"Better than the tools we were quoted six figures for": How Tines' finance team built a custom billing app for <$1,000

Tines’ finance team built 3Billing, an internal application on its Tines 3B platform, to automate the flow of deal, billing, and revenue-recognition data between Salesforce and NetSuite, replacing a previously manual process that required staff to create customers, sales orders, line items, and invoices individually. After evaluating third-party and native NetSuite tools estimated at roughly $60,000 annually, with one option including an additional $60,000 implementation fee, the team rebuilt an earlier workflow and reported spending less than $1,000 in AI token costs to build and test the app, with minimal ongoing costs. The application processes every company deal, supports IFRS 15 revenue-recognition requirements, includes validation, reconciliation, audit logging, and controls for business-specific edge cases, and can be updated internally as processes change. Tines reports that 3Billing has reduced time spent on this billing work by about 75%, enabled the finance team to scale without additional headcount, reduced error risk, and improved audit readiness, while avoiding vendor pricing tied to deal volume or revenue.

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