Identifiable Intangible Assets and Goodwill

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2021

Goodwill and Intangible Assets Disclosure [Abstract]

Identifiable Intangible Assets and Goodwill

The Company's identifiable intangible assets represent intangible assets acquired from acquisitions and software development costs. The Company capitalizes certain costs related to the development of its platform and other software applications for internal use in accordance with ASC Topic 350-40, Intangibles - Goodwill and Other - Internal - Use Software. The Company begins to capitalize its costs to develop software when preliminary development efforts are successfully completed, management has authorized and committed project funding, and it is probable that the project will be completed and the software will be used as intended. The Company stops capitalizing these costs when the software is substantially complete and ready for its intended use, including the completion of all significant testing. These costs are amortized on a straight-line basis over the estimated useful life of the related asset, generally estimated to be three to five years. The Company also capitalizes costs related to specific upgrades and enhancements when it is probable the expenditure will result in additional functionality and expense costs incurred for maintenance and minor upgrades and enhancements. Costs incurred prior to meeting these criteria together with costs incurred for training and maintenance are expensed as incurred and recorded within research and development expenses in the Company's consolidated statements of operations.

The Company exercises judgment in determining the point at which various projects may be capitalized, in assessing the ongoing value of the capitalized costs and in determining the estimated useful lives over which the costs are amortized. To the extent that the Company can change the manner in which new features and functionalities are developed and tested related to its platform, assessing the ongoing value of capitalized assets or determining the estimated useful lives over which the costs are amortized, the amount of internal-use software development costs the Company capitalizes and amortizes could change in future periods.

Included in identifiable intangible assets are approximately $3.6 million and $6.5 million of costs related to software products that have not satisfied the general release threshold as of March 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively. These software products are expected to satisfy the general release threshold within the next 12 months. Software costs placed into service during the three months ended March 31, 2021 and March 31, 2020 were $4.8 million and $1.8 million, respectively. Annual amortization charged to cost of sales is computed using the straight-line method over the remaining estimated economic life of the product, generally three to five years. Amortization of capitalized software development costs for the three months ended March 31, 2021 and March 31, 2020 were $2.0 million and $1.6 million, respectively.

The components of identifiable intangible assets are:


(in thousands)	March 31, 2021		December 31, 2020		Estimated Useful Life
Acquired and internally developed software costs	$	44,979	$	40,170	3 - 5 years
Customer relationships	4,860		4,860		7 years
Trade names	1,410		1,410		2 - 5 years
Non-competition agreements	30		30		1 year
	51,279		46,470
Less accumulated amortization	(22,624)		(20,265)
	28,655		26,205
Internally developed software costs not meeting general release threshold	3,597		6,516
Trademarks, trade names (non-amortizable)	400		400
	$	32,652	$	33,121

The expected future amortization of intangible assets, assuming straight-line amortization of capitalized software development costs and acquisition related intangibles, excluding software costs not meeting the general release threshold, is as follows (in thousands):


2021, remaining	$	6,479
2022	7,321
2023	5,321
2024	3,360
2025	3,105
Thereafter	3,069
Total	$	28,655

The Company operates in two reporting segments, Restaurant/Retail and Government, which are also the Company's identified reporting units for purposes of evaluating goodwill impairment. The Company tests goodwill for impairment on an annual basis, or more often if events or circumstances indicate that there may be impairment of goodwill. Goodwill is assigned to a specific reporting unit at the date the goodwill is initially recorded; once assigned, goodwill no longer retains its association with a particular acquisition and all of the activities within the reporting unit, whether acquired organically or from a third-party, are available to support the value of the goodwill. The amount of goodwill carried by the Restaurant/Retail and Government segments remained at $41.2 million for both March 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively.