The workbench in Revenue Lens is a landing spot where all incoming documents come to be processed. They can come from an API or an Excel upload, or we can create a manual document directly into the workbench. You may want integrations to work perfectly, but you don’t build a system for perfection. You build […]
Why Contract Billing is Harder than Subscription Billing
Subscription billing management isn’t easy – no question about it. The subscription model is about building, optimizing, marketing and selling packaged offerings. It’s repeatable and it’s often high velocity. These packages may have some components that create some complexity to the billing process – maybe a bundle of services, or some offerings may be usage-based […]
Revenue Recognition and Your Go to Market Model
How does your company go to market (GTM)? For many financial leaders this is a new question to consider, especially in regards to its relationship to revenue recognition. In my experience, this is actually a critical understanding, impacting everything from the business solutions you use to the productivity of your company. For technology companies, revenue is […]
Managing Deferred Revenue Change in Tensoft Revenue Lens
Below is a full transcription of the video above: “I’ll show you the Change Report in Tensoft Revenue Lens. This report gives you an overview of the activities in the deferred revenue account. For this period, we are looking at the month of May 2022. So, we’ll use the prior period end date and the […]
OrthoFi Manages Complex Revenue Recognition with Tensoft
Editor’s Note: This blog post was originally published on October 28, 2020. OrthoFi, a tech enabled service for orthodontic practices based in Denver, Colorado, needed a trusted solution to manage their complex revenue recognition system. After evaluating both, internal and external options, they decided to implement Tensoft Revenue Lens. Anne Richard, the Controller at OrthoFi, […]
Five Key Benefits of Tensoft DemandOps
High-tech product companies that sell through a distribution-based model often require a demand management solution that captures and manages demand signals for the entire process from finished product to end-customer. Tensoft’s demand management solution, Tensoft DemandOps – a purpose-built SAAS application – delivers both. Of the many benefits that Tensoft DemandOps offers, here are five […]
Dashboards in Tensoft Revenue Lens
In Tensoft Revenue lens, we have a few different dashboards to give you a quick overview of your data: Revenue Dashboard: The revenue dashboard shows the revenue recognized each month. It also displays pie charts of your top customers, top rule types, and top selling items. New Agreements Dashboard: With the new agreements dashboard, you […]
How Tensoft Revenue Lens Supports the Five-Step Revenue Recognition Model
By now, the five-step revenue recognition model for recognizing revenue under ASC 606 is familiar to most accountants. The five steps of this model are: 1) Identify the contract with a customer; 2) Identify the performance obligation in the contract; 3) Determine the transaction price; 4) Allocate the transaction price; and, 5) Recognize revenue as […]
Revenue Management Module in Tensoft DemandOps
In Tensoft DemandOps, we have a revenue management module that includes currency conversion subscription, net revenue tracking options, revenue management API, etc. The following provides a brief overview of some of these features: Net Revenue Setup We realize that for accounting purposes sometimes you need to know what your actual revenue will be. So, we […]
SMB With “Big Data” Challenges? You’re Not Alone
If you’re an SMB (Small and Medium sized Business) with “big data” challenges, you’re probably like many of Tensoft’s customers – trying to find key and actionable information in a sea of data. You have sales information, customer information, inventory information, revenue information, details about customer contracts and future billings. But wait a minute, you’re […]