Activating Office 2013 for Small Business Scenarios

Some advice required please. We're a small VAR and supply hardware and software to small businesses with no in house IT department.
When customers have purchased Office Licences in the past, we've maintained a log of the number of licences held by a given customer, and a list of licences. This has worked well for Office 2007 and Office 2010.
Please correct me if I am wrong, but I do not seem to be able to activate Office 2013 unless I associate it with a given email address, and I have issues with this approach. It is not ideal in a number of scenarios.
Is there any way to activate Office 2013 without having to associate the licence with a given users email address?
Stuart

No, we don't have to associate the licence with a given users email address.
The method to associate the licence with a email address is one of the available licensing methods, apart from which, we also have the traditional licensing method that is using product key.
For more licensing and purchase related topics, I'd suggest you to contact the Customer Service to obtain help:
http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/how-to-buy/how-to-buy.aspx
Also check the Buyer's guide:
http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/about-licensing/office.aspx
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