Select Plus
Get affiliate licensing with all the benefits of one organization
Microsoft Select Plus is designed for large organizations with multiple affiliates that want to acquire software licenses and services at any affiliate level, while yielding all the advantages as one organization. Beyond reducing the price that organizations pay for software licenses over full packaged product prices, Select Plus offers many other opportunities to help maximize the value you receive by participating in the program.
Zones software licensing experts along with the Zones Microsoft team can help you evaluate your organization's needs to make the right choice for your business.
Introducing the Microsoft Products and Services Agreement (MPSA)
The MPSA is a simplified agreement structure that provides more flexible purchasing with the ability to purchase on-premises software and Online Services on one agreement. You can also register one or more Purchasing Accounts under your MPSA which enables you to define your organization's purchasing structure.
Reduce purchasing complexity through:
Simplified purchasing agreements
You are provided with a single agreement under the Master Business and Service Agreement (MBSA). This agreement never expires for transactional purchases, providing more flexibility, while eliminating the need to renegotiate and renew every three years.
Affiliate purchasing
Select Plus purchases are associated to a unique customer ID per affiliate. All purchases are tied to agreement and Lead Affiliate customer ID that allows organization-wide reporting or detailed affiliate level reporting.
Discover licensing benefits that:
Save money
Simple, automated, volume-based discounts can be applied to licensed product purchases across your entire organization at the corporate and affiliate locations.
Add value
You can buy and receive a full value for Software Assurance benefits with proration of coverage to the third affiliate account anniversary providing between 25 and 36 months of coverage.
Gain flexibility through:
Cross-language use rights
These rights can help enhance your organization's global presence by ensuring that staff located in different countries can easily communicate.
Training and evaluation software licenses
These licenses help you budget for software training and evaluation.
Downgrade rights
You can now standardize on versions. Downgrade rights offer the right to license the latest software version available, yet still run a previous version.
Re-imaging rights
Providing added convenience during product rollouts, these rights allow the use of certain licensed product media for copying of software onto multiple devices from one standard image.
Secondary use rights
These rights can help increase productivity by allowing primary users of a licensed desktop computer to share the same application license with a portable computer (for work-related purposes only).
See better returns with Software Assurance
Microsoft Software Assurance for Volume Licensing helps boost productivity across your organization by enabling you to get the most out of your Microsoft software with 24x7 support, deployment planning services, end-user and technical training, and the latest software releases and unique technologies, all in one cost-effective program. The Spread Payments benefit for Software Assurance offers a more flexible way to manage technology expenditures by allowing you to spread payments annually over the term of the Software Assurance coverage.
| Benefits | Select License | Select Plus | |
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| Minimum Number of Desktop PCs | any | ||
| 5+ | |||
| 250+ |  |
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| Licensing Offerings Available | License | |
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| License & Software Assurance | |
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| Software Assurance | |
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| Pricing | Based on Product Pools | |
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| Based on Employees | |||
| Based on Desktop PCs | |||
| Based on License & Software Assurance | |||
| Agreement Term | No Expiration | |
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| 1 Year | |||
| 2 Years | |||
| 3 Years | |
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| Payment Options | Up-front | |
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| Monthly | |||
| Annually | |
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| How to Buy | Indirect | ||
| Direct | |
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| Product Fulfillment | Acquired Separately | ||
| Provided | |
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| Software Assurance | Option to Add | |
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| Included | |||
| Online Services | Offered | |
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*Level D pricing is available to entities that met the threshold for the discount.
**Learn how to acquire Microsoft Online Services.