Software & Subscriptions
SaaS tools and recurring software your business runs on.
Software & Subscriptions covers the recurring tools your team pays for — the SaaS stack that keeps the business running.
Appears under Operating Expenses in the Foreqast table, as an expense. Ledger key: Software.
What lands here
What to watch out for
Most SaaS is billed monthly, but the annual renewals hidden in the stack are what break the average. A 30-day window that happens to contain one annual invoice carries that spike forward as if it recurred every month; a window that misses it understates your true run rate. Model the annual ones as contracts on their real billing dates so they land in the month they are actually charged.
Planning this line properly is what Simulating fixed costs is for.
How it's forecast
With the default setup — no extensions, no drivers, no custom projections — Software & Subscriptions is projected from your own booked actuals using the trailing 30-day average: the last 30 days are summed and divided by 30 to get a daily rate, which is carried forward flat and aggregated into each week and month.
daily rate = sum of the last 30 days of actuals ÷ 30
monthly forecast ≈ daily rate × days in monthFor Software & Subscriptions, €2,400 booked over the last 30 days gives €2,400 ÷ 30 ≈ €80/day, so a 30-day month projects to about €2,400. As new actuals import, the window rolls forward and the projection updates on its own.
Horizon: up to 24 months of history and 24 months forward. The table shows 12 months (or 13 weeks / 90 days) by default — scroll horizontally for the rest.
Want a different shape — a fixed cost, a growth trend, or a share of revenue? That's what the Custom Projection extension and driver-based forecasting are for. This page describes the default, historical-only behaviour.