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All major credit cards are accepted. When paying with a credit card, your subscription amount will appear on your credit card statement. Existing customers may be eligible to pay by invoice and can contact support to check their eligibility for this payment method.  Learn more about paying by invoice . For Microsoft 365 business plans, depending on your choice of service, you'll be billed monthly or annually.

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To provide you with the greatest amount of flexibility, different payment options are available. Microsoft 365 Business Basic, Apps for business, Business Standard, and Business Premium plans are available for monthly commitment payment or annual commitment payment.

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The Microsoft 365 Enterprise and Office 365 Enterprise plans (including standalone plans such as Exchange Online) and Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise are available for annual commitment payment.

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Does Microsoft 365 work when I’m not connected to the internet?

The Microsoft 365 apps that you install on your PC or Mac—such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook—are available to you when you‘re not online. With OneDrive in Microsoft 365, get file storage that you can access when you’re offline. When you make changes while offline, they‘ll be synced to OneDrive and across the rest of your devices when you reconnect. With Outlook, read emails already delivered to your inbox, or draft new emails and meeting requests. Your inbox and outbox will sync across the rest of your devices when you reconnect.

What happens to my data if I cancel my subscription?

Your data is yours. If you decide to cancel your Microsoft 365 subscription, download your data—for example, your email and documents on team sites—and save it to another location. You should save your data before you cancel. After you cancel your subscription, data associated with your Microsoft 365 account will be available to your administrator(s) in a limited function account for 90 days.

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With Microsoft 365 Business Basic, Microsoft 365 Business Standard, and Microsoft 365 Business Premium plans, you can host online meetings and video calls for up to 300 people using Microsoft Teams. With Microsoft 365 E3 and E5, Microsoft 365 A3 and A5, and Microsoft 365 Government G3 and G5 plans, this limit increases up to 1,000 people.  Learn more .

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Exchange Online vs Office 365: What Should You Choose?

For the uninitiated, Office 365 is the cloud-based SaaS offered by Microsoft that consists of a comprehensive suite of productivity applications including Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, and Outlook for the desktop; and server-based applications such as Exchange and SharePoint .

However, many may be stuck with the dilemma of choosing between Exchange Online and Office 365. The Exchange Online vs Office 365 matchup is confusing because users can either opt-in for only Microsoft’s email solution, Exchange Online, or they can choose the complete suite of productivity applications by purchasing an Office 365 license. If your company is considering a migration to the cloud from on-premises servers running some edition of Microsoft Exchange Server (for example), this could be a genuine decision-making challenge.

Therefore, in this article, we will compare both products including Exchange Online and Office 365 to help you decide whether the former would be enough for you or if it would make more sense to choose the latter.

Is Office 365 different than Exchange Online?

Many assume that Microsoft Exchange Online and Office 365 are two different products altogether. However, this is not categorically true. Exchange Online is simply one of the many products that are included in Office 365, which is a collection of tools rather than being a single product. You can purchase either product without the other; it is possible to opt-in for Microsoft Exchange Online without the Office 365 suite, but you can also purchase the Office 365 Pro Plus edition that doesn’t include Exchange Online.

However, no matter the case, Exchange Online complements Office 365 (and hence doesn’t compete with it). For example, if you choose Exchange Online as a standalone email service now, you can always upgrade to Office 365 later.

What is your business requirement?

If you are looking only for a cloud-based email service, Exchange Online is more than enough. You can choose between two Exchange Online plans : Plan 1 & Plan 2.

Exchange Online Plan 1 offers up to 50 GB storage per user along with the web-based and app-based versions of the Outlook client and enterprise-level email security through Exchange Online Protection.

Exchange Online Plan 2 offers unlimited storage and unified messaging services, with advanced security features like Data Loss Prevention (DLP), In-Place Hold, and hosted voicemails. Generally required by large companies.

However, Office 365 can be considered if you’re looking for a comprehensive suite of collaboration and productivity tools. Depending on your requirements, you can choose between various Office 365 plans such as Office 365 Business Essentials, Office 365 Business, and Office 365 Business Premium. If you are a larger organization with more than 300 users, you may choose Office 365 Enterprise plans: Enterprise E1 , Enterprise E3 , and Enterprise E5 .

Do note that all those editions (Business and Enterprise) include Exchange Online as part of the product package except Office 365 Pro Plus.

The size of your company matters

If you are a small enterprise with no more than, say, 50 members or so, it is fine to migrate to Exchange Online only. This is because we anticipate that as you are a small company, you may not need advanced collaboration features that Office 365 offers. However, if you have a considerable number of employees and you expect your team size to grow further in the future, consider getting some edition of Office 365. With Office 365, you get not only the email solutions of Exchange Online, but you also get business communication tools such as Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business . Ultimately, as your company grows bigger, you are going to need more than just email, and that is where Office 365’s applications come in handy.

What is the nature of your business?

If your nature of business is such that it requires a lot of collaboration, consider going for Office 365. The software package comes with a host of useful applications such as Microsoft Teams , Skype for Business, SharePoint, OneDrive for Business , and more. If you have a service-based company, you can expect your users to collaborate online a lot; therefore, in such cases, Office 365 is the correct choice for your company. However, if your business is such that your users don’t need to collaborate online, Exchange Online is what you must go for as it only offers email functionality.

So, as you see, it all boils down to your company’s requirements. If you are still confused, you can begin by going for Microsoft Exchange Online and then later migrate to Office 365 full suite as your company’s needs grow.

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yes, you can mix the plans. You need to turn off Exchange Online Plan 1 in the in the user's Licenses and Apps section (displayed below). Expand Apps, and uncheck Exchange Online (Plan 1).

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Outlook for Mac 16.82 - mailbox space usage

I'm running Microsoft 365 Business Premium and have my mail going through Exchange Online. I'm using Outlook for Mac.

Is there a way within version 16.82 of Outlook for Mac to show mailbox space usage and quota?

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Good day! Thank you for posting in the Microsoft Community. We'll be happy to help!

Based on your description, I have a general understanding of your question, f or different email account, the method to check the usage of your mailbox is different. For Office 365 account, please kindly login your O365 account with Office 365 OWA(outlook web app) and then Click Settings  at the top-right corner>choose General>select Storage>check it

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Many thanks for getting back to me.

So effectively, Outlook for Mac has absolutely no mechanism in which to report mailbox usage? That seems like a very bad design choice to me. I certainly hope Microsoft will consider changing this so that users can keep tabs of their storage within the app itself without having to rely on OWA.

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