Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Number Of Shares Purchased By Employee

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Share Based Compensation Arrangement By Share Based Payment Award Performance Measurement Period

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Period over which grantee's right to exercise award under share-based payment arrangement is no longer contingent on satisfaction of service or performance condition, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days. Includes, but is not limited to, combination of market, performance or service condition.

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Number of additional shares authorized for issuance under share-based payment arrangement.

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Per share weighted-average price paid for shares purchased on open market for issuance under share-based payment arrangement.

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Purchase price of common stock expressed as a percentage of its fair value.

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SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION - Narrative (Details) - $ / shares		6 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Sep. 10, 2020	Sep. 30, 2021	Mar. 31, 2021
ESPP
Employee Service Share-based Compensation, Allocation of Recognized Period Costs [Line Items]
Percentage of common stock price for employees			85.00%
Shares purchased by employees under ESPP (in shares)		251,308
Share price (in dollars per share)		$ 23.31
Performance Based Restricted Stock Units
Employee Service Share-based Compensation, Allocation of Recognized Period Costs [Line Items]
Award performance measurement period		3 years
2019 Equity Incentive Plan
Employee Service Share-based Compensation, Allocation of Recognized Period Costs [Line Items]
Number of new shares (in shares)	4,700,000
2019 Equity Incentive Plan \| Minimum
Employee Service Share-based Compensation, Allocation of Recognized Period Costs [Line Items]
Share-based awards generally vesting years	1 year