You Bought E1. You Want E3. How do you upgrade?
J.J. Antequino
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I’ve been working with a bunch of Partners who got their customers all excited about Office 365, but at the time, all their customers seemed to want was Exchange Online. Those partners were able to show their customers the value of Lync and Sharepoint Online, and for just a couple more bucks per month, they purchased E1.
E3 was an elusive sale because those same customers didn’t feel comfortable using Office “in the cloud”
However, now they see the light. That extra $12 per month means installation on 5 devices. It means always being up to date on the latest version of Office. It means Office On-Demand. It means using Office on your Windows Phone, iPhone, and Android Phone.
But what is a customer to do?
You may have seen some of my fellow team members talk about some of plan switching announcements at WPC, but here is a link directly to the “Can I switch to a different Office 365 plan or Subscription” landing page.
Here you will see the current switching capabilities:
FROM PLAN |
TO PLAN |
Office 365 Small Business |
Office 365 Small Business Premium |
Office 365 Enterprise K1 Office 365 Enterprise K2 |
Office 365 Enterprise E1 Office 365 Enterprise E3 Office 365 Enterprise E4 |
Office 365 Enterprise E1 |
Office 365 Enterprise E3 Office 365 Enterprise E4 |
Office 365 Enterprise E3 |
Office 365 Enterprise E4 |
Lync Online (Plan 1) Lync Online (Plan 2) |
Office 365 Enterprise E1 Office 365 Enterprise E3 Office 365 Enterprise E4 |
Lync Online (Plan 3) |
Office 365 Enterprise E4 |
SharePoint Online (Plan 1) |
Office 365 Enterprise E1 Office 365 Enterprise E3 Office 365 Enterprise E4 |
SharePoint Online (Plan 2) |
Office 365 Enterprise E3 Office 365 Enterprise E4 |
Exchange Online (Plan 1) |
Office 365 Enterprise E1 Office 365 Enterprise E3 Office 365 Enterprise E4 |
Exchange Online (Plan 2) |
Office 365 Enterprise E3 Office 365 Enterprise E4 |
Office 365 Education A1 |
Office 365 Education A2 Office 365 Education A3 |
Office 365 Education A2 |
Office 365 Education A3 |
Office Web Apps with SharePoint Online Plan 1 or Plan 2 |
Office 365 Education A1 Office 365 Education A2 Office 365 Education A3 Office 365 Education A4 |
Exchange Online Kiosk |
Office 365 Enterprise E1 Office 365 Enterprise E3 Office 365 Enterprise E4 Office 365 Enterprise K1 Exchange Online Plan 1 Exchange Online Plan |
If you don’t see what you need above, fear not, because more plan switching goodness will be coming soon:
Read more about the future [HERE]