Learn how to distribute revenue

You can distribute revenue using the following methods:

• Manually: Enter the new amounts of revenue for each accounting period. Check that the sum of the new amounts equals the revenue schedule amount.
• Automatically: When you choose to "Automatically distribute all revenue using a date range', you will specify Recognition Start and Recognition End dates so that Zuora will automatically distribute the revenue evenly over each day of the date range using the daily recognition over time rule. The default transaction date rule is set to "recognize revenue over the recognition term regardless of when the transaction occurs" and the default rounding rule is set to round trailing. See Components and Configuration Options for more information on rule descriptions.

• Specific recognition date: Distribute a fixed amount or percentage of the total amount on the specified recognition date. This is a good option for project or milestone-based revenue recognition, where you can recognize revenue upon approval of a completed phase in a service implementation project.
  Note:

  When generating revenue recognition reports for any given period, the last revenue distribution method used will become the default method at the time the report is generated. For example if manual revenue distribution was last used then subsequent revenue recognition reports will not apportion unassigned revenue automatically by date and reports with open accounting periods will show gaps until the revenue is manually assigned.