Renewal Process
- Conduct Business Review
- Business review to take place within 120 – 90 days prior to customer LED
- Weekly/ Monthly Cadence with Channel AMO
- Discuss ATR(aCCOUNTS TO rENEW)
- Channel AMO to create Renewal Estimate
- 90 days prior to the LED estimate is released to partner. Channel AMO to discuss with partner prior to sending to customer
- Partner to review/discuss renewal estimate to customer
- Negotiation
- The customer signs off and channel AMO processes the renewal.
- Partners get copied on the signed estimate
Renewal Types
- Renewing
- Non- renewing
- Partner AMO
- Obtain the 30 day written notice from the customer
- Partner AMO to inform and send the written notice to Oracle NS Channel AMO(CAMO)
- Channel AMO
- Channel AMO to add the CUSTOMER written notice in the customer record within User Notes
- Notify Manager to change the customer status from “Closed Won”
- Oracle NS Billing
- Oracle NetSuite Billing Team will close the account after the license end date. Renewal status automatically changes to “Lost”.
- Customer
- Customer can access their account until the end of their contract to get all their data/information.
- Partner AMO
- Auto-Renewal – Renewal is processes manually without the customer’s signature.
- Customer has not given notice of termination
- last login period is within the past 60 days
- transaction date can’t be more than 5 days prior to the start of their next term
- Non – Coterm Renewal(NCR) – is how we refer to contracts for license items that renew at a different date than the customer’s standard renewal
- Examples – Sandbox
- Advanced Customer Support
- Premium Support
- NetSuite Planning & Budgeting
- LCS
- Examples – Sandbox
Renewal Cap – Limits the price increase on the renewal and only applies to the value of the original functionality of the contract. Limite to a specific period.
Price Hold– Unit Net Price($) – Guaranteed for a specific term for future purchases of cloud services. Is limited to a specific period.
Price Lock – %Discount – Guaranteed for a specific term for future purchases of cloud services. Is limited to a specific period.
One Time Discounts – Discounts that ar applied to specific estimates that do not apply to future purchases or estimates
Renewal Best Practises
- Never blindly send an estimate without having a conversation
- Research
- Lead with value not price
- Don’t assume the status quo
- Consider solutions that promote efficiencies