Change your Microsoft 365 subscription billing frequency

When you buy a Microsoft 365 for business subscription, you select a billing frequency. You can change how often you're billed for your subscription in the Microsoft 365 admin center.

Before you begin

• Find out what type of billing account you have.
• If you have a Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) billing account type, you must be a Billing account owner or contributor, or a Billing profile owner or contributor to do the tasks in this article. For information about billing account and billing profile roles, see Understand your Microsoft business billing account and Manage your Microsoft business billing profiles.
• If you have a Microsoft Online Services Agreement (MOSA) billing account type, you must be at least a Billing Administrator to do the tasks in this article. For more information, see About admin roles in the Microsoft 365 admin center.

Caution

Global Administrators have almost unlimited access to your organization's settings and most of its data. To help keep your organization secure, we recommend that you limit the number of Global Administrators as much as possible.

Change your billing frequency

If you have an MCA billing account type

Note

You can only schedule a change to billing frequency at renewal.

1. Go to the Microsoft 365 admin center.

• If you're using the Simplified view, select Subscriptions.
• If you're using the Dashboard view, go to the Billing > Your products page.

1. Select the subscription that you want to manage.
2. On the subscription details page, in the Billings section, under Subscription length & billing frequency, select Edit settings.
3. In the Edit subscription length & billing frequency settings panel, choose how you'd like to pay for the subscription, then select Save.
4. Changes are reflected in the Scheduled changes section and go into effect at renewal.

If you have a MOSA billing account type

1. Go to the Microsoft 365 admin center.
   • If you're using the Simplified view, select Subscriptions.
   • If you're using the Dashboard view, go to the Billing > Your products page.
2. Select the subscription that you want to manage.
3. On the subscription details page, in the Subscription and payment settings section, select Edit billing frequency.
4. In the Edit billing frequency pane, choose either Pay monthly or Pay yearly, then select Change.

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