Microsoft 365, on the right plan and properly looked after.
Email, Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive all come from one subscription — but only if it's set up well. I work with small businesses across Lancashire and the North West to pick the right licence for each person, get everything configured, and then quietly keep it running.
Three plans, and one of them is probably right for you.
Microsoft names things confusingly. Here's what the three small-business plans actually give you, in plain English.
Business Basic
Business email, Teams and cloud storage, with the Office apps in a browser or on your phone. A good fit when the budget matters and your team mostly works on the web.
Business Standard
Everything in Basic plus the full desktop versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, along with Teams webinars, Bookings and Clipchamp.
Business Premium
Everything in Standard plus the security tools — Defender for Business, Intune device management and Conditional Access. This is the one I recommend for most small businesses.
The whole thing, set up and managed.
Buying the licences is the easy part. The value is in getting email, files and sign-in arranged so they work the way your business actually works.
Business email that behaves
Exchange Online on your own domain, set up properly, with shared mailboxes and aliases where you need them.
Teams, sensibly set up
Chat, calls and meetings — with the channels and permissions arranged so people can find things rather than guess.
SharePoint and OneDrive
A tidy home for company files in SharePoint, and a terabyte of OneDrive per user for personal working files.
The right plan per person
You can mix plans across your team, so nobody pays for desktop apps or security tooling they will never open.
Sign-in locked down
Multi-factor authentication on every account as standard, and on Premium, Conditional Access so a stolen password alone is not enough.
Devices under control
On Premium, Intune enforces encryption and policy on laptops and phones — including work apps on personal handsets.
Simple per-user pricing.
- Licences supplied and managed as your Microsoft partner
- Tenant set up or tidied up, on your own domain
- Email, Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive configured
- Multi-factor authentication switched on for everyone
- Starters, leavers and licence changes handled by me
- Plan reviewed as your team changes, so you are not over-buying
- Monthly rolling, cancel any time
What you pay depends on the plan each person needs, so tell me a little about your team and I'll put a clear written quote in front of you. Billed monthly per user, alongside your other services.
Common questions
Which Microsoft 365 plan should a small business pick?+
It comes down to two questions. Do your staff need the full desktop Office apps installed on their computers, or is the browser and mobile version enough? And do you need proper security — device management, threat protection and conditional access? If the answer to the second is yes, and for most businesses it is, Business Premium is the plan. Tell me how your team works and I will give you a straight recommendation.
What is the difference between Microsoft 365 and Office 365?+
Office 365 was the old name for the subscription that gives you the Office apps plus services like Exchange and SharePoint. Microsoft 365 is the broader package that adds device management and security — Intune, Defender and Entra ID — on top. Most of that extra security sits in the Business Premium plan.
Can different people in my business have different plans?+
Yes, and it is usually the sensible thing to do. Office staff might sit on Premium for the full security tooling while someone part-time or seasonal sits on Basic. I will help you work out the split so you are not paying for licences nobody uses.
Does Microsoft 365 back up my data?+
No, and this is the single biggest misunderstanding I come across. Microsoft keeps the service running and holds deleted items for a short window, but it does not back your data up. If something is deleted or hit by ransomware and falls outside that window, it is gone. I resell an independent Microsoft 365 backup that fixes this — see the Microsoft 365 Backup page. See Microsoft 365 Backup →
Can you move my existing email and files across?+
Yes. Whether you are coming from another provider, an old on-premises server or a self-managed tenant, I will plan the move, migrate mailboxes and files, and do the cutover at a time that causes the least disruption. You keep your address and your history.
Stop guessing which licence you need.
Tell me how your team works and I'll tell you which Microsoft 365 plan fits, move you onto it without the drama, and look after it from there — so email, Teams and files just work.
Get set upLet's get you on the right plan.
Tell me how many people you have and what they need to do, and I'll come back within one working day with a recommendation and a written quote. No pressure, no jargon.