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Revenue from Contracts with Customers - Additional Information (Details) - USD ($) | 12 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2022 | Sep. 30, 2021
Revenue from External Customer [Line Items] |  |
Contract with customer, asset, expected to be transferred to receivables within the next 12 months and therefore | $ 16,900,000 |
Contract with customer other current asset |  | $ 8,200,000
Contract with customer, asset, reclassified to receivable | 7,000,000.0 |
Contract with customer, asset, increase in contract assets | 8,200,000 |
Contract with customer, asset, increase in contract assets related to revenue recognized | 15,200,000 |
Deferred revenue, revenue recognized | 491,600,000 |
Deferred revenue, additions | 507,300,000 |
Short term and long term accounts receivable | $ 871,000,000.0 | 744,600,000
Capitalized contract cost, amortization period | 5 years |
Amortization expense related to costs to obtain a contract with a customer | $ 50,900,000 | 46,700,000
Impairments of the contract cost asset | 0 | 0
Deferred revenue | 520,333,000 | 497,677,000
Revenue, remaining performance obligation, amount | 1,613,000,000.0 |
Unrecorded |  |
Revenue from External Customer [Line Items] |  |
Revenue, remaining performance obligation, amount | 1,092,700,000 |
Other Current Assets |  |
Revenue from External Customer [Line Items] |  |
Capitalized contract cost, net | 40,700,000 | 40,200,000
Other Assets |  |
Revenue from External Customer [Line Items] |  |
Capitalized contract cost, net | 77,000,000.0 | $ 81,100,000
Intland Software |  |
Revenue from External Customer [Line Items] |  |
Deferred revenue increased | $ 6,900,000 |

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- Definition Amount of accumulated impairment loss for asset recognized from cost incurred to obtain or fulfill contract with customer. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/commonPracticeRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 340 -SubTopic 40 -Section 50 -Paragraph 3 -Subparagraph (a) -URI https://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=126905575&loc=SL49131252-203054 + Details
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