How To Buy

ShoreTel Financial Services

Increasingly, organizations are discovering that it actually costs more to keep an existing communications solution than to switch to the ShoreTel UC system. To help make the purchase even easier, ShoreTel has partnered with leading financial service companies to offer financing options that enable you to preserve capital while reducing costs and protecting your investment. These financing options are currently only available in the United States and Canada.

ShoreTel offers three financing options:

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FlexGuard

FlexGuard has many attributes of a fair market (FMV) lease and allows customers to replace their entire system using a "System Replacement Guarantee." The replacement can be made at any time, and without financial penalties. Most leases allow a conditional upgrade to new technology, if it becomes available. However, the conditions usually include time restrictions, balance rollovers, or early payoffs. FlexGuard offers the following advantages:

  • System Replacement Guarantee: No waiting period, no rollover, and no hidden costs, which provides "peace of mind" protection against disruptive technologies and the unexpected.
  • Tax benefits: These include fully deductible payments and help you avoid the need for capital expenditure budgets with an operating expense solution.
  • Balance sheet finance: Structured to qualify.
  • Flexible end-of-term options: Renew at a reduced monthly rate and retain the System Replacement Guarantee, or finance the purchase, replace the system, or return equipment. You decide.
  • ShoreCare Partner Support: Provided all on one invoice.
$1 Out

This lease allows customers to purchase all equipment at the end of the lease term for $1. This is the least flexible option. Although it does not qualify as an off-balance-sheet item, the customer may decide to own the equipment at the end of the lease term.

Fair Market (FMV) Lease

The FMV Lease may qualify as an off-balance-sheet transaction and allows customers to return the equipment at the end of the term, or purchase it for the "Fair Market Value."