Software as a Service (SaaS)

Sage Intacct SaaS Intelligence allows leaders of SaaS and subscription-based businesses to gain valuable insights into the most important, yet often hardest to measure, SaaS and subscription metrics.

The intelligence engine categorises subscription activity into over 20 types of recurring revenue (such as New, Add-on, Uplift, Downgrade, Markdown, Churn, etc.), alongside 30+ key performance indicators (KPIs) and more than 25 pre-built graphs and reports. It’s a fully automated solution that analyses, diagnoses, and categorises all customer subscription activity within Sage Intacct’s Order Entry and Contracts modules.

SaaS Intelligence leverages Sage Intacct’s core dashboards and reporting features, delivering critical metrics and reports based on the contextualised data provided by its intelligence engine. Built on the Sage Intacct platform, it has direct access to financial data from the general ledger, enabling the blending of operational and financial data to calculate the most accurate and reliable metrics.

The SaaS industry operates uniquely in how it manages contract amendments, extends billing systems, and integrates with financial systems.

SaaS companies need to measure a wide range of robust metrics and KPIs that go beyond standard GAAP financial measurements, providing a real-time and accurate view of their business. SaaS Intelligence, with its intelligent engine, automatically delivers these crucial metrics for SaaS organisations.

Many competing products lack full integration with a company’s ERP system, meaning they cannot access vital revenue and cost data from the general ledger. This can lead to external reporting issues and multiple versions of financial truth. In contrast, Sage Intacct SaaS Intelligence ensures accurate, real-time metrics tied directly to your financial data.

A cloud-based subscription billing system guarantees a consistent revenue stream, ensuring you’re paid on time, every time.

By hosting servers off-site, a cloud-based solution can help you reduce costs related to hardware and maintenance, while also minimising the need for an internal IT team to manage infrastructure. Cloud computing also provides advanced security features, helping to protect your data. In the event of a breach, disaster recovery is typically much quicker with cloud-based applications.

Additionally, with cloud-based billing, your team can access accounts from any location, enabling them to resolve billing issues promptly. Customers can also view their payment history, outstanding balances, monthly usage, and more, making it easy for them to manage payments or change services.

Many companies, both public and private, still rely on spreadsheets for crucial revenue management tasks, which are time-consuming and prone to errors. Revenue recognition becomes complex, especially when dealing with multiple entities, subscriptions, licences, and services, exposing your business to risks around compliance, audits, and accurate forecasting. SaaS businesses must get revenue recognition right every time.

Cloud-based revenue recognition software simplifies the management of this process, eliminating the need for unaudited spreadsheets and manual reconciliations. Sage Intacct translates complex revenue recognition requirements into streamlined, automated workflows that deliver the results your business needs.

With Sage Intacct’s revenue recognition capabilities, you will:

• Strengthen compliance and ensure consistency across your organisation
• Manage deferred revenue transactions and understand their impact on reporting and forecasting
• Accelerate your month-end close process
• Reduce audit costs

Project accounting software allows your business to see all time, expense, and project-related financial data in one place, both financial and non-financial. It focuses on financial transactions related to project management, including costs, revenue, and billing. This makes it easy to attribute financial tasks to specific projects, allowing you to monitor their progress and success more effectively.

Real-time, role-based dashboards provide easy access to the information you need to make informed decisions. Whether it’s project managers tracking project billing within budget, executives analysing which projects contribute most to profitability, or finance teams monitoring collections trends, Sage Intacct offers insights at your fingertips.

Financial, managerial, and operational reporting is available as soon as time, expenses, and costs are entered, allowing you to understand your cost structures, their impact on growth, and where additional resources may be needed.