Personal Dev Account Cost Vs. What I see at Microsoft Account > Payment and Billing > Payment options

GDD 1 Reputation point
2021-12-31T06:38:21.673+00:00

First time poster - apologies if this is the completely wrong place to be asking and for selecting a tag which I guess I found most appropriate for this scenario ...

I have what I think should be a pretty easy question for someone here but I would like some concrete clarification after having spent a lot of time with online chat and a couple of lengthy calls to Microsoft only to come up empty except for link to https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-store/register ... where unfortunately the support chat targeted for Developers is out of my time zone/normal hours of their/my availability - not a full on whinge rant in that respect but an answer would be truly appreciated so here goes ...

I am in Australia, I have paid for an Individual Account and am comfortably running the Devkit Activation app on my Xbox Series X with no issue accessing Xbox Dev Mode. I can access my portal via my preferred browser, I can upload via that and furthermore can use the network share I have setup to transfer files as per my requirements/use case so this is not really a technical question but more an account related one.

Backstory:

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-store/register/ states and qoute:

Individual accounts cost approximately $19 USD, and company accounts cost approximately $99 USD (the exact amounts may vary depending on your country or region). This is a one-time registration fee and no renewal is required

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/publish/account-types-locations-and-fees states and quote:

Costs approximately $19 USD (one-time registration fee; the exact amount varies depending on your country or region)

However, if I log into my Microsoft account and go to Payment and Billing > Payment options page > click on the credit card for which I paid for my Developer subscription it alternatively states that:

Windows and Windows Phone Annual Developer Registration

Question:

Can someone please verify that they are not being charged annually for a Microsoft Developer Individual account considering that I personally see a major difference in the wording here I.e., "a one-time registration fee and no renewal is required" AND "one-time registration fee; the exact amount varies depending on your country or region" as per the provided links Vs. "... Annual Developer Registration" as per my MS account Payment options page?

It is a small price to pay and I am probably panicking over nothing seeing as though I do not see this charge under my MS account Subscriptions tab, but I guess I look at the discrepancy between the two and would like to know 100% exactly what I have signed up to.

Thanks all :)

Community Center | Not monitored
{count} votes

Your answer

Answers can be marked as Accepted Answers by the question author, which helps users to know the answer solved the author's problem.