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MICROSOFT MARKETPLACE · EMEA

Your channel partner can finally be in the deal.

Multiparty private offers just went live across 32 EMEA markets. This guide shows you how to land your first MPO deal and turn it into a motion that scales across your whole channel, without you on every call.

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32
EMEA markets now live for MPO
2030
When Microsoft expects most Marketplace purchases to run through a partner
100%
Of the sale counts toward the customer's cloud commitment, automatically
The opportunity, right now

32 new markets. One purchasing motion, finally available in Europe.

Until this year, selling alongside a channel partner through Microsoft Marketplace wasn't an option across most of Europe. Customers who wanted to buy through a partner they already trusted had to transact another way, or the deal stalled.

That constraint is gone. The motion that's worked in the US and UK for years now works across the region, and it's arriving right where Microsoft says the market is heading: most Marketplace purchasing through a partner, not direct, by 2030.

Markets now live for MPO
UKAustriaBelgiumBulgariaCroatiaCyprusCzechiaDenmarkEstoniaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryIcelandIrelandItalyLatviaLiechtensteinLithuaniaLuxembourgMaltaNetherlandsNorwayPolandPortugalRomaniaSlovakiaSloveniaSpainSwedenSouth Africa

What this guide covers

Topics
1

Landing and scaling MPO deals

The framework, the two pathways, and what a qualifying deal looks like

2

Understanding multiparty private offers (MPO)

What MPO is, where you can sell it, and why each side cares

3

Building and sending an MPO offer

What each party does, what to gather, what to watch, and how currency works

4

Getting MPO-ready as an SDC

The one-time set-up on your side, and where to initiate an offer from

5

Getting your channel partner MPO-ready

The four steps they complete, and what trips people up

6

Resources & Appendix

Guides, templates, documentation, and where to get help

Multiparty private offers are now live across 32 EMEA markets.

Until this year, selling alongside a channel partner through Microsoft Marketplace wasn't an option across most of Europe. Customers who wanted to buy through a partner they already trusted had to transact another way.

That constraint is gone. The motion that already works in the US and UK now works across the region.

It also lands where the market is heading. Microsoft expects most Marketplace purchasing to run through a partner rather than direct by 2030.

Who this is for

Built for software companies who already sell through channel partners in Europe.

You sell through partners

Resellers, distributors, or SDCs already own the customer relationship in your deals.

Deals have stalled on this

A customer wanted to keep buying through their trusted partner, and Marketplace couldn't accommodate it. Until now.

You're selling in Europe

A motion that's worked in the US and UK for years just became available across 32 EMEA markets.

Two pathways

A two-part playbook: land your first deal, then scale it.

Land

Land your first deal. Identify the deal, identify the partner already on it, and hold their hand all the way through to the close.

Check any deal against the 5-point qualifier before you invest time.

Open the partner conversation so it lands as help, not a pitch.

Avoid the five mistakes that stall or kill most first deals.

Scale

Expand from one-by-one deal enablement to enabling your whole channel to sell without you in the room.

Find where in Partner Center to see whether a deal actually worked.

Use that signal to find the next cluster of deals worth targeting.

Get to a place where it runs without you on every call.

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Marketplace Activation Guide

Get ahead of where Microsoft says the market is heading.

Download the guide and land your first MPO deal in Europe, without the five mistakes that stall most first attempts.

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