Purchase and manage app subscriptions and licenses

Users can purchase subscriptions and manage licenses from Microsoft Teams Store for an individual, a team, or an organization. You can enhance the user experience for your app purchases based on the content outlined here. This article helps you understand the user's app purchase experience in Teams Store and you can provide a similar experience.

Subscription purchase experience

Here's the user experience to purchase a subscription plan for a Teams app:

1. In Teams, select Apps > Best selling.

   

2. Browse and select the app for which you want to purchase the subscription.

3. In the app details dialog, select Buy a subscription.

   

4. To view the available plans for your location, select your country or region and select Save and continue.

   

5. In the Choose a subscription plan dialog, select Buy for the plan you want to purchase.

   Note

   Private plans are only visible to users within the organization that the offer is intended for and are indicated with a Private offer icon.

   

6. The checkout experience partially differs for a new and an existing user. In the Checkout dialog, perform the following actions:

   • New user
   • Existing user

   1. Under Subscription details, select Quantity and Subscription length and select Next.

      

   2. Under Billing account, enter the name and billing details and select Next.

      

   3. Under Verify your address, select the address and select Next.

      

   4. Under Add a credit or debit card, add the required details and select Next.

      By default, the Same as billing address checkbox is selected to use the billing account’s address for the card. To add a new address, clear the checkbox and enter the address.

      

   5. Under Review, verify the details and select Place order.

      

7. When prompted, select Set up subscription to activate your subscription.

   

   Users are redirected to the app website (also known as a landing page) where they can manage subscriptions.

   

When a new user launches the app for the first time, they are requested to provide consent to the app.

Following is an example of the consent screen:

License and subscriptions management experience

Users can manage the app subscriptions purchased in Teams from the Manage your apps section. It allows to access the list of subscriptions and their details, and perform the following actions to manage the subscription:

• Change a plan
• Buy or remove licenses
• Update a payment method
• Cancel a subscription
• View your invoices

The following example shows how users can manage licenses for third-party apps from Teams Store:

1. Go to Microsoft Teams.

2. Select Apps > Manage your apps.

   

3. Select Subscriptions. A tab appears with a list of purchases made in the tenant.

   

   Here's the subscription management options on the Subscriptions page:

   
   
   Assign or unassign licenses

   1. Select an existing subscription from the list and select Assign licenses.

      

   2. To view license utilization and assign licenses, select Assign licenses.

      

   3. Search for the users or a team in the search box and select Assign. The users or a team are assigned with the license.

      

      Users can view the list of assigned users or teams for the subscription and also check the status of the assignment.

      

   4. To unassign a license for a user or a team, select the users or a team from the list and select Unassign.

       

   
   
   Filter your subscriptions

   1. To filter subscriptions by status, select Filter and then select the type(s) of subscriptions:

      • Pending: Subscription still needs to be set up.
      • Active: Subscription is set up and the service can be used.
      • Deleted: Subscription is no longer available.

   2. To find a specific subscription, type the name of the app in the search box.

       

   
   
   Buy or remove licenses

   1. Find the app subscription that you want to manage and select More options ....

   2. Manage licenses by selecting Buy licenses or Remove licenses.  

   
   
   Cancel a subscription

   1. Find the app that you want to cancel and select More options ... > View subscription.

   2. Select Cancel subscription.

    

Users can take additional actions related to app subscription, such as editing the billing profile or recurring billing settings in M365 admin center.

Admin purchasing experience

Admins can manage the app subscriptions and licenses in the Teams admin center. For more information, see purchase third-party Teams apps and manage subscriptions.

Check license usage in Partner Center analytics

1. Sign in to Partner Center.
2. In the left pane, go to Commercial Marketplace > Analyze > Licensing.
3. Select Plan and Tenant in the reporting widget to see the month wise usage.

See also

• Monetize your app
• Monetize your app FAQs
• ISV to customer private offers