SaaS Billings Calculator

Billings measure how much you have invoiced customers in a period, and they sit between bookings and recognised revenue as one of the most useful cash facing SaaS metrics. This calculator works out billings the standard accounting way: it takes the revenue you recognised in the period and adds the change in deferred revenue, which is the closing deferred balance minus the opening balance. The logic is simple once you see it. Deferred revenue is money you have billed but not yet earned, so when that balance grows it means you invoiced more than you recognised, and that extra amount is added back to reveal what you actually billed. New Zealand SaaS and subscription businesses track billings because they reflect real invoicing activity and cash collection timing, which revenue alone can smooth away when customers pay annually up front. To use the tool, enter the revenue recognised in the period, the opening deferred revenue balance and the closing deferred revenue balance. The calculator returns total billings along with the change in deferred revenue so you can see how much of the billing was prepaid for future periods. A few tips keep the result reliable. Use balances from the same period and the same ledger so the opening and closing figures line up. Remember that billings can exceed revenue when annual contracts are invoiced up front, and can fall below revenue when deferred balances unwind. Finally, compare billings with bookings and recognised revenue together, because the three tell a fuller story: bookings show demand, billings show invoicing and cash, and revenue shows delivery. Used this way, billings give a clear view of the cash engine behind your recurring revenue.

Billings = revenue + (closing deferred - opening deferred). Estimate only, not financial or tax advice.