Licence renewals for whatever you run today

Send us what is expiring and when. We quote the straight renewal, the comparable alternatives, and the cost of consolidating everything onto one date.

Where this usually goes wrong

1 The renewal notice arrived by email, quotes a higher price than last year, and gives no explanation for the increase.
2 Licences expire on different dates, so something is always about to lapse and nobody is tracking all of it.
3 The renewal quote came from the publisher's automated system and there is no person to ask about it.
4 Nobody is certain whether the seat count on the renewal still matches the number of computers in the office.
5 A card on file renews the subscription automatically every year, and the charge is the first anyone hears of it.

What Corelink does

Quote the like-for-like renewal of what you already run, so you have a real number to judge against.
Quote the comparable product from at least one other publisher, with the switching cost stated honestly.
Reconcile the seat count against the machines you actually have, in both directions.
Where terms are scattered, price the work of aligning them onto a single renewal anniversary.
Set a reminder and send the next quote before the term ends, not after it lapses.

What the problem is

A renewal notice is a poor moment to make a good decision. It arrives forty-five days out, or fifteen, quotes a figure higher than last year’s, and offers exactly one option: pay it. There is no line item explaining the increase, no comparison against anything, and frequently no human being attached to the message. The practical choice on offer is to pay or to let the protection lapse, and since nobody wants to be the person who let it lapse, most offices pay.

The second problem is the calendar. An office that bought protection gradually has renewal dates scattered through the year — three in March, one in July, two more in November, each with its own notice, its own price and its own payment. Nobody holds the whole picture. Something is always three weeks from expiry, and the only reason it gets renewed is that an automatic charge goes through on a card that may or may not still belong to someone who works there.

The third is the seat count. It was set when the licences were bought and has rarely been revisited. Offices grow, machines are retired, people move to laptops. The count on the renewal is a historical artefact, and it is as likely to be too high as too low.

What we provide

Send us the renewal notice, or just the product name, the seat count and the expiry date. We come back with three things.

First, the like-for-like renewal — the same product, the same term, so you have a real number to judge the publisher’s notice against. Second, a comparable product from at least one other publisher, with an honest statement of what switching would actually involve for your machines. Third, where your dates are scattered, a price for bringing them together onto one anniversary.

We also reconcile the seat count before quoting, rather than copying the number off the notice. That means asking what machines exist now, including servers and any computers staff use from home. It is a five-minute conversation and it is the likeliest place in the whole process for money to be going out unnecessarily.

What you receive

An itemised quote: product, seat count, term, unit price and total, with the renewal and the alternative side by side. If we think the straight renewal is the right answer, the quote says so — a renewal we cannot beat is still useful information, and telling you that is cheaper for us than pretending otherwise.

If you proceed, keys or activation details arrive by email under our delivery policy, and the licence is registered to your company rather than to us. Before the next term ends we send the next quote, early enough to be useful.

How pricing works

Renewal pricing is driven by three things: the number of seats, the length of the term, and whether the publisher is running a promotion in that quarter. Per-seat cost falls as seat count rises and falls again on multi-year terms, so the cheapest option is frequently a longer term at the corrected seat count rather than a different product altogether.

Consolidating scattered dates usually means co-terminating — buying short bridging periods on some licences so that every term ends on the same day. That costs something in the year it is done and saves administrative effort every year afterwards. We price it explicitly so you can decide whether it is worth it rather than being told that it is.

We do not publish prices. Distributor cost and publisher promotions both move, and a price on a web page would be either stale or bait.

Common questions

Can you renew a product we did not buy from you?

In most cases yes. Business licences are ordinarily renewed against the existing account or licence record, and the publisher does not require that the renewal come from the original reseller. Send us the product name, the seat count and the expiry date from your renewal notice and we will confirm whether we can quote it before you do anything else.

Is it cheaper to renew or to switch?

It depends on the gap between the renewal price and the competing quote, and on how much work switching creates for whoever manages your machines. Switching is rarely worth it to save a small amount on a small seat count. We quote both and say which one we would take.

What if our renewal is next week?

Tell us that in the first message. Most business products have a short grace period after expiry, and many can be renewed retroactively so the new term continues from the old expiry date rather than the purchase date, but neither is guaranteed. A renewal that is already close is a reason to get in touch sooner, not to wait.

Can you stop the automatic renewal that is already on our card?

No, and neither can any other reseller. Automatic renewals set up directly with a publisher have to be cancelled in that publisher's own account, by whoever holds the login. We will tell you where to do it, but the action has to be yours.

Do we have to renew for the same number of seats?

No. Seat counts can normally be adjusted at renewal, up or down, and this is the natural moment to correct a count that has drifted. Reducing seats mid-term is usually not possible, which is one reason it is worth counting carefully now.

Request a renewal quote

Tell us how many computers you have and what you run today. We reply with options and pricing during business hours — there is no automated checkout and no obligation.