We invite you to listen to our new Pain in the GAAP podcast. Each month we’ll spend 5-10 minutes covering a new topic we wished we knew when building finance and operations teams at growing companies. We'll discuss various finance and accounting topics, such as rev rec, A/R, A/P, FP&A, monthly closing, Excel tips, and other general topics.
Topics: Podcast, billing, transactions, SaaS
The first 24 months of a startup lay the foundation for its future success. Young companies redesign the wheel, disrupt an industry, or identify a way to plan an ICO to raise funds off cyrpto-tailwinds. These grand plans don’t need to be bogged down by also reinventing business operations and controls.
Prior to my time at Ordway, I built a checklist of controls, used with my companies, that I feel every startup needs to accomplish during their first two years of operation.
Topics: operations, billing, recurring revenue, SaaS
It was straightforward to do revenue calculations when we had 5 customers.
Growing companies oftentimes build manual processes by utilizing Microsoft Excel or Google sheets spreadsheets because it is the easiest, most affordable process to implement at the time.
Topics: SaaS, billing, recurring revenue
WASHINGTON, DC — June 20, 2018 — Ordway, a billing and revenue automation platform for growing companies, today announced that Lerer Hippeau, Founder Collective, Middleland Capital, and Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund are investing $2.5 million in the company to scale its operations. Led by Sameer Gulati, a SaaS veteran at the epicenter of billing and ERP systems’ evolution for the past 18 years, Ordway is transforming how organizations can more efficiently handle billing for their most complex customers.
Topics: SaaS, press release, billing, recurring revenue
Ordway is on a mission to make billing and revenue automation a reality for growing businesses. The legacy SaaS billing products that were designed nearly a decade ago handle a few use cases well, but they are very rigid and companies quickly discovered that maintenance and customization come at the cost of lengthy projects that gobble up internal resources.
Topics: billing, SaaS, operations