Bansal
Microsoft
Thats awesome BillHealy . Just one caveat - your screenshot is EDU price and not non-profit. Non-profit pricing may be different.
I had a ticket open back in July to get non-profit pricing listed and it showed up in August.
Mine now shows:
I got this reply, but I am not sure why it is not posted here. Will double check with Microsoft Non-Profit and see if it is available. Thank you.
Any update on this request? Thank you!
Saurabh_Bansal Many thanks for following this up - appreciate it 🙂
- Saurabh_Bansal
Dave_Eggers - I have to confess that I am not very familiar with the commerce experiences :).
I have raised this with the team involved. The non-profit offers were added to web-direct but it seems there may be a problem with the price. They are looking into it. Unfortunately, it will take a little more time (order of weeks to a few months) to get things in order.
Hopefully you can work with your channel partner in the meantime.
Saurabh_Bansal - it just seems a little odd that I can find the product on our Nonprofit purchase tab, but Nonprofit pricing isn't applied. The last time I asked my partners to find Universal Print add-on pack non-profit pricing, they said it wasn't available. Now that it's showing on the Nonprofit purchase product tab, perhaps it is - but I'm not sure why we can't purchase directly through that online channel. As a registered charity, we can do that for all our Office licenses? It makes purchasing licenses SO much easier than having to contact our partner each time we want something that requires no support 🙂
- Saurabh_Bansal
Dave_Eggers - thanks for the reminder 🙂
As far as I understand, for discounted pricing you will need to go through a partner who sells non-profit licenses. Here is the link for more information:
I see Universal Print add-on packs are now showing up on the Microsoft Nonprofit Purchase Services portal - but they are the same price as Business?
Is there any plan to actually offer a discount for Nonprofits for Universal Print?
This pricing isn't just high for Non-profits - it's high for everyone.
$0.05/print after the first 5 prints - that's nearly 6 times what I pay my printer vendor for a fully supported machine to print a single page.
