How to automate accrued revenue suggestions as part of revenue recognition

Written By ScaleXP Customer Success (Super Administrator)

Updated at July 15th, 2025

This article discusses how to generate accrued revenue suggestions automatically in ScaleXP for revenue recognition and answers the question - how does ScaleXP handle accrued revenue? 

To set up and manage accrued revenue in ScaleXP, see this article: How automate accrued revenue journal posting, to add and release revenue accrual 

Revenue is often invoiced at the end of the contractual term.  Despite this, revenue needs to be allocated by month, before the invoice is issued. ScaleXP has a practical solution to this problem.  The system can import future dated invoices which have been saved in your accounting system, even if these invoices are not sent or issued to the customer.  ScaleXP will read the text on the invoice and allocate revenue to the relevant time period in ScaleXP, even if the invoice is dated a month or a year in the future.  This gives you the flexibility to save invoices in the accounting system (say Xero) but not issue them to the customer.  As invoices are created and saved, they will be processed by ScaleXP.  Revenue will be allocated by the system to the correct month.  Any invoice modifications will be detected by ScaleXP and processed. 

Viewing future dated invoices To view future dated invoices in ScaleXP, go to the Customers page and set the end date into the future -- generally one year in the future works well.  This is to ensure it picks up the date the invoice is issued. You can then see all the detail for these invoices in the same way as other customer invoices. You can also view future dated invoices by month of issue: How to review invoices issued in the month and download a list in Excel; how to find a missing invoice