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If your organization bills your clients for ongoing fees, whether it be software, licensing, intellectual property, or support, then this article will help you understand how you can model this in Projector.

We are making the assumption that you are billing things without a disbursed amount. This is often true for software or licensing agreements. With no quantifiable outlay of expenses the Soft Cost has a zero disbursed amount and a positive client amount. Or in other words, it is all revenue.

The general steps look like:

  • Create an expense type that is enabled for soft costs
  • Create a new soft cost document
  • Add cost cards to it using the expense type
  • Approve the cost cards for invoicing

We recommend that your cost contract terms be set to Time & Materials or Not to Exceed for these types of fees.

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titleMilestones

Why use a soft cost instead of a milestone?

A milestone generates deferred revenue. Essentially it is treated as a prepayment. It is then consumed by time or cost approved for the engagement. These licensing fees are supposed to generate revenue for you, not deferred revenue.


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titleAdditional Resources

Watch Recurring Revenue Management Webinar (go to 37:10) for a quick demonstration of entering and invoicing of soft costs.

Soft costs are an expense type we often recommend in this use case. A soft cost typically encompasses an expense with no incurred amount like a software licensing fee. You will create an expense document that contains all the months of maintenance. You can then invoice monthly and collect your licensing fees. You may need to make changes in each of these areas of Projector.

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