Area 18 · Software and skills

Software and licences

A Zaragoza distributor with forty-five users pays for Microsoft 365 Business Premium across the board, including six warehouse operatives who only glance at email on their phones. Add three accounts for staff long gone, an Adobe plan charged to marketing and a Zoom subscription nobody remembers ordering. Together we work out who needs what; you purchase from the publisher and we handle the set-up. Since Apply sells no licences and receives no kickbacks, a larger invoice for you brings us no benefit.

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services under this heading
0%
commission, as we are not a distributor
1 register
for all subscriptions, owners and renewal dates
Remote
tool installation and tuning

Five common leaks in the software bill

Trimming licences saves money faster than almost anything else in IT, and no system has to change. They are common in small firms and public bodies of every kind.

Leavers nobody tells IT about

We set up an offboarding routine. HR settles final pay, yet the licence keeps billing for months and the mailbox stays open.

One plan for everybody

We match plans to roles. Someone using only email and Teams on a phone needs far less than the office worker living in Excel and SharePoint all day.

Subscriptions on scattered cards

A single register replaces the guesswork. Canva charged to marketing, Zoom to the MD, an antivirus to the technician: nobody knows the yearly total.

Automatic renewals

Renewal dates go in a shared calendar with early warnings. An annual commitment renewed unchecked locks you into the same seat count for another twelve months.

Unlicensed programs

We regularise or find an alternative. A copied AutoCAD on one laptop becomes very expensive the day the vendor requests an audit.

With Microsoft 365, when you cut seats matters as much as the price. On annual commitments, licence numbers can generally only be reduced in a short window after purchase or at renewal. A fifty-person firm discovering in February that eight seats bought in November are surplus will probably keep paying for them until the following November. So we record every renewal date and alert you weeks ahead. We confirm the exact terms with the vendor in each case.

How we sort out licences without anyone noticing

Changes are made remotely through the Microsoft 365 administration portal and other vendor dashboards, using rights you delegate and revoke once the job is done.

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Spend inventory

A full list of spend: seat counts, actual activity from vendor usage reports, when each contract renews and which payment method it hits.

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Proposal by user profile

Plans fitted to how each group works, with a frank account of what a lower tier gives up, such as Intune, Defender or email archiving.

03

Direct purchase and switch-over

You buy from the vendor in your company’s name. We give you the exact products and quantities and make the change on the renewal date, with no double charges and no outage for users.

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Ongoing control

Joiners and leavers handled as they happen and, at the agreed interval, a one-page update covering seat numbers, cost, recent changes and the next contract due.

Common questions

No. Apply has no reseller, distributor or partner status with any publisher, which also means no channel discounts are on offer. Purchases are made by your company, in its own name and on its own account. We advise on product, edition and quantity, then carry out the configuration. You pay only for our time, at €75 per hour + VAT or a fixed price, and no commission sways the advice.

It hinges on the product and on how much your staff numbers move. Annual terms are usually cheaper per seat but restrict when you can scale down; monthly costs more and bends more easily. A business with a peak season, such as a winery at harvest or a webshop at Christmas, often mixes both. We check current terms and show you each option as a yearly cost.

Chaos is the normal starting point. Installed software and real usage are matched against invoices, and each gap gets a specific action: top up, downgrade, cancel, or switch to free software where that is enough, for instance LibreOffice for staff who only open documents.

Hardware is outside what Apply supplies, and there are no on-site visits. Order from whichever supplier you normally use; on request we draft a spec so new machines suit your licences and join Intune automatically. A staff member unboxes and powers up each device using a guide we send; from there we carry on remotely.

The Red.es Kit Digital programme has categories for virtual office and workstation tools, but grants are processed solely through registered digitalisation agents. Apply is not one and does not handle those grants. If you are interested, check the current rules on the programme’s official website.

Let us count your licences together

Send the list of software you use, or simply describe the situation. We suggest the right plans, work out the annual cost and flag spending you can drop.

Hours
Monday to Friday, 9:00-18:00 Spanish time (CET), answers within a working day
Meetings
Video calls via Google Meet or Teams

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