SaaS and software for Australian businesses

A named person on our team owns your file and reviews everything that leaves it. Software does a real share of the grinding underneath it — coding, matching, flagging the obvious gaps — but nothing regulated happens without a person’s judgement, and nothing here is signed or filed by an algorithm.

No — saas and software is operational work inside your books, not something submitted to ATO. Where a filing does sit downstream of it, inside industries we know more broadly, that stays with your registered BAS or tax agent, never with us.

Whatever you already run. Most commonly QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite, Sage, Zoho Books and a handful of others — we work inside your system rather than moving you onto one of our own.

A short, free read-only look at what you already have, and a written note on what we found. A scoping call decides the size of the engagement — nothing here commits you to anything.

There is no published price for saas and software — it depends on volume, how many entities are involved, and how far behind the books are. We quote after the read-only review, which is free.

SaaS and software sits inside industries we know, alongside Ecommerce, Professional services, Construction and trades. Most clients end up buying the category as a whole rather than one leaf at a time, but starting narrow is fine.

The billing platform knows what was charged, not what's been earned. An annual plan is one event in the billing system but twelve months of revenue on the ledger, and the two only line up if they're reconciled rather than read off a dashboard.

It's the running record of what's been billed but not yet earned — the opening balance, what's added as subscriptions bill, what amortises into revenue each period, and the closing balance. It's what the accountant checks at close to confirm revenue is being recognised correctly under AASB 15, and most SaaS businesses don't have one until someone builds it.

No. How a bundled contract or a usage-based deal gets split and timed is a judgment your accountant makes. We apply whatever treatment the accountant sets, consistently, to every transaction that fits it.

They can diverge because they're often built from different data — MRR from the billing tool, revenue from the ledger. We build MRR and ARR from the same reconciled data that produces the P&L, so the board number and the accounting number describe the same activity instead of drifting apart.

It builds the substantiated cost data your accountant or R&D advisor needs to prepare the registration and claim — which engineering time and cost went to development work versus maintenance or support. We don't assess whether the activity meets the R&DTI's eligibility criteria or lodge the claim; that's the accountant's or a registered R&D consultant's determination.

We track revenue by customer location so the data exists, but we don't ascertain GST liability on any given sale — that's a tax agent service under TASA 2009 and reserved to your registered tax or BAS agent, especially once subscribers are based outside Australia.

Each plan change generates a journal entry that adjusts the deferred revenue schedule and the MRR movement in the period it happens, using the recognition treatment already set for the business, so a mid-cycle upgrade doesn't create a gap between what was billed and what's recognised.

Stripe Billing and Chargebee most commonly, along with adjacent platforms like Recurly. The reconciliation approach is the same regardless of platform — matching every charge, refund, and fee to a journal entry and a bank deposit.

It runs on top of whichever ledger you're using — Xero is most common for Australian SaaS businesses, though the reconciliation logic is the same on any platform your accountant works from.

A scoping call looking at your current billing setup, chart of accounts, and whatever MRR or revenue reporting already exists, so we know exactly where the reconciliation gaps are before proposing scope.