The 123 Reg Microsoft 365 Alternative for UK Businesses

Here is the same Microsoft 365 Business licence, priced per user per month ex VAT. Microsoft raises its own list prices on 1 July 2026, the first suite increase since 2022, so the table shows both windows.

Business Standard (the usual 123 Reg plan):

• 123 Reg renewal: £13.99
• Our Standard now: £8.83
• Our Standard from 1 July 2026: £9.94
• Microsoft direct from 1 July 2026: £10.80

Business Premium (security included, which 123 Reg does not sell online):

• Our Premium now: £15.55
• Our Premium from 1 July 2026: £15.55
• Microsoft direct from 1 July 2026: £16.90

On Standard, a 25-seat business on the £13.99 renewal pays £4,197 a year. The same 25 seats with us at £8.83 cost £2,649 a year, about £1,548 less. No teaser price that jumps at renewal. There is no year-two step up from us. If Microsoft changes its list price we tell you before renewal and pass through the real change, and we stay below list on every plan, before and after the July rise.

A tenant is your own Microsoft 365 organisation account, where your users, mail and data live. With 123 Reg, that tenant is provider-managed, which means 123 Reg holds the administrator role and you rent access to your own environment. That has real consequences:

• You cannot freely add other Microsoft services or move admin control without going through them.
• Leaving means untangling a tenant someone else set up and controls.
• Lock-in is the point, not an accident.

We provision every licence into a Microsoft tenant that you own. You hold the global administrator account. You can add services, change resellers, or leave entirely and keep everything. Your tenant is yours. We just bill you less for the licences in it.

Moving off a provider-managed tenant is more involved than a standard licence switch, and we will not pretend otherwise. What happens depends on how 123 Reg set things up.

• If your mail and data already sit in a tenant tied to your own domain, the work is mostly transferring administrative control and reattaching licences. Your mailboxes, files and Teams stay where they are.
• If 123 Reg set you up under their own managed structure, a clean migration into a tenant you own is the safer route. Mailboxes, OneDrive and SharePoint content, and Teams data are the items that move.

For anything beyond a simple licence reattach, we offer guided paid migration so the move is planned, not improvised. You keep your domain, your email addresses and your history. We tell you which path applies before you commit, so there are no surprises.

Switching to us makes sense if you are a UK business of roughly 10 to 50 seats that is staring at a 123 Reg renewal near £13.99, wants control of its own tenant, or needs Business Premium for security such as Defender for Business, Intune and conditional access, which 123 Reg does not sell through online checkout.

The honest caveat applies to every Microsoft reseller, including us. Microsoft's New Commerce Experience rules govern subscriptions. You can reduce seat counts only inside the 7 day cancellation window or at renewal, never mid term. Adding seats and upgrading plans works any time. We state this plainly rather than burying it, because it shapes which term suits you. Annual upfront is our lowest price and fixes the rate for 12 months. Monthly flexible costs about 20% more and lets you resize or cancel at each monthly renewal.