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Introducing Contract Agent: Turn Real Contracts into Real Intelligence
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Tabs vs. Metronome

Metronome helps Product and Engineering monetize, then leaves Finance to reconcile the revenue and inherit the operational and audit risk.

Tabs powers finance-ready billing and revenue workflows for AI businesses, with the controls, auditability, and flexibility modern finance teams need.

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Companies that choose Tabs

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Why Tabs wins

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    Built for finance teams and finance workflows, end-to-end

    Eliminate handoffs between systems and spreadsheets. Centralize your AR and downstream accounting workflows in one platform.

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    Connect Tabs natively to your 
finance stack

    Keep your finance stack in sync and eliminate manual busywork with native integrations across popular CRMs, ERPs, payment processors, and tax compliance providers.

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    Collaborate with Engineering – without sacrificing finance controls

    Tabs ensures seamless usage handoff while giving Finance full control over billing, collections, revenue recognition, and reporting, without exports or workarounds.

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A head-to-head comparison

For a detailed feature comparison, download the PDF.

Capabilities
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Auto-ingest signed contract

Send closed-won contracts to Tabs via native integrations with Salesforce, Hubspot, DocuSign, and/or PandaDoc

Integrated with just Salesforce

Dynamic contract processing

Once Tabs ingests a contract, amendment, or renewal, the Contract Agent understands and standardizes the contract to kickoff auto-generated billing and revenue schedules.

Contract as source of truth 
Performance Obligations

Identify and configure performance obligations in-app. Allocate transaction price across performance obligations.

Identify and configure performance obligations in-app, but no way to allocate the transaction price across performance obligations.

Configure usage commitments
Usage data ingest

Tabs ingests usage data with robust, enterprise-grade infrastructure. The Tabs platform ingests, validates, and aggregates usage events, which are then surfaced in the UI to track consumption and translated into invoices based on contract terms. Invoices sync to the ERP automatically.

Metronome ingests usage data and applies customer-configured billing and pricing logic. Metronome’s built-in invoicing only supports product-led growth (PLG) selling models. Users can also invoice out of the cloud marketplaces and ERPs, with custom integrations.

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Results that speak for themselves

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    less time spent on AR

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    scaled billing output

  • 6971
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    less aged receivables

Explore Tabs

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Billing

Invoices go out faster and more accurately, even with complex pricing.

Billing invoice sent
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Collections

Get paid faster with fewer follow-ups — Tabs handles the nudges.

Collections
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Revenue Recognition

Tabs builds RevRec schedules directly from contract logic.

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Reporting

AI turns live revenue data into
aging reports, forecasts, and insights.

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"Tabs is not just a billing solution – the platform ingests contracts and parses out key terms from them, we have unlocked key data that informs subscription billing, variable/overage billing, and reporting."
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Adam VojdanyChief Financial Officer