Semiconductor Industry Revenue The value chain in the Semiconductor Industry can have companies selling directly to end customers for their products, or through distribution and contract manufacturing channels to reach your end customer. When you are selling through an extended value chain the end price for the product sold may not be known at […]
How Revenue Recognition Can Help Align Sales and Finance (Instead of Pitting Them Against Each Other in a Spiral of Death)
Revenue recognition – and the finance team that applies it – often ends up being the bane of creative sales deals, seen as cramping the sales department’s ability to maximize the amount of money that they bring in the door. This is the natural result of the very different goals of finance and sales. Finance […]
How to Manage Your Complex Billing and Subscription Needs
Are you looking for a solution that captures all your contract billings in one place and manages it per its customer agreement? Do you need functionality to handle your various billing models including recurring billing, milestone billing and usage billing? Then Tensoft Revenue Lens might be perfect for you! This family of cloud applications includes […]
Using Excel for Revenue Recognition Tracking?
Excel spreadsheets play a big part in how many companies do business, especially in accounting and finance departments. However, using spreadsheets for critical processes in your business can be risky. Watch this short video by Tensoft’s Customercare Manager, Anne Phan, to see some of the risks you should be aware of when you use spreadsheets […]
Managing the Requirements for Multinational Operations at Start-ups and Smaller Companies
Tensoft has been located in Silicon Valley for many years, and over time I have observed the development of this hub of technology companies. Despite growing costs, Silicon Valley has remained the central location for high tech for many reasons, including the mobility of information, funding, support systems, people, and culture. However, for a variety […]
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 […]
2021 Year in Review: Top Tensoft Blog Posts
It feels like yesterday when we were bidding goodbye to 2020 and were ready to roll into 2021 hoping things will be back to normal. But 2021 surprised us all! It redefined “normal” in many ways. While none of us know how 2022 will look like, one thing you can be sure of is our […]
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 […]
Tensoft Revenue Lens in 2 Minutes
Tensoft Revenue Lens can help your company get rid of lack of visibility over your contract statuses, prepare your revenue reports for audit visits, and ditch the error-prone spreadsheets. With Tensoft Revenue Lens, your company can enjoy smoother processes, less errors, and better revenue reporting. For a quick overview of Tensoft Revenue Lens, we’ve created […]
Contract Billing – What’s the Big Deal?
We recently spoke with the Revenue Manager of a mid-market information technology and services company about their revenue recognition process. Her company sells hardware, software, services, and support, in various combinations. These may be sold directly through the channel and on an e-commerce platform. Each of their sales orders has many moving parts including billing […]