New End of Sale Pricelist for Software: What CSP Partners Should Prepare Before July 1, 2026

Microsoft is adding a new End of Sale Pricelist for Software in Partner Center, effective July 1, 2026. The new price list is intended to identify software products that are no longer available for new purchases and expose the relevant end-of-sale timing.

For Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) direct bill partners and distributors, this is an important pricing and operations update. End-of-sale information affects quoting, catalog management, sales guidance, renewal conversations, and downstream automation. When products leave availability, partners need a reliable way to prevent new sales motions from continuing against software that can no longer be sold.

What the new pricelist includes

According to Microsoft, the End of Sale Pricelist for Software will include fields such as product and SKU identifiers, term duration, billing plan, unit price, estimated retail price, market, currency, and segment information.

Most importantly, it introduces two fields that partners should pay close attention to:

- EndOfSaleStartDate — the date when the product is no longer available for sale.
- EndOfSaleEndDate — the end date for the end-of-sale period.

These fields give partners a structured way to understand when software products become unavailable for new purchases.

Why it matters

The key operational value is that end-of-sale information becomes easier to consume as pricing data rather than tribal knowledge.

Without a structured source, partners may rely on manual announcements, internal notes, or delayed catalog updates. That increases the risk of quoting unavailable products, creating order exceptions, or giving customers outdated purchasing guidance.

By treating end-of-sale status as part of the pricing workflow, partners can improve control across:

- product catalog updates,
- quoting tools,
- sales enablement materials,
- order validation,
- customer communications,
- lifecycle and migration planning.

Recommended partner actions

Partners should prepare systems to consume the new file when it becomes available on July 1, 2026. Pricing and operations teams should review any process that currently imports software pricing data and determine whether end-of-sale fields need to be added to internal schemas, dashboards, or validation rules.

At minimum, partners should consider:

  1. Updating pricing ingestion logic to recognize the new pricelist.
  2. Mapping EndOfSaleStartDate and EndOfSaleEndDate into internal product records.
  3. Blocking or warning on new quotes for products that are no longer available.
  4. Training sales teams on how end-of-sale status should be communicated to customers.
  5. Reviewing customer-facing catalogs for products that may need removal or replacement guidance.

Bottom line

The new End of Sale Pricelist for Software gives CSP partners a more structured way to manage software availability. Partners that integrate it into pricing and catalog workflows early will be better positioned to avoid quote errors and guide customers toward available alternatives.

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/partner-center/announcements/2026-june#new-end-of-sale-pricelist-for-software-now-available