topic Re: Meraki Subscription Licensing Model - Can I Extend the End Date Less Than 1 Year? in Cloud Networking Platform

Meraki Subscription Licensing Model - Can I Extend the End Date Less Than 1 Year?

pjfurlong — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 20:42:29 GMT

I have a customer who is on the default co-term licensing model and is looking to move to the subscription model to simplify issues with the end date always being adjusted.

When you set up a Meraki Subscription, it initially needs to be at least 1 Year (CCW will reject an attempt to set a shorter end date); however, what I want to know is if I can later extend the end date past its initial date when I create the subscription, but less than a full renewal.

For example, I create a subscription that starts October 21, 2025 and ends October 21, 2026. Once the subscription is set up, can I create an order to modify the end date of the subscription to November 21, 2026? Or will I only be able to add new devices to a subscription so they co-term to the end date of the subscription and any attempt to change the end date of the subscription will require a minimum 1 year renewal of everything in the subscription?

The Meraki documentation says "Customers can seamlessly add, upgrade, and extend their existing Subscriptions to meet evolving needs." (emphasis mine) but they don't spell out if extend means "change to any date in the future, be it one day, one month, six months" or only "you can extend it by the standard 1/3/5/7/10 year terms"

Re: Meraki Subscription Licensing Model - Can I Extend the End Date Less Than 1 Year?

BlakeRichardson — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 19:25:21 GMT

I don't know much about subscription based licensing as I have never used it, the documentation suggests the minimum term is 36 months but I would suggest having a chat with your Cisco account manager.

https://documentation.meraki.com/General_Administration/Licensing/Subscription_-_Licensing_Overview

Re: Meraki Subscription Licensing Model - Can I Extend the End Date Less Than 1 Year?

Philip D'Ath — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 19:52:55 GMT

Yes, you can.

You can find more info here:

https://documentation.meraki.com/General_Administration/Licensing/Subscription_-_Licensing_Renewals

Re: Meraki Subscription Licensing Model - Can I Extend the End Date Less Than 1 Year?

Philip D'Ath — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 19:56:17 GMT

It does say 36 months. It's wrong.

You can definately have 12-month subscriptions.

Re: Meraki Subscription Licensing Model - Can I Extend the End Date Less Than 1 Year?

pjfurlong — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 20:58:36 GMT

The page you linked to talks about renewals and it says automatic renewals result in a one year extension and as for the manual renewals it says "Manual renewal also allows you to extend the subscription term from 12 to 120 months."

So it sounds like the minimum term a subscription can be extended is 12 months and my customer is out of luck if they want/need less than that.