Introducing Orb Contract-to-Cash: From signed deal to invoice in minutes
Your sales team closes the deal on Tuesday. By Wednesday, Accounts Payable is asking for the first invoice. By Friday, your controller is still buried in the MSA, pulling out milestones, credits, and usage terms. The invoice goes out late, cash stays stuck, and DSO ticks upward.
This is the pattern finance teams know too well: every contract means parsing PDFs, chasing usage data from engineering, and patching spreadsheets together before billing can start. The result is delayed collections, unpredictable forecasts, and close cycles that drag on longer than they should. That’s what we set out to change.
Today, we’re introducing Orb Contract-to-Cash, our newest product that takes contracts straight to invoices in minutes.
The problem
Every enterprise deal is different. Discounts. Milestones. Credits. Usage tiers. Sales needs that flexibility to close. But when the contract hits finance, flexibility turns into friction and delayed cash.
Controllers spend hours pulling terms out of PDFs and stitching spreadsheets together just to get an invoice out. Invoices slip by weeks. DSO creeps up. The only way to keep pace has been hiring more people.
The inversion: Start with the contract, not the system
Traditional billing systems forced companies to remodel contracts before billing could begin, leading to long implementations, rigid structures, and heavy engineering.
Orb Contract-to-Cash flips the model. Instead of forcing structure upfront, finance can start with the contract itself. Upload the PDF and add usage if needed. In minutes, Orb extracts the terms, maps them to consumption, and generates invoices that are ready to send.
How it works
The workflow is simple:
- Upload a signed contract PDF → Orb uses AI to pull the key billing terms automatically.
- Add usage with a CSV if the deal has variable charges.
- Get invoice schedules automatically → finance reviews and sends.
Every invoice carries the approvals and history finance needs for accuracy and audit prep. No engineering. No scripts. No waiting for an implementation window. And because it’s built on Orb, you also get core finance features, including dunning, reporting, revenue recognition, and ERP and tax integrations, so close can run without spreadsheets.
Why it matters
Orb turns hours of manual reconciliation into minutes. Invoices move faster, disputes fade, and the same team can handle 10 times the contract volume without extra headcount. On average, customers cut invoicing delays by 4 to 6 days—a meaningful boost to cash flow and smoother close cycles.
As one controller told us: “What used to take me a full morning of spreadsheets now takes minutes. I can trust the invoice is right the first time.”
Finance shouldn’t hinge on manual effort. It should be accurate from the start.
A finance foundation to build on
Orb Contract-to-Cash runs on the same engine as Orb Billing—the one built for usage, credits, scoped discounts, and outcome-based pricing. The flexibility that solves the hardest billing problems now applies directly to contracts. Finance gets speed from day one, with a natural path into Orb Billing for real-time usage tracking and subscription management as their needs expand.
The broader journey we’re on
Our vision has always been to give companies the flexibility to monetize on their own terms — whether through usage, contracts, or entirely new models.
Orb Billing is the system of choice for teams scaling pricing across product, engineering, and finance. Orb Contract-to-Cash now gives finance leaders their own fast path: upload contracts, generate invoices, and scale without spreadsheets. And just earlier this year, we introduced Orb Simulations, which lets teams test “what if” pricing scenarios before going live.
Each of these releases solves a painful bottleneck. Together, they point toward a more flexible and modern way to design and operate monetization, one that grows as companies grow.
Get started
Orb Contract-to-Cash is how finance should work: contracts in, invoices out, cash collected. No busywork. No delays. If you want to see it in action, reach out to our team for a demo.
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