Insights · Pricing · October 2026
When you buy Microsoft licenses through a reseller, the price has two parts: what the reseller paid their distributor, and the margin they added on top. You see the total. You never see the split.
There is nothing wrong with margin. It is how resellers make a living. But it has a side effect: a reseller who lives off license margin has an opinion about how many licenses you should buy. More is better. For them.
You pay our purchase price from the distributor, plus 1%. That is the whole arrangement.
Because the 1% was never meant to be profit. It is a buffer. It covers billing errors and currency swings, so we don't lose money handling your licenses. In practice, licenses are a cost plus zero service. Advisory is the business.
That changes the advice you get. A reseller whose income is the advisory, not your license volume, has no reason to talk you into the expensive plan. When the honest answer is "buy less", that is the answer you get.
There is no minimum volume. There is no advisory subscription you have to buy first. Some companies buy their licenses at cost plus 1% and nothing else, just to get clean, predictable billing. That is fine. They know where to find us when the renewal letter arrives.
Send us your current license bill. We'll show you the same list at cost plus 1%, next to what you pay now.