DeferFlow

Deferred revenue and costs, recognized automatically.

DeferFlow reads your invoices and bills from your accounting system, builds every schedule and posts one clean journal a month.

  • Schedules from the product term, no manual setup
  • Month-end journals to Xero, reviewed before posting
  • Roll-forward, backlog and audit-ready reports
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Revenue recognized this month
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Deferred revenue
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Cost recognized this month
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Deferred cost
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Revenue and cost by month

RevenueCostScheduled

Contracted future revenue

Deferred balance over time

RevenueCost

Status

Fromto Opening balance at the start of
Year

Invoices and bills

DateNumberContactTypeLinesAmount (USD)

Upload FlowRev export

For exports over ~20 MB use tools/import_flowrev.py

Month-end journals

Starting with DeferFlow 1. Opening adjustment: align Xero's deferred accounts with DeferFlow at the start of the first month, against 2. Every month from the first month to
MonthStatusTotal debits (USD)Corrections forNote

One summary journal a month: deferral of newly invoiced deferred lines and recognition of the month's share, by account and tracking. Changes to a booked month go into the next journal as corrections.

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Xero

Choose the Xero organisation for this company:
qb

QuickBooks Online

Coming soon
Pull invoices, bills and credit memos; post month-end journal entries.
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More systems

Planned
Sage Business Cloud · Zoho Books · FreeAgent · MYOB · NetSuite

Recognition and posting

Deferred accounts: P&L account → balance-sheet account. A line is deferred when its product name holds a number of years and its account is listed here.
P&L accountBalance-sheet account
Counterparties: names that differ only by case, punctuation or Limited / Ltd / Inc are merged automatically. Add other spellings of the same counterparty here.
Name as writtenSame counterparty as

Recognition rules

Each line pulled from your accounting system gets the first rule that matches it, top to bottom. Empty conditions match everything. A line no rule matches is recognized immediately. Lines whose schedule you set by hand are never changed.
NameTypeAccountsItem codeDescription contains RecognitionMonthsStartsOn
DocumentDescriptionAmountNowWith these rulesRule

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