• Manually distribute revenue across accounting periods: Choose this option to manually enter the amount of revenue to distribute into each open accounting period.
• Automatically distribute all revenue using a date range: Choose this option to automatically to distribute revenue based on the specified recognition start and end date. For example, this option may a good choice for revenue may need to be delayed by a specified period of time.

• Distribute revenue on a specific date: Choose this option to distribute an amount of revenue on a specified recognition date.

For example, on completion of phase II of a 3-phased service implementation, an event is triggered from an external system. You can distribute a specified amount as recognized revenue in Zuora. If the revenue amount is $2,000 and the undistributed amount is $500, the amount recognized is calculated based on the distribution option you choose.

Distribution options are:

• Fixed amount. Enter a specific amount, such as $666 of the $2,000.
• % of the total. Enter the percentage of the total revenue to distribute, such as 75% of $2,000.
• % of undistributed. Enter the percentage of undistributed revenue to distribute, such as 50% of $500.00.

​For this option, 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.

Click Show previous accounting periods or Show next accounting periods to enter revenue amounts in other accounting periods.

When redistributing revenue, this column represents the last saved revenue amount.

Enter the revenue amount for each accounting period. As you distribute revenue amounts into accounting periods, these amounts are subtracted from the Open-ended amount.