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 Challenges in the Software Industry
Recognizing revenue can be particularly challenging in the software industry. The challenges can arise from the sales process, the volume / complexity of the sales transactions, the number of inputs required in the revenue process, or from the appropriate accounting standards that apply to your business. Occasionally you may have all of the above! I’ll […]
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, […]
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 […]
How to Compute & Post Revenue in Tensoft Revenue Lens
Month end revenue recognition is straightforward with Revenue Lens. Your sales have been transformed into revenue agreements. Computing and recognizing revenue is fast and accurate. Tensoft Revenue Lens simplifies revenue recognition and reporting. It automates your revenue recognition process and makes it as easy as “Compute, Post, Report”. With the APIs, you can use any […]
How to Onboard Documents into Tensoft Revenue Lens
Adding Tensoft Revenue Lens to your financial systems requires two tasks. The first task is to set up our application. The second task is to bring your sales into Revenue Lens. The ideal is to capture the sales data where it occurs and to move that into Revenue Lens. Your sales may happen online, or […]