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| Software Development Costs |
5. Software Development Costs
The Company has capitalized certain costs for software developed or obtained for internal use during the application development stage as it relates to specific contracts. The amounts capitalized include external direct costs of services used in developing internal-use software and for payroll and payroll-related costs of employees directly associated with the development activities.
The following table presents details of our software development costs as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022:
Software development costs are being amortized on a straight-line basis over their estimated useful life of two years.
Amortization expense for software development costs was $18,120 and $61,764 for the three months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, and is included in depreciation and amortization on the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss.
Amortization expense for software development costs was $95,694 and $207,027 for the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively.
The estimated future amortization expense of software development costs as of September 30, 2023 is as follows:
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