Software and Apps is the record of the subscriptions the business pays for, and who uses them.
Why it gets its own screen
Software spending is the clearest example of a cost that grows without a decision. Every individual subscription was justified when it started. Nobody ever reviews the total.
The pattern is consistent across small businesses: a tool bought for one job that is still billing three years later, two products doing the same thing because two people each chose one, and a per-seat plan sized for a team that has since changed shape.
The three questions
Once a quarter, ask each line:
Is it still used? By whom, and for what. "Somebody might need it" is not a use.
Is it the right plan? Per-seat products drift out of shape as the team changes, almost always upward.
Is it billed at what was agreed? Introductory rates end, and the increase does not announce itself.
An hour of that recovers more money for most small businesses than any pricing change, and it takes nothing away from the business to do it.
The one to check hardest
Annual subscriptions. They are the easiest to forget and the most likely to renew unnoticed, and by the time the charge appears you have usually bought another year.
The money side
What is actually leaving the bank on a schedule shows in recurring payments, read from your transactions rather than from a list somebody maintained. Where the two disagree, the bank is right.
