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Finance’s secret weapon for subscription and SaaS start-ups

Everything you need for billing, rev rec, and SaaS metrics can be found in this ealy-stage SaaS startup accounting solutions, PLUS the expenses and cash-flow management to navigate uncertainty and fundraising. Up and running in as fast as 60 days with subscription, usage, hybrid billing and revenue models, investor-grade SaaS reports, and more.

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Build a FinOps tech stack to scale your SaaS start-up

The starter package is pre-built using best-in-class practices, services and training to get you up and running in 60 days and costs 40 % less than the available alternatives. See how SaaS CFOs are fueling growth after moving off QuickBooks. You don't need a long drawn-out process to deploy a Suite, nor settle for Billing-only solutions, that don't manage expenses nor pass an audit.

Start simple, scale big

Automation helps you reduce churn and close the books faster. Sage Intacct provides: 

  • 300+ usage and subscription pricing and billing scenarios to create friction-free invoicing.
  • One platform means no reconciliations, so able to close the books up to 80% faster.
  • 200+ real-time SaaS Metrics and Subscription Analytics–including MRR, ARR, NDR, Cash flow, Bookings and Renewal Forecast, Budget vs Actual, Churn, and CAC.
  • Revenue recognition with automated ASC 606 and IFRS 15 compliance, and deferred revenue waterfalls, calculated in 1 second, to scale to IPO and beyond.
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The core essentials for billing and accounting for early-stage CFOs

At the early stage of building your subscription business, it is critical prove your revenue model by leveraging purpose-built solutions for subscription start-ups with :

  • Subscription Billing that handles renewals, upgrades, cancelations, maintenance, training, etc., all in one Contract
  • Automated Quote to Cash by integrating your CRM with your financial solution to create a bi-directional real time sync between sales and finance
  • ASC 606 compliance and end-to-end revenue recognition to calculate deferred revenue for funding and audits
  • Investor dashboards for your execs, investors, and Board across both financial and SaaS operational data calculated up to 80 % faster

See how Bit.ly extends funding runway by 8 months, increased income by $2.5 million, and accelerated closings by 75 % after moving off QuickBooks. Watch the video

Use real-time SaaS metrics to prove your revenue model to investors

Leverage customizable dashboards with drill down capabilities and powerful visualizations to create 200 + investor-grade reports created up to 80 % faster. With the Sage Intacct starter package, you can make quicker, smarter strategic decisions using real-time SaaS metrics including :

  • Committed monthly recurring revenue (CMRR)
  • Annual or monthly recurring revenue (ARR or MRR)
  • Customer acquisition cost (CAC)
  • Revenue and customer churn
  • Customer lifetime value (CLTV)

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Sunny Wu

Vice President of Finance, LogiSense

I have 5 things I love about Sage Intacct :

1st love : The Help Button

2nd love : The Dimensions

3rd love : Real-time drill-down from reporting

4th love : Easy use, intuitive, smart search, Collaboration Center, customer care

5th love : I can attach data/files on every transaction to simplify the audit

FAQs for early-stage SaaS and subscription start-ups

From 100s of interviews, we have heard that Controllers’ and CFOs’ most frustrating part of their job is managing integrations across systems, and the subsequent time they waste on doing reconciliations, on things such as billings, orders, upsells, and expenses. When the billing schedule and item master is in the same system, the initial, and subsequent order, comes into the GL, with all the dimensions for reporting, and revenue is immediately calculated and reported. Based on this market feedback, we created a single system that is the only combined subscription billing and financial management software with ARR, MRR and other key SaaS metrics, SaaS dashboards, revenue recognition, reporting, and Salesforce integration.

Sage Intacct has been voted #1 in subscription billing, revenue recognition, and accounting by 5,000 + users on G2.com.

Sage Intacct can help you with 300 + billing scenarios, including the following :

  • Variable Usages (daily/weekly/monthly/quarterly/annually cadence)
  • Recurring Usages (monthly/quarterly/annually cadence)
  • Rollover usages (per invoice / per renewal) 
  • Reset of usages (per invoice / per renewal) 
  • Minimum Commitment Contracts (monthly/quarterly/annually cadence)
  • Commitments plus overages (monthly/quarterly/annually cadence)
  • Pre-paid Usages
  • Auto-invoice unused usages upon contract expiration
  • Auto-terminate unused usages upon contract expiration
  • Amendment capabilities – Addon/Debooks/Discounts

There are typically five reasons where basic accounting tends to strain under scale. As you grow in volume and complexity, these are the areas to prepare to automate. Proactive CFOs upgrade before the scale happens, some others wait until the processes start breaking down. We built Sage Ahead for Series A companies, that might otherwise only upgrade billing, to build the complete system for scale that includes expenses and cash-flow in the AICPA-recommended general ledger.

  • Billing
  • Revenue recognition
  • Consolidations
  • Financial reporting
  • Forecasting

  • CARR - includes contracted but not yet live ARR, nets out churned and projected churned ARR, and is normalized to a 1Y period, hence “annual”
  • CAC Payback - Total sales, marketing, customer success, etc. costs to acquire a customer. Generally calculated quarterly
  • CLTV/CAC - Margin-affected value of a customer to a business over the course of its relationship
  • Churn - The dollars that churned or down sell customers represented
  • Cash Flow - Cash generated after operating and capital expenditures, which adds back non-cash expenses like stock-based compensation
  • Cash Conversion Score - The ratio of CARR to capital raised to date (debt + equity) minus the cash on the balance sheet

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