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The deferred revenue report shows invoiced amounts that have not yet been recognized as revenue, scoped to a chosen as-of date. It is the working paper finance teams use to substantiate the deferred revenue liability at period-end.

What each row contains

For every recognition schedule, the report shows:
  • The customer, product, and source document (invoice or credit note).
  • The service period the schedule covers.
  • The amount originally invoiced and the amount recognized to the as-of date.
  • Two distinct measures of what is left: Balance and Remaining.
Credit notes appear as their own rows so reversals against the deferred liability are visible alongside the invoices they relate to. See Credit notes in the report below.

As-of date

The As-of date filter produces a point-in-time snapshot of the deferred liability. Setting it to a fiscal period end gives you the figure that should reconcile to the deferred revenue line on the balance sheet for that close. When an as-of date is set, the report:
  • Includes recognition schedules that were active on that date.
  • Calculates Balance and Remaining as they stood on that date.
  • Includes credit note reversals that had been posted by that date and excludes those that had not.
For year-end reconciliation, set the as-of date to your fiscal year-end. The total ties to the deferred revenue balance on the journal report for the same period.

Balance vs Remaining

Each row carries two measures. They agree for a normal invoice. They can diverge once a credit note reverses revenue against a back-dated parent.
ColumnDefinitionWhen to use it
BalanceThe remaining performance obligation: how much of the invoiced amount has not yet been recognized on this schedule, at the as-of date.Operational reporting and forecasting future recognition.
RemainingThe row’s net movement against the deferred revenue ledger, after all postings on or before the as-of date. Ties to the revenue waterfall’s remaining figure.Reconciling to the deferred revenue balance on the general ledger.
For a normal invoice schedule with no credit notes, every dollar of recognition moves cleanly from deferred to recognized, so Balance = Remaining at any point in time. For a credit note that reverses revenue against a back-dated parent, Remaining captures the net effect on the deferred ledger (which matches the trial balance), while Balance captures the obligation left to deliver.
Use Balance when the question is “how much have we billed but not yet earned on this schedule?”. Use Remaining when the question is “what amount on this row makes up the deferred revenue balance in the general ledger?”.

Credit notes in the report

Credit notes appear as their own rows in the report, including:
  • Credit notes attached to specific invoices.
  • Standalone credit notes that have no parent invoice.
  • Credit notes attached to schedules whose original recognition has already completed. The parent schedule itself is closed, but the credit note row remains visible so reversals against historical revenue are not lost.
Each credit note appears at most once per (credit note, product) pair. A credit note that spans multiple products produces one row per product, with the reversal allocated correctly across them.

What is excluded by default

To keep the report focused on substantive rows, the following are excluded:
  • Zero-balance, zero-remaining rows. Schedules that have netted out to nothing.
  • Archived schedules. Only active schedules appear in the paginated list.
  • Completed obligations (configurable). When “Hide completed obligations” is on, schedules whose recognition was fully complete by the as-of date are hidden. Related credit notes are also hidden if their only link to the report is through the completed schedule.

Exporting

For larger books, the export runs asynchronously:
1

Click Export

Choose the as-of date and any filters, then submit.
2

Generation runs in the background

Sequence assembles the export. You can navigate away from the page while this runs.
3

Email arrives with signed link

When the file is ready, you’ll receive an email with a signed download URL. The link is also surfaced inside the dashboard.
4

Download

The link serves the CSV directly. The signed URL has a limited lifetime, so download soon after the email arrives.
Generation time depends on the volume of data in the export. For smaller books the file is typically ready within seconds; larger date ranges take proportionally longer.

Working with the CSV in spreadsheets

Long date ranges can produce CSVs that exceed the row limit of Excel and Google Sheets (around 1 million rows). If you hit the limit:
  • Narrow the date range and run multiple exports.
  • Aggregate to monthly granularity before exporting.
  • Load the CSV into a database tool (DuckDB, BigQuery) for analysis.

Reconciling to the revenue waterfall

The deferred revenue report and the revenue waterfall describe the same book of business at the same as-of date. They reconcile when scoped consistently. To make them tie:
  • Use the same as-of date on both reports.
  • Read the Remaining column on the deferred report (not Balance). Remaining ties to the waterfall’s remaining figure because both are measured against the deferred ledger.
  • For accounts with historical data, set both reports to start at the same earliest date.
Small differences can appear where a credit note reverses revenue from a back-dated parent and routes part of the movement directly through recognized revenue. Both reports are correct for their respective purposes: the deferred report describes what is on the deferred ledger; the waterfall describes how that balance is expected to run off in future periods.