Customer options for additional goods or services
B39 Customer options to acquire additional goods or services for free or at a discount
come in many forms, including sales incentives, customer award credits (or
points), contract renewal options or other discounts on future goods or services.
B40 If, in a contract, an entity grants a customer the option to acquire additional
goods or services, that option gives rise to a performance obligation in the
contract only if the option provides a material right to the customer that it
would not receive without entering into that contract (for example, a discount
that is incremental to the range of discounts typically given for those goods or
services to that class of customer in that geographical area or market). If the
option provides a material right to the customer, the customer in effect pays the
entity in advance for future goods or services and the entity recognises revenue
when those future goods or services are transferred or when the option expires.
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B41 If a customer has the option to acquire an additional good or service at a price
that would reflect the stand-alone selling price for that good or service, that
option does not provide the customer with a material right even if the option
can be exercised only by entering into a previous contract. In those cases, the
entity has made a marketing offer that it shall account for in accordance with
this Standard only when the customer exercises the option to purchase the
additional goods or services.
B42 Paragraph 74 requires an entity to allocate the transaction price to performance
obligations on a relative stand-alone selling price basis. If the stand-alone selling
price for a customer’s option to acquire additional goods or services is not
directly observable, an entity shall estimate it. That estimate shall reflect the
discount that the customer would obtain when exercising the option, adjusted
for both of the following:
(a) any discount that the customer could receive without exercising the
option; and
(b) the likelihood that the option will be exercised.
B43 If a customer has a material right to acquire future goods or services and those
goods or services are similar to the original goods or services in the contract and
are provided in accordance with the terms of the original contract, then an
entity may, as a practical alternative to estimating the stand-alone selling price
of the option, allocate the transaction price to the optional goods or services by
reference to the goods or services expected to be provided and the corresponding
expected consideration. Typically, those types of options are for contract
renewals.