StepFive

All five steps. Built for Revenue Cloud.

Revenue recognition built for Salesforce Revenue Cloud and Revenue Cloud Billing

It follows the five-step model of ASC 606 and IFRS 15, from the Revenue Cloud order to the posted journal.

Before StepFive

You know how month end feels.

  • Export the orders.
  • Export the billing.
  • Rebuild every contract in a spreadsheet.
  • Tie it back by hand.
  • Then check it again.

We built StepFive so recognition starts from the Revenue Cloud records you already trust.

ASC 606 · IFRS 15

All five steps, in your org.

  1. 01Identify the contractKeyed from the Revenue Cloud order, its assets and contract.
  2. 02Identify obligationsDistinct goods and services, with your accounting judgments.
  3. 03Determine the priceThe order's own priced amount, read where it lives.
  4. 04Allocate the priceRelative standalone selling price, exact to the cent.
  5. 05Recognize revenueReviewed runs, balanced journals, a second approver.

Built for Revenue Cloud

It runs inside your Salesforce org.

StepFive turns your Revenue Cloud orders into revenue contracts your team reviews and approves.

OrdersOrder productsAssetsAsset actionsBilling schedules

Illustrative workflow with Robotics Inc. sample data: source checks, independent approval, allocation, recognition and balanced journals.
Illustrative workflow with Robotics Inc. sample data: source checks, independent approval, allocation, recognition and balanced journals.
Revenue contract created from a Revenue Cloud order, with its transaction price of 146,760.00 US dollars allocated across three performance obligations
The revenue contract as it opens, with a line for each performance obligation.

Take an order for a robot, ten software seats and premium support, worth USD 146,760.00. StepFive allocates it on standalone selling price:

AlphaX 500 Robot
117,133.13
RoboControl Cloud · 10 seats
25,761.48
RoboCare Premium Support
3,865.39
Transaction price · USD146,760.00

Tie-out

The totals have to tie.

StepFive matches the sold and billed totals to Revenue Cloud and Revenue Cloud Billing before recognition starts.

If a total is off by a cent, StepFive stops and names it.

Control totals for the Revenue Cloud records being recognized, with the sold total equal to the billed total at 146,760.00 US dollars
The control totals for the USD 146,760.00 order above.

Recognition runs

Review the period before anything posts.

Calculate the run, review it contract by contract, and create the journals when you are ready.

Revenue recognition workspace for Robotics Inc. on a monthly cadence, with a recognition run ready for review, its calculated total and the button that creates draft journals
A recognition run ready for review, with its calculated total and the step that creates draft journals.

Revenue contracts

Each contract gets its own page.

See where each revenue contract stands, and how it got there.

Revenue contract
Robotics Inc. · AlphaX 500 order
ActivePeriod June 2027
Recognized
USD129,477.63
Posted journals
Awaiting posting
USD2,468.90
The June run
Due
USD0.00
Covered by runs
Planned
USD14,813.47
July to December
Billed
USD133,380.00
Revenue Cloud Billing

Obligations

AlphaX 500 Robot ×1117,133.13 of 117,133.13 · 100%
RoboControl Cloud – Standard ×1012,880.74 of 25,761.48 · 50%
RoboCare Premium Support ×11,932.66 of 3,865.39 · 50%

Waterfall · by quarter · USD

QuarterRecognizedBilledStatus
Q1 2027124,539.83126,690.00Posted
Q2 20277,406.706,690.002,468.90 awaiting
Q3 20277,406.706,690.00Planned
Q4 20277,406.776,690.00Planned

Contract position · USD

Billed through June133,380.00
Recognized through June131,946.53
Contract liability at June 30, 20271,433.47

Controls

Ties to Revenue Cloud BillingPass
Unexplained0.00
Plan equals remainingPass
Every due month has a runPass
June journalsAwaiting posting
Illustrative contract view with sample data: progress by obligation, the waterfall, the contract position and the controls.

Progress by obligation

Each performance obligation shows what is recognized, awaiting posting, due and planned.

Month, quarter or year

The waterfall lays out revenue by period, at the grain you choose.

Billed and recognized

What Revenue Cloud Billing billed sits beside what was recognized, period by period.

Contract asset or liability

The position at each period end, with the arithmetic behind it.

Controls

Review reconciled totals and investigate amounts that do not tie.

Source records

Each obligation traces back to the Revenue Cloud records it came from.

AI

AI explains. Your team stays in control.

Ask about a revenue contract or a recognition run in plain language. Review source lineage and discrepancies using figures calculated by the StepFive engine.

Explains

AI

The assistant explains contract figures and discrepancies, and can prepare a deterministic calculation for review. It does not commit, approve or post revenue.

Calculates

StepFive

Every allocation, schedule and journal is calculated by rules from your Revenue Cloud records. The same records give the same answer, every time.

Approves

Your team

Your team reviews prepared calculations before committing them. A separate approver reviews journals; posting stays with people.

Revenue is never a guess.

Migration

Bring your open contracts with you.

Contracts still in flight in your current system move into the same org as your Revenue Cloud deals.

Revenue you already recognized comes across as an opening baseline, so none of it posts twice.

Migration control totals for contracts, obligations and the allocated, recognized and remaining amounts, every row marked pass
Contracts, obligations, allocated, recognized and remaining amounts tie before anything moves, every row marked Pass.

By design

Numbers you can check.

To the cent

Every allocation adds back exactly to the transaction price.

Tied out

Compare declared totals with native Revenue Cloud records before activation.

2 people

The person who approves a journal can never be the one who prepared it.

In your org

Recognition begins with the Revenue Cloud records your team works from.

See how it works

The Cloud Update

Walk through it with us.

StepFive is for revenue teams who work from Revenue Cloud records every day. Bring your questions about your orders, ramps, amendments and billing schedules.

StepFive is built for ASC 606 and IFRS 15 revenue recognition. Accounting judgments stay with your team.

Product screens and illustrations use sample data. Availability and implementation scope are confirmed during your walkthrough.

Salesforce, Revenue Cloud and Revenue Cloud Billing are trademarks of Salesforce, Inc. StepFive is an independent product of The Cloud Update and is not sponsored or endorsed by Salesforce, Inc.