Revenue Management: #7 Revenue Recongition in Construction & Real Estate Industry
If you are in the construction or real estate business, you are used to long project timelines and progressive invoicing to keep up with your billing. But when does revenue get recognized? Will it happen when the contract gets signed? At different milestones
Revenue Management: #6 Revenue Recognition in Professional Services Industry
If you run a consulting firm, agency, or any service-based business, you have a situation where you have signed the contract, maybe even sent the invoice, and have received some initial payments. So, can you consider this as revenue? What if the project
Revenue Management: #5 Revenue Recognition in SaaS
If you're building or running a SaaS business, you've probably encountered this. You get paid upfront for a subscription and a one-time onboarding fee, but you end up with confusion about when to consider it revenue. Can I book all of it now? Should I
Revenue Management: #4 What if there are uncertainties in project or service delivery?
Our previous post taught us how Zoho Billing makes life easy for businesses with its automated revenue recognition rule. However, certain businesses have more challenges that an automated system cannot handle, and there are certain situations where automated
Revenue Management: #3 Revenue Recognition Simplified
In continuation of the previous post on how to compute revenue recognition, let's now explore a solution that helps businesses handle the real-world complexities. While the Accounting Standards provide a clear framework for recognizing revenue, the real
Revenue Management: #2 How to compute revenue?
In our previous post, we came across the revenue recognition standards under IFRS 15 and ASC 606, along with the five-step model. Now, let's see how the standards and the model work in practice through three distinct business scenarios so that you can
Revenue Management: #1 What does it mean to "recognize" revenue?
Earning revenue isn't just about collecting cash from your customers. It's about recording the income correctly and consistently. Revenue recognition is the process of deciding when and how to record revenue in financial statements so that they reflect
# 2 Why do we need a billing system when accounting covers billing?
In today's evolving financial tech stack, businesses use a mix of tools to manage their day-to-day operations, from invoicing to full-fledged accounting. While accounting platforms typically come with built-in invoicing features, specialized billing systems
#1 Zoho Billing vs. Zoho Books: Which one should I choose?
Managing your business finances isn't just about sending invoices. It's about keeping everything organized, accurate, and moving towards your organization's goals. At Zoho, we understand the complexity, which is why we offer two powerful yet distinct
Addon Checkout
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Community Learning Series | Digest #8 - January 2021
Dear customers, We're happy to bring you the next edition of our #CommunityDigest, the first in 2021! A new year always brings with it hope and excitement, and we'd like to start its first edition with some good news. Zoho Subscriptions won IDC's 2020
FREE Zoho Subscriptions Webinar - Overview & Best Practices
Hey everyone, Our monthly overview and best practice webinar for July is on Zoho Subscriptions. In this hour-long webinar, we will do a general overview of Zoho Subscriptions and cover best practices when using this application. There will be a live
Community Learning Series | Digest #7 - November 2020
Dear customers, We're happy to bring you the November edition of our #CommunityDigest! Starting now, we're introducing a new section to our monthly digest: Subscription Bulletin. The idea is to bring curated news from the subscription industry, so that
Community Learning Series | Digest #6 - October 2020
Dear customers, We're happy to bring you the October edition of our #CommunityDigest! This month has been really special to us, as we just completed 6 years in the market. First of all, a HUGE thanks to you, our customers, for helping us get to where
Community Learning Series | Digest #5 — September 2020
Dear customers, We're happy to bring you the September edition of our #CommunityDigest! Keep track of your subscription KPIs right from your smartphone: Last month, we enhanced our Android mobile app to help our customers get daily updates on their business health. We got to know from a lot of customers that this has made their job much more easier because they no longer have to keep a reminder to manually check on the previous day's revenue or activations. If you have not downloaded it yet, here's
Community Learning Series | Digest #4 - August 2020
Dear customers, We hope you're staying safe and healthy. I'm happy to bring you the fourth edition of our #CommunityDigest with some brand-new updates from us. 1. Daily Business Updates (for Android users) The Zoho Subscriptions Android app has got a cool new update: You can now get a push notification to your smartphone that lets you know how many activations and cancellations have taken place, and what's the net revenue for the previous day. The best part is, you can tell the app when exactly you
Community Learning Series | Digest #3 - July 2020
Dear customers, We hope you're staying safe and healthy. We're glad to bring you the July edition of our #CommunityDigest. New community members can view our previous newsletters here. This time, we have two major updates and three interesting topics for you: 1. Zoho Subscriptions Developer Community Since the inception of Zoho Subscriptions, our team believed that the recurring billing platform we provide should be able to offer an extensive API library that empowers businesses to automate most
Community Learning Series | Digest #2 - June 2020
Dear customers, We launched the #CommunityDigest series a couple of weeks back and received positive feedback on edition #1. Thanks for your support! We are glad to bring to you the second edition of our digest. 1. Upcoming Webinars [On-demand webinar] 6 ways to use a recurring billing tool as a customer retention system Watch Now 2. Tips and Tricks In the previous digest, we looked at implementing a "30-day money-back guarantee" strategy for your business. Here's your takeaway from this edition:
Introducing: Community Learning Series | Digest #1 - May 2020
Dear customers, We hope you are staying safe and healthy. Helping businesses manage their customer subscriptions more efficiently has always been, and always will be, our goal at Zoho Subscriptions. We strongly believe this is possible if we grow together as a community and share what we know with each other. To nurture this shared learning experience, here is our brand-new Community Learning Series! Welcome to the first edition of our digest! Each edition of our community digest includes guides