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How to Categorize Expenses in a SaaS Startup v2.0

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The gist of it is that Cost of Revenue includes costs that go into providing your Software as a Service. It’s up to you if you want to group up all software in one category under Cost of Revenue, or several software categories under hosting, support, and service delivery. Jason Cohen breaks down the question in his Quora post.

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How To Get SOC 2 Certification For Software Companies

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System and Organisation Controls 2 (SOC 2) is an audit report that certifies to trustworthiness of services provided by a service organization, particularly software companies. Which is why correctly setting the scope is an important part of SOC 2 preparation services. Does a SaaS startup need to be SOC 2 compliant?

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SaaStr’s Podcast “Best Of Guide” Our Top 10 Podcasts of All Time

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They have funding from some of the best in the business including the likes of Benchmark, Sequoia, Redpoint and Marc Benioff, just to name a few. About the episode: Steve Newman is the Founder & CEO @ Scalyr, the startup that helps your DevOps team solve more problems in less time with log monitoring and analysis in seconds.

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How to categorize expenses in a SaaS startup

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This is where you record all of the costs that go to providing your service, such as hosting and customer support payroll. If you have sales from Professional services, you’d want to create two sets of Cost of Goods Sold?—?one Lastly, I usually create a software category for each major expense category for consistency?—?in Engineering.

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