TL;DRThe debit-and-credit record that moves an amount between accounts on a date.
Every recognition event is a journal entry: the invoice-day leg moves receivables and deferred revenue; each recognised leg moves deferred revenue into revenue. Sonic produces them journal-ready, grouped by product, and ties each back to the invoice and contract that caused it.
A frozen ledger — one inside a closed period — is never reposted. A stale one that predates a schema change is deleted and rewritten, never patched in place.
Where it happens in Sonic
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See it on your contracts
A walkthrough on the agreements and files you actually bill from — not a slide deck.