Subscription End Date Alignment

Introduction

End Date Alignment refers to aligning subscription renewal dates for multiple Microsoft products, enabling them to renew on a single date. This streamlines processes like billing and renewals for both customers and partners.

Examples:

One Year Term Subscription:

Existing: Ends October 1, 2024.
New Subscription: Purchased July 1, 2024.
Result: Subscription prorated to end on October 1, 2024.
 

Select the new subscription you want to purchase to align it with the existing subscription renewal date.

From "End Date Alignment", you can select the existing subscription with which you want to align the end date.

The subscription's End date aligns with the existing End date of existing subscription to simplify renewals.

One Month Term Subscription:

• Existing: Ends February 1, 2024.
• New Subscription: Purchased January 15, 2024.
• Result: Prorated to end on February 1, 2024.

Three Year Term Subscription:

• Ends October 1, 2024.
• New Subscription: Purchased July 1, 2024.
• Result: Prorated to end on October 1, 2024.

By co-terming customer can align subscription renewal date with any other existing subscriptions renewal date. Affected offers are Microsoft NCE online services (user-based).

It is Applicable during new purchase and for scheduling renewal settings. For 1 tenant, can be groups of co-termed subscriptions: Example, 5 subscriptions have renewal on December 18, 10 other subscriptions on March 11.

For purchases made under a single organization, you can have each set of subscriptions co-termed on different date.​ When co-term is selected for a new subscription upon purchase, its renewal date is set to the selected date and its effective first term is shortened accordingly. Annual and triannual subscription cannot be co-termed with a monthly subscription. Monthly subscription can be co-termed with any other subscription.

Limitations

• Subscriptions must be purchased directly for customers.
• Custom term end date must fall within the first term duration.
• End dates can't align with the 28th, 29th, or 30th of the month for monthly terms.
• Aligning charge cycles with the calendar month requires specific calculation.
• Annual/triannual terms can't co-term with monthly terms.
• Changes to coterminous subscriptions allowed only at renewal.

Summary

End Date Alignment allows you to align renewal dates for multiple Microsoft Subscriptions to renew on a single date, streamlining billing and renewals. When purchasing a new Subscription, select an existing Subscription to align with, and the new Subscription will be prorated to match that end date. Monthly Subscriptions can align with any Subscription type, but Annual Billing and Triennial Subscriptions cannot align with Monthly Billing Subscriptions. Key limitations include that end dates cannot align with the 28th, 29th, or 30th of the month for Monthly Billing, and changes to co-termed Subscriptions are only allowed at renewal.