Turn your surplus licenses into capital

Selling your surplus Microsoft software is a smart way to turn dormant capital into a valuable asset. We purchase your surplus licenses at attractive prices thus enabling your company to generate significant income aside from your standard business.
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Why sell licenses
Microsoft Software licenses that you no longer need – or have never used – are dormant capital. Consider selling Microsoft licenses, since doing so is both possible and legal in Europe
Benefits
for your
organisation

Significant
Savings
Generate significant income from outside your usual business activities and generate additional income for your future investments or digitalization projects. 
Showing initiative
Your company’s IT department, which has the best overview of unused software licenses, can position itself to be entrepreneurially minded.
Cleaning up licensing chaos
Review your license inventory, analyse the way your company manages software and the way your users utilise it, to understand what is not needed.
Cloud readiness
When moving to cloud is part of the company's IT strategy, sell surplus licenses and invest capital in a cloud readiness program, to plan installation of cloud products and prepare your SAM and procurement department to keep cloud expenses under control.When to sell your licenses
Based on the Microsoft product usage rights (PURs) it is more likely to sell surplus licenses when your renewal is becoming effective, regardless of your company having deinstalled the existing installation.
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If you have double-licensed to cover an existing usage, when signing up for Microsoft cloud products: O365/ M365/ Visio or Project, online based or subscription model.
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If you have signed Server Cloud Enrolment (SCE) agreements, by choosing subscription products for the entire data centre instead of renewing the software assurance.
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If you are undergoing a merger, acquisition or centralization of the server environment.
The selling process
Software license transfer is legal throughout the EU and the UK although several conditions must be strictly followed. Capefoxx ensures these conditions are adhered to by using a transparent workflow.
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Presentation to customer
Capefoxx presents requirements for transferring a license, a procurement scenario and helps determine the data basis.
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Verification of the data basis
Capefoxx reviews and verifies the data basis provided by the customer. Depending on the client's need a SAM baseline review is part of the assessment and enables a decision based on facts connected to the PURs of Microsoft and IP law.
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Quote
Capefoxx provides a quote, determined by the verified data basis.
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Questions and conclusion
Capefoxx discusses any outstanding questions with the customer, and once the agreement is reached, both parties exchange relevant documents and contracts. All external legal, audit, consulting advice is part of our risk free sales approach.
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Review
A customer reserves a right to view details of any subsequent sales and Capefoxx informs the manufacturer of a license transfer. We buy and sell a wide range of products
























The legal foundation
The transfer of software licenses, given specific conditions are met, is legal in the EU EFTA trade zone. Same conditions still apply to the UK market after Brexit. The legal basis for this is referred to as the ‘principle of exhaustion’. This principle means that the copyright holder’s exclusive right to distribute a copy of a copyrighted product is exhausted on its first legal sale.
The distribution of licenses subject to certain legal conditions
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The products must be individually marketable (i.e., standard software products).
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Licenses issued by the manufacturer must be perpetual.
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The software must have been distributed legally.
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The software needs to be transferred in real terms - the seller’s copy of the software must be made unusable.
Capefoxx partners with Deloitte, a renowned software auditor, to ensure the highest quality levels of our software licenses.