Add licenses or more services to a customer's subscription
Appropriate roles: User management admin | Admin agent | Sales agent | Helpdesk agent
Note
This topic describes upgrade options for legacy or traditional license-based subscriptions. Partners can review information on upgrades and transitions using new commerce subscriptions in the new commerce upgrade documentation.
If your customer needs more licenses than their current subscription provides, or if they need a different version with more services, you might be able to upgrade their subscription.
For more information, see Switch to a different Microsoft 365 Apps for business plan.
Upgrades supported in the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program
The following upgrades are supported in the CSP program:
| Offer | Possible upgrades |
|---|---|
| Microsoft 365 Apps for business | - Microsoft 365 Business Premium1 - Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise - Office 365 Enterprise E3 - Office 365 Enterprise E5 |
| Microsoft 365 Business Standard | - Office 365 Enterprise E3 - Office 365 Enterprise E5 |
| Microsoft 365 Business Basic | - Microsoft 365 Business Standard1 - Office 365 Enterprise E1 - Office 365 Enterprise E3 - Office 365 Enterprise E5 |
1 Microsoft 365 Apps for business India and Microsoft 365 Business Basic India can be upgraded to Microsoft 365 Business Standard India, but not to Microsoft 365 Business Standard.
Note
Since March 2022, most of the legacy upgrade options are no longer available since the services are now available via new commerce. Partners should consider migrating their legacy offers to new commerce product SKUs or consult with their customers on the approrate new commerce product SKUs that best meet their customer's needs.
Upgrades supported for new commerce subscriptions
Note
The new commerce experiences for license-based services include many new capabilities and are available to all Cloud Solution Providers (CSPs).
For more information, see new commerce experiences overview.
Conditions
Subscriptions can be upgraded if these conditions apply:
The subscription must be active (not suspended or canceled).
The customer can't already have subscriptions that include the additional services.
The customer can't already have the subscriptions you're trying to upgrade them to.
In the last two cases the customer might have purchased their subscriptions or services from another partner or another channel. They won't be able to purchase those subscriptions from you unless they cancel their existing ones first. For more information, see multichannel.
For upgrading a subscription steps, refer to: Upgrade for new commerce license-based subscriptions.
More work might be required to transition some user accounts for some services. If so, Partner Center provides a list of accounts and services that were affected. For more information, see Upgrade to a different Microsoft plan.