Revenue | (3) Revenue The Company derives its revenue from contracts predominantly from recurring and non-recurring service fees. While the majority of its agreements are generally cancellable by the client on 60 days’ notice or less, the Company also offers term agreements to its clients, which are generally two years in length. Recurring fees are derived from payroll, timekeeping, and HR-related cloud-based computing services. The majority of the Company’s recurring fees are satisfied over time as services are provided. The performance obligations related to payroll services are satisfied upon the processing of the client’s payroll with the fee charged and collected based on a per employee per payroll frequency fee. The performance obligations related to time and attendance services and HR related services are satisfied over time each month with the fee charged and collected based on a per employee per month fee. For subscription-based fees which can include payroll, time and attendance, and HR related services, the Company recognizes the applicable recurring fees over time each month with the fee charged and collected based on a per employee per month fee. Non-recurring service fees consist mainly of nonrefundable implementation fees, which involve setting the client up in, and loading data into, the Company’s cloud-based modules. These implementation activities are considered set-up activities. The Company has determined that the nonrefundable upfront fees provide certain clients with a material right to renew the contract. Disaggregation of revenue The following table disaggregates revenue by Recurring fees and Implementation services and other, which the Company believes depicts the nature, amount and timing of its revenue: Three Months Ended Nine Months Ended 2021 2022 2021 2022 Recurring fees $ 178,711 $ 236,657 $ 448,864 $ 599,513 Implementation services and other 6,216 8,305 16,331 21,314 Total revenues from contracts $ 184,927 $ 244,962 $ 465,195 $ 620,827 Deferred revenue The timing of revenue recognition for recurring revenue is consistent with the timing of invoicing as they occur simultaneously based on the client’s payroll frequency or by month for subscription-based fees. As such, the Company does not recognize contract assets or liabilities related to recurring revenue. The nonrefundable upfront fees related to implementation services are invoiced with the client’s first payroll period. The Company defers and amortizes these nonrefundable upfront fees generally over a period up to 24 months based on the type of contract. The following table summarizes the changes in deferred revenue (i.e., contract liability) related to these nonrefundable upfront fees as follows: Three Months Ended Nine Months Ended 2021 2022 2021 2022 Balance at beginning of the period $ 7,065 $ 9,341 $ 8,434 $ 8,734 Deferral of revenue 5,821 9,105 11,811 18,865 Revenue recognized (4,097) (6,044) (11,456) (15,197) Balance at end of the period $ 8,789 $ 12,402 $ 8,789 $ 12,402 Deferred revenue related to these nonrefundable upfront fees are recorded within Accrued expenses and Other long-term liabilities on the Unaudited Consolidated Balance Sheets. The Company expects to recognize these deferred revenue balances of $4,982 in fiscal 2022, $6,127 in fiscal 2023 and $1,293 in fiscal 2024 and thereafter. Deferred contract costs The Company defers certain selling and commission costs that meet the capitalization criteria under ASC 340-40. The Company also capitalizes certain costs to fulfill a contract related to its proprietary products if they are identifiable, generate or enhance resources used to satisfy future performance obligations and are expected to be recovered under ASC 340-40. Implementation fees are treated as nonrefundable upfront fees and the related implementation costs are required to be capitalized and amortized over the expected period of benefit, which is the period in which the Company expects to recover the costs and enhance its ability to satisfy future performance obligations. The Company utilizes the portfolio approach to account for both the cost of obtaining a contract and the cost of fulfilling a contract. These capitalized costs are amortized over the expected period of benefit, which has been determined to be over 7 years based on the Company’s average client life and other qualitative factors, including rate of technological changes. The Company does not incur any additional costs to obtain or fulfill contracts upon renewal. The Company recognizes additional selling and commission costs and fulfillment costs when an existing client purchases additional services. These additional costs only relate to the additional services purchased and do not relate to the renewal of previous services. The following tables present the deferred contract costs and the related amortization expense for these deferred contract costs: Three Months Ended March 31, 2021 Beginning Capitalized Amortization Ending Costs to obtain a new contract $ 125,817 $ 17,315 $ (7,390) $ 135,742 Costs to fulfill a contract 55,657 8,872 (2,607) 61,922 Total $ 181,474 $ 26,187 $ (9,997) $ 197,664 Three Months Ended March 31, 2022 Beginning Capitalized Amortization Ending Costs to obtain a new contract $ 155,564 $ 22,256 $ (9,182) $ 168,638 Costs to fulfill a contract 86,115 13,825 (4,263) 95,677 Total $ 241,679 $ 36,081 $ (13,445) $ 264,315 Nine Months Ended March 31, 2021 Beginning Capitalized Amortization Ending Costs to obtain a new contract $ 113,575 $ 43,026 $ (20,859) $ 135,742 Costs to fulfill a contract 44,468 24,376 (6,922) 61,922 Total $ 158,043 $ 67,402 $ (27,781) $ 197,664 Nine Months Ended March 31, 2022 Beginning Capitalized Amortization Ending Costs to obtain a new contract $ 145,718 $ 48,922 $ (26,002) $ 168,638 Costs to fulfill a contract 69,175 37,865 (11,363) 95,677 Total $ 214,893 $ 86,787 $ (37,365) $ 264,315 Deferred contract costs are recorded within Deferred contract costs and Long-term deferred contract costs on the Unaudited Consolidated Balance Sheets. Amortization of deferred contract costs is recorded in Cost of revenues, Sales and marketing, and General and administrative in the Unaudited Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Income. Remaining Performance Obligations The balance of the Company’s remaining performance obligations related to minimum monthly fees on its term-based contracts was approximately $49,698 as of March 31, 2022, which will be generally recognized over the next 24 months. This balance excludes the value of unsatisfied performance obligations for contracts that have an original expected duration of one year or less and contracts for which the variable consideration is allocated entirely to wholly unsatisfied performance obligations. |